AWS Compute Services

Question 1

EC2

Answer 1

Elastic Compute Cloud allows you to rent and manage virtual servers in the cloud

Question 2

Lambda

Answer 2

Serverless compute service that lets you run code without managing servers

• Event-driven workloads
• continuous scaling (scaling out)

Question 3

Fargate

Answer 3

Serverless compute engine for containers

• docker containers
• cluster optimization

Question 4

Lightsail

Answer 4

Allows you to quickly launch all the resources you need for small projects

• easiest way to launch and manage private server in AWS
• suitable for those with little to no AWS experience
  Product set:
• virtual private servers (instances)
• managed mySQL databases
• block and object storage
• simplified load balancers
• CDN distributions

Question 5

Outposts

Answer 5

Allow you to run cloud services in your internal data center

Question 6

Batch

Answer 6

Allows you to process large workloads in smaller chunks (or batches)

Question 7

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 7

Allows you to deploy your web applications and web services to AWS

• Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker
• Servers: Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS
• upload code using ZIP or WAR file or Git archive

Question 8

Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Answer 8

Fully managed container service that helps you deploy, manage and scale containerized applications using Docker contains

• run and scale applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure

Question 9

Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Answer 9

Simplifies the deployment, management and scaling of Kubernetes clusters

• run containerized applications using Kubernetes without needing to install or operate your own Kubernetes control plane.

Kubernetes: open-source platform for containerized applications

Question 10

Amazon Workspaces

Answer 10

• managed Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution
• provision either Windows or Linux desktops
• simplifies delivery of desktops compared to traditional virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments

Question 11

AWS AppStream 2.0

Answer 11

• fully-managed non-persistent application streaming service

Question 12

AWS WorkLink

Answer 12

• provides secure, one-click access to your internal websites and web apps using mobile phone browsers
• does not require VPN client or App

Question 13

AWS WorkDocs

Answer 13

• fully managed, secure content creation, storage, and collaboration service
• create, edit, and share content that’s centrally stored on AWS

Question 14

EC2 Launch Type

Answer 14

Method of deploying virtual server instances on Amazon EC2