FUN-DAMENTALS
Scaling in/out (horizontal) and up/down (vertical) does these
Add or removing nodes (servers)
Adding or removing of CPU, memory and other resources
EC2 stands for this
Elastic Cloud Computing
S3 stands for this
Simple Storage Service
SaaS stands for this
Software as a service
Bonus: name an example of a SaaS service
Tardar Sauce has a facial appearance, which was caused by an underbite and feline dwarfism is also known by what famous nickname?
Grumpy Cat
This AWS services automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost for EC2 instances.
Autoscaling
Bonus: What are you charged for when using this service?
Volumes that can be attached to ec2 instances and houses your application even if the instance is shut down
EBS
Bonus: What does it stand for?
The maximum file size a single object can be stored in S3
5TB
Bonus: What is the maximum storage amount for a single bucket?
These are global isolated, completed independent areas and is composed of multiple availability zones
AWS Regions
Bonus: what's the most expensive region to spin up services in?
Bonus 2: which regions does StratComm use?
Mr. Bubz
A non relational database that is best for fast read/write capacity
DynamoDB (noSQL)
Bonus: name 2 relational databases supported by RDS
Packaged environment containing a software stack, along with all the necessary parts to properly set up, and boot, an EC2 instance.
AMI
Bonus: what does it stand for?
S3 can not only store objects but also serve these types of web sites
Static HTML
Bonus: Why would hosting a site on S3 be more beneficial than hosting on an EC2 instance?
A user trying to access an AWS hosted site is unable to visit the website. What are possible issues within AWS that might be preventing them from visiting the website?
User's IP address is not in an assigned Security Group for Port 80/443 and/or the EC2 instance is down.
Bonus: IAM restrictive policy granting method is known as what?
An English mathematician and writer, she is known for being the first to recognize the full potential fo a computing machine and one of the first computer programmers.
Ada Lovelace
AWS manages physical data centers, networking, storage globally while users manage applications, data and OS is known as this model
Shared Responsibility
Distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures and provide low-latency network connectivity to other locations in the same region
Availability Zones (AZ)
EBS volumes are stored in invisible buckets in S3 as these
Snapshots
Type of service in which you are responsible for only the application and data
PaaS
Bonus: name a PaaS provider
Tim Paterson wrote the Disk Operating System, which was purchased by this company in 1981 for $75,000
Microsoft
A scope of work requires a website to be "highly available" and the data to be "highly durable". Define the two terms.
Highly available: that the website/server is always accessible when a user requests it in a browser
Highly durable: no data is ever lost. Backups and failovers for the app and/or data is available on standby
Bonus: what is the type of agreement that guarantees these two requirements from a vendor?
Stratcomm production sites use this type of EC2 instance family type
T2 or T3 general purpose/compute
Bonus: Which AWS service can you use to monitor the health and performance of the instance?
A cheap, highly durable S3 storage class that is good for objects infrequently accessed and can take a few hours to retrieve
Glacier and Deep Glacier
Bonus: How much does it cost to store 1GB per month?
Type of service in which you are responsible for maintaining the application, data, middleware and OS
IaaS
Bonus: which AWS service describes this?
This company was largely responsible for the developments of the laser printer, ethernet, the modern PC, GUI, object oriented programming, just to name a few.
Xerox PARC