Amazon Services

Question 1

Describe what the S3 Storage Class/s below is/are best used for: “S3 Outposts”

Answer 1

S3 Outposts delivers object storage to your on-premises environment. S3 Outposts storage class is ideal for workloads with local data residency requirements, and to satisfy demanding performance needs by keeping data close to on-premises applications.

Question 2

Describe what the S3 Storage Class/s below is/are best used for: “S3 Standard”

Answer 2

S3 Standard is for general-purpose storage of frequently accessed data.

Question 3

Describe what the S3 Storage Class/s below is/are best used for: “S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA)”

Answer 3

S3 Standard Infrequent Access is for long-lived, but less frequently accessed data. One Zone refers to it only being stored in one zone making it cheaper, however data will be lost in the event of Availability Zone destruction.

Question 4

Describe what the S3 Storage Class/s below is/are best used for: “S3 Intelligent Tiering”

Answer 4

S3 Intelligent Tiering is for data with unknown or changing access patterns.

Question 5

Describe what the S3 Storage Class/s below is/are best used for: “S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive”

Answer 5

S3 Glacier is for long-term archive and digital preservation. Lower cost but much higher retrieval/query times. Glacier retrieval times - Minutes to Hours Deep Glacier retrieval times - within 12 Hours

Question 6

What is the “Amazon Athena” service?

Answer 6

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

Question 7

What is the “Amazon Aurora” service?

Answer 7

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

Question 8

What is the “Amazon CloudWatch” service?

Answer 8

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service that provides data and actionable insights for AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources. With CloudWatch, you can collect and access all your performance and operational data in form of logs and metrics from a single platform.

Question 9

What is the “Amazon DynamoDB” service?

Answer 9

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.

Question 10

What is the “Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)” service?

Answer 10

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high performance block storage service designed for use with (and only with) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale. (Key to point out, it is for linking with a single EC2 instance. Not as a standalone file system. It can be used by that instance and that instance alone)

Question 11

What is the “Amazon ElastiCache” service?

Answer 11

Amazon ElastiCache allows you to seamlessly set up, run, and scale popular open-Source compatible in-memory data stores in the cloud. Amazon ElastiCache is a popular choice for real-time use cases like Caching, Session Stores, Gaming, Geospatial Services, Real-Time Analytics, and Queuing.

Question 12

What is the “Amazon Redshift” service?

Answer 12

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can start with just a few hundred gigabytes of data and scale to a petabyte or more. This enables you to use your data to acquire new insights for your business and customers.

Question 13

What is the “Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3 Buckets)”?

Answer 13

Amazon S3 is object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and stores data for millions of applications used by market leaders in every industry. (S3 buckets can literally be treated like a file system on a computer and store anything and everything you can on a local drive)

Question 14

What is the “Amazon CloudFormation” service?

Answer 14

AWS CloudFormation is a service that gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, and provision and manage them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

Question 15

What is the “AWS CloudTrail” service?

Answer 15

AWS CloudTrail is an AWS service that helps you enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events in CloudTrail. Events include actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, and AWS SDKs and APIs.

Question 16

What is the “AWS Config” service?

Answer 16

AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations.

Question 17

What is the “AWS OpsWorks” service?

Answer 17

AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet. Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers. OpsWorks lets you use Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments. (For the service to work On-Premise - Needs access to Public Endpoints and servers need to be running a Linux OS)

Question 18

What is the “AWS Organisations” service?

Answer 18

AWS Organizations is an account management service that enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. (Allows users to automate the creation of new AWS accounts when they need to work quickly)

Question 19

What is the “AWS PrivateLink” Service?

Answer 19

AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs and services hosted on AWS or on-premises, securely on the Amazon network. By providing a private endpoint to access your services, AWS PrivateLink ensures your traffic is not exposed to the public internet.

Question 20

What is the “AWS Snowball” service?

Answer 20

Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud. Using Snowball addresses common challenges with large-scale data transfers including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns. (Amazon will literally send a van/box to get your data. It will make use of the quicker transfer speeds of direct connections when compared to that of a network connection limited by your network speeds)

Question 21

What is the “AWS Trusted Advisor” service?

Answer 21

AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides you real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor checks help optimize your AWS infrastructure, increase security and performance, reduce your overall costs, and monitor service limits.

Question 22

What is the “Amazon CloudTrail” service?

Answer 22

CloudTrail provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services.

Question 23

What is the “AWS X-Ray” service?

Answer 23

AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components.

Question 24

What is the “Amazon Elasticsearch” service?

Answer 24

Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for use cases such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and clickstream analysis.

Question 25

What is the “AWS Elastic Beanstalk” service?

Answer 25

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.