Intro to Cloud Computing
A modern term for the internet.
What is the Cloud?
Cloud Computing
What is on-demand delivery of compute, database storage, application, and other IT resources?
The founder of Amazon.
Who is Jeff Bezos?
The AWS service used for caching data to improve application performance.
What is Amazon ElastiCache?
The three things needed to create AWS account.
What are a valid email address, phone number and credit card?
A global network of connected devices
What is the internet?
The purpose of AWS Cloud Adoption Framework.
What is to provide best practices for migrating and managing IT infrastructure in the cloud.
What is Amazon Web Services?
AWS storage service best used for hosting static files like images and videos.
What is Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)?
The three main AWS support plans available during account set up.
What are Basic (free), Developer, Business?
The year the concept of cloud computing originated.
What is 1950?
The four transformation domains in Cloud Adoption Framework's value chain.
What are Technological, Process, Organizational, and Product transformation
AWS’s main competitors in the cloud computing market
What are Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
AWS database service best for scalable NoSQL aplications.
What is Amazon DynamoDB?
The location of your security credentials and billing info in the AWS Console?
What is by clicking your username in the top right corner?
Multiple complete operating systems that run on a single piece of hardware, allowing one computer to perform multiple tasks simultaneously.
What is a virtual machine?
The six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
What are Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.
The number of service categories AWS offers as of winter 2020.
What is 24?
The service that allows you to run code in response to events without managing servers.
What is AWS Lambda?
The purpose of AWS Free Tier.
What is to let new users explore and test AWS services for free within usage limits?
Software that allows multiple pieces of hardware to be linked together, pooling their computational and storage resources as one giant resource.
What is a hypervisor?
The six advantages of cloud computing.
Variable costs, economies of scale, no capacity guessing, increased speed/agility, no data center maintenance, and global reach in minutes
Key benefits of using AWS for developers and businesses. (Name 2)
What are: Flexibility, scalability, reliability and affordability, allowing teams to focus on building products instead of managing infrastructure.
Used for running virtual machines in the cloud.
What is Amazon EC2?
The importance of monitoring billing in AWS, even during the free tier.
What is because some services may incur charges if usage exceeds free tier limits?