General Flashcards
What is ElasticBeanstalk?
ElasticBeanstalk allows you to upload an application and run it. It abstracts all of the capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and monitoring for you.
Name all of the Compute Services
EC2 Lightsail Lambda Batch Elastic Beanstalk Serverless Application Repository AWS Outposts EC2 Image Builder
What does it mean to scale Up?
Increase the size of the individual machine
What does it mean to scale out?
Increase the number of machines handling the requests
Which AWS Services are Global?
IAM Route53 CloudFront SNS SES
S3: has a global view, but is regional
Which AWS Services can be used on premise?
Snowball Snowball Edge Storage Gateway CodeDeploy Opsworks IoT Greengrass
Which AWS Services can be used to deploy applications on premise?
CodeDeploy
Opsworks
What does AWS Systems Manager allow you to do?
Manage your EC2 instances at scale
What is S3?
A service providing secure, durable, highly scaleable object storage.
What is EBS?
Elastic Block Store: provides persistent block storage volumes for use with EC2
What is EFS?
Elastic File Service: a file storage service for EC2 instances
What is Global Accelerator?
a service in which you create accelerators to improve availability and performance of your applications for both local and global users
How does global accelerator speed things up?
By sending your traffic across Amazons own global network infrastructure.
