Cloud Fundamentals

Question 1

Benefits of Cloud

Answer 1

• Agility -Security -Scalability -Elasticity -Pay-as-you-go pricing
• Economy of scale -Global Reach -High Availability -Reliability

Question 2

6 Advantages to Cloud (original)

Answer 2

1. Trade capital expense for Variable expense
2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
3. Stop guessing capacity
4. Increase speed and agility
5. Stop spending money on running data centers
6. Go global in minutes

Question 3

7 Advantages of Cloud (Docs)

Answer 3

Cost effective (PAYG)
Global
Secure
Reliable 
Scalable
Elastic
Current

Question 4

Global Infrastructure

Answer 4

25 Launched Regions
81 Available Zones 
108 Direct Connection Locations
275+ Points of Presence
11 Local Zones
17 Wavelength Zones

Question 5

Regions

Answer 5

Geographically distinct locations
-with 2 or more AZs
-physically isolated & independent in terms of
water supply, power & location

Question 6

Availability Zones

Answer 6

a physical location made up of one or more data centers

Question 7

Point of Presence (PoP)

Answer 7

intermediate locations between an AWS Region & the end user.

• owned by AWS or a trusted partner
• Edge Locations & Regional Edge Caches

Question 8

Edge Locations

Answer 8

Data centers that hold caches on the most popular files (web pages, images, videos) so that delivery of distance to the end users are reduced.

Question 9

Regional Edge Locations

Answer 9

Data centers that hold much larger caches of less-popular files to reduce a full round trip and also reduce the cost of transfer fees.