Global Infrastructure Flashcards
What is a Global Application?
it’s an application which is deployed in multiple gepgraphies.
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In AWS, What is the equivalent of a Region?
It’s a Edge Location, the Data Center that is closer to your geographic location.
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What is Decrease Latency?
The ability to drecrease the time to reach some server.
One way to improve it is to deploy your applications closer to your users.
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What is Disaster Recovery?
It’s teh ability to recover from a disaster and keep working after it (Disaster)
It can be possible, i.e., having a DC as a backup in case that the principal DC is fell.
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What is one of the bennefit of having Distributed Global Infrastructure?
Attack Protection.
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What is the hierarchy of Global AWS Infrastructure?
- Regions (For deploying Apps and Infra.)
- Availability Zones (made of Multiple Data centers)
- Edge Locations (Closer to the user)
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What are the 4 Global Applications in AWS?
+ Route 53: It’s a DNS.
+ CloudFront: Its a Gloval Content Delovering (Cache)
+ S3 Trasnfer Acelerator. Accelerate Uploads & Downloads in Amazon S3 (Buckets).
+ AWS Global Acelerator. Provide performance thorugh AWS Private Network
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What is Amazon Route 53?
It’s a DIrect Name Service (DNS) that helps to reach a server through its URL.
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In Route 53, What is a Single Routing Policy?
Just provides the IP to reach the server.
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In Route 53, What is a Weighted Routing Policy?
it’s a policy where th DNS gives the server according weight rules, i.e. Wokload desired for each one.
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In Route 53, What is a Latendy Routing Policy?
A policy that decide the server acording to the latency to reach it. Choosing the one with the lower latency
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In Route 53, What is a Failover Routing Policy?
A policu that has The Master server and a failover destiny, in case that the master fails.
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How does AWS CouldFront work?
it’s a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Basicaly, it’s a Cache on the Edge which replicate all or part of the origin, which can be a S3 Bucket or a HTTP Apps.
In this way the low latency decrease,improving the reading
What does CloufFront need to have access to a AWS S3?
An Origin Access Identity (OAI)
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For AWS CloudFront, what could be a source of information to be cached?
- EC2 Instance
- S3 as website
- Application Load Balancer
- Any HTTP Site
basicaly, any source that can be handled as a WebSite that has static content.
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