Module 3

Question 1

AWS SDK

Answer 1

Software Dev Kit

DKs make it easier for you to use AWS services through an API designed for your programming language or platform. SDKs enable you to use AWS services with your existing applications or create entirely new applications that will run on AWS.

Question 2

Regions vs Availability Zone

Answer 2

Region is larger geographical area. Availability zone is individual data centers, or groups of data centers within the region. This allows for inter region and intra region HA and DR.

Question 3

Edge Location

Answer 3

a site that Amazon CloudFront uses to store cached copies of your content closer to your customers for faster delivery.

Question 4

AWS Outpost

Answer 4

on-prem servers that you can purchase to host AWS services in your own building/data center.

Question 5

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 5

Service to help provision EC2 environments. You provide code and configuration settings, and Elastic Beanstalk deploys the resources necessary to perform the following tasks:

Adjust capacity
Load balancing
Automatic scaling
Application health monitoring

Question 6

AWS Cloudformation

Answer 6

Infrastructure as code tool. Using JSON or YAML files to create templates. Specify what you want about your host, CloudFormation dynamically builds on the back end.