EC2 Fundamentals Flashcards
Create virtual representations of servers, storage, networks, and other physical machines
Virtualization
Provides near-native speed in comparison to full virtualization but requires modifications to the OS
Paravirtualization
the most popular of AWS’ offering Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud
Available Operating System for EC2
Linux, Windows or Mac OS
How much compute power & cores within an EC2 instance
CPU
How much random-access memory within an EC2 Instance
RAM
Network-Attached storage for EC2
Elastic Block Store (EBS) & Elastic File Store (EFS)
launching commands when a machine starts (Bootstrap Script) uses
EC2 User Data
Hardware attached storage
EC2 Instance Store
Who manages the data centers, physical facilities, and the hardware components of EC2?
AWS
If an AZ fails does your EC2 instance fail along with it? (AZ Resilient)
Yes
Provides information on condition of EC2 instance whether it is stopped, terminated or running
State
Do stopped instances still generate storage charges?
Yes
An EC2 instance is configured to launch into a single VPC subnet
True
Contains the OS, settings, and other applications that you will use in your server
Amazon Machine Images (AMI)