Compute Services Review

Question 1

What are the compute services?

Answer 1

EC2
Lambda
Fargate
Lightsail
Outposts
Batch

Question 2

EC2

Answer 2

Rent and manage virtual servers in the cloud
Uses templates called AMI’s

Question 3

Lambda

Answer 3

Run code without managing servers

Question 4

Fargate

Answer 4

Serverless compute engine for containers

Question 5

Outposts

Answer 5

Run Cloud services in your internal data center

Question 6

Batch

Answer 6

Process large workloads in smaller batches

Question 7

Can you change an EC2 instance without downtime?

Answer 7

No

Question 8

Describe Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 8

A PaaS that automates deploying and scaling workloads on EC2
Supports only a specific set of technologies.
You do not pay directly for it - only pay for the services you leverage thu it
Supported platforms: Java, .Net, php, node, python, ruby, go, Docker

Question 9

What are the use cases for EC2?

Answer 9

Hosting Web Apps
API Server: a web service endpoint
Batch Processing
Desktop in the cloud