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Serverless Flashcards

1
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What does AWS X-Ray do?

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it allows you to scan Lambda architecture and debug issues with AWS Lambda

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Does AWS Lambda scale out automatically?

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Yes

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3
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Does AWS Lambda scale up automatically?

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No

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4
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Can an AWS Lambda function trigger another AWS Lambda Function?

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No

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What does SAM stand for?

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Serverless Application Model

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What is AWS SAM?

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A superset of Cloudformation functionality that allows you to run serverless applications locally

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What does ECS stand for?

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Elastic Container Service

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What is a container?

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A container is a package with an application, libraries, runtime, and the tools required to run it

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What are the benefits of using containers?

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  • Containers provide isolation benefits of virtualization with less overhead and faster start times than VMs
  • Containers are portable, and offer a consistent environment
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At a high level, what does ECS do?

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  • ECS is a managed container orchestration service
  • It creates clusters to manage fleets of container deployments
  • Schedules containers for optimized placement within a cluster
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What is the pricing structure of ECS?

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ECS is free

(although the EC2/Fargate instances that you spin up in it have standard charges)

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In the context of ECS, What is a cluster?

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In ECS, A cluster is a logical connection of ECS resources

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In the context of ECS, what is the difference between a task definition and a container definition?

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  • A task definition defines your application (think Dockerfile but for ECS)
  • A container definition defines the individual containers a task uses (think CPU, malloc, port mappings)
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14
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Suppose you have two containers that always need to run together. How would you ensure this in ECS?

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put their container definitions under the same task definition

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In the context of ECS, what is a task?

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A single running copy of any containers defined in a task definition

(One working copy of your application)

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In the context of ECS, what is a service?

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A service allows task definitions to scale by adding tasks.

Sets a min/max number of tasks that varies with autoscaling

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In the context of ECS, what is a registry?

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storage for container images

Used to download images to create containers

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At a high level, what is Fargate?

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Fargate is a serverless container engine

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What is the pricing structure for Fargate?

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You specify and pay for resources per application

20
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In what instances would you use EC2 instances instead of Fargate?

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  • Strict compliance requirements
  • Your use case requires broader customization (since you can’t actually get in to the Fargate instance)
  • Your use case requires GPUs
21
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What does EKS stand for?

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Elastic Kubernetes Service

22
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What does K8s stand for?

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Kubernetes

23
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At a high level, what is Kubernetes?

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Kubernetes is an open-source software that lets you deploy and manage containerized applications at scale

24
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In the context of EKS, what is a pod?

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In EKS, containers are grouped into pods

It is roughly analagous to a task in ECS

25
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What is the use case for EKS?

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  • You are already using Kubernetes and want to migrate to AWS
26
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What does ECR stand for?

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Elastic Container Registry

27
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How does ECR ensure high availability?

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It is deployed across multiple AZs within a region

28
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What is the price structure of ECR? That is, what specifically do you pay for?

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With ECR, you pay for storage and data transfer

29
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At a high level, what is ECR?

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ECR is a managed Docker container registry

30
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How does ECS benefit from ELB?

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with ELB, you can distribute traffic evenly across tasks in your service

31
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What is the difference between EC2 Instance Roles and Task Roles?

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  • An EC2 Instance Role applies a policy to all tasks running in that EC2 instance
  • A Task Role only applies to that task

So, Task Roles respect Least Priviledges better than EC2 instance Roles

32
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When configruing SQS as event source for AWS Lambda function, what is the maximum batch size supported by AWS SQS RecieveMessage API call?

33
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What Amazon CloudFront events can be used to trigger a Lambda Function?

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  • Viewer Request
  • Viewer Response
  • Origin Request
  • Origin Response

(Source: https://github.cloud.capitalone.com/puggles/deposits-accounts-bankcard-pin/blob/develop/settings.xml#L9)

34
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Suppose you change code and upload a new version of code to an AWS Lambda Function. What will happen to requests sent immediately after the code change?

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For a brief period (usually less than one minute) requests might be served by either the old or new version

35
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What poll-based services are supported by AWS Lambda?

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  • Kinesis
  • DynamoDB
  • SQS

(Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-invocation.html?shortFooter=true%23streaming-event-source-mapping)

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What are the limitations on what memory can be allocated to an AWS Lambda Function?

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128MB to 3008MB, in increments of 64 MBs

(Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/gettingstarted-limits.html)

37
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Are Lambda environment variables automatically encrypted?

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They are encrypted when deployed, and decrypted when invoked (so your code can use them)

38
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What actions are required by Lambda Execution Role in order to write logs in CloudWatch?

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  • CreateLogGroup
  • CreateLogStream
  • PutLogEvents
39
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When a lambda is synchronously invoked and errors, what is returned?

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A 200 status code

A FunctionError field in the response

40
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What is the pricing model for AWS Lambda?

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  • Requests (per million)
  • Total Duration and Hardware (per GB-s)
41
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In the context of ECS, what is a task definition?

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A JSON template that describes containers which form your application

42
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What are the key features offered by ECS?

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  • Containers and Images
  • Task Definitions
  • Tasks and Scheduling
  • Clusters
  • Container Agent
43
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Can you add additional security capabailities to your ECS containers?

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Yes, you have root access to the OS of your container instances

44
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What should you do for monitoring and alerting with ECS?

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Utilize CloudTrail**

45
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Can Lambda be used for monitoring?

46
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How do ECS clusters get permissions to access your AWS resources?

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They use container instance roles in IAM

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