Practice exam 2 Flashcards
What are the advantages of using AWS as a cloud computing provide
- Trade capital expenses for variable expenses
- benefit from massive economies of scale
- stop guessing capacity
- increase speed and agility
- stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers
- go global in minutes.
what are 2 benefits to using AWS EC2 instances vs traditional servers
- Improves Fault Tolerance
2. Can be scaled manuall in a shorter period of tim
What are the 5 main benefits of AWS Organizations(Specific program)
- centrally manage access poilicies across multiple aws accounts
- automate aws account creation and management
- control access to aws services
- consolidate billing accorss multiple aws accounts
- configure aws services across multiple accounts
Horizontal scaling in a aws cloud EC2 instance
horizonal scalaing takes place in an increase number of resources(Ec2 instances)
AWS WAF(Web application Firewall)
helps protect your web apps from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromsed security, or consume excessive resources. Can also create custom rules that block common attack patterns, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting.
ALso, lets customers monitor the HTTP and HTTPs requests that are forwarded to amazon cloudfront or ALB
Amazon inspector
an automated security assessment service that whelps improve security compliance of apps deployed on AWS.
AWS Key Management Services(AWS KMS)
managed services that enable customers to easily create and control the keys used for cryptographic operations(encrypting)
AWS Shield
a Managed DDoS protection service that provides always -on detection and automatic inline mitigations to safeguard web apps running on AWS.
is equivalent to a username and password and is used to authenticate your progmattic access to AWS services and APIs
Access Key which consists of 2 parts: acess key ID and a secret access Key.
What amazon RDS
AMazon relational database service
AWS DMS
Database migration services: Helps migrate an existing database to AWS.
AWS CAF
Cloud adoption Framework used to help organization deign a road map to successful cloud adoption
Amazon SQS
SQS(Simple Queue service) offers a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between apps or microservices
Amazon CDN
Content delivery network(CDN) can be used to cache web content at edge locations that are closest to your end users.
what are 2 ways you can protect data in transit?
SSL or by using client-side encryption
Convertible RIs
is an Ec2 reserverd instant that allows the ability to change the attributes of the RI whenever they need to.
Global Tables
dynamoDV replication tech that provides fast, Local, Read/Write performance for globally-deployed apps
Spot instances
EC2 instance option for users with urgent computing needs for large amounts of additional capacity.
wekk suited for data analysis, batch jobs, background processing, and optional tasks
what does amazon elastic beanstalk provide
an application container on top of AWS.
X-ray
AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug distrubuted apps in production or under development such as those built using microservice architecture. it provides and end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your app.
can help determine performance bottlenecks
Amazon Kinesis
service used to build video analytics apps.
what is a placement group in Amazon Ec2
a group of Ec2 instances withing a single availability zone
AWS Resource groups
can create a custom console in each stage to view and manage your resources easily
How are S3 storage classes rated?
Availability and Duribility
