Cloud Concepts Flashcards

(#) Number of answers in the group (A) Expand acronym and one answer

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Cloud Computing (2)

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on-demand delivery of IT resources via Internet

Pay-as-you-go pricing

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Benefits of cloud computing (5)

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Trade capital expense to variable expense
Economies of scale
No need to guess capacity
Agility
No physical maintenance
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Elasticity

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ability to acquire recourses needed and release them when not needed

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Reliability

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ability to always provide functionality

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5
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Agility (4)

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Lower costs of testing and new ideas
Reducing maintenance time
Reduce security risk
Access to new technologies

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IaaS (A)

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Infrastructure as a Service

full virtual servers ran in the cloud

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SaaS (A)

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Software as a Service

software is licensed and hosted in the cloud

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PaaS (A)

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Platform as a Service

bundle of one or more applications in the cloud without a full VM

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9
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Public Cloud

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deployed on public cloud provider

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Private Cloud

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cloud-like platform in private datacenter

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Hybrid Cloud

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public cloud applications connected to private datacenter

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Availability

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application is built so that single failure won’t reduce functionality

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13
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Region (2)

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Specific geographic location

Location has cluster of datacenters

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AZ (3)

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Availability Zone
Distinct locations in region that are isolated to provide availability
Each Region has multiple Availability Zones

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15
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Edge Location (2)

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Allows AWS to serve content from locations closest to users

Node of CDN (Content Delivery Network)

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16
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Cost Explorer (3)

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Provides cost breakdown by service
Predicted costs over next 3 months
Optimization recommendations

17
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Budgets

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Utilizes data from Cost Explorer to plan and track costs

18
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TCO Calculator (A)

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Total Cost of ownership

estimates savings from moving services from onprem to cloud

19
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Pricing Calculator (2)

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create an estimate of costs

May share or export an estimate

20
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Resource Tag (3)

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Assigned to specific resource
Name and optional value
Used to organize by department, project, etc. in cost tools

21
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AWS Organization (3)

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Multiple accounts under single master account
Consolidated and itemized billing
Centralize logging and security policies

22
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AWS Support Plan Tiers (4)

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Basic
Developer
Business
Enterprise

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Basic Support (4)

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Free for all customers
Access to 7 core trusted advisor checks
24x7 customer service access
Personal health dashboard

24
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Developer Support (4)

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Basic support
Access to support engineers in business hours
Limited to one contact
Starts at $29/month

25
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Business Support (4)

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Developer support
Full set of Trusted Advisor checks
Access to support engineers 24x7
Starts at $100/month

26
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Enterprise Support (4)

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Business support
Includes Technical Account Manager
Concierge support
Starts at $15k/month

27
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Business-Critical System Down (2)

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Enterprise Support only

15 minutes response time

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Production System Down (2)

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Business or Enterprise Support

1 hour response time

29
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Production System Impaired (2)

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Business or Enterprise

4 hours response time

30
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System Impaired (2)

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Any paid tier
12 hours (or business hours) response time
31
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General Guidance (2)

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Any paid tier
24 hours (or business hours)
32
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Personal Health Dashboard

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provides alerts and remediation guidance when an AWS event may impact you

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Trusted Advisor (3)

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compare AWS usage to best practices

Different checks available based on support tier

34
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Trusted Advisor Checks (5)

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Cost optimization
Performance
Security
Fault tolerance
Service limits
35
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Quick Starts

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step by step deployment instructions for common technology

36
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Partner Network Consulting

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3rd-party subject matter experts for migrations to AWS

37
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Professional Services

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AWS employed engineers that can help on a project