Other Compute Services
This is a simple AWS application with predictable pricing, often used by a client with beginner level cloud knowledge.
What is Lightsail? Amazon Lightsail is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS. Lightsail plans include everything you need to jumpstart your project – a virtual machine, SSD- based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP address – for a low, predictable price. It can be used to create a simple web application, a website or a dev/test environment.
This AWS database is a data warehouse.
What is Redshift? Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud.
This network security tool can be used to control traffic in and out of EC2 instances.
What are Security Groups? These operate at an instance level and can control traffic.
True or False: EBS Volumes cannot be attached to multiple EC2 instances at a time.
TRUE - EBS Volumes can be attached to only one EC2 Instance at a time, but EC2 Instances can have multiple EBS Volumes attached to them.
A hybrid AWS service that is used to allow on-prem servers to seamlessly use the AWS Cloud at the storage layer.
What is an AWS Storage Gateway? This is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.
This service is used when a company needs to run thousands of jobs but does not want to manage the compute resources.
What is AWS Batch? AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g., CPU or memory-optimized instances) based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted.
Central repository to store structural and operational metadata for data assets in AWS Glue.
What is an AWS Glue Data Catalog? The AWS Glue Data Catalog is a central repository to store structural and operational metadata for all your data assets. For a given data set, you can store its table definition, physical location, add business relevant attributes, as well as track how this data has changed over time.
The amount of time an EC2 Reserved Instance can be reserved for.
What is 1 or 3 years?
Explain what an EBS Snapshot does/is.
EBS Snapshots are used to back up data on your EBS Volumes at a point in time.
This S2 Storage Class is the most cost effective for archiving data with no retrieval time required.
What is Amazon Glacier Deep Archive? This is the most cost-effective option if you want to archive data and do not have a retrieval time requirements. You can retrieve data in 12 or 48 hours.
This software development platform allows you to run applications the same way, regardless of where they are run.
What is Docker? Docker is a software development platform that allows you to run applications the same way, regardless of where they are run. It can scale containers up and down within seconds.
This NoSQL database can scale with no downtime and can handle millions of requests per second.
What is DynamoDB? DynamoDB is a fast and flexible non-relational database service for any scale. It can scale with no downtime; it can process millions of requests per second and is fast and consistent in performance.
This EC2 purchasing option can provide the biggest discount but it is not suitable for critical jobs or databases.
What are Spot Instances? They work for good short workloads but are less reliable.
This EC2 Storage is used when creating a shared network file system for EC2 Instances.
What is Amazon EFS? This is a fully managed service that makes it easy to set up, scale, and cost optimize file storage in the Amazon Cloud.
This is the "snow" option that is an exabytes-scale data moving service in or out of AWS.
What is a Snowmobile? This is used to move exabytes of data in or out of AWS.
What is a Lambda?
What is Amazon Athena? Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
This EC2 Purchasing Option can be used for an application running on a server continuously for 1 year.
What are Reserved Instances? These are good for long workloads.
This is what an EBS Volume is tied to.
This S3 Storage Class is suitable for less frequently accessed data, but with rapid access when needed, while keeping a high durability and allowing an Availability Zone failure.
What is an Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access? This allow you to store infrequently accessed data, with rapid access when needed, has a high durability, and is stored in several Availability Zones to avoid data loss in case of a disaster. It can be used to store data for disaster recovery, backups, etc.
This AWS Service allow you to launch Docker containers on AWS but requires you to provision and maintain the infrastructure.
What is ECS? ECS allows you to launch Docker containers on AWS, but you must provision and maintain the infrastructure (i.e. EC2 instances).
What is ElastiCache? Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy and run Memcached or Redis protocol-compliant server nodes in the cloud. ElastiCache caches are in-memory databases with high performance, low latency. They help reduce load off databases for read intensive workloads.
Who is the customer? The customer is responsible for operating-system patches and updates on EC2 instances, as well as data security on the instances, Security Groups rules, etc.
A service that can be used to automate image management processes.
What is an EC2 Image Builder? This is an automated pipeline for the creation, maintenance, validation, sharing and deployment of Linux or Windows images for use on AWS and on-premises.
This is where objects are stored in Amazon S3.
What are Buckets? Buckets store objects in Amazon S3.