Cloud Computing

Question 1

What are The 6 Advantages of the Cloud?

Answer 1

1. Trade Capital Expense for Variable Expense
2. Benefit from massive economies of scale (via Amazon)
3. Stop guessing about capacity
4. Increase speed and agility
5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
6. Go global in minutes

Question 2

What are the 3 Types of Cloud Computing?

Answer 2

1. Infrastructure As a Service (IAAS) - EC2
2. Platform as a Service (PAAS) - Elastic Beanstalk
3. Software as a Service (SaaS) - Gmail

Question 3

What are the 3 Types of Cloud Computing Deployments

Answer 3

1. Public - AWS,Azure , GCP
2. Hybrid - mixture of public and private cloud
3. Private - On Premise

Question 4

What is a Region?

Answer 4

A physical location consisting of 2 or more availability zones

Question 5

What is an Availability Zone? (AZ)

Answer 5

One or more discrete data centers, housed in separate facilities.

Availability zones are seperated so they dont effect each other if one goes down.

Question 6

What is an Edge Location?

Answer 6

Endpoints for AWS which are used for caching content. Typically this consists of CloudFront, Amazon’s Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Question 7

What are the 3 factors in choosing the correct AWS Region

Answer 7

1. Data Sovereignty Laws - data only resides in a specific country
2. Latency to end users - large portion of customers based in a specific region
3. Which type of AWS Services you need - US East has most services