Top 50 AWS Interview Questions and Answers

AWS stands for Amazon Web Service; it is a collection of remote computing services also known as a cloud computing platform.  This new realm of cloud computing is also known as IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service.

The key components of AWS are

S3 stands for Simple Storage Service. You can use S3 interface to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time and from anywhere on the web.  For S3, the payment model is “pay as you go.”

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

From a single AMI, you can launch multiple types of instances.  An instance type defines the hardware of the host computer used for your instance. Each instance type provides different computer and memory capabilities.  Once you launch an instance, it looks like a traditional host, and we can interact with it as we would with any computer.

An AMI includes the following things

Amazon S3 is a REST service, and you can send a request by using the REST API or the AWS SDK wrapper libraries that wrap the underlying Amazon S3 REST API.

By default, you can create up to 100 buckets in each of your AWS accounts.

Yes, you can vertically scale on Amazon instance. For that

T2 instances are designed to provide moderate baseline performance and the capability to burst to higher performance as required by the workload.

With private and public subnets in VPC, database servers should ideally launch into private subnets.

For secure Amazon EC2 best practices, follow the following steps

The buffer is used to make the system more robust to manage traffic or load by synchronizing different component.  Usually, components receive and process the requests in an unbalanced way. With the help of buffer, the components will be balanced and will work at the same speed to provide faster services.

The possible connection errors one might encounter while connecting instances are

Key-pairs are secure login information for your virtual machines. To connect to the instances, you can use key-pairs which contain a public-key and private-key.

Following are the types of instances:

No, currently Amazon VPI not provide support for broadcast or multicast.

5 VPC Elastic IP addresses are allowed for each AWS account.

The default storage class is a Standard frequently accessed.
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Roles are used to providing permissions to entities which you can trust within your AWS account. Roles are very similar to users. However,  with roles, you do not require to create any username and password to work with the resources.

Edge location is the area where the contents will be cached. So, when a user is trying to accessing any content, the content will automatically be searched in the edge location.

Snowball is a data transport option. It used source appliances to a large amount of data into and out of AWS. With the help of snowball, you can transfer a massive amount of data from one place to another. It helps you to reduce networking costs.

Redshift is a big data warehouse product. It is fast and powerful, fully managed data warehouse service in the cloud.

Following are the advantages of autoscaling

A large section of IP Address divided into chunks is known as subnets.

No, It’s only possible between VPCs in the same region.

Simple Queues Services also known as SQL. It is distributed queuing service which acts as a mediator for two controllers.

You can have 200 subnets per VPC.

DNS and Load Balancer and DNS services come under IAAS-storage cloud service.

CloudTrail is a specially designed tool for logging and tracking API calls. It helps to audit all S3 bucket accesses.

EC2 officially launched in the year 2006.

SimpleDB is a data repository of structure record which encourages data doubts and indexing both S3 and EC2are called SimpleDB.

Amazon Elasticcache is a web service which makes it easy to deploy, scale and store data in the cloud.

Lambda is an Amazon compute service which allows you to run code in the  AWS Cloud without managing servers.

The types of AMI provided by AWS are:

AWS Edge locations are service which redundantly cache data and images.

A Geo-restriction feature helps you to prevent users of specific geographic locations from accessing content which you’re distributing through a CloudFront web distribution.

EMR is a survived cluster stage which helps you to interpret the working of data structures before the intimation.  Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark on the Amazon Web Services helps you to investigate a large amount of data. You can prepare data for the analytics goals and marketing intellect workloads using Apache Hive and using other relevant open source designs.
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The boot time for an Amazon instance store-backend AMI is less than 5 minutes.

Yes, the Internet gateway is needed to use VPC (virtual private cloud peering) connections.

We can’t be able to connect EBS volume to multiple instances.  Although, you can connect various EBS Volumes to a single instance.

Various types of cloud services are:

AMI is a template consisting software configuration part. For example Operating systems, applications, application server if you start an instance, a duplicate of the AMI in a row as an attendant in the cloud.

Two types of Load balancer are:

Important features of the Amazon cloud are:

Different layers of cloud architecture are:

Storage classes available with Amazon s3 are: