Amazon Web Services (Aws) Study Guide Graded A+

What is SaaS? {Ans: SaaS stands for Software as a Service which refers to a completed software product that is run and managed by a third-party service provider. Examples include Gmail and Office 365.}What is Amazon S3? {Ans: Amazon S3 stands for Simple Storage Service, which allows for object based storage accessible through 'Buckets'.}What are two forms of storage that you can use to persist data for your EC2? {Ans: EC2 Instance Store (part of the instance) or Elastic Block Storage (virtual volume)}What are the different mediums of storage that you can use for your EBS? {Ans: Solid State Drive (SSD), Hard Drive Disk (HDD), or Magnetic.}What is RDS? {Ans: RDS stands for Relational Database Service. It is an out-of-the-box database system in the cloud deployed and pre-configured in EC2 instances.}What is Cloud Computing? {Ans: Cloud computing is the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or personal computer.}