Public Cloud Terminology Flashcards
What is an AWS Account?
AWS services are housed within an Account. Accounts can be Master Payer Accounts which contain billing data or Linked Accounts which do not. AWS Organisations and other services can be used to manage accounts within AWS. Many AWS services can span account boundaries.
What do the following acronyms stand for:
- AURI
- PURI
- NUPI
- AURI = All Upfront Reserved Instance
- PURI = Partial Upfront Reserved Instance
- NUPI =No Upfront Reserved Instance
Some people use these acronyms when referring to reserved insurances.
What is an Availability Zone (AZ)?
An Availability Zone (AZ) is a sub-unit of a Region, where there are typically multiple AZ’s per Region.
AZ’s are made up of multiple physical Data Centers but can generally be thought of as being very closely situated from a network latency and performance perspective.
What is Blob Storage (Azure)?
Blob Storage (Azure) is Microsoft Azure’s object storage solution.
What are Cloud Storage Buckets (GCP)?
Cloud Storage Buckets (GCP) are Google Cloud Platform object storage solution.
What is Compute (Azure)?
Compute (Azure) is Microsoft Azure’s virtual computer cloud offering.
What is Compute Engine (GCP)?
Compute Engine (GCP) is Google Cloud Platform virtual computer cloud offering.
Explain Console, Dashboard and Portal?
Accessing cloud resources is done through types of online sites provided by each CSP.
- Azure call theirs the Azure Portal (Subscription Portal, Enrolment Portal, etc),
- AWS call theirs the AWS Console.
- GCP call theirs the GCP Dashboard.
What is Convertible / Standard?
Convertible / Standard are AWS’ terms referring to the ability to convert RIs for some resources to different specifications.
Standard RIs cannot be converted or changed for their entire term.
Convertibility reduces the discount offered by AWS. Azure and GCP also allow some flexibility in specific ways to their reservations using slightly different language.
What is EC2 (AWS)?
EC2 (AWS) is Elastic Compute Cloud and is AWS’ virtual computer cloud offering.
What does IAM mean?
IAM stands for Identity and Access Management and is the way that all 3 of the main cloud service providers refer to their system of granting and governing permissions within their cloud platforms.
What are Instance Type, Family, Generation, Size (AWS)?
Instance is usually AWS specific and generally refers to a specific EC2 virtual machine. AWS supports a variety of instance families, designated by letter, an instance Generation designated by a number and optionally other letters, and instance sizes which follow a structure of nano, micro, small, medium, large, xlarge, 2xlarge, etc. The instance type includes the entire designation, such as m5a.16xlarge which would be an “m” family, 5th generation, “a” for AMD chipset, 16xlarge sized instance.
Azure also has virtual machines which they call VMs which have families, generation and size designators.
GCP calls these machine types and has a more flexible size designation scheme.
Describe what FinOps means to you…?
FinOps is the practice of bringing together Finance, Technology, and Business to manage the unit economics of Cloud for competitive advantage.
Is the FinOps practice about saving money, or is it about making money leveraging the cloud?
It is about making money leveraging the cloud?
when was the FinOps foundation founded?
The FinOps foundation was founded in Feb 2019.
