Migration / Transfer Services / Infrastructure Management

Question 1

Database Migration Services (DMS)

Answer 1

Helps with migrating on premises databases to or within AWS. Supports homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations with continuous data replication and virtually no downtime.

Question 2

Server Migration Service (SMS)

Answer 2

Migrate on premises servers to AWS. Your server is saved as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), which can be used to launch EC2 instances.

Question 3

AWS Snow Family

Answer 3

Transfer large amounts of on-premises data to AW using a physical storage device. Snowcone, Snowball. Snowball Edge, and Snowmobile.

Question 4

AWS Snowcone

Answer 4

Has 8 terabytes of capacity. You can ship it to AWS, or use DataSync to transfer digitally.

Question 5

AWS Snowball and Snowball Edge

Answer 5

Handles petabyte levels of data. You can transfer data in and out of AWS. Cheaper than internet transfer. Only Edge supports Lambda and EC2.

Question 6

AWS Snowmobile

Answer 6

Multi-petabyte or exabyte level data. A literal truck picks up your data and transfers it to S3.

Question 7

DataSync

Answer 7

Handles online transfer of on-premises data to AWS. Copy over Direct Connect or internet. Copy data between AWS storage devices as well. You can replicate data cross-region or cross-account.

Question 8

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Answer 8

Writing and using scripts to provision AWS resources.

Question 9

Cloud Formation

Answer 9

automatically provision AWS resources using scripted templates. (Supports IaC)

Question 10

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 10

Used to deploy and scale webapps. Automatically handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, and auto-scaling, and monitors app health. FOR THE CLOUD ONLY.

Question 11

OpsWorks

Answer 11

Uses Chef or Puppet to automate the configuration of your SERVERS and deploy code. Can be used to manage on-premises servers or EC2 instances.