Elastic Cloud Compute Flashcards
What service notifies users when certain spending limits are exceeded?
AWS Budget
What AWS service is a way to provision virtual servers as Infrastructure as a Service?
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
What are the 4 EC2 Instance Types?
General Purpose - balance between compute, memory, and storage
Compute Optimized - compute-intensive tasks that need high performance processing
Memory Optimized - fast performance for workloads that process big data
Storage Optimized - storage intensive tasks like databases and online transactions
What is an EC2 Security Group?
Firewalls running on EC2 Instances that Allow access via IP or other Security Groups
What is Port 22?
For allowing SSH/SFTP access
What is Port 21?
For allowing FTP (File Transfer Protocols)
What is Port 80?
For allowing HTTP access
What is Port 443?
For allowing HTTPS access
What is Port 3389?
For allowing RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) access
What AWS service allows the user to connect to an EC2 instance with SSH through a web browser?
EC2 Instance Connect
What EC2 Instance type is pay-by-the-second and readily available?
On-Demand
What AWS feature for EC2 is a commitment to a consistent amount of usage for a term of 1 to 3 years?
EC2 Savings Plan
What EC2 Instance type is a commitment to a consistent instance configuration, including type and Region for a term of 1 to 3 years?
Reserved Instances
What EC2 instance type is unused EC2 capacity, which are very affordable but are not consistent.
Spot Instances
What EC2 Instance type is a physical host that is fully dedicated to running your instances, dedicated to a user?
Dedicated Hosts
