AWS Storage and Databases Flashcards
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Which AWS storage service provides scalable object storage for any amount of data?
Answer: Amazon S3
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) provides virtually unlimited scalable object storage accessible from anywhere over the internet.
What is the maximum size of a single object in Amazon S3?
Answer: 5 TB
The maximum size of a single object stored in Amazon S3 is 5 terabytes.
Which Amazon S3 storage class is most cost-effective for data that is accessed less than once a month?
Answer: S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is designed for archive data that needs millisecond retrieval but is accessed infrequently, offering very low storage costs.
What is Amazon RDS?
Answer: A managed relational database service supporting multiple database engines
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) is a managed service for setting up, operating, and scaling relational databases in the cloud.
Which AWS database service is a fully managed NoSQL database with single-digit millisecond performance?
Answer: Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL key-value and document database delivering consistent single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.
What is Amazon EBS primarily used for?
Answer: Persistent block storage volumes for EC2 instances
Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) provides persistent block storage volumes that can be attached to EC2 instances, similar to a hard drive.