Other Compute Services Flashcards
1
Q
What is ECS?
A
Elastic Container Service: launch docker containers on AWS, where you provision and maintain the servers
2
Q
What is Fargate?
A
Launch docker containers on AWS, serverless
3
Q
What is ECR?
A
Elastic Container Registry - private docker registry on AWS
4
Q
Why lambda (4 reasons)?
A
- Serverless
- On-demand
- Automated scaling
- Integrated with all AWS services
5
Q
What Lambda pricing?
A
Pay per request and compute time.
Free tier includes: 1 million request and 400,000 GBs compute time
6
Q
What is API Gateway?
A
A fully managed service to easily create, publish, maintain and monitor secure APIs
7
Q
What is AWS Batch?
A
A fully managed batch processing service at any scale
8
Q
What is Lightsail?
A
For people with little cloud experience, a simpler alternative to using EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, Route 53
