Leveraging the AWS Global Infrastructure Flashcards
Why global applications?
- Decreased latency
- Disaster recovery (DR)
- Attack protection
4 AWS Services for global applications
- Route 53
- CloudFront
- S3 Transfer Acceleration
- AWS Global Accelerator
What is Route 53?
A managed DNS (Domain Name System) which is great to route users to the closest deployment with least latency
What are the 4 Route 53 Routing Policies?
- Simple Routing
- Weighted Routing
- Latency Routing
- Failover Routing
What is CloudFront
A CDN (Content Delivery Network). Improves read performance as content is cached at the edge.
How many edge locations does CloudFront have?
216 points of presence
What is S3 Transfer Acceleration?
Increase transfer speed by transferring file to an AWS edge location which will forward the data to the S3 bucket in the target location
What is AWS Global Accelerator?
Improves global application availability and performance using the AWS global network
What are AWS Outposts?
AWS Server racks within your on-premises infrastructure
What is AWS Wavelength?
Wavelength Zones are infrastructure deployments embedded within the telecommunications provider’s datacenters at the edge of the 5G networks
What are AWS Local Zones?
Allows you to place some AWS services closer to users, at a city level.
Name the 4 types of Global Application Architecture
- Single Region, Single AZ
- Single Region, Multi AZ
- Multi Region, Active-Passive
- Multi Region, Active-Active
