Other Compute Services

Question 1

What is serverless computing?

Answer 1

It is when your code runs on servers, but you do not need to provision or manage these servers.

Question 2

How can you scale serveless applications?

Answer 2

By modifying the units of consumptions, such as throughput and memory.

Question 3

What is AWS serverless compute service?

Answer 3

AWS Lambda

Question 4

How does AWS Lambda work?

Answer 4

First, code is uploaded to Lambda. Then, code should be set to trigger from an event source, such as AWS services, mobile applications, or HTTP endpoints. Finally, Lambda runs your code only when triggered.

Question 5

What provides a standard way to package your application’s code and dependencies into a single object and ensures application’s environment remains consistent regardless of deployment?

Answer 5

Containers

Question 6

What is AWS service for managing containers?

Answer 6

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Question 7

What is an open source platform that enables developers to build, deploy, run, update and manage containers?

Answer 7

Docker

Question 8

What is an open-source software that enables you to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale?

Answer 8

Kubernetes

Question 9

What is a fully managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS?

Answer 9

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)