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Cloud Essentials Flashcards

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  1. Which AWS pricing model offers the largest discount for committing to a one- or three-year term?

    Answer: Reserved Instances

    Reserved Instances provide significant discounts in exchange for a one- or three-year usage commitment.

  2. What does the AWS shared responsibility model say AWS is responsible for?

    Answer: Security of the cloud (infrastructure)

    AWS is responsible for security of the cloud, meaning the underlying infrastructure that runs the services.

  3. Which service provides object storage with high durability for files and backups?

    Answer: Amazon S3

    Amazon S3 is an object storage service designed for 99.999999999% durability.

  4. What is the primary benefit of the AWS pay-as-you-go pricing approach?

    Answer: Paying only for resources you consume

    Pay-as-you-go means you are billed only for the resources you actually use.

  5. Which AWS resource grouping represents an isolated geographic location containing multiple data centers?

    Answer: Region

    An AWS Region is a separate geographic area composed of multiple Availability Zones.

  6. What does Amazon CloudWatch primarily provide?

    Answer: Monitoring and observability of resources

    Amazon CloudWatch collects metrics, logs, and alarms for monitoring AWS resources and applications.

  7. Which service lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers?

    Answer: AWS Lambda

    AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs code in response to events without server management.