Domain 2: Design High-Performing Architectures Flashcards
Cloudwatch
a monitoring and management service that provides data and actionable insights for AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources.
AWS Snowball Types
- Snowball
- Snowball Edge
- Snowmobile
Snowball
- Basic, mainly used for shipping
- Encryption
- GPS Tracking
Snowball Edge
- Left at the data center to bring services to the edge of the network
- Has services inside
Snowmobile
- 18-wheeler
- High amounts of storage
- High speed transfer
- Armed guards escort data to AWS
ECS
- Elastic Container Service,
- a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications,
- uses a mix of amazon EC2 and AWS Fargate with Spot and On-Demand Pricing options.
AWS Fargate
- Fargate allocates the right amount of compute, eliminating the need to choose instances and scale cluster capacity.
- You only pay for the resources required to run your containers, so there is no over-provisioning and paying for additional servers.
- Works with EKS and ECS.
Elastic Container Registry
Hosts your images in a highly available and high performance architecture, allowing you to deploy images for your container application reliably.
EC2 vs. Fargate
- EC2- instances will assist in launching containers, more management needed
- Fargate- serverless, AWS will take care of necessary infrastructure and everything else to launch containers, little to no management
Lambda
Serverless compute service that lets you
-run code without provisioning or
managing servers
-maintain event integrations
-manage runtimes
-run code for virtually any type of application or backend service with zero administration
Benefits of Lambda
- No servers to manage
- Continuous scaling
- Cost optimized with millisecond metering
- Consistent performance at any scale
Types of Storage Gateways
- File gateway
- Volume gateway
- Tape Gateway
Storage Gateway
Virtual machine you will be obtaining from amazon, the virtual machine will be implemented in your on Prem environment so it can be a gateway between on Prem and the AWS Cloud
File Gateway
- Files stored in S3
- NFS and SMB supported, accessible solution for linux and windows
- cost effective alternative to on-prem storage
- low latency due to local caching
- buffers applications
- manages bandwidth consumption
Volume Gateway
- Installation of VM on-prem
- Permits mounting of iSCSI volume from the cloud
- Two types, Cached volumes and Stored volumes
Volume Gateway- Cached Volumes
- Cached volumes store all data in the cloud.
- Only frequently accessed data is kept on-prem
Volume Gateway- Stored Volumes
- Stored Volumes store all data both on-prem and in the cloud.
- Data is backed up largely for Disaster Recovery (DR) if on-prem storage is no longer available for some reason.
- All data is kept on-prem
Tape Gateway
Storing the contents of physical backup tapes with data backed up into either S3, Glacier, or Glacier deep archive.
When a question asks about file storage, NFS or SMB, think _______. When a question asks about backup tapes, think ________. When a question asks about iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface), think _________.
- File Gateway
- Tape Gateway
- Volume Gateway
VPC
- Virtual Private Cloud,
- You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.
- You can use both IPv4 and IPv6