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Cloud Essentials Flashcards

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  1. Which AWS service delivers content globally with low latency using edge locations?

    Answer: Amazon CloudFront

    Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network that caches content at edge locations near users.

  2. What does AWS Trusted Advisor help customers do?

    Answer: Optimize cost, performance, security, and fault tolerance

    AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations across cost, performance, security, fault tolerance, and limits.

  3. Which managed service simplifies running relational databases on AWS?

    Answer: Amazon RDS

    Amazon RDS is a managed service for setting up and operating relational databases.

  4. What is a key advantage of cloud elasticity?

    Answer: Capacity scales automatically with demand

    Elasticity allows resources to scale up or down automatically to match changing demand.

  5. Which service provides a managed NoSQL database with single-digit millisecond performance?

    Answer: Amazon DynamoDB

    Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database delivering fast, consistent performance.

  6. What does AWS Budgets allow you to do?

    Answer: Set custom cost and usage thresholds with alerts

    AWS Budgets lets you set thresholds and receive alerts when costs or usage exceed limits.

  7. Which compute option offers the deepest discounts but can be interrupted by AWS?

    Answer: Spot Instances

    Spot Instances use spare capacity at steep discounts but can be reclaimed by AWS with short notice.