Misc Flashcards
What is AWS Global Accelerator?
Uses the AWS internal (private) network to route to the desired AWS resource
What resources does Global Accelerator work with?
Elastic IP, EC2 Instances, ALB, NLB
Why would you use Global Accelerator vs CloudFront?
Great for non-HTTP use cases as well as HTTP use cases that involve static IP Addresses and HTTP use cases that require deterministic, fast regional failover
A WordPress website is hosted in a set of EC2 instances in an EC2 Auto Scaling Group and fronted by a CloudFront Distribution which is configured to cache the content for 3 days. You have released a new version of the website and want to release it immediately to production without waiting for 3 days for the cached content to be expired. What is the easiest and most efficient way to solve this?
CloudFront Cache Invalidation
A company is deploying a media-sharing website to AWS. They are going to use CloudFront to deliver the context with low latency to their customers where they are located in both US and Europe only. After a while there a huge costs for CloudFront. Which CloudFront feature allows you to decrease costs by targeting only US and Europe?
CloudFront Price Classes
How does the AWS Snow process work?
AWS will ship a physical device where large amounts of data can be stored. That data is then shipped back to AWS.
What is the difference between AWS Snowball vs Snowcone vs Snowmobile?
Snowmobile is largest, Snowball is smaller and Snowcone is smallest
When should you use AWS Snowmobile?
If you need to transfer more than 10 terabytes of data
We are in a remote area with no internet, but still want to process large amounts of data and put it into AWS. What can we use?
AWS Snowball Edge / Snowcone
What is AWS OpsHub?
It is a program that can be downloaded onto your computer to manage your Snow Family devices
True or False: AWS Snowball should be imported into S3 Glacier directly
False. You cannot import Snowball data directly into S3 Glacier. It must be inputed into S3 directly and then use S3 lifecycle policies to put it into Glacier
What is AWS FSx?
FSx allows you to integrate third-party file storage systems with AWS
What is the difference between FSx Scratch File System vs FSx Persistent File System
Scratch is only temporary and data does not replicate. Persistent is long-term storage and data is replicated in same AZ
What is AWS Storage Gateway?
Storage Gateway enables on-premises applications to use cloud storage by providing low-latency data access over standard storage protocols.
How does AWS Storage Gateway work?
It is a system that stores most-used data on-premise in cache and has policies written that transfer data to different AWS resources.
