AWS Services

Question 1

Purpose of the I AM Service in AWS

Answer 1

• To create a user(s) and/or group(s)
• To establish permissions to either a user (s) and/or group(s)
• To establish permissions to an AWS via role creation

Roles have no need for passwords or creditentials

Question 2

What service allows you to send notifications to the users of your applications via mobile push notifications, emails and/or text messages?

Answer 2

SNS

Question 3

What services does CloudTrail provide?

Answer 3

It creates logs and audits that assess the performance of the server and monitors account resources

Question 4

What service allows for an easy set up of, operation of and scale of a relational or structural database in the AWS cloud?

Answer 4

RDS

Relational Database Service

Question 5

What function does CloudWatch have in AWS?

Answer 5

It’s a services that monitors resources and apps that run on AWS by collecting data in the form of logs, metrics and events

Question 6

What service allows the user to execute code without the need for launching or managing a server or instance?

Answer 6

AWS Lambda

Question 7

What service provides a NoSQL database(s) that is designed to handle large volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, offering flexible schema designs and horizontal scalability.

NoSQL (short for “not only SQL”)

Answer 7

DynamoDB

Question 8

How does ECR differ from ECS?

Answer 8

In simple terms, ECR is used to store container images (image repository), while ECS is used to run and manage those containerized applications.

Question 9

What is the purpose of using Route 53?

Answer 9

• Mainly to manage traffic to a domain
• Domain registration
• Monitoring/health checks for apps and web resources

Question 10

Please explain the function of the Simple Storage Service in AWS

Answer 10

• Object storage for data in the cloud; stored in buckets
• Can be used to host static websites and web applications

Question 11

What service can be used to host simple websites and/or single page applications?

Answer 11

S3 Bucket

Question 12

Which AWS service provides virtural networks the user account itself, EC2 instances and other services w/in AWS?

Answer 12

VPC

Virtual Private Cloud

Question 13

What function does the EBS service serve?

Answer 13

• Harddrive based storage
• Will store data after instance is terminated
• Stores in volumes
• Allows for incremental back up of volues via snapshots

Question 14

What is the difference from the EC2 service and the Lightsail service?

Answer 14

EC2 and lightsail are similar, but EC2 is based on elasticity, which means the number of servers can be increased or decreased based on needs of the user. It’s more elastic, more scalable and flexible. It’s has multipurpose instances.

Question 15

Name the services that are involved in creating a CI/CD pipeline

Answer 15

• CodeCommit
• CodeBuild
• CodeDeploy
• CodePipeline
• CodeArtifact
• CodeStar
  Additional possible services involved:
• S3 Bucket
• EC2
• ECR
• ECS