Summary and Quiz

In this lesson, we’ll summarize what we’ve learned in this chapter and test our knowledge of the AWS compute services with a short quiz.

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about the different AWS compute services. Here’s a summary of the key takeaways from this chapter:

• AWS Lightsail is a simplified, low-cost service for quickly launching projects with instances, containers, databases, networking, storage, DNS management, and backups.

  • Lightsail Instances and blueprints provides a pre-configured template for operating systems and applications for quick setup and consistent configuration.

  • Ideal for simple web hosting, small business applications, and static websites. It offers user-friendly management and predictable pricing.

• AWS Batch is a fully managed service for running batch computing workloads, dynamically provisioning the optimal compute resources based on job requirements. It supports multi-node parallel jobs for high-performance computing and array jobs for highly parallel tasks, offering flexibility and scalability in job execution.

• AWS Local Zones deploys AWS infrastructure closer to large populations and IT centers, offering low-latency access for applications requiring single-digit millisecond response times. It extends AWS Regions, supports various AWS services, and enables hybrid deployments with consistent network connectivity.

• AWS Outposts extends AWS services, infrastructure, and tools to on-premises environments, offering a consistent hybrid experience with low-latency access and seamless integration with AWS Cloud. Outposts are installed and configured on-site by AWS, and integrate with existing infrastructure via VPC, Direct Connect, or VPN, enabling hybrid cloud deployments.

• AWS Wavelength extends AWS infrastructure to the edge of 5G networks, enabling ultra-low latency and high-bandwidth applications close to mobile devices and end users, ideal for real-time and data-intensive workloads.

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk simplifies application deployment and management by automatically provisioning and managing resources like EC2 instances and S3 buckets. It supports multiple programming languages, including Go, Java, and Python.

• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is an AWS managed container registry service. ECR provides a secure and scalable repository to store, manage, and deploy Docker images. They offer both private and public registries.

• Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service by AWS. It simplifies the deployment and management of containerized applications, allowing us to run Docker containers at scale.

• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that simplifies managing Kubernetes clusters on AWS. EKS manages clusters with a control plane hosted in an AWS-managed VPC and worker nodes in a customer-managed VPC.

• Amazon EKS Distro, an open-source distribution of Kubernetes by AWS. It offers the same core components that power Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) for creating and managing containerized applications.

Test your knowledge

Let’s take a quiz about AWS compute services: