Migration and Innovation Flashcards

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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) organizes guidance into six areas of perspective

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-Business,
-People, and
-Governance
-Platform
-Security
-Operations

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What 3 Perspectives focus on business capabilities

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Business, People, and Governance

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What 3 Perspectives focus on technical capabilities

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Platform, Security, and Operations

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What does the Business Perspective ensure

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IT aligns with business needs and that IT investments link to key business results

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What are the common roles in the Business Perspective

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-Business managers
-Finance managers
-Budget owners
-Strategy stakeholders

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What does the People Perspective support

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development of an organization-wide change management strategy for successful cloud adoption

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Use the Business Perspective to

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create a strong business case for cloud adoption and prioritize cloud adoption initiatives. Ensure that your business strategies and goals align with your IT strategies and goals.

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Use the People Perspective to

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evaluate organizational structures and roles, new skill and process requirements, and identify gaps. This helps prioritize training, staffing, and organizational changes.

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Common roles in the People Perspective include

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-Human resources
-Staffing
-People managers

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What does the Governance Perspective focus on

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the skills and processes to align IT strategy with business strategy. This ensures that you maximize the business value and minimize risks.

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Use the Governance Perspective to

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understand how to update the staff skills and processes necessary to ensure business governance in the cloud. Manage and measure cloud investments to evaluate business outcomes.

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Common roles in the Governance Perspective include

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-Chief Information Officer (CIO)
-Program managers
-Enterprise architects
-Business analysts
-Portfolio managers

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What does the Platform Perspective focus on

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Principles and patterns for implementing new solutions on the cloud, and migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud.

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Common roles in the Platform Perspective include

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-Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
-IT managers
-Solutions architects

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What does the Security Perspective ensure

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the organization meets security objectives for visibility, auditability, control, and agility.

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Common roles in the Security Perspective include

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-Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
-IT security managers
-IT security analysts

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What does the Operations Perspective help you do

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enable, run, use, operate, and recover IT workloads to the level agreed upon with your business stakeholders

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Common roles in the Operations Perspective include

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-IT operations managers
-IT support managers

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Which Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework helps you design, implement, and optimize your AWS infrastructure based on your business goals and perspectives?

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Platform Perspective

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20
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What are the 6 strategies for migration

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-Rehosting
-Replatforming
-Refactoring/re-architecting
-Repurchasing
-Retaining
-Retiring

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What is Rehosting

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aka lift-and-shift
-involves moving applications without changes

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What is Replatforming

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aka lift, tinker, and shift
-making a few cloud optimizations to realize a tangible benefit
-achieved without changing the core architecture of the application.

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What is Refactoring (also known as re-architecting)

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reimagining how an application is architected and developed by using cloud-native features

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What is Repurchasing

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moving from a traditional license to a software-as-a-service model

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What is Retaining

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keeping applications that are critical for the business in the source environment

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What is Retiring

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process of removing applications that are no longer needed

27
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What direct connect migration options are offered by AWS for migrating data to AWS

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-AWS Snowcone
-AWS Snowball Edge
-AWS Snowmobile

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What is AWS Snowcone

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small, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device

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What are the hardware specs of AWS Snowcone

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-2 CPUs,
-4 GB of memory, and
-up to 14 TB of usable storage
-edge computing (Amazon EC2 instances and AWS IoT Greengrass

30
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How do you order an AWS Snowcone

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place an order via AWS Management Console we ship it to you

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What are the storage and compute specs of AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized

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-Storage: 80 TB of hard disk drive (HDD) capacity for block volumes and Amazon S3 compatible object storage, and 1 TB of SATA solid state drive (SSD) for block volumes.
-Compute: 40 vCPUs, and 80 GiB of memory to support Amazon EC2 sbe1 instances (equivalent to C5).
fit into existing server racks

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What are the storage and compute specs of AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized

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Storage: 80-TB usable HDD capacity for Amazon S3 compatible object storage or Amazon EBS compatible block volumes and 28 TB of usable NVMe SSD capacity for Amazon EBS compatible block volumes.
Compute: 104 vCPUs, 416 GiB of memory, and an optional NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU. Devices run Amazon EC2 sbe-c and sbe-g instances, which are equivalent to C5, M5a, G3, and P3 instances.

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What are Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices well suited for

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large-scale data migrations and recurring transfer workflows, in addition to local computing with higher capacity needs.

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What are Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices well suited for

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provides powerful computing resources for use cases such as machine learning, full motion video analysis, analytics, and local computing stacks.

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What are the storage and compute specs of AWS Snowmobile

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-holds 100 petabytes of data
-45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi trailer truck
-security team

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What are AWS Snowmobile devices well suited for

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an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS.

37
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What does serverless refer to

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applications that don’t require you to provision, maintain, or administer servers

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What is AWS Lambda

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a service that you can use to run serverless applications. If you design your architecture to trigger Lambda functions to run your code, you can bypass the need to manage a fleet of servers.

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What is the benefit of building your architecture with serverless applications

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enables your developers to focus on their core product instead of managing and operating servers

40
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What are 4 AWS services powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Fraud Detector
Amazon Lex

41
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What can you do with Amazon Transcribe

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Convert speech to text

42
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What can you do with Amazon Comprehend

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Discover patterns in text

43
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What can you do with Amazon Fraud Detector

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Identify potentially fraudulent online activities

44
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What can you do with Amazon Lex

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Build voice and text chatbots

45
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What AWS service is offered to build Machine Learning (ML) models

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Amazon SageMaker

46
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What is Amazon Q Developer

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a machine learning-powered code generator that provides you with code recommendations in real time

47
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Amazon Q Developer seamlessly integrates with these 7 popular tools

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-Visual Studio (VS) Code
-JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA
-PyCharm, etc.)
-Amazon SageMaker Studio
-JupyterLab
-AWS Cloud9
-AWS Lambda console

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Amazon Q Developer supports 15 programming languages and development environments

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Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, C, C++, Shell scripting, SQL, and Scala