Getting started with AWS Cloud

Question 1

What is the Cloud?

Answer 1

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

Question 2

Name six benefits of Cloud Computing?

Answer 2

1. Pay as you go
2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
3. Stop guessing capacity
4. Increase speed and agility
5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
6. Go global in minutes

Question 3

What is a Region?

Answer 3

Regions are geographic locations worldwide where AWS hosts its data centers. Consists of 2 or more availability zones.

Question 4

How to choose the correct Region?

Answer 4

1. Latency
2. Price
3. Service Availability
4. Data Compliance

Question 5

What is an Availability Zone?

Answer 5

An AZ consists of one or more data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity.

Question 6

What is the AWS Management Console?

Answer 6

Web based console GUI.

Question 7

What is the AWS Command Line Interface?

Answer 7

Programmatically access AWS services.

Question 8

What is AWS SDK?

Answer 8

API calls to AWS with familiar programming languages

Question 9

Explain the relationship between Regions, Availability Zones, and Data Centers.

Answer 9

Data Centers are within availability zones and availability zones are within regions.

Question 10

What is an Edge Location?

Answer 10

Used to cacher content closer to end users to reduce latency.

Question 11

What is Redundancy?

Answer 11

Clusters of data centers around the world . 2nd data center could be considered backup. Redundancy enables resiliency.

Question 12

What are 6 pillars of Well Architected Framework?

Answer 12

O - Operation Excellence
P - Performance Efficiency
S - Security
C - Cost Optimization
R - Reliability
S - Sustainability