Cloud Benefits Flashcards
(24 cards)
Describe the overarching theme of automation plus instantly available resources across multiple cloud benefits.
This theme describes the capability to automatically and instantly create resources as needed. It is a core component of scalability, high availability, reliability, and predictability.
How does the ability to decentralize critical infrastructure benefit cloud users?
Decentralizing critical infrastructure allows for distributing resources globally and automatically failing over to different locations if needed. This helps to prevent downtime.
What is the specific advantage of high availability?
The specific advantage of high availability is that systems remain accessible and operational at all times, potentially even automatically.
Explain the two types of scalability mentioned.
The two types are scaling out (horizontal scalability), which adds more resources, and scaling up (vertical scalability), which increases the capacity of existing resources. Both adjust automatically based on traffic.
How does reliability relate to potential failures or disasters?
Reliability describes the ability of Azure and deployed resources to withstand various types of failures, including minor issues or even large-scale disasters.
What does predictability encompass in the context of cloud computing?
Predictability means consistently knowing that an application will perform at a minimum expected level. It also involves knowing the current and future costs.
What is the primary benefit of cloud security?
The primary benefit of cloud security is having complete control over your cloud security posture, including the specific level of control you choose.
How does governance contribute to standardizing cloud deployments?
Governance helps by allowing users to standardize how cloud resources are deployed. It also enforces various company standards and government regulations.
What do the management tools provided by cloud platforms enable users to do?
Management tools enable users to automatically control their cloud resources. They also provide different ways to interact with these resources.
Which four cloud benefits are significantly similar due to automation and instant resource creation?
The four cloud benefits that are particularly similar due to automation and instant resource creation are scalability, high availability, reliability, and predictability.
What is Automation?
The ability to perform tasks and create resources automatically without manual intervention.
What are Instantly Available Resources
The capability to access and deploy necessary computing resources immediately when they are needed.
What is Decentralize Critical Infrastructure?
The process of distributing essential computing resources across multiple locations or regions rather than keeping them in a single central point.
What is Fail Over?
The automatic transfer of a system’s control to a backup system when the primary system fails, ensuring continuous operation.
What is High Availability?
The characteristic of a system or service that ensures it is operational and accessible for a very high percentage of the time, often automatically.
What is Scalability?
The ability of a system to handle a growing amount of work by adding resources. This can be horizontal (scaling out) or vertical (scaling up).
What is Scaling Out (Horizontal Scalability)?
Adding more instances of a resource (e.g., adding more servers) to handle increased load.
What is Scaling Up (Vertical Scalability)?
Increasing the capacity of an existing resource (e.g., upgrading a server’s CPU or RAM) to handle increased load.
What is Reliability?
The ability of a system to perform its intended function correctly and consistently over time, even in the presence of failures or adverse conditions.
What is Predictability?
The characteristic of a system that ensures consistent performance levels and often includes the ability to forecast costs accurately.
What is Security?
Measures and controls implemented to protect cloud resources and data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction.
What is a Cloud Security Posture?
The overall state of an organization’s security in the cloud, encompassing configurations, policies, and controls.
What is Governance?
The set of rules, policies, and processes used to manage and regulate cloud resources and deployments, often including compliance with standards and regulations.
What is Management?
Tools and processes used to administer, monitor, and interact with cloud resources and services.
