Global Infrastructure and Reliability Flashcards
4 key factors to choosing a Region
-Compliance
-proximity
-feature availability
-pricing
What are Regions
geographically isolated areas that contains AWS resources
What is an Availability Zone
a single data center or a group of data centers within a Region
What is a best practice when running an application in a Region
A best practice is to run applications across at least two Availability Zones in a Region
What does CDN stand for?
Content Delivery Network
What are Edge Locations
a site that Amazon CloudFront uses to store cached copies of your content closer to your customers for faster delivery.
What does AWS use for a CDN
Amazon CloudFront
What is Amazon CloudFront
a service that helps deliver data, video, applications, and APIs to customers around the world with low latency and high transfer speeds
**Uses Edge Locations
What is Amazon Route 53
AWS Edge locations domain name service, or DNS
What is AWS Outposts
AWS will basically install a fully operational mini Region, right inside your own data center. That’s owned and operated by AWS, using 100% of AWS functionality, but isolated within your own building.
How do you interact with AWS Resources
API Calls
What is the AWS Management Console
a web-based interface for accessing and managing AWS services
What is the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
control multiple AWS services directly from the command line within one tool.
**available for users on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
What are software development kits (SDKs)
make it easier for you to use AWS services through an API designed for your programming language or platform. Enable you to use AWS services with your existing applications or create entirely new applications that will run on AWS.
What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk
you provide code and configuration settings, and Elastic Beanstalk deploys the resources necessary to perform the following tasks:
-Adjust capacity
-Load balancing
-Automatic scaling
-Application health monitoring
