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Ans. A Region is a Geographical entity like US-East , US-West etc. Each Region may have multiple availability zones where each zone comprise of 1 or more Data Center located with each other.
Edge Locations are the sites that hosts cached content for faster delivery and for saving network traffic as they feed content from sites that are local or near to consumption.
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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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Ans. AMI is an Amazon Machine Image. It contains the configuration to enable to boot up an EC2 instance with said configuration whereas Cloud formation is a templating language that allows to describe how to build a VPC and also allows you to create AWS services
AMI is templating specific to instances whereas the scope of CloudFormation templating is much bigger. CloudFormation could use AMI for launching instances along with other services.
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Ans. It depends on how complex it is and if in future it would need any sort opf debugging. It's not easy to debug code if it's making heavy use of shortcuts like Lambda , Patterns etc.
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Q569. You have a webserver on an ec2 instance. Your instance can get to the internet, but nobody on the internet can get to your webserver. Describe how you would troubleshoot.
Ans. CloudFront for Static Media and cached content
EC2 and EKS ( Docker ) for main application computing
RDS and DynamoDB for Database
Lambda ( computing ) for running back end cron jobs
Kinesis for streaming and SQS for queuing
CloudWatch for Monitoring
CloudFormation for Infrastructure templating
S3 for Object Storage
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