Compute, Storage & Databases

Question 1

Amazon EC2

Answer 1

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. A service that provides secure and resizable virtual machines (instances) in the cloud.

Question 2

Amazon EC2 Spot

Answer 2

A service which helps you run fault tolerant workloads for up to 90% of the normal price of EC2.

Question 3

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Answer 3

A service which can automatically add or remove computing capacity to meet your
changes in computing demand.

Question 4

Amazon LightSail

Answer 4

A service which provides a really easy to use cloud platform to build an
application or website.

Question 5

Amazon ECS

Answer 5

Amazon Elastic Container Service. A service to run secure, reliable, and scalable containers.

Question 6

Amazon ECR

Answer 6

Amazon Elastic Container Registry. A service to store manage and deploy container images.

Question 7

Amazon EKS

Answer 7

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. A fully managed Kubernetes service.

Question 8

AWS Lambda

Answer 8

A compute service to run code without servers.

Question 9

AWS Outposts

Answer 9

A service which lets you run your AWS services on your own servers, instead of Amazons.

Question 10

AWS Snow Family

Answer 10

A service that lets you bring a lot of data into AWS. Put files on devices and
ship them back to Amazon to be loaded into your AWS account.

Question 11

AWS Wavelength

Answer 11

A service which lets you access AWS services from 5G devices without having to go via the internet.

Question 12

VMWare Cloud on AWS

Answer 12

A service which assists in migrating your VMware workloads to AWS.

Question 13

AWS Local Zones

Answer 13

A service which lets you run that latency sensitive applications closer to end users.+

Question 14

File-based storage

Answer 14

You give files a name and organize them in folders under directories and subdirectories.

Question 15

Block storage

Answer 15

Files are split into chunks of data, of equal size, stored in raw storage volumes. Typically used by server-based operating systems, which then manage those volumes and can use them as individual hard drives. Common for databases and email servers.

Question 16

Object storage

Answer 16

Files are stored in objects in a flat memory model. Each object can be retrieved by using its unique identifier.

Question 17

Amazon EFS

Answer 17

Elastic File System. A service for scalable, elastic, and cloud native network file systems (NFS), meaning that you can access files and directories that are nor on your system but are connected to your network. Storage classes: Standard and Infrequent.

Question 18

Amazon FSx

Answer 18

Windows File Server. A fully managed file storage for Windows Server.

Question 19

Amazon EBS

Answer 19

Elastic Block Store. Easy to use high-performance block storage at any
scale. Amazon EC2 uses it to store all of its files.

Question 20

Amazon S3

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Simple Storage Service. An object storage service built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere in the world. Storage classes include S3: Standard, Standard Infrequent, One Zone Infrequent, Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive and Intelligent Tiering.

Question 21

AWS Backup

Answer 21

A service to centrally manage and automate backups across
AWS services.

Question 22

AWS Storage Gateway

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A hybrid cloud storage that provides on-premise access to virtually unlimited
cloud storage. Includes 3 storage gateways: File Gateway, Tape Gateway and Volume Gateway.

Question 23

AWS DataSync

Answer 23

A service to allow you to easily transfer data to and from AWS up to 10 times faster than normal.

Question 24

AWS Transfer Family

Answer 24

A group of services which allow you to simply and seamlessly transfer files to Amazon S3 using SFTP, FTP, and FTPS.

Question 25

Relational database

Answer 25

Data that relates to each other is organised into tables. Aimed at traditional applications, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and e-commerce. SQL is commonly used to interact with relational databases.

Question 26

Amazon Aurora

Answer 26

A relational database. MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database built for the cloud.

Question 27

Amazon RDS

Answer 27

Relational Database Service. A service to make it easy to set up, use, and scale
multiple database engines.

Question 28

Amazon Redshift

Answer 28

A cloud database warehouse service, designed for large datasets.

Question 29

Key-Value Databases

Answer 29

NoSQL database which stores data as a collection of key-value pairs. Aimed at high traffic web applications, e-commerce systems, and gaming applications.

Question 30

Amazon DynamoDB

Answer 30

A fully managed, very fast and flexible,
NoSQL key-value database for any scale. Works well with serverless like Lambda (store and process data without any service).

Question 31

In-Memory Database (IMDB)

Answer 31

Database which relies on main memory (RAM) for storage and retrieval for faster data access: caching, session management,
gaming leader-boards, and geospatial applications.

Question 32

Amazon ElastiCache

Answer 32

Managed, in-memory caching service for popular in-memory data stores: Redis and Memcached, allowing for quick data retrieval from in-memory cache rather than data stores or databases.

Question 33

Document Databases

Answer 33

NoSQL databases designed to store and retrieve semi-structured or unstructured data from documents. Used for content management, catalogues, and user profiles.

Question 34

Amazon DocumentDB

Answer 34

MongoDB compatible fast, scalable, highly available document database.