Containers & Databases

Question 1

A fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

Answer 1

Amazon Elastic Container Registry

Question 2

A highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS.

Answer 2

Amazon Elastic Container Service

Question 3

What is Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service?

Answer 3

Makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS

Question 4

A command-line tool for modernizing .NET and Java applications into containerized applications. It analyzes and builds an inventory of all applications running in virtual machines, on-premises, or in the cloud.

Answer 4

AWS App2Container

Question 5

AWS service that provides an integrated experience to use OpenShift.

Answer 5

Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWSR (ROSA)

Question 6

A MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases

Answer 6

Amazon Aurora

Question 7

Amazon Aurora is up to ____ faster than standard MySQL databases and _____ faster than standard PostgreSQL databases.

Answer 7

Five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases.

Question 8

Amazon Aurora features a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to ____ per database instance. It delivers high performance and availability with up to ______ read replicas, point-in-time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, and replication across _____ Availability Zones (AZs)

Answer 8

Amazon Aurora features a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 128TB per database instance. It delivers high performance and availability with up to 15 low-latency read replicas, point-in-time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, and replication across three (3) Availability Zones (AZs)

Question 9

A key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, can handle more than 10 trillion requests per day and support peaks of more than 20 million requests per second.

Answer 9

Amazon DynamoDB

Question 10

A web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud.

Answer 10

Amazon ElastiCache

Question 11

Open-source in-memory caching engines that AWS ElastiCache supports? Differentiate them

Answer 11

Redis - a fast, open-source, in-memory key-value data store for use as a database, cache, message broker, and queue.

Memcached - a widely adopted memory object caching system. ElastiCache for Memcached is protocol compliant with Memcached.

Question 12

An AWS service that is scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service

Answer 12

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)

Question 13

Fast, reliable, fully-managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets.

Answer 13

Amazon Neptune

USE Cases: recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, drug discovery, and network security.

Question 14

Makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.

Answer 14

Amazon Relational Database Service

Question 15

How do you easily migrate or replicate your existing databases to Amazon RDS?

Answer 15

Use the AWS Database Migration Service

Question 16

Let you deploy managed databases in on-premises VMware environments using the Amazon RDS technology. Utilize the same simple interface for managing databases in on-premises VMware environments as you would use in AWS.

Answer 16

Amazon RDS on VMware

Question 17

A fully managed ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log owned by a central trusted authority.

Answer 17

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)

Question 18

QLDB uses an immutable transactional log, known as a _____, that tracks each application data change and maintains a complete and verifiable history of changes over time

Answer 18

Journal

Question 19

A fast, scalable, fully managed time-series database service for IoT and operational applications that makes it easy to store and analyze trillions of events per day at 1/10th the cost of relational databases

Answer 19

Amazon Timestream

Question 20

A purpose-built time series database that efficiently stores and processes this data by time intervals.

Answer 20

Timestream

Question 21

A fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

Answer 21

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)