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Topic: AWS

Q1: What is AWS? ☆

Answer:
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services and is a platform that provides database storage, secure
cloud services, offering to compute power, content delivery, and many other services to
develop business levels.

Source: onlineinterviewquestions.com

Q2: Explain the key components of AWS? ☆

Answer:

Simple Storage Service (S3): S3 is most widely used AWS storage web service.
Simple E-mail Service (SES): SES is a hosted transactional email service and allows
one to fluently send deliverable emails using a RESTFUL API call or through a regular
SMTP.
Identity and Access Management (IAM): IAM provides improved identity and
security management for AWS account.
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): EC2 is an AWS ecosystem central piece. It is
responsible for providing on-demand and flexible computing resources with a “pay as
you go” pricing model.
Elastic Block Store (EBS): EBS offers continuous storage solution that can be seen in
instances as a regular hard drive.
CloudWatch: CloudWatch allows the controller to outlook and gather key metrics and
also set a series of alarms to be notified if there is any trouble.

Source: whizlabs.com

Q3: What do you mean by AMI? What does it include? ☆☆

Answer:
AMI stands for the term Amazon Machine Image. It’s an AWS template which provides the
information (an application server, and operating system, and applications) required to perform
the launch of an instance. This AMI is the copy of the AMI that is running in the cloud as a
virtual server. You can launch instances from as many different AMIs as you need. AMI consists
of the followings:

A root volume template for an existing instance

Launch permissions to determine which AWS accounts will get the AMI in order to
launch the instances
Mapping for block device to calculate the total volume that will be attached to the
instance at the time of launch

Source: whizlabs.com
Q4: What is the connection between AMI and Instance? ☆☆

Answer:
Many different types of instances can be launched from one AMI. The type of an instance
generally regulates the hardware components of the host computer that is used for the
instance. Each type of instance has distinct computing and memory efficacy.

Once an instance is launched, it casts as host and the user interaction with it is same as with
any other computer but we have a completely controlled access to our instances. AWS
developer interview questions may contain one or more AMI based questions, so prepare
yourself for the AMI topic very well.

Source: whizlabs.com

Q5: Explain the features of Amazon EC2 services ☆☆

Answer:
Amazon EC2 services have following features:

Virtual Computing Environments

Proffers Persistent storage volumes
Firewall validating you to specify the protocol
Pre-configured templates
Static IP address for dynamic Cloud Computing

Source: whizlabs.com

Q6: What is buckets in AWS? ☆

Answer:
An Amazon S3 bucket is a public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services'
(AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage offering. Amazon S3 buckets, which are
similar to file folders, store objects, which consist of data and its descriptive metadata.

By default, you can create up to 100 buckets in each of your AWS accounts. If you need more
buckets, you can increase your bucket limit by submitting a service limit increase.

Source: whizlabs.com

Q7: Are S3 buckets region specific? ☆☆

Answer:
Yes, buckets exist in a specific region and you need to specify that region when you create a
bucket. Amazon S3 creates bucket in a region you specify. You can choose any AWS region that
is geographically close to you to optimize latency, minimize costs, or address regulatory
requirements.

Source: stackoverflow.com

Q8: What is AWS EBS? ☆☆

Answer:
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use
with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically
replicated within its Availability Zone to protect you from component failure, offering high
availability and durability.

Source: aws.amazon.com

Q9: What is AWS Lambda? ☆☆

Answer:
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and
automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to
extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that
operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.

Source: aws.amazon.com

Q10: What is AWS DynamoDB? ☆☆

Answer:
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and
predictable performance with seamless scalability. With DynamoDB, you can create database
tables that can store and retrieve any amount of data, and serve any level of request traffic.

Source: docs.aws.amazon.com

Q11: Is data stored in S3 is always encrypted? ☆☆

Answer:
By default data on S3 is not encrypted, but all you could enable server-side encryption in your
object metadata when you upload your data to Amazon S3. As soon as your data reaches S3, it
is encrypted and stored.

Source: aws.amazon.com

Q12: What is AWS Direct Connect? ☆☆

Answer:
Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your
datacenter, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases can reduce your network
costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than
Internet-based connections.

Source: aws.amazon.com

Q13: What is AWS API gateway? ☆☆

Answer:
Amazon API Gateway is an AWS service that enables developers to create, publish, maintain,
monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. You can create APIs that access AWS or other web
services, as well as data stored in the AWS Cloud.

Source: aws.amazon.com

Q14: What is AWS Cloudfront? ☆☆

Answer:
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) offered by Amazon Web Services.
Content delivery networks provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers which cache
content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, thus improving
access speed for downloading the content.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

Q15: Can we attach single EBS to multiple EC2s same time? ☆☆

Answer:
No. After you create a volume, you can attach it to any EC2 instance in the same Availability
Zone. An EBS volume can be attached to only one EC2 instance at a time, but multiple
volumes can be attached to a single instance.

Source: docs.aws.amazon.com

Q16: What is AWS EMR? ☆☆

Answer:
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) tool for big data
processing and analysis. Amazon EMR offers the expandable low-configuration service as an
easier alternative to running in-house cluster computing.

Amazon EMR is based on Apache Hadoop, a Java-based programming framework that supports
the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment. MapReduce is a
software framework that allows developers to write programs that process massive amounts of
unstructured data in parallel across a distributed cluster of processors or stand-alone
computers.

Source: searchaws.techtarget.com

Q17: What is AWS Direct Connect? ☆☆

Answer:
AWS Direct Connect bypasses the public Internet and establishes a secure, dedicated
connection from your infrastructure into AWS. With established connectivity via AWS Direct
Connect, you can access your Amazon VPC and all AWS services.

Source: coresite.com

Q18: What is AWS Data Pipeline? ☆☆

Answer:
AWS Data Pipeline is a web service that you can use to automate the movement and
transformation of data. With AWS Data Pipeline, you can define data-driven workflows, so that
tasks can be dependent on the successful completion of previous tasks.

Source: docs.aws.amazon.com

Q19: Is it possible to clone a EC2 instance data? ☆☆

Answer:
You can make an AMI of an existing instance, and then launch other instances using that AMI.
Source: stackoverflow.com

Q20: How can I download a file from EC2? ☆☆

Answer:
Use scp:

scp -i ec2key.pem username@ec2ip:/path/to/file .

Source: stackoverflow.com