Compute Services - ECS, Lambda, etc

Question 1

Docker

Answer 1

Software development platform to deploy apps
Apps are packaged into containers that can run on any OS
Docker images are stored in docker respositories
-Public docker respository
-Private in Amazon ECS (Elastic container repository)

Question 2

ECS

Answer 2

Launch docker container on AWS
Provision EC2 instances in advance

Question 3

Fargate

Answer 3

Launch docker container on AWS
No need to provision EC2 instances in advance (serverless)

Question 4

ESR

Answer 4

Container registry to store docker images that can be run by ECS or Fargate

Question 5

Serverless

Answer 5

Function as service (FaaS)

Question 6

Lambda

Answer 6

Virtual functions with unlimited CPU and RAM
Time limit of 15 mins
Limited to some programming languages

Question 7

API Gateway

Answer 7

To create, publish, maintain, monitor and secure API on AWS
e.g. Serverless HTTP API
supports RESTFul API and WebSocket API

Question 8

Batch

Answer 8

Fully managed Batch Processing at any scale
Dynamically launch EC2 instances or Spot instances
Run as docker images on ECS
No limit of programming languages

Question 9

Lightsail

Answer 9

Standalone services to get virtual storage, db and networking in one place