Module 3

Question 1

What are 4 business factors one must consider before determining the region of your AWS infrastructure?

Answer 1

Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
Proximity to your customers
Available services within a Region
Pricing

Question 2

What is an availability zone?

Answer 2

An Availability Zone is a single data center or a group of data centers within a Region.

Question 3

What are the advantages of availability zones?

Answer 3

Since availability zones are located close together, there is enough to have low latency between them. If a disaster occurs in one part of the region, they are distant enough to reduce the chance that multiple zones are affected. It is recommended that you run an EC2 instance in more than one availability zone for this reason.

Question 4

What is an Amazon CloudFront?

Answer 4

Amazon CloudFront is global content delivery service that uses “edge locations”, which are sites used to store cached copies of your content closer to your customers for faster delivery.

Question 5

Describe the three ways of interacting with AWS services.

Answer 5

The AWS Management Console is a web-based interface for accessing and managing AWS services.

AWS CLI enables you to control multiple AWS services directly from the command line within one tool.

SDKs make it easier for you to use AWS services through an API designed for your programming language or platform.

Question 6

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 6

With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you provide code and configuration settings, and Elastic Beanstalk deploys the resources necessary to perform the following tasks:
•	Adjust capacity
•	Load balancing
•	Automatic scaling
•	Application health monitoring

Question 7

What is AWS CloudFormation?

Answer 7

With AWS CloudFormation, you can treat your infrastructure as code. This means that you can build an environment by writing lines of code instead of using the AWS Management Console to individually provision resources.

Question 8

What is AWS Outposts?

Answer 8

AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. AWS Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies.

It is not a cloud solution.