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AWS (Amazon Web Services) ✔✔a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud
computing platforms. They include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2
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AWS Questions and Answers with
Complete Solutions
AWS (Amazon Web Services) ✔✔a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides on-demand cloud
computing platforms. They include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and
Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3"
S3 (Simple Storage Service) ✔✔is a web service offered by Amazon Web Services. It provides
storage through web services interfaces
web service ✔✔is a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device,
communicating with each other via the World Wide Web
interface ✔✔Is a shared boundary across which two separate components of a computer system
exchange information
EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud) ✔✔is a virtual computing environment, that enables
customers to use Web service interfaces to launch instances with a variety of operating systems,
load them with your custom applications, manage your network's access permissions, and run
your image using as many or few systems as you need.
RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) ✔✔is a fully-managed SQL database service. It
offers an array of database engine choices to help with database management tasks such as
migration, backup, recovery and patching.
ECR (Amazon EC2 Container Registry) ✔✔is a managed AWS Docker registry service.
Customers can use the familiar Docker CLI to push, pull, and manage images.
CLI (command line interface) ✔✔is a user interface to a computer's operating system or an
application in which the user responds to a visual prompt by typing in a command on a specified
line, receives a response back from the system, and then enters another command, and so forth.
Docker ✔✔is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed
applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud.
ECS (Amazon EC2 Container Service) ✔✔is container management service that supports
Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon
EC2 instances
Lightsail ✔✔In it a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a
static IP are all offered as a package. Whereas in normal case you provision an EC2 instance and
then setup the rest of these things
Domain Name Servers (DNS) ✔✔is a hierarchical decentralized naming system for computers,
services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network. It is the Internet's
equivalent of a phone book. It maintains a directory of domain names and translate them to
Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) ✔✔is a commercial cloud computing service that provides
users a virtual private cloud, by provisioning a logically isolated section of Amazon Web
Services (AWS) Cloud
AWS Batch ✔✔job definitions specify how jobs are to be run. While each job must reference a
job definition, many of the parameters that are specified in the job definition can be overridden at
run time.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk ✔✔is a cloud deployment and provisioning service that automates the
process of getting applications set up on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure
AWS Lambda ✔✔is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing
servers. It executes your code only when needed and scales automatically, from a few requests
per day to thousands per second
autoscaling ✔✔is a method used in cloud computing, whereby the amount of computational
resources in a server farm, typically measured in terms of the number of active servers, scales
automatically based on the load on the farm
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) ✔✔provides raw block-level storage that can be
attached to Amazon EC2 instances. These block devices can then be used like any raw block
device. In a typical use case, this would include formatting the device with a filesystem and
mounting said filesystem
Amazon Glacier ✔✔is a low-cost cloud storage service for data with longer retrieval times
offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). A developer uses a cold data cloud service such as
this to move infrequently accessed data to archival storage to save money on storage costs.
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) ✔✔file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances
in the AWS Cloud. When mounted on Amazon EC2 instances, an Amazon this system provides
a standard file system interface.
AWS Storage Gateway ✔✔is a hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications
to seamlessly use storage in the AWS Cloud. You can use the service for backup and archiving,
disaster recovery, cloud bursting, storage tiering, and migration.
AWS Snowball ✔✔is a service that accelerates transferring large amounts of data into and out of
AWS using physical storage appliances, bypassing the Internet.
AWS Snowball Edge ✔✔is a 100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute
capabilities.
AWS Snowmobile ✔✔is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large
amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long
ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck
Amazon Aurora ✔✔is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database engine that
combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and
cost-effectiveness of open source databases.
Amazon DynamoDB ✔✔is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database services that is offered
by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio.It exposes a similar data model
and derives its name from Dynamo, but has a different underlying implementation.
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