AWS Compute Services

Question 1

When might Batch be used and how does it work?

Answer 1

For jobs with a well defined start and end (batch jobs). It is a fully managed service that helps managed deployed servers such as EC2 (the user must still deploy the server meaning it is not serverless) using data form storage such as S3

Question 2

What service might one use for creating a Hadoop cluster?

Answer 2

EMR (Elastic MapReduce) a managed service

Question 3

What service can be used to provision instances for running containers?

Answer 3

Faregate

Question 4

What is AWS Lambda?

Answer 4

Lambda is an event triggered time limited service use to deploy compute resource. Payment is per request and compute time - on demand. Has auto scaling

Question 5

What is Outpost used for?

Answer 5

Running AWS services on premises - it is therefore a hybrid cloud service

Question 6

What is the easiest way to launch a server in AWS?

Answer 6

Lightsail

Question 7

How might a organisation automate the set up of it’s EC2 servers in AWS?

Answer 7

OpsWorks - allows users to use Chef and Puppet (automation tools) to automate config, deployment and managing of instances

Question 8

What service might a user use to manage on-premises and or EC2 instances at scale?

Answer 8

SSM (SyStems Manager)