Chapter 1 Cloud Computing

What are the 4 AWS Support Plans?

1. Basic - Free 2. Developer 3. Business 4. Enterprise

Based on the Shared Responsibility Model, what is AWS responsible for?

Security OF the Cloud, protecting the infrastructure that runs all the services (hardware/software) and facilities.

Name 4 benefits of the Basic Support Plan (Free)

24x7 access to customer service 7 Core Trusted Advisor checks Guidance to provision resources following best practices Access to Personal Health Dashboard

What is a Billing Alarm?

Alarm (SNS alert) when certain level of AWS spending has been reached

A Virtual Machine (server) is also called?

An instance

Define Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

instant computing infrastructure, provisioned and managed over the internet.

Name the benefits of the Enterprise Support Plan

Basic Plan plus: General guidance <24 hours fix system impairment < 12 hours Dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM) Production system impaired <4 hours Business critical down repair <15 mins., Concierge Support team access to self-paced labs.

Name the benefits of the Developer Support Plan

Basic plan plus Business hours email access to Cloud Support Associates. 1 person can open unlimited cases General guidance <24 hours fix system impairment < 12 hours

Name the benefits of the Business Support Plan

Basic plan plus: General guidance <24 hours fix system impairment < 12 hours production impairment resolution <4 hrs system down <1 hour

What are compute objects

Devices that provide the brains to process workload. Ex. CPU's and RAM

According to the Shared responsibility model what are three examples shared controls?

Patch MGMT Config MGMT Customer Specific controls

According to the Shared responsibility model what are two examples inherited controls?

Physical controls Environmental Controls

What is a Regional Edge Cache ?

Larger Cache that sites between AWS origin point and Edge locations.

What are the 3 Service Models and an example of each ?

1. Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) - EC3 2. Platform as a Service (PaaS) - GoDaddy 3. Software as a Service (SaaS) - Microsoft 365, Gmail

What are the 5 common use cases of Cloud Computing?

1. Migration of Production Services 2. Traffic bursting 3. Backup / Disaster Recovery (DR) 4. Web Hosting 5. Data Manipulation

Name 3 types of Cloud Deployment Models

1. Public Cloud 2. Private Cloud 3. Hybrid Cloud

what are the 6 advantages of Cloud Computing?

1. Trade capital expense for variable expense 2. massive economies of scale 3. Stop guessing capacity 4. Increase speed and Agility 5. Stop spending money running & maintaining DC's 6. Ability to go Global in minutes

What is a AWS Region?

Collection of AZ's that are geographically located close to one another. Each Region contains at least 2 AZ's.

What is an Edge location and what does it do?

Edge locations are used by AWS Cloudfront & AWS Lambda to cache data and reduce latency to end users.

Define "Platform as a Service (PaaS)."

Removes the need for underlying infrastructure. Allows company to focus on deployment and MGMT of software. Ex. Gmail

Based on the Shared Responsibility model, what is the user responsible for?

Security IN the cloud, OS patches and updates Network Level Security for EC2 including NACL's, security groups. IAM access MGMT Client/Server-side data encryption

Define Software as a Service (SaaS)

allows for the delivery an application such as Gmail.

what is an availability zone

collection of data centers

What is cloud computing?

delivery of computing services ( servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics) over the Internet via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.