Section 30: More Solution Architectures

Question 1

What can Amazon EventBridge used for?

Answer 1

• Intercepting of API calls. Example if a user delete tables in DynamoDB,log is send to CloudTrail and a event can be triggered and send to SNS for alert

Question 2

How to block an IP Address?

Answer 2

• First option is to block at NACL level
• Next option is to allow only a certain subnet
• Next to have a optional Firewall software in EC2
• Install WAF Firewall on your ALB or CloudFront

Question 3

What is HPC?

Answer 3

• It stand for High Performance Computing
• The cloud is perfect place to perform HPC

Question 4

What will help us to assist HPC to transfer data?

Answer 4

• AWS Direct Connect: Move GB/s of data to the cloud
• Snowball & Snowmobile: Move PB of data to the cloud
• AWS DataSync: Move large amount of data between on-premise and S3

Question 5

What will help us to asssit HPC in Compute and Networking? p362

Answer 5

• Making use of EC2 instances
• EC2 placemnet Groups: Cluster for good network performance
• EC2 Enahanced networking(RS-IOV):
  -> Option 1: Elastic Network Adapter(ENA) up to 100 Gbps
  -> Option 2: Intel 82599 VF up to 10 Gbps
• Elastic Fabric Adapter(EFA): Improved ENA for HPC, only works for Linux

Question 6

What will help us to assist HPC in storage?

Answer 6

• instance-attached storage:
  -> EBS: scale up to 256000 IOPS
  -> Intsance Store: scale to millions of IPS
• Network storage:
  -> Amazon S3: lrage blob, not a file system
  -> Amazon EFS: scale IOPS based on total size
  -> Amazon FSx for Lustre

Question 7

What will help us to assist HPC in Automation and Orchestration

Answer 7

• AWS Batch
  -> AWS Batch support multi-node parallel jobs
  -> Easily schedule jobs and lanuch EC2 instances
• AWS Parallel Cluster
  -> Open source cluster management tool to deploy HPC on AWS
  -> Configure text files

Question 8

What is Cloudformation and what benefits does it have? p365

Answer 8

• Its a way you specify in a template format,specifying what resources are required, example you require secuirty groups with a EC2 and a S3 bucket.
• Some of the benefits:
  -> Infrastructure is created using code and no manual work is required.
  -> Cost: Can estimate what resouce is gonna cost you
  -> Productivity: Able to deploy and re-create an infrastructure on the fly
  -> Support all AWS resources

Question 9

What is Amazon SES and can it used for?

Answer 9

• it stand for Simple Email Service
• Use cases: transactional, marketing and bulk email communications

Question 10

What is Amazon pinpoint?

Answer 10

• Scalable 2-way(outbound/inbound) marketing communication service
• Supports email, SMS push, voice and in-ap messaging.
• Possibility to receive replies.
  -Use case: run campaigns by sending marketing, bulk,transactional SMS

Question 11

What is SSM Session Manager?

Answer 11

• Allows you to start a secure shell on your EC2 and on-premises servers
• No SSH access,SSH keys needed