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EC2 Flashcards

1
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What are the instance types?

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General purpose
Compute optimized
Memory optimized
Storage optimized

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What workloads are general purpose EC2 instances good for?

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Diverse workloads such as code repositories and web servers

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What workloads are Compute optimized EC2 instances good for?

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Compute-intensive tasks that require high performance

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What workloads are Memory optimized EC2 instances good for?

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Fast performance workloads that process large data sets in memory

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What workloads are Storage optimized EC2 instances good for?

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storage-intensive tasks that require high, sequential read and write access to large data sets on local storage

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What is a security group?

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Firewall around EC2 instances that controls how traffic is allowed into or out of EC2 instances

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What do security groups regulate?

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Access Ports
Authorized IP ranges
Inbound network traffic
Outbound network traffic

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What should you do when an EC2 instance needs to access AWS?

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Assign it a role

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What are the EC2 purchasing options?

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On-Demand Instances
Reserved Instances
Spot instances
Dedicated Hosts
Dedicated instances
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What type of workloads are a good fit for On-Demand Instances?

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Short term and uninterrupted workloads

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What are key characters for On-Demand Instances?

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Pay for what you use
Highest cost with no upfront payment
No long-term commitment

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What type of workloads are a good fit for Reserved Instances?

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Long term, steady-state usage applications (i.e database)

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What are the reserved instance types?

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Reserved Instances
Convertible Reserved Instances
Schedule Reserved Instances

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14
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What EC2 purchasing option is the most cost expensive?

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Dedicated hosts

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What EC2 purchasing option is the least cost expensive?

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Spot instances

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What are the savings when using spot instances compared to On-Demand?

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90%

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What are the savings when using reserved instances?

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75% when compared to On-Demand instances

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What is the contract commitment when using reserved instances?

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1 to 3 years

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What are dedicated hosts?

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A dedicated physical server

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Why use a dedicated host?

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Government compliance requirements

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What are characteristics of dedicate hosts?

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single instance on a single dedicate physical server
Hardware is not shared by other instances
Control over instance placement

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What are the dedicate hosts use cases?

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Software that has complicated licensing model

Companies that have strong regulatory or compliance needs

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How long can dedicates hosts be reserved?

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3 years

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What are dedicate instances?

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One or more instances running on a dedicated physical server

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What are characteristics of dedicate instances?

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No control over instance placement (can’t move hardware after stop / start)
Automatic instance placement
All instances are on same physical server

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What are strategies for handling spot instances?

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Set max spot price
Spot Block
Know the type of instance needed

27
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What is spot block?

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Block spot instance during specified time frame without interruptions

28
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What can be done to instances that exceed max spot price?

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Stop or terminate the instance

29
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How to terminate spot instances?

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Cancel spot instance and then terminate it

30
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What are Spot Fleets?

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Set of spit instances + (optional) on-demand instances

31
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What are strategies for allocating spot instances?

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Lowest Price
Diversified
Capacity Optimized

32
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What is the lowest price allocation strategy?

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Spot instances are allocated from the pool with the lowest price (cost optimized, short workload)

33
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What is the diversified allocation strategy?

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Spot instances are distributed across all pools (great availability, long workloads)

34
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What is the capacity optimized allocation strategy?

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Spot instances are allocated from a pool with the optimal capacity for the number of instances

35
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What are the placement group strategies?

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Cluster
Spread
Partition

36
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What are the characteristics of a cluster?

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All instances are on the same hardware (rack)

37
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What is a cluster strategy?

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placement group strategy that places instances into low-latency group in single AZ

38
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What are disadvantage(s) when using a cluster strategy?

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If rack fails all instances fail

39
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What are advantage(s) when using a cluster strategy?

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offers low latency and high speed network

40
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What is a spread strategy?

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placement group strategy that spreads instances across underlying hardware

41
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What are the characteristics of a spread strategy?

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max 7 instances per group per Availability zone

42
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What type of applications use the spread strategy?

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critical applications that need high availability and in which failures are isolated

43
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What are advantage(s) when using a spread strategy?

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Located on different hardware
Spans across AZs
Reduced risk in case of failure

44
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What are disadvantage(s) when using a spread strategy?

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Limited to 7 instances per AZ per placement group

45
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What is a partition strategy?

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placement group strategy that spreads instances across different partitions (different sets of racks) within an AZ

46
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What are advantage(s) when using a partition strategy?

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Instances in different partitions are separated, in case of failure
Scales to hundreds of EC2 instances per group
Have up to 7 partitions per AZ in the same region

47
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What type of applications use the partition strategy?

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Big data applications

48
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What is an Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI)?

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Logical component in a VPC that represents a virtual network card

49
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What are characteristics of an ENI?

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Gives EC2 instances access to the network
Gives a private IPv4 and secondary IPv4 address
Gives one elastic IP per private IPv4
Has one or more security groups
Has a MAC address

50
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What are an ENI’s limitation(s)?

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Bound to a specific availability zone and single instance

51
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What is EC2 Hibernate?

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Service that preserves the state of an EC2 instances RAM

52
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What are the advantages of using Hibernate?

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Instance boot time is faster

53
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What are Hibernate’s characteristics?

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RAM state is written to a file in the root EBS volume

The root EBS volume must be encrypted

54
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What type of applications use Hibernate?

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Long-running processing
Need to save RAM state
Services that take time to initialize

55
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What is EC2 Nitro?

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Underlying platform for higher speed EBS volumes that need increased I/O operations

56
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What are advantages of using EC2 Nitro?

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Better networking options
Higher speeds EBS
Better underlying security

57
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What is a vCPU?

A

A thread in a CPU

58
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How many vCPUs per core?

59
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What are the advantages of using EC2 capacity reservations?

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Ensures you have EC2 capacity in advance when needed

60
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What commitments are required for EC2 capacity reservations?

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No commitments

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