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Serverless Flashcards

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How is Lambda priced?

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Lambda is priced based on the Number of Requests and Duration of the process.

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How many requests are free with Lambda?

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The first 1 million Lambda requests are free

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How does Lambda scale?

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Lambda scales out, not up

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What service allows you to debug your complex Lambda services?

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X-Ray allows you to debug your Lambda services

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What is SAM?

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SAM is Serverless Application Model

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What is SAM used for?

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The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) is an open-source framework for building serverless applications.

SAM provides shorthand syntax to express functions, APIs, databases, and event source mappings. With just a few lines per resource, you can define the application you want and model it using YAML.

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What is a container?

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A container is a package that contains an application, libraries, runtime and tools required to run it

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What is a popular container engine?

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Docker is a popular container engine

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What is the benefit to containers over virtualisation?

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Containers provide the benefits of virtualisation with less overhead and give faster starts than VMS

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What is ECS?

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ECS is a managed container orchestration service. It takes all the heavy lifting out of deploying, managing and scaling containers

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What instances can ECS manage?

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ECS can manage EC2 and Fargate instances

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What are the components of ECS?

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The components of ECS are:

  • Cluster
  • Task Definition
  • Container Definition
  • Task
  • Service
  • Registry
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What is an ECS Cluster?

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An ECS Cluster is a logical collection of ECS resources - either ECS EC2 instances or Fargate instances

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What are ECS Task Definitions?

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ECS Task Definitions are similar to a Dockerfile that enables you to define your application running on containers in ECS.

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What is ECS Container Definition?

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ECS Container Definition is inside a Task Definition and it defines the individual containers a task uses.

Container Defintion controls CPU and memory allocation and port mappings

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What are ECS Tasks?

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ECS Tasks are single running copies of any containers defined by a task definition.

A Task is one working copy of an application

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What is an ECS Service component?

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An ECS Service component allows task definitions to be scaled by adding tasks.

The service defines minimum and maximum values

18
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What is the ECS Registry?

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The ECS Registry is storage for container images

19
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What is AWS Fargate?

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Fargate is a serverless compute service and eliminates the need to provision and manage servers.

Fargate works with both ECS and EKS

20
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When would you choose EC2 over Fargate?

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You would choose EC2 over Fargate if:

  • there are compliance requirements
  • you require broader customisations
  • if you require GPUs
21
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What is EKS?

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EKS is Elastic Kubernetes Service.

Amazon EKS is a managed option for Kubernetes workloads (a popular container orchestration tool) which provides you with all the familiarity of using a Kubernetes environment, with the inherent scalability and availability the cloud provides.

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What is Kubernetes?

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Kubernetes is an open-source software that lets you deploy and manage containerised applications at scale

23
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How are Containers grouped in EKS?

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In EKS Containers are grouped in pods

24
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ECS supports both EC2 and Fargate, does EKS also support both?

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Yes, EKS supports both EC2 and Fargate

25
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Why would you use EKS over ECS?

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You would use EKS over ECS if you are already using K8s or if you want to migrate your K8s to AWS

26
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What is ECR?

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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is an AWS managed container image registry service that is secure, scalable, and reliable.

27
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What is an instance role vs a task role?

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An instance role would apply a policy to all tasks within an instance whereas a task role will apply to a single task only

28
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What are the synchronous triggers for Lambda functions?

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ALB, Alexa, API Gateway, Cognito, CloudFront, Lex, and Kinesis Data Firehose are all valid direct (synchronous) triggers for Lambda functions.

S3 is one of the valid asynchronous triggers.

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What is the difference between Fargate and Lambda?

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AWS Lambda charges you per invocation and duration of each invocation whereas AWS Fargate charges you for the vCPU and memory resources of your containerised applications use per second.

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