AWS Exam with complete solutions
2024/2025
Amazon EC2 - 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 - 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 - ANSWER-highly scalable container management
service to run apps on a managed cluster of EC2 instances
Basically simplifies cluster management
Amazon Lambda - ANSWER-Runs your code in response of an event (ie an image
upload or website-click)
Scales automatically
, Auto Scaling - 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) - 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 - ANSWER-automatically distributes incoming app traffic
across multiple instances
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - ANSWER-fully redundant storage (any
size)
create a bucket in minutes
Amazon Glacier - 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) - 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 - ANSWER-accelerates moving large amounts of data in/out
of AWS using portable storage devices for transport
AWS Storage Getaway - 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 - ANSWER-content delivery service
gives developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users
low-latency, high data transfer speeds
2024/2025
Amazon EC2 - 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 - 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 - ANSWER-highly scalable container management
service to run apps on a managed cluster of EC2 instances
Basically simplifies cluster management
Amazon Lambda - ANSWER-Runs your code in response of an event (ie an image
upload or website-click)
Scales automatically
, Auto Scaling - 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) - 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 - ANSWER-automatically distributes incoming app traffic
across multiple instances
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - ANSWER-fully redundant storage (any
size)
create a bucket in minutes
Amazon Glacier - 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) - 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 - ANSWER-accelerates moving large amounts of data in/out
of AWS using portable storage devices for transport
AWS Storage Getaway - 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 - ANSWER-content delivery service
gives developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users
low-latency, high data transfer speeds
