Networking

Question 1

Amazon VPC

Answer 1

Virtual Private Cloud. A service to define and provision an isolated network for your AWS resources. This means you can create a virtual network for AWS services to exist in a local IP address range using that local network.

Question 2

AWS Transit Gateway

Answer 2

A service that enables you to connect VPCs and on-premise networks.

Question 3

AWS Privatelink

Answer 3

A service that provides connectivity between VPCs and on-premise applications.

Question 4

Amazon Route 53

Answer 4

A service enabling you to host your own managed DNS (Domain Name System).

Question 5

Elastic Load Balancing

Answer 5

A network scaling system that will automatically distribute network traffic across a pool of resources.

Question 6

AWS Global Accelerator

Answer 6

A network scaling system that will allow you to direct traffic through the AWS global network to improve global application performance.

Question 7

Amazon CloudFront

Answer 7

A content delivery service that will securely deliver data, videos, and applications to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds

Question 8

VPC Gateways

Answer 8

Gateways enable connectivity between VPC and other networks: NAT Gateway (access to the internet), Internet Gateway (the internet to access your EC2) and ACLs (Access Control Lists to control traffic allowed in network).

Question 9

Amazon Edge Locations

Answer 9

AWS data centres designed to deliver services with lowest possible latency. CloudFront serves the data directly from the nearest edge locations’ cache to speed up the content delivery.