The cloud industry is leading with a variety of best cloud certifications and Amazon Web Services is one of the highest cloud providers during this cloud era. AWS offers various certifications for various levels. So, it becomes necessary to settle on one that’s for you consistent with your domain and knowledge.
This post will cover some FAQs on the topics that we covered in the Day 2 live session which will help you to clear AWS Solution Architect Associate and AWS DevOps Professional Certification & get a better-paid job.
The previous week, in Day 1 session we got an overview of Cloud & AWS, and in this week’s Day 2 Live Session, we covered the concepts of How to create a cloud account, How to Launch a virtual machine, and How to install CLI. We also performed labs.
AWS Common FAQs: Create a cloud account, Machine & Install CLI
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AWS Free Tier Account & Service Limits
The AWS Free Tier Account provides customers the ability to explore and try out AWS services free of charge up to specified limits for each service. These tier offers to include a year of free usage following your initial sign-up date to your AWS Account.
Click here to Create AWS Free Tier Account
Q1. Is the AWS account free or not?
A1. The AWS Free Tier account makes certain amounts and kinds of resources for new AWS accounts available free from charge for 1 year in limited usage of resources. To avoid unnecessary charges delete/clean up the resources when you’re done using them.
Q2. Why does AWS charge me, while in the free tier?
A2. When using AWS Free Tier, you might incur charges due to the following reasons:
- You exceeded the monthly free tier usage limits of one or more than one service.
- You’re using an AWS service, such as Amazon Aurora, etc, that doesn’t offer free tier benefits.
- Your free tier period expired.
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AWS CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is an observability and monitoring tool designed for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides data and actionable insights to help you monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and gain a single view of operational health.
Learn more about AWS CloudWatch by clicking here.
Q3. Is CloudWatch a Free Service?
A3. You can start with Amazon CloudWatch free of charge. Most AWS Services (S3, EC2, Kinesis, etc.) vend metrics automatically for free of charge to CloudWatch, and many applications should be ready to operate within these free tier limits.
Q4. What sort of monitoring can AWS CloudWatch be used for?
A4. CloudWatch is a monitoring service for your resources and the applications you run on AWS. You’ll use CloudWatch to trace and collect metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms.
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AWS EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that gives secure, resizable computing capacity within the cloud. it’s designed to form web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to get and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and allows you to run on Amazon’s proven computing environment.
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Q5. What is a virtual machine?
A5. A Virtual Machine (VM) is a computing resource that uses software rather than a physical computer to run programs and deploy apps.
Q6. What is Amazon EC2 Instance?
A6. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable, and compute capacity in the cloud. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you would like, configure security and networking, and manage storage.
Q7. What are the advantages of utilizing a Virtual Machine?
A7. Reduced hardware costs: Many businesses do not make full use of their hardware resources. Organizations can use virtual servers instead of purchasing another server.
Improved data security: By replicating your servers in the cloud, virtualization simplifies disaster recovery. Organizations don’t require the same physical servers abroad to support a secondary recovery site because VMs are independent of the underlying hardware.
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Q8. What is the difference between stopping and terminating ec2 instances on AWS?
A8. Stopping Instance- When you stop an instance, you shut it down. You won’t be charged for the usage of a stopped instance or data transfer fees, but you shall be charged for the storage of any Amazon EBS volumes.
Terminate Instance- You can delete your instance when you no longer need it. This is referred to as terminating your instance. You cannot connect to an instance or start an instance after you have terminated it.
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AWS CLI
The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With only one tool to download and configure, you’ll control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.
Click here to know more about AWS CLI
Q9. What is the AWS CLI?
A89. The AWS command-line Interface is an AWS tool that permits the developers to regulate Amazon public cloud services by typing commands on a specified line. AWS’s version of a command-line interface is one among several methods a developer can use to create and manage AWS tools.
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Q10. Why use AWS CLI?
A10. AWS CLI gives you the power to automate the whole process of managing and controlling AWS services through scripts. These scripts make it easy for users to use the fully automated cloud infrastructure.
Q11. Is AWS CLI open source?
A11. The AWS command-line Interface is an open-source tool that permits you to interact with AWS services using commands in your command-line shell.
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Quiz Time (Sample Exam Questions)
With our AWS Solution Architecture – Associate training program, we cover 450+ sample exam questions to help you prepare for the certification AWS SA-C03.
Check out one of the questions and see if you can crack this…
Q. Which of the following is the document used to grant permissions to users, groups, and roles?
A. Passbook
B. Paradigm
C. Policy
D. Protocol
Comment with your answer & we will tell you if you are correct or not!!
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Feedback
We always work on improving and being the best version of ourselves from the previous session hence constantly asking for feedback from our attendees.
Here’s the feedback that we received from our trainees who attended the session…
Related/References
- Overview of Amazon Web Services & Concept
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Exam
- AWS Management Console Walkthrough
- How to create a free tier account in AWS
- AWS Solution Architect Questions Day 1: Introduction To Cloud & AWS
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Roles & Responsibilities.
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