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Serverless Overviews from a Solution Architect Perspective Flashcards

1
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What does Serverless mean?

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You don’t manage, provision or see servers.

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What applications are serverless in AWS?

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AWS Lambda
DynamoDB
AWS Cognito
AWS API Gateway
Amazon S3
AWS SNS & SQS
AWS Kinesis Data Firehose
Aurora Serverless 
Step Functions
Fargate
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3
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Increasing RAM of AWS Lambda will also improve what?

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CPU & Network

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What languages does AWS lambda support?

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Node.js (JavaScript)
Python
Java (Java 8 compatible)
C# (.NET Core)
Golang
C# / Powershell
Ruby
Custom Runtime API (community supported)
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5
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What is preferred for running arbitrary Docker images?

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ECS / Fargate

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A Linux command used for scheduling tasks to be executed sometime in the future.

This is usually used to schedule a job that is executed periodically, for example every morning

What is this called?

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Cron Job

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7
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In AWS Lambda how many of the first call request are free?

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1 million

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8
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In AWS Lambda how many of the first compute time per month are free?

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400,000 GB-seconds

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9
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For AWS Lambda what is the memory allocation?

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128 MB - 10 GB

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10
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For AWS Lambda what is the maximum execution time?

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900 seconds (15 minutes)

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11
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For AWS Lambda what are the environment variables?

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4 KB

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12
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For AWS Lambda what are the concurrency executions?

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1000 (can be increased)

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13
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What is the Lambda function deployment size?

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50 MB

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14
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For Lambda what is the size of uncompressed deployment?

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250 MB

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15
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In AWS Lambda deployment, how would you upload other files?

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/tmp directory

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16
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You can use Lambda to change what?

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CloudFront requests and responses

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  • Website Security and Privacy
  • Dynamic Web Application at the Edge
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Intelligently Route Across Origins and Data Centers
  • Bot Mitigation at the Edge
  • Real-time Image Transformation
  • A/B Testing
  • User Authentication and Authorization
  • User Prioritization
  • User Tracking and Analytics
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Lambda@Edge

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18
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the execution of two or more computer programs by a single computer

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Concurrency executions

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Creating 2 versions of a digital asset to see which one users respond to better. Examples of assets include a landing page, display ad, marketing email , and social post.

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A/B Testing

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  • Fully managed, highly available with replication across multiple AZs
  • NoSQL database - not a relational database
  • Scales to massive workloads, distributed database
  • Millions of requests per seconds, trillions of row, 100s of TB of storage
  • Fast and consistent in performance (low latency on retrieval)
  • Integrated with lAM for security, authorization and administration
  • Enables event driven programming with DynamoDB Streams
  • Low cost and auto-scaling capabilities
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Amazon Dynamo DB

21
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Dynamo DB is made from what?

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Tables

22
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What is the maximum size of an item in a DynamoDB Table?

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400KB

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  • You specify the number of reads/writes per second
  • You need to plan capacity beforehand

• Pay for (blank) Read Capacity
Units (RCU) & Write Capacity Units (WCU)

• Possibility to add auto-scaling mode for RCU & WCU

What DynamoDB mode is this?

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Provisioned Mode

24
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  • Read/writes automatically scale up/down with your workloads
  • No capacity planning needed
  • Pay for what you use, more expensive ($$$)
  • Great for unpredictable workloads

What DynamoDB mode is this?

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On-Demand Mode

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A fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for DynamoDB, that delivers up to a 10 times performance improvement—from milliseconds to microseconds—even at millions of requests per second.

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DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

26
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This feature when enabled, captures a time-ordered sequence of item-level modifications in a DynamoDB table and durably stores the information for up to 24 hours.

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DynamoDB Streams

27
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A collection of one or more replica tables, all owned by a single AWS account.

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DynamoDB Global Tables

28
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What type of Dynamo DB indexes are there?

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Global Secondary Indexes (GSI)

Local Secondary Indexes (LSI)

29
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What does an API Gateway do?

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To put it simply, the API Gateway takes all API requests from a client, determines which services are needed, and combines them into a unified, seamless experience for the user.

30
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What does API Gateway integrate with?

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Lambda Function

HTTP

AWS Service

31
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What are the three ways to deploy API Gateway?

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  • Edge Optimized (default)
  • Regional
  • Private
32
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  • the single-entry point for defined back-end APIs and microservices
  • the gateway acts as protector, enforcing security and ensuring scalability and high availability
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API Gateway

33
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Which API Gateway Security feature is this?

  • Great for users / roles already within your AWS account.
  • Handles authentication & authorization
  • Leverages Sig v4
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IAM Permissions

34
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The process to add authentication information to AWS API requests sent by HTTP

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Signature Version 4 (SigV4)

35
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What API Gateway Security feature is this?

  • Great for 3rd party tokens
  • Very flexible in terms of what IAM policy is returned
  • Handle Authentication + Authorization
  • Pay per Lambda invocation
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Lambda Authorizer (Custom Authorizer)

36
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What API Gateway Security feature is this?

  • You manage your own user pool (backed by FB, Google login etc)
  • No need to write any custom code
  • Must implement authorization in the backend
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Cognito User Pool

37
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Gives users an identity so that they can interact with our application

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AWS Cognito

38
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  • Sign in functionality for app users
  • Integrate w API Gateway for authentication

Which Cognito product is this?

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Cognito User Pools

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  • Provide AWS credentials to user so they can access AWS resources directly
  • Integrate with Cognito User Pools as an identity provider

Which Cognito product is this?

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Cognito Identity Pools (Federated Identity)

40
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  • Synchronise data from device to Cognito
  • Requires Federated Identity Pool in Cognito (not User Pool)
  • Deprecated and replaced by AppSync

Which Cognito product is this?

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Cognito Sync

41
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What does SAM stand for?

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Serverless Application Model

42
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  • Framework for developing and deploying serverless applications
  • Can help you run Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB locally
  • Can use CodeDeploy to deploy Lambda functions
  • Allows you to deploy Lambda Functions, DynamoDB, API Gateway & Cognito User Pools
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AWS SAM

43
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RCU & WCU are __________.

What does that mean?

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Decoupled, meaning you can increase/decrease each value separately

44
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This feature is integrated with Lambda so that you create triggers that automatically respond to events in real time.

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DynamoDB Streams

45
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To create a serverless API - what should you integrate Amazon API Gateway with?

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AWS Lambda

46
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Where are API requests routed to?

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The nearest CloudFront Edge Location (which improves latency)

47
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Who is an Edge-Optimized API Gateway best for?

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Geographically distributed clients

48
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What feature integrates w Facebook to provide authenticated logins for your application users?

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Amazon Cognito User Pools (CUP)

49
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What feature allows you to run code closer to your users, which improves performance and reduces latency.

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Lambda@Edge

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