Cloud Concepts

Question 1

How do I set up a budget?

Question 2

Traditional data center disadvantages

Answer 2

Large up front cost, 
Forecasting demand is difficult
slow to deploy dc and servers
Maintaining is expensive
Responsibility for security compliance

Question 3

Advantages of Cloud Computing

Answer 3

Trade capital expense for variable expenses (pay for what you use)
Benefits from massive economies of scale
Stop guessing capacity
Increase speed and agility
Stop spending to maintain data centers
Go global in minutes

Question 4

What is elasticity?

Answer 4

Ability to acquire resources as you need them and release them when you no longer need them, automatically

Question 5

What is reliability?

Answer 5

Amazon’s infrastructure is built to maximize reliability for cloud workloads

Question 6

Agility

Answer 6

Lower cost of trying new ideas or processes
Reduces time to maintain infrastructure
Reduce risk around security and compliance
Provides access to emerging technology (like block chain)

Question 7

What is cloud computing?

Answer 7

On demand delivery of compute power, database storage, apps, and other IT resources through cloud service platform via internet with pay as you go pricing

Question 8

Cloud Computing Models

Answer 8

Iaas - Infrastructure as a service (we maintain everything, from the OS version to the ports of servers) on the cloud

Sass - Everything is maintained for us, like Teams or Gmail

Question 9

Cloud Deployment Models

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Public Cloud - Deployed onto public cloud providers like AWS
On-Premises - Cloud-like platform in a private data center (VMWare)
Hybrid - Cloud applications connected to a private data center

Question 10

AWS Global Infrastructure

Answer 10

AWS Regions
Edge Locations
AWS Global Infrastructure Visualization

Question 11

AWS Regions

Answer 11

Each region is in a specific geographic location
A cluster of data centers in each region
AWS 22 Launches regions

Question 12

Availability Zones

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One or more data centers
Each region has at least 2 availability zones
Redundant power, networking, and connectivity
69 availability zones launch

Question 13

Availability

Answer 13

Extent which an application is fulfilling its intended business purpose

High availaibility is for single failures won’t fail

Question 14

us-east-2a

Answer 14

us - AREA
east - subarea
2a - number AZ

region name us-east-2
availiability zone us-east-2a

Question 15

Edge Locations

Answer 15

CDN - Global Content Delivery Network
Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 (DNS Service) use edge locations
Wide area to fetch content from

Question 16

AWS Global Infrastructure Visualization

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Feature to show all of the regions, availability zones, and edge locations

Question 17

CapEx

Answer 17

Capitalized Expenditure - Building servers, building, equipment, fixed asset etc.

Question 18

OpEx

Answer 18

Operating Expenditures - Operating Expenses to maintain

Question 19

Own Datacenter disadvantages

Answer 19

LArge upfront capex
underused capacity or unmet demand
increating capacity takes time and more capex
monthly costs will map to predicted infrastructure needs

Question 20

Cloud infrastructure

Answer 20

No up-front investment
pay as you go, OpEx
Scale immediately
monthly costs maps to user demand

Question 21

AWS Cost Explorer

Answer 21

Providers breakdowns by service, cost tag
Provides predictions for next three months
Recommendations for cost optimization
Accessed via API

Question 22

AWS Budgets

Answer 22

Plan and track usage on AWS services using data from AWS Cost Explorer

Question 23

AWS TCO Calculator

Answer 23

Total Cost of Ownership

• Moving workload from data center to cloud
• Download the report

Question 24

AWS Simple Monthly Calculator (deprecated)

AWS Pricing Calculator

Answer 24

Calculate specific workload running AWS

Question 25

AWS Resource Tags

Answer 25

Metadata we attatched, includes name and optional value include deprarment, enviorment, or project cost report by tags

Question 26

AWS Organization

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Consolidated billing between each AWS account in the organization Security standards and centralized logging

Question 27

AWS Cost Explorer

Answer 27

Current monthly cost, the forecasted month-end cost | Group by tag, service, linked accounts, etc.

Question 28

AWS Support Tools

Answer 28

AWS Support AWS Personal Health Dashboard AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 29

AWS Support

Answer 29

Support from AWS resources

Question 30

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Answer 30

Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you

Question 31

AWS Trusted Advisor

Answer 31

Enables to check AWS usage against best practices AWS Console accessed from All get access to 7 checks

Question 32

Trusted Advisor Checks 7

Answer 32

``` Cost Optimization Performance Security Fault Tolerance Service Limits ```

Question 33

Support Plan Tiers

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AWS Basic Support

Question 34

Support Plan Categories

Answer 34

Communication method Response time Cost Type of Guidance offered

Question 35

AWS Basic Support

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``` All AWS customers trusted advisor (7 core checks) 24x7 customer service, documentation, forms, and whitepapers personal health dashboard no monthly cost ```

Question 36

AWS Developer Support

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Include basic support Business hours email access to support engineers limited to 1 contact 29$ a month

Question 37

AWS Business Support

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``` Includes developer support Full set of trusted advisor checks 24x7 phone, email, chat, to engineers unlimited contacts provides third-party support 100 per month (tied to AWS usage) ```

Question 38

AWS Enterprise Support

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Includes business support designated technical account manager concierge support team 15,000 month (tied to AWS)

Question 39

Support Response Time

Question 40

Assistance for Cloud Workloads

Answer 40

AWS Quickstarts AWS Partner Network Consultant AWS Professional Services Team