AWS Compute Services Flashcards
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Which AWS service lets you run containers without provisioning or managing underlying EC2 instances?
Answer: AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that removes the need to manage EC2 instances.
Which EC2 Auto Scaling feature automatically replaces instances that fail EC2 status checks or ELB health checks?
Answer: Health check replacement
Auto Scaling health check replacement terminates unhealthy instances and launches new ones to maintain the desired capacity.
Which EC2 instance family is specifically designed for memory-intensive workloads such as large in-memory databases?
Answer: R-family
R-family instances (e.g., r6g, r7i) are memory-optimized and suited for high-memory workloads like SAP HANA and large caches.
What is the minimum memory that can be configured for an AWS Lambda function?
Answer: 128 MB
Lambda functions can be configured with as little as 128 MB of memory, scaling up to 10,240 MB.
Which AWS service provides a managed platform for running Docker containers on a cluster of EC2 instances?
Answer: Amazon ECS
Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) is AWS's managed container orchestration service for running Docker workloads on EC2 or Fargate.
Which Lambda feature allows a function to communicate with resources inside a private VPC, such as an RDS database?
Answer: VPC Configuration
Configuring VPC settings on a Lambda function attaches elastic network interfaces so the function can reach private VPC resources.