Technology

Question 1

Cloud, On-premise, Hybrid

Answer 1

There different infrastructure options

Question 2

Regions, Availability Zones, Edge Locations

Answer 2

Region- geographic area
AZ - several of these within a region
Edge Location- (similar to CDN/localized caches)

Question 3

AWS Lambda

Answer 3

Run code with server-less computation

Question 4

Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS)

Answer 4

Container Orchestration Service

Question 5

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Answer 5

Virtual Machine/container service in the cloud

Question 6

Autoscaling

Answer 6

Automatically scales and optimized EC2 instances

Question 7

Elastic Load Balancing

Answer 7

Automatically manages incoming traffic to optimize performance

Question 8

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Answer 8

A virtual private cloud

Question 9

Security Groups

Answer 9

Like normal security groups

Question 10

Route 53

Answer 10

Amazon’s DNS service

Question 11

Direct Connect

Answer 11

Connects you directly to the cloud bypassing the normal internet infrastructure

Question 12

S3 Simple Storage Service

Answer 12

Simple storage service

Question 13

Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Answer 13

Provides block level storage

Question 14

Elastic Files System (EFS)

Answer 14

Allows you to store file systems

Question 15

Storage Gateway

Answer 15

Set of hybrid cloud services that provides on-premise access to cloud storage

Question 16

DynamoDB

Answer 16

NoSQL database service

Question 17

Redshift

Answer 17

Data warehouse with Postgres compatibility

Question 18

RDS

Answer 18

Relational Database Service