AWS General

Question 1

What are the common AWS use cases?

Answer 1

• Enterprise IT, Backup & storage, Big Data analytics
• Website, mobile & social apps hosting
• Gaming

Question 2

What is AWS Global Infrastructure?

Answer 2

• AWS Regions
• AWS Availability Zones
• AWS Data Centers
• AWS Edge Locations /
• Points of Presence

Question 3

What is an AWS Region?

Answer 3

A region is a cluster of data centers

Question 4

How to choose an AWS Region?

What concept should be cosidered during choosing an AWS Region?

Answer 4

• Compliance
• Proximity
• Available services
• Pricing

Question 5

What are AWS Availability Zones?

Answer 5

Each availability zone (AZ) is one or more
discrete data centers with redundant power,
networking, and connectivity

Question 6

What are the advantages of AWS Availability Zones?

Answer 6

• Safe from disasters (isolated DCs)
• They are connected, low latency

Question 7

Why is AWS Points of Presence used?

Answer 7

Content is delivered to end users with lower latency.

Question 8

List some global AWS Service

Answer 8

• IAM
• Route 53
• CloudFront
• WAF