Module 2: Compute In The Cloud Flashcards
What is the idea of sharing underlying hardware called? 
Multi-tenancy 
What is a hypervisor responsible for? 
Coordinating multi-tenancy 
What are the four EC two instance types?
General purpose instances, compute optimized instances, memory optimized instances, accelerated computing instances and storage optimize instances 
Which Amazon EC two instance type is best for when the resource needs compute memory, and networking of equivalent values? 
General Purpose
Which Amazon EC2 instance type is most ideal for high-performance web servers, compute intensive applications servers, and dedicated gaming servers?
Compute optimized instance 
Which Amazon EC2 instance is designed to deliver fast performance for workloads that process large data sets in memory?
Memory optimized instance
Which Amazon EC two instance is ideal for work loads such as graphics applications, game streaming, and application streaming?
Accelerated computing instance 
Which Amazon EC2 instance is designed for workloads that require high sequential read and write access to large data sets on local storage?
Storage optimized instance
What does IOPS stand for?
Input/output operations per second
When it comes to Amazon EC2 pricing, which instance is ideal for short term, irregular workloads that cannot be interrupted?
On demand instance