Aws Cloud Practitioner Flash Cards
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Scalable
S3 Storage
Amazon Glacier
low cost archive
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Beanstalk)
Persistent block storage for Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 Instance Storage
Temporary block storage
AWS Storage Gateway
On premises IT environment integration with cloud storage
Snowball
large data volume data transfer
Amazon Cloudfront
Global content delivery can be used to deliver entire website dynamic static streaming and interactive content Using a global network of edge locations.
Cloud computing advantage - Money
- Trade capital expense for variable expense - Pay only when you consume resources - Pay only per how much you consume - min / sec / hr / GB /TB
Cloud computing advantage - Godzilla
- Benefit from massive economies of scale
Cloud computing advantage - Guess
- Stop guessing about capacity - scales to business needs - no long term contracts
Cloud computing advantage - The Flash
- scales infinitely with demand - Acloud guru was built in 3 weeks using serverless architecture
Cloud computing advantage - Samson
- focus on your strengths - let someone else manage infrastructure for you
Cloud computing advantage - Earth
- go global in minutes - deploy app in multiple regions around the world in a few clicks - lower cost - lower latency - better experience
Infrastructure As A Service (IAAS) - Amazon - Rackspace
- I manage the server and OS - Data provider has no access to server
Platform As A Service (PAAS) - GoDaddy
- Someone else manages H/W & S/W - I focus on my app - Someone else manages - security - patching - updates - maintenance
Software As A Service (SAAS) - Gmail
- I manage my inbox - Google takes care of everything else
Public Cloud - AWS - Azure - GCP
Available to all
Hybrid Cloud
Mixture of public and private
Private Cloud (On Premise) - Openstact -VMWare
Managed in your data center
Region
Geographical area - 2 or more Availability Zones
Availability Zones
Many data centers
Edge Location
CDN Endpoints for Cloudfront Location where content will be cached This is separate from an AWS Region/AZ
Developer Support Plan
- $ 29 / Month - 12 / 24 Hour response
Business Support Plan
- $100 / month - 24 x 7 access - 1 hour response
Enterprise Support Plan
- 15K / Month - 15 minute response - Tam
Access AWS Platform in 3 ways
- Console - Command Line - SDK
Root Account
Email account you used to set up account
Root Account Features
- Full Admin Access - Do not give account credentials away - create user for each individual - use MFA to secure root account
Group
- Place to store users that inherit all permissions of the group - developers - sa's - hr
Group policy
Set up with JSON
JSON
Key Value Pairs - { "name" : "MikeMcMac1" } - between the brackets
S3 Bucket
Place to store objects - directory on a computer accessible from anywhere in the world - console - command line
S3 Unique Name Space
Each object has a unique name
S3 is object based
Files only
S3 suitability for OS
S3 is not suitable for installing operating systems
HTTP 200
successful S3 uploads result in this status code
SSL
Encrypt objects in transit to S3
REST
Encrypt object at REST
S3 data
Current
Glacier data
Archive 3 - 5 Hour retrieval time
Bucket Policies
Restrict access to entire bucket you can make entire s3 buckets public
ACL (Access Control Lists)
Restrict access to individual objects (files)
Transfer Acceleration
Upload files to edge locations and Amazon transfers the files, over there internal network, to buckets.
Bucket viewing
Globally you can also have buckets in individual regions
Universal Name Space
Names have to be unique You can not have the same name as someone else
Private
Newly created buckets are private
Cross Region Replication
Replicate the contents on one bucket to another bucket automatically
The Fly
You can change the storage class and encryption level of your objects on the fly
Static Website hosting
html
ARN
Amazon Resource Name
Wordpress websites
requiring database connections can not be hosted on S3
S3 Scales to meet demand
orgs may place static websites on S3 when they anticipate large numbers of requests (for instance the Bond movie)
Cloudfront
Amazon's -CDN - Content Delivery Network
CDN
network (system of distributed servers) that deliver web pages and other web content to a user
Cloudfront content delivery factors (users)
Geographic location Origin of the webpage Content delivery server
Origin
origin of all the files that the CDN will distribute.
Origin Types
S3 Bucket EC2 Instance Elastic Load Balancer Route 53
Distribution
Name given to the CDN which consists of a collection of Edge Locations.
Cloudfront Requests
for content are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance
Cloudfront with non-AWS origin servers
Seamless non-AWS servers that store original, definitive versions of your files.
Cloudfront Optimization
works with other AWS services - S3 - EC2 - Elastic Load Balancer - Route 53.
Cloudfront distribution types
Web Distribution - websites RTMP - Used for Media Streaming
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute
EC2
Web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud
EC2 Advantage
reduces time required to obtain and boot new server instances in minutes allowing you to quickly scale capacity up or down as required
On Demand Instances
Allow you to pay a fixed rate by the hour (or by the second) with no commitment.
Reserved Instances
Provide you with a capacity reservation, and offers discount on the hourly charge for an instance. 1 Year or 3 Year terms
Spot instance
Apps with flexible start and end times Apps that are only feasible at very low compute prices Users with urgent computing needs for large amounts of additional capacity Pricing moves up and down all the time like the stock market If bid price is exceeded then computing stops Else If bid price is < = spot price THEN computing continues
Dedicated Hosts
Physical EC2 server dedicated for your use. reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses.
On Demand scenario
Users that want the low cost and flexibility of Amazon EC2 without any up-front payment or long-term commitment Applications with short term, spiky or unpredictable workloads that cannot be interrupted Applications being developed or tested on Amazon EC2 for the first time.
Reserved Scenario
Applications with steady state or predictable usage Applications that require reserved capacity Users able to make upfront payments to reduce their total computing costs even further Standard RI's (Up to 75% off on demand) Convertible RI's (Up to 54% off on demand) capability to change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of RI's of => Value Scheduled Ri's available to launch within the time window you reserve. This option allows you to match your capacity reservation to a predictable recurring schedule that only requires a fraction of a day, a week, or a month.
Dedicated Hosts Instance
Useful for regulatory requirements that may not support multi-tenant virtualization. Great for licensing which does not support multi-tenacy or cloud deployments. Can be purchased On-Demand (hourly) Can be purchased as a Reservation for up to 70% off the On-Demand price.
Spot Pricing
If terminated by Amazon EC2 then you are not charged for partial hour usage. If you terminate the instance yourself, you are charged for any hour in which the instance ran.
D2
Dense Storage Fileservers/Data Warehousing/Hadoop
R4
Memory Optimized Memory Intensive Apps/DBs
M4
General Purpose App Servers
C4
Compute Optimized CPU Intensive Apps/DB's
G2
Graphics Intensive Video Encoding/3D Application Streaming
I2
High Speed Storage NoSQL DBs, Data Warehousing
F1
Field Programmable Gate Array Hardware acceleration for your code.
T2
Lowest Cost, General Purpose Web Servers/Small Dbs
P2
Graphics/General Purpose GPU Machine Learning, Bit Coin Mining etc
X1
Memory Optimized SAP HANA/Apache Spark
EBS
Elastic Block Storage allows you to create storage volumes and attach them to Amazon EC2 instances. Once attached you can create a file system on top of these volumes. 4:14
EC2 features
It is a server It is not serverless
EC2 connections
Private key
Security Groups
Virtual Firewalls
SSH
22
HTTP
80
HTTPS
443
RDP
3389
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