Services Overview Flashcards
What’s the purpose of IAM?
It’s the permissions systems. It handles the users and roles management
What does IAM stand for?
Identity & Access Management
What is the VPC?
It’s the Virtual Private Cloud. Exempts the need of handling the physical hardware to manage the servers
Quote the two most used Compute resources of AWS
EC2 and Lambda
Quote the three most used Storage resources from AWS
S3, RDS (Relational Database) and NoSQL (DynamoDB or MongoDB)
What is Lambda (serverless)?
It’s a function that runs without the need of a server. You only focus on the code you write and run it without any machine
How Load Balancers work in AWS when associated with EC2s?
It allows the distribution of traffic over a fleet of many EC2 machines maintaining high availability
What exactly means “autoscalling”?
Is the ability to scale up or down to respond to increase or decrease demand.
Where is the best place to store static data?
S3
What are the benefits of creating a NoSQL in AWS?
It’s fully managed you only need to worry about read/write through PUT
Quote 3 main Communication layers in AWS
API Gateway
SNS - Simple Notification Service
SQS - Simple Queue Service
Quote 3 main Deployment resources in AWS
CodeBuilt
CodePipeline
CodeDeploy
What is CloudWatch? What is its purpose?
Is the monitoring resource available from AWS. You can track metrics, alarms and dashboards from it.
What is CloudFront?
Is the CDN to serve users with quickly responses
What’s the best way to get permissions through client in AWS?
With Cognito
