General Items Flashcards
What is a Region
a physical location in the world which consists of two or more Availability Zones (AZ’s)
What is an Availability Zone
one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity, house in separate facilities.
What is an Edge Location
an endpoint for AWS with is used for caching content.
What service enables an Edge Location
CloudFront, which is an AWS Content Delivery Network (CDN)
An AWS Region consists of
A distinct location within a geographic area designed to provide high availability to a specific geography.
An Availability Zone consists of
Distinct locations from within an AWS region that are engineered to be isolated from failures.
List two factors that have helped make public cloud so powerful?
Not having to deal with the collateral damage of failed experiments
The ability to try out new ideas and experiment without an upfront commitment
Which of the following is correct?
1) # of Regions > # of Availability Zones > # of Edge Locations
2) # of Availability Zones > # of Edge Locations > # of Regions
3) # of Edge Locations > # of Availability Zones > # of Regions
4) # of Availability Zones > # of Regions > # of Edge Locations
of Edge Locations > # of Availability Zones > # of Regions
What is an Amazon VPC?
Virtual Private Cloud
An AWS VPC is a component of which group of AWS services?
Networking Services
