The Cloud
AWS Value Proposition
Core AWS Services
AWS Cloud Deployment & Operation
Storage & Databases
100
The typical payment for cloud services.

What is Pay-as-you-go basis?

100

Cloud computing providers describe this "best practice" as more energy efficient than typical on-premises environments

What is Sustainability?

100

This category of AWS services provides virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing

What are Computing Services? 

100

Ensuring that no single Amazon EC2 Instance has to carry the full workload on its own is an example of this service

What is Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?

100

This AWS service would be best for storing data in an object storage service

What is Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)?

200

Another name for on-premises deployment

What is Private Cloud deployment? 

200

This AWS Value Proposition describes the ability to almost instantly provision and de-provision resources

What is Elasticity?

200

Services that include Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and Amazon Glacier

What are Storage Services? 

200

This service will help you install code automatically to an Amazon EC2 instance

What is AWS CodeDeploy?

200

This AWS term refers to a geographical area divided into Availability Zones

What is a Region?


300

This cloud deployment model is often owned, managed, and operated by an entity, yet exists entirely on the premises of the cloud provider

What is Public Cloud deployment? 

300

____ is all about leveraging for rapid deployment, testing, experimentation, and innovation.

What is Agility? 

300

This AWS service provides managed databases, including relational and NoSQL database options

What are Database Services?

300

For users with urgent computing needs in a non-production environment, this EC2 instance would be the most cost-effective choice

What is a Spot Instance?

300

This is a key-value database service that delivers key-value single-digit millisecond performance at any scale

What is Amazon DynamoDB?

400

On-premises IT computing environment and cloud computing environment

What is Hybrid Cloud deployment? 

400

This AWS Proposition Value enables organizations to gain competitive advantage and it can be leveraged by all

What is Flexibility? 

400

Services that include Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

What are Security Services? 

400

This term describes a collection of related AWS resources that is managed as a single unit, and is the resulting deployment of a CloudFormation template

What is a Stack? 

400

For data that is infrequently accessed but requires high availability when needed, this S3 storage class would be ideal

What is Standard-IA?

500

SIP PHO

What is Software, Infrastructure, Platform, Public Hybrid, On-Premises?

500

Services such as AWS Shield Advanced and Guard Duty enforce this AWS value proposition

What is Security? 

500

Services that include Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Redshift

What are Analytics Services?

500

Launching new instances and adding them to the pool of resources to help balance the workload is an example of this type of scaling

What is Horizontal Scaling?

500

This S3 storage class monitors access patterns of objects and automatically moves them between the S3 Standard and S3 Standard-IA storage classes

What is Intelligent-Tiering?