Module 3 Flashcards
4 Business Factors to consider when Selecting a Region
1- Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
2- Proximity to your customers
3- Available services within a region
4- Pricing
Availability Zone
a single data center or a group of data centers within a Region. Availability Zones are located tens of miles apart from each other
Edge location
site that Amazon CloudFront uses to store cached copies of your content closer to your customers for faster delivery.
AWS Management Console
web-based interface for accessing and managing AWS services. You can quickly access recently used services and search for other services by name, keyword, or acronym. The console includes wizards and automated workflows that can simplify the process of completing tasks.
AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
enables you to control multiple AWS services directly from the command line within one tool. AWS CLI is available for users on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
software development kits (SDKs).
SDKs make it easier for you to use AWS services through an API designed for your programming language or platform. SDKs enable you to use AWS services with your existing applications or create entirely new applications that will run on AWS.
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
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.
AWS CloudFormation provisions your resources in a safe, repeatable manner, enabling you to frequently build your infrastructure and applications without having to perform manual actions. It determines the right operations to perform when managing your stack and rolls back changes automatically if it detects errors.
Amazon CloudFront
content delivery service. It uses a network of edge locations to cache content and deliver content to customers all over the world. When content is cached, it is stored locally as a copy. This content might be video files, photos, webpages, and so on.