AWS Compute Services
Serverless Compute Options
Compute Purchasing Options
Compute Services
AWS Core Services
100

Virtual machine

What is an EC2 instance?

100

This instance is always running.

What is an EC2 instance?

100

Pay for compute by the hour or second

What is On-Demand Instances?

100

Service used for running batch jobs at scale without managing infrastructure

What is AWS Batch?

100
EC2, Lambda, ECS, Batch, Lightsail are included in this category of services

What are Compute Services?

200

AWS Fargate

What AWS service allows you to run containers without managing servers?

200

The compute resource that is cost-effective for consistent workloads

What is EC2 instance?

200

This option provides up to 72% discount compared to On-Demand compute

What is Reserved Instances?
200

A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

What is Amazon EC2?

200
S3, EBS, Glacier, Storage Gateway are considered this type of service

What are Storage Services?

300

Serverless service in AWS that lets you run functions without managing infrastructure

What is Lambda?

300

The compute resource that is effective for variable workloads

What is Lambda?

300

This option provides up to 90% discount compared to On-Demand compute

What are Spot Instances?

300

PaaS service that is used for deploying and scaling web apps and services.

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

300
This type of service can be SQL or NoSQL based.

What are database services?

400

Automatically adjusts capacity to maintain availability

What is a benefit of EC2 Auto Scaling?

400

The serverless service that scales containers and has no max time limit

What is Fargate?

400
AWS physical servers that are dedicated for your use.
What are Dedicated Hosts?
400

Fully managed and configurable rack of AWS infrastructure at on-prem data center.

What is AWS Outposts?

400

This provides users with an isolated section of the cloud to build their environment.

What is a VPC?

500

Max 15 minutes per execution/trigger

What is Lambda's runtime?

500

The function based serverless service.

What is a Lambda?

500

Instances that run on hardware dedicated to a single customer

What are Dedicated Instances?

500

Service that extends AWS infrastructure to the edge of the 5G network.

What is AWS Wavelength?

500

This service automatically distributes incoming traffic to healthy endpoints.

What is Elastic Load Balancing?