EC2 & Compute

Question 1

What is EC2?

Answer 1

Is a web service which provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud

Question 2

What are the main advantages of EC2?

Answer 2

Flexible on capacity and software on the instance.

Question 3

What is an AMI?

Answer 3

Amazon machine image provides information required to launch of an instance. It is backed by an EBS snapshot.

Question 4

What type of AMI’s are there?

Answer 4

Community, AWS marketplace and your own

Question 5

What is User Data?

Answer 5

A series of commands run on the launch of a instance which are not encrypted

Question 6

What is Meta Data?

Answer 6

Data about your instances such as region, AZ and Ip address

Question 7

What is an ECS?

Answer 7

Amazon Elastic Container Service is a highly scalable, high performance container which supports Docker

Question 8

What are the two types of ECS?

Answer 8

Amazon EC2 and Amazon Fargate

Question 9

What is AWS Lambda?

Answer 9

A serverless computing technology which executes only when needed

Question 10

What is AWS LightSail?

Answer 10

Enables users with little AWS knowledge to deploy and mage websites, applications and databases in the cloud

Question 11

Which storage service is used by Amazon EC2 instances for the root volume?

Answer 11

Elastic Block Store (EBS)