Compute Services

Question 1

Amazon EC2

Answer 1

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

web service that provides secure, resizable computer capacity in the cloud

designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers

Question 2

Instance Types

Answer 2

On-Demand Instances
Reserved Instances
Spot Instances

Question 3

On-Demand Instances

Answer 3

pay for compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments. You can increase or decrease your compute capacity depending on the demands of your application and only pay the specified hourly rate for the instances you use

Question 4

Reserved Instances

Answer 4

significant discount (up to 75%) compared to On-Demand instance pricing

Question 5

Convertible Reserved Instances

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flexibility to change families, operating system types, and tenancies while benefitting from Reserved Instance pricing

Question 6

Spot Instances

Answer 6

available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices and let you take advantage of unused Amazon EC2 capacity in the AWS Cloud.

You can significantly reduce the cost of running your applications, grow your application’s compute capacity and throughput for the same budget, and enable new types of cloud computing applications.

Question 7

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

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helps you maintain application availability and allows you to automatically add/remove EC2 instances according to conditions you define

Question 8

Amazon Elastic Container Registry

ECR

Answer 8

fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy Docker container images

Question 9

Amazon Elastic Container Service

Amazon ECS

Answer 9

highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerised applications on AWS

Question 10

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Amazon EKS

Answer 10

makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerised applications using Kubernetes on AWS

Question 11

Amazon Lightsail

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easiest way to launch and manage virtual private server with AWS

Question 12

AWS Batch

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enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS

Question 13

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and Internet Information Services (IIS).

Question 14

AWS Fargate

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compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters.

Question 15

AWS Lambda

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lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers

Question 16

AWS Serverless Application Repository

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enables you to quickly deploy code samples, components, and complete applications for common use cases such as web and mobile back-ends, event and data processing, logging, monitoring, IoT, and more.

Question 17

AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)

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template that defines the AWS resources used.

Question 18

AWS Outposts

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bring native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility.

Question 19

VMware Cloud on AWS

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integrated cloud offering jointly developed by AWS and VMware delivering a highly scalable, secure and innovative service that allows organisations to seamlessly migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS Cloud running on next-generation Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) bare metal infrastructure.