EC2 Flashcards
1
Q
EC2 stands for
A
Elastic Cloud Compute
2
Q
What are the available EC2 instance type?
A
FIGHT DR MC PX
https://i.imgur.com/o3xS09L.png
3
Q
EBS stands for
A
Elastic Block Storage
4
Q
What are the 4 types of pricing model for EC2?
A
- On Demand - allows you to pay a fixed rate by the hour (or by the second) with no commitment.
- Reserved - provides you with a capacity reservation, and offer a significant discount on the hourly charge for an instance.1 Year or 3 Year Terms
- Spot - enables you to bid whatever price you want for instance capacity, providing for even greater savings if your applications have flexible start and end times.
- Dedicated Hosts - Physical EC2 server dedicated for your use. Dedicated Hosts can help you reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses.
5
Q
If a Spot instance is terminated by Amazon EC2
A
, you will not be charged for a partial hour of usage.
6
Q
If you terminate a Spot instance yourself,
A
you will be charged for the complete hour in which the instance ran.
7
Q
what are the 5 types of EBS volume
A
SSD
General Purpose SSD
Provisioned lOPS SSD
Magnetic
Throughput Optimized HDD
Cold HDD
Magnetic
8
Q
Termination protection is turned ______ by default
A
off
9
Q
Can AWS Default AMI instance be encrypted?
A
No. But other kind of root instances can be encrypted
