Getting started with AWS Cloud Flashcards
What is the Cloud?
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
Name six benefits of Cloud Computing?
- Pay as you go
- Benefit from massive economies of scale
- Stop guessing capacity
- Increase speed and agility
- Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
- Go global in minutes
What is a Region?
Regions are geographic locations worldwide where AWS hosts its data centers. Consists of 2 or more availability zones.
How to choose the correct Region?
- Latency
- Price
- Service Availability
- Data Compliance
What is an Availability Zone?
An AZ consists of one or more data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity.
What is the AWS Management Console?
Web based console GUI.
What is the AWS Command Line Interface?
Programmatically access AWS services.
What is AWS SDK?
API calls to AWS with familiar programming languages
Explain the relationship between Regions, Availability Zones, and Data Centers.
Data Centers are within availability zones and availability zones are within regions.
What is an Edge Location?
Used to cacher content closer to end users to reduce latency.
What is Redundancy?
Clusters of data centers around the world . 2nd data center could be considered backup. Redundancy enables resiliency.
What are 6 pillars of Well Architected Framework?
O - Operation Excellence
P - Performance Efficiency
S - Security
C - Cost Optimization
R - Reliability
S - Sustainability