Fundamentals Flashcards
From what Aws global infrastructures are made of?
Regions
Availability zones
Edge locations
What’s an Availability zone?
An AZ is one or more discrete data centers - each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity - housed in separate facilities.
What’s a Region?
A Région is physical location in the world that consists of two or more Availability Zones (AZs).
How many availability zones in a region?
Consists of 2 or more AZs
What are edge locations?
Edge locations are endpoint for Aws that are used for caching content.
Typically, this consists of CloudFront Amazon’s CDN service.
Who, AWS, you, or both, are responsible for the encryption?
Encryption is a shared responsibility
Which are compute services covered by the exam?
EC2
Lambda
Elastic beanstalk
Which are storage services covered by the exam?
S3
EBS
EFS
FSx
Storage gateway
Which are databases covered by the exam?
RDS
DynamoDB
Redshift
Which are networking services covered by the exam?
VPCs
Direct Connect
Route 53
API Gateway
AWS Global Accelerator