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Cost Management - ANSWER- Controlling total cost of ownership
Benefits of Migration to the AWS Cloud - ANSWER- Capital expense for variable expense;
Massive economies of scale;
Scaling on demand;
Increased speed and agility
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Cloud Deployment Models - ANSWER- Cloud; Hybrid; On-Premises
Cloud Service Models - ANSWER- Infastructure as a Service (IaaS); Software as a Service
(SaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS)
3 ways to interact with AWS - ANSWER- Management Console, CLI, SDK's
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) - ANSWER- Provides guidance and best
practices to help organizations accelerate successful cloud adoption;
6 perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, Operations
AWS Compliance - ANSWER- AWS insures policies, processes, and controls meet auditors
and certifying bodies
Basic AWS Pricing Guidelines - ANSWER- Pay for what you use, Pay less when you reserve,
pay less by using more
,Amazon EC2 Instance Types - ANSWER- Contains ram, cpu, storage, and performance built
to different needs (t2.micro)
Amazon EC2 Pricing Models - ANSWER- On-Demand (low cost and high flexibility);
Reserved (predictability and cheaper); spot (large scale, dynamic workloads); dedicated (stored by
itself on storage)
AWS Global Infastructure - ANSWER- Flexible, reliable, scaleable, secure global network
performance
AWS Region - ANSWER- Geographical area; data replication controlled by the user;
communication via AWS network; with 2+ Availability Zones
Availability Zones - ANSWER- Fully isolated part of region; many data centers; connected
with other AZ's with high-speed private network; should replicate across many AZ's for resilience
Infrastructure as code (IaC) - ANSWER- Using code to define infrastructure and confiruations
in Cloud; can be used with many different services
AWS Knowledge Center - ANSWER- Frequently Asked Questions page
Network Services - ANSWER- VPC, Route 53, and CloudFront
AWS Partner Network - ANSWER- global community that leverages AWS technologies,
programs, enterprise, and tools to build solutions and services for customers
AWS Prescriptive Guidance - ANSWER- collection os papers from AWS experts that contain
real-world experience about cloud strategies, guides, and patterns
AWS Pricing Calculator - ANSWER- Estimate costs by modeling solutions before you build
them
, AWS Professional Services - ANSWER- team that provide detailed guides and work with AWS
Partner network to help you build your deployment
AWS re:Post - ANSWER- Amazon's expert-reviewd, community cloud knowledge service
AWS Security Blog - ANSWER- Blog of different AWS security tips
AWS Shared Responsibility Model - ANSWER- Customer is responsible for security "in" the
cloud; AWS is responsible for security "of" the cloud
AWS Solutions Architects - ANSWER- in charge of running the cloud
AWS Support Center - ANSWER- hub for managing all support cases
AWS Support Plans - ANSWER- Basic (free), Developer (for early development), Business
(Production workloads), Enterprise (mission-critical workloads)
AWS Well-Architected Framework - ANSWER- Guide for designing good infastructures.
Incorporates 6 pillars: Operational Excellence, Securiy, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost
Optimization, and Sustainability
What are factors that influence availability - ANSWER- Fault tolerance, Recoverability, and
Scalability
Amazon Athena - ANSWER- Interactive query service for S3 buckets
AWS Data Exchange - ANSWER- massive repository of third-party datasets