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Q241. Have you ever worked on migrating AWS services and databases from one account to another ?

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Q242. Why AWS is better than Azure ?

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Q243. If a high CPU Usage happens everyday at a particular time, How would you go about fixing it ?

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Ans. We can provision more instances for that particular time slot.

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Q244. What are you using AWS lambda for ?

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Q245. What are you using AWS lambda for ?

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Ans. We are using it for computation (EC2) , Storage (S3) and Database (RDS)

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Q246. How to assign a static or IP range to Lambda Function ?

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Q247. What should we do If we need to know the IP of the machine where Lambda function runs ?

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Q248. How to know IP of the machine where lambda function runs ?

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Q249. Can we reserve resources in AWS Lambda just like we do for Ec2 instances ?

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Ans. You can have reserved capacity with AWS Lambda. This guarantees that this number of concurrent Lambdas are always available for that function.

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Q250. What are the benefits of using AWS Lambda over EC2 ?

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Q251. Can we build web services using AWS Lambda ?

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Ans. We have to complement it to AWS Gateway API.

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Q252. Can you explain the integration between API Gateway and Lambda if we wish to develop services using these tools.

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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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Q253. What are the problems one could face while working with serverless technologies like AWS Lambda ?

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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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Q254. What is the difference between AWS Gateway API and Lambda ?

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Ans. AWS API Gateway is the endpoint URI to get invoke. Whereas Lambda is the compute function being invoked from API Gateway or S3 or SNS

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Q255. Difference between Amazon RDS and Amazon DynamoDB ?

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Ans. Amazon RDS provides relational database services whereas DynamoDb provide No SQL database services.

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Q256. What are some of the storage and database services provided by AWS ?

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Ans. Storage - S3, Glacier
Database - RDS, DynamoDB

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Q257. Tell me something about Amazon Lambda.

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Ans. AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It is a computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code. It was introduced in November 2014.

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Q258. What are some of the computation services provided by AWS ?

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Ans. EC2, EKS, EKC , Lambda

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Q259. What are the various security and access services provided by AWS ?

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Q260. What are the services provided by AWS ?

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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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Q261. What is EC2 and EC2 instance ?

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Ans. EC2 is elastics compute cloud is one of the amazon service and ec2 instance is one type of virtual server which you create from AMI.

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Q262. What is the difference between Reserved and On Demand instance ?

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Ans. On demand instance is normal instance means if you create first time so you can use on demand instance, in this instance you can create simple server like 2 gb RAM, 1 core CPU, GP2 30 GB SSD....etc.

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Q263. What is cloud computing ?

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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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Q264. Which components of AWS are you using in your project ?

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Ans. We are using EC2 and Lambda for computing, RDS for Database , S3 for Storage , SQS and Kinesis for streaming and queue and CloudWatch for monitoring.

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Q265. How can we know how many instances are currently in service within an Elastic Beanstalk environment ?

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Ans. We can go to respective environment and check configuration and then scaling. It mentions that as current status like

Current status:

2 instance(s) in service, Min: 1, Max: 4

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Q266. What is the relationship between shard and partition key in kinesis stream ?

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Ans. A partition key is used to group data by shard within a stream. A partition key identifies which shard the message belong to.

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Q267. What is a shard in Kinesis stream ?

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Ans. A shard is a uniquely identified group of data records in a stream or we can say that Shard is a partition in Kinesis stream. A shard supports a fixed bandwidth i.e fixed number of messages per second. The total capacity of the stream is the sum of the capacities of its shards. If the data rate changes, we can allocate / deallocate more shards to accommodate that.

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Q268. What is the difference between single instance Web environment and Load Balanced Auto Scaling ?

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Ans. Single instance means there is only 1 instance that will bear all the traffic load whereas Load balanced server means that there will be a cluster of servers that will host the application and load will be balanced distributed among them. Auto Scaling means that the number of instances will be expanded / shrunken based on the rule. Rule could be the traffic count , response time etc.

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Q269. What is AWS CloudWatch ?

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Ans. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources like Beanstalk and DB instances. We can use CloudWatch to monitor the state of resources, collect metrices, set alarms and appropriate response to the alarm state.

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Q270. What are the types of applications we can create using Elastic Beanstalk ?

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Ans. Web Server and Worker

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