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 Q11. What is cloud computing ?Cloud Computing
Ans. Cloud Computing is a way of using IT infrastructure with following traits -

1. On Demand Infrastructure
2. Broad Network Access
3. Resource Pooling
4. Rapid Elasticity
5. Measured Service

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 Q12. What are the services provided by AWS ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. AWS provides various types of services like Computing ( EC2 , Lambda , EKS ), Storage ( S3, Glacier ), Database ( RDS , DynamoDB ), Streaming ( Kinesis ), Queue ( SQS ), Security and Access ( IAM ) etc.

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 Q13. What are the problems one could face while working with serverless technologies like AWS Lambda ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Warm up time for certain technologies like Java ( JVM Warmup )

Performance

Size of Deployable ( Bigger size packaging should go in S3 )

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 Q14. What is the cost of using Cloud Formation ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Cloud Formation does not have any additional cost but you are charged for the underlying resources it builds.

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 Q15. How does AWS Lambda handle failure during event processing?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. In AWS Lambda we can run a function in synchronous or asynchronous mode. In synchronous mode, if AWS Lambda function fails, then it will just give an exception to the calling application. In asynchronous mode, if AWS Lambda function fails then it will retry the same function at least 3 times.If AWS Lambda is running in response to an event in Amazon DynamoDB or Amazon Kinesis, then the event will be retried till the Lambda function succeeds or the data expires. In DynamoDB or Kinesis, AWS maintains data for at least 24 hours.

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 Q16. What does AMI include ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. A template for the instance.

Launch permission decisions

A block device mapping, when an instance is launched it determines the volumes to attach to that instances.


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 Q17. Which region is the latest and most popular in AWS ? What are the advantages and disadvantages of using this region ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. US-East Virginia

This is the oldest and most popular region. All new features are rolled first in this region and hence they are first available there. The downside is that because of experimentation with new services, unavailability time is quite high.

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 Q18. What are the advantage of having Edge Locations ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. It saves Network traffic and facilitates faster delivery by hosting bulk media and cached data near to client.

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 Q19. What does effect , action and resource means with respect to AWS IAM policy ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. effect means whether the effect of this Policy is to allow or deny, action means the type of action ( read , write ) and service, and resource is the resource where this should apply.

For example - If we want to have a Policy of providing read access on S3 ,
effect will be "allow"
action will be "s3:GetObject"
resource will be "arn:aws:s3:::examplebucket/*"

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 Q20. Within AWS S3, Why new files are available immediately for read operation but not the updates ? Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Because new files will be fed from where ever they are first available but AWS have no way to identify which is the most updated version among the various regions. The updated version can only be assured once the replication to all availability zones is complete.

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 Q21. What kind of Access Policy should be kept on S3 Buckets and Policy ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. We should only allow access that's needed. So the security Policy should be as restrictive as possible.

Buckets and Files should never be made public unless until they are needed it to be like that.

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 Q22. How can we protect from accidental deletes in S3 ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Versioning ( will create Delete marker )
MFA Delete ( authentication upon deletion )
Cross Region Replication ( Replicates aren't deleted )

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 Q23. How can we restrict CloudFront access to a particular Geography ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. We can select the appropriate Price Class if that suits us.

We can do Geo Targeting by black listing / white listing certain geographies.

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 Q24. What is the use case for "On Demand" EC2 ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. If the computation required is Spiky and unpredictable.

If it's first time use.

If the lifespan of the application isn't known.

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 Q25. What is the use case for "Spot" EC2 plan ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. If the usage is non continuous and have flexible start and End Time. For ex - Analysis , Research , mining etc.

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 Q26. What are the different price options available for EC2 ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. On Demand
Reserved
Spot
Dedicated Host

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 Q27. What EC2 configuration would you use if you have to use it for Bitcoin mining ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Keeping Low cost for processing , i would choose

Spot Price Plan
F1 or P3 Instance Type
Cold Hdd (SCI ) EBS Volume

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 Q28. Which AWS services would you use if you have find a cheapest solution for an analytics application ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Computation

Spot Price Plan
F1 or P3 Instance Type
Cold Hdd (SCI ) EBS Volume

Storage

S3-IA

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 Q29. Can a EC2 instance have multiple Security Groups ? Can a single security group be assigned to multiple Ec2 instances ? If either of them is true , doesn't it result in conflict ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. We can assign multiple security groups to single instance and we can use single security group with multiple instances.

It never results in conflict as security groups only have allow rules and no deny rules. Multiple security groups for an instance results in union of all rules.

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 Q30. Can we deny access for particular IP using Security Groups ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. No, We can do that through ACL

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 Q31. Difference between S3 and EFS ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. S3 is object based whereas EFS is block based.

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 Q32. What is Amazon S3 ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Amazon Simple Storage Service or S3 is object storage with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web.

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 Q33. What are the types of applications we can create using Elastic Beanstalk ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Web Server and Worker

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 Q34. Can you explain the integration between API Gateway and Lambda if we wish to develop services using these tools.Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. We can create API gateway and give the name of lambda function in order to be linked with lambda function, deploy the API and whenever request will be made from API it will directly be linked to lambda function to perform further process.

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 Q35. What would you do if you see an error thrown by a lambda function as "Access Denied" while doing something with S3 ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Just like people , AWS resources too have execution roles or permissions. Seems like in such a situation Lambda function may not have sufficient privileges to perform operations on S3. For example - The execution role of Lambda may just have read permissions on S3 and we may be trying to perform PutObject operation.

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 Q36. What is the use of Amazon Glacier?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Its a storage option provided by AWS which is even cheaper than S3. As the objects are archieved before saving, retrieval time is pretty bad.

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 Q37. What is AWS Storage Gateway?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. It's an on premise virtual appliance that can be used as cache to store s3 locally at customer site.

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 Q38. What are the drawbacks of using Spot EC2 instances ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. You cannot reserve the time slot and they can be made to use whenever they are available.

AWS can Terminate the EC2 instance on their own even if it's in use.

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 Q39. What is the use case for AWS Gateway cached , stored and VTL ? Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. AWS Cached - Low Availability than AWS Stored, Lower cost than AWS Stored

AWS Stored - High Availability, High Local Storage Cost

AWS VTL - S3 Used as Back up only.


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 Q40. What are the things to consider while provisioning computing in AWS ?Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ans. Service ( EC2, Lambda etc )
AMI ( Operating System and Softwares )
Instance Type ( T,M, R etc )
EBS ( Volume Type , Size )
Price Class ( OnDemand, Dedicated etc )

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