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What AWS Artifact
a self-service audit artifact retrieval portal that provides our customers with on-demand access to AWS’ compliance documentation and AWS agreements.
What does the AWS Storage Gateway Provide
It allows one to integrate on premises IT Environments with Cloud Storage
Elastic IP Addresses don’t incur cost under what conditions
- Elastic IP address is associated with an EC2 instance
- The instance associated with the elastic ip address is running
- the instance has only one elastic IP attached to it.
you are charged by the hour for each Elastic IP address otherwise
Backups of any Amazon Ec2 volume are called what?
Snapshot
What is Amazon Elasticache?
Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy and run Memcached or Redis protocol-compliant server nodes in the cloud.
What is AWS Global Accelerator
CAN BE USED TO ROUTE TRAFFIC TO THE ENDPOINT THAT PROVIDES THE BEST APP PERFORMANCE FOR USERS WORLDWIDE
AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that helps you improve the availability and performance of the applications that you offer to your global users
Which feature of amazon RDS allows for the offloading of database read activity
Read Replicas
What is AWS Storage Gateway
A hybrid storage service that enables your onprem apps to seamlessly interact with AWS cloud storage
If you are unsure what storage platform to use you should then use what AWS storage service?
Simple Storage Service
Non-explicity deny(related to IAM user roles)
when a new IAM user is created that the user has NO access to any AWS service. Access must be explicitly allowed via IAM permission and access policies
AWS Certificate Manager
(AWS ACM) a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Socets Layer/Transport Layer Securty(SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal Connecteed Resources. SSL/TLS Certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the internet as well as resources on private network
What is AWS Cloud Directory used for?
used to build cloud-native directories for organizing hierarchies of data along multiple dimensions.
TCO
Total Cost of Ownership
How are you charged with an On-Demand EC2 Instance?
Charged per second, based on an hourly rate and there are no termination fees
which service can be used to monitor the health of your web server
Amazon 53 and Elastic Load Balancing health checks
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Media transcoding in the cloud. effective way for developers and business to convert(or tanscode) media files from their source format into versions that will playt back on different devices
AWS Cloud Watch
service that allows you to monitor the usage of your AWS Resources
S3 Transfer Acceleration
enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and an S3 bucket
Amazon Machine Image
(AMI) provides the infomration required to launch an EC2 instance, which is a virtual server in the cloud.
which of the following AWS Security Features is associated with a subnet in a VPC and functions to filter incoming traffic requests?
(NACL) Network access control list acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of 1 or more subnets.
what are factors when estimating costs of Amazon Cloudfront?
Data Transfer out
number and type of requests HTTP or HTTPS made
The edge location through which your content is serve
a key benefit of accessing AWS cloud Services through an API
Ability to manage AWS service programmatically
Decoupling
refers to breaking the application into loosely coupled components that are performing independently, where a change or a failure in one component do not impact other components
What effects Amazon EBS(elastic Block Store) Costs
- volume type
- input/output operations per second(IOPS)
- snapshots
- data transfers
