AWS Compute Overview

Question 1

What are the 4 primary services for compute purposes?

Answer 1

EC2, ECS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk

Question 2

What is EC2 stand for?

Answer 2

Elastic compute cloud, virtual server based computing

Question 3

What is ECS stand for?

Answer 3

Elastic container service, container based computing

Question 4

What is Elastic Beanstalk?

Answer 4

A platform as a service solution (PaaS)

Question 5

What is labda?

Answer 5

A serverless computing option

Question 6

Which of the compute services offers the most control / customisation?

Answer 6

EC2 are designed to mimic on premises servers. You can choose the operating system, processing power, storage type/capacity, as well as other customisations.

Question 7

Which compute service is similar to platforms like Heroku, which allow you to upload your application code with minimal management?

Answer 7

Elastic Beanstalk.

Question 8

Which service offers a serverless computing solution?

Answer 8

Lambda

Question 9

Which service offers an image based containerised computer solution?

Answer 9

Elastic container service (ECS)