Other Compute Services: ECS, Lambda, Batch, LightSail

Question 1

What AWS service launches docker containers where the user must provision and maintain the infrastructure?

Answer 1

AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service)

Question 2

What service launches docker containers without provisioning any infrastructure and is serverless?

Answer 2

AWS Fargate

Question 3

What AWS service allows for the storage of docker images in a registry form?

Answer 3

AWS ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

Question 4

What is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you, are Virtual Functions with no servers to manage?

Answer 4

AWS Lambda

Question 5

What is the pricing model for AWS Lambda?

Answer 5

First 1,000,000 requests are free then $0.20 per 1 million requests thereafter, plus any compute services.

Question 6

What is a fully managed service for developers to easily create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs?

Answer 6

API Gateway

Question 7

What service allows you to run hundreds of thousands of batch and ML computing jobs while optimizing compute resources?

Answer 7

AWS Batch

Question 8

What service provides everything you need to jumpstart your project on AWS with compute, storage, and networking?

Answer 8

AWS LightSail