Global Infrastructure & Compute Match
MediumRace the clock — pair each term with its definition as fast as you can, then try to beat your best time. A quick, replayable warm-up for this set.
Shuffling the deck…
Terms in this set
- AWS Region A separate geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones.
- Availability Zone One or more discrete datacenters within a Region, each with independent power and networking.
- Edge Location A site that caches content close to users to reduce latency, used by CloudFront and other services.
- Amazon EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud — resizable virtual servers in the cloud (IaaS).
- AWS Lambda A serverless compute service that runs code in response to events without managing servers.
- Auto Scaling A service that automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances to match demand.
- Elastic Load Balancing A service that distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets such as EC2 instances.
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk A service that deploys and manages web applications while handling the underlying infrastructure.
- AWS CloudFormation An infrastructure-as-code service that provisions AWS resources from templates.