IAAS Flashcards
What is IAAS?
What does it do?
Infrastructure as a Service.
Provides physical resource infrastructure to rent out, and virtual IT resources.
based on VMs that are used to share computing and storage resources.
What is EC2?
Elastic Compute Cloud.
Amazon Web Service IAAS service.
Ensures enough EC2 instances are provisioned to meet expectations.
What is an “EC instance”?
Virtual machines in the AWS cloud.
What is an “AMI”?
Amazon Machine Image:
used to create a VM within EC2.
What deep learning packages does Amazon offer in its pre-configured AMIs?
What else is pre-installed in deep learning AMIs?
MXNet, TensorFlow, Caffee, Caffee2, PyTorch, Keras, Theano, etc.
It also has CUDA and cuDNN libraries that can be painful to install right.
What is Amazon S3?
Simple Storage Service is a scalable object storage. With web messaging (REST or SOAP) there is remote access.
What is Amazon EBS?
Elastic Block Storage. Splits files into raw blocks of data.
What is Amazon EFS?
Elastic File System. Has a standard file system interface for working with traditional files.
What is Qstack?
A cloud management platform. Makes it easy to deploy clouds.
Runs on commodity hardware and is hypervisor-agnostic.
What are “deployment modules”?
Different ways of how software can be installed, configured and used.
What is “On-premise full custom” deployment?
Get own hardware. Install and operate Map-reduce software on your own.
Gives full control. Is expensive.
What is “Map-Reduce appliance” deployment”?
‘Appliance’ means pre-configured map-reduce cluster.
Not a cloud offering, just an image to set up.
Bypasses technical configuration.
What is “Map-Reduce hosting” deployment?
A service provider deploys and operates Map-Reduce. They host it and we hire their service.
What is “Map-Reduce as a Service” deployment?
A cloud service offering Map-Reduce.
