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Question 1

What is cloud formation

Answer 1

a way for outlining your AWS infrastructure for any resources

Question 2

What are the benefits of AWS CloudFormation

Answer 2

infrastructure as code

• no need to manually create infrastructure
• changes to the infrastructure are reviewed through code

Cost

• Each resources within the stack is tagged with an identifier so you can easily see how much a stack costs you
• You can estimate the costs of your resources using the CloudFormation template
• Savings strategy: In Dev, you could automate deletion of templates at 5pm and recreated at 8am, safely

Question 3

What is AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

Answer 3

Define your cloud infrastructure using a familiar language

The code is compiled into a CloudFormation template

You can deploy infrastructure and app runtime code together

• Great for Lambda functions
• Great for Docker containers

Question 4

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 4

A developer centric view of deploying an application on AWS

is PaaS

Free but you have to pay for the underlying instances

Question 5

What is AWS Code deploy

Answer 5

A way to deploy applications automatically
Works with EC2 instances
Works with On-Premises Servers
Hybrid service
Servers / Instances must be provisioned and configured ahead of time with the CodeDeploy agent

Question 6

What is AWS CodeCommit

Answer 6

Amazons on Source-control service that hosts Git-based repositories
Makes it easy to collaborate with others on code
The code changes are automatically versioned

Question 7

What are the benefits of AWS Code Commit

Answer 7

Fully managed
Scalable and highly available
Private, Secured, Integrated with AWS

Question 8

What is AAWS CodeBuild

Answer 8

Code building service in the cloud

Compiles source code, run tests, and produces packages that are ready to be deployed

Question 9

What are the benefits of AWS CodeBuild

Answer 9

Fully managed, serverless
Continuously scalable and highly available
Secure
Pay-as-you-go pricing only pay for the build time

Question 10

What is AWS CodePipline

Answer 10

Orchestrate the different steps to have the code automatically pushed to production
Basis for CICD

Question 11

What are the benefits of AWS CodePipeline

Answer 11

Fully managed, comptaible with CodeCommit,CodeBuild,CodeDeploy, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFormation,Github,and custome plugins

Question 12

What is AWS CodeArtifact

Answer 12

a secure, scalable and cost-effective artifact management for software development
Developers and Codebuild can then retrieve dependencies straight from CodeArtifact

Question 13

What is AWS CodeStar

Answer 13

Unified UI to easily manage software development activities in one place

Question 14

What is AWS Cloud9

Answer 14

A cloud IDE for writing,running and debugging code

Allows collaboration in the browser with people at the same time

Question 15

What is AWS Systems Manager (SSM)

Answer 15

Helps you manage your EC2 and On-Premises systems at scale

Get operational insights about the state of your infrastructure

Question 16

What are the most important features of AWS Systems Manager

Answer 16

Patching automation for enhanced compliance
Run commands across an entire fleet of servers
Store parameter configuration with the SSM Parameter Store
Store parameter configuration with the SSM Parameter Store

Question 17

describe the SSM Session Manager

Answer 17

Allows you start a secure shell on your EC2 and on-premises servers
No SSH access bastion hosts or SSH keys needed
No port 22 needed
Sends session log data to S3 or CloudWatch logs

Question 18

What is AWS OpsWorks

Answer 18

Manages infrastructure automation tools like Chef puppet Ansible etc