Cloud Architecting - Week 3

Which component of the AWS Global Infrastructure does Amazon Cloudfront use to ensure low-latency delivery?

• AWS Regions

• AWS edge locations

• AWS Availability Zones

• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

You can run applications and workloads from a Region closer to the end users to _______ latency

• increase

• decrease

Networking, storage, compute, and databases are examples of service categories that AWS offers.

• True

• False

Which of the following are geographic areas that host two or more Availability Zones?

• AWS Origins

• AWS Regions

• Compute zones

• Edge locations

_____ means the infrastructure has built-in component redundancy and

____ means that resources dynamically adjust to increases or decreases in capacity requirements.

• No human intervention, fault tolerant

• Elastic and scalable, no human intervention

• Fault tolerant, elastic and scalable

• Fault tolerant, no human intervention

Availability Zones within a Region are connected through low-latency links.

• True

• False

Which of these statements about Availability Zones is not true?

• Availability Zones are designed for fault isolation.

• Availability Zones are made up of one or more data centers.

• A data center can be used for more than one Availability Zone.

• Availability Zones are connected to each other using high-speed private links.

What is true about Regions? (Choose two.)

• A Region is a physical location that has multiple Availability Zones.

• All Regions are located in one specific geographic area.

• They are the physical locations of your customers.

• Each Region is located in a separate geographic area.

AWS highly recommends provisioning your compute resources across ______ Availability Zones.

• single

• multiple

• all

• no

Edge locations are only located in the same general area as Regions.

• True

• False