AWS Exit Exam.

Amazon EC2 correct answer - Way to obtain virtual servers ("Instance") in the cloud (quickly and inexpensively) designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers and system admins How it works choose template (windows/linux) and quantity Up within minutes Once you are done using them you stop paying for them "Instances" range in size (small to cluster compute for high performance) Choose based on CPU, Memory, Storage customized to your needs Security features located in a virtual private cloud (VPC) which you control connect securely to your on-prem hardware via VPN Comes with temporary storage Pricing correct answer - OnDemand pay as you go (only for what you use) Reserved instance discount compared to ondemand for a 1 time payment spot instance you name what you want to pay Amazon EC2 Container Service correct answer - highly scalable container management service to run apps on a managed cluster of EC2 instances Basically simplifies cluster management Amazon Lambda correct answer - Runs your code in response of an event (ie an image upload or website-click) Scales automatically Auto Scaling correct answer - scale up/down on conditions you define best for apps that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variations in use Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) correct answer - you provision a private, isolated section of the Amazon Cloud you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define meant so you can reflect a network in your own datacenter Easily customizable make a public facing subnet, for example Elastic Load Balancing correct answer - automatically distributes incoming app traffic across multiple instances Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) correct answer - fully redundant storage (any size) create a bucket in minutes Amazon Glacier correct answer - low cost secure storage for data archiving and backup can be used for offsite enterprise information archiving, media assets or scientific data Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage) correct answer - provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances Off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance consistent and low-latency performance Scale usage up/down in minutes AWS Import/Export correct answer - accelerates moving large amounts of data in/out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport AWS Storage Getaway correct answer - service to connect on-premise IT environment to AWS seamlessly 3 configs supported Gateway-Cached Volumes Gateway-Stored Volumes Gateway-Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Amazon CloudFront correct answer - content delivery service gives developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users low-latency, high data transfer speeds Have locations around the world chooses close proximity to end use for faster rates Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) correct answer - easy set up, operate, and scale MySQL, Oracle, SQL, or PostreSQL database in the cloud provides resizable capacity manages database admin tasks offloads software installation, patching, and backups Amazon DynamoDB correct answer - fast, flexible NoSQL database service Basically lets your app/company grow as it needs to. Automatically determines the amount of data coming in/out and delivers it at a high speed Uses SSDs