Chapter 3:
AWS Global Infrastructure Overview AWS
Academy Cloud Foundations
Prepared by:
Hammouda Aya
Hazel Meriam
Rahali Chaima
AWS Global Infrastructure • Each is a fully isolated
partition of the AWS
infrastructure, with
• Designed and built independent power,
to deliver a flexible, cooling, and networking.
reliable, scalable, • Designed for fault
and secure cloud isolation.
computing
environment with
high-quality global
network
performance. Interconnected by:
high-speed
private networking
• The physical building.
• designed for security.
• where the data resides and data
processing occurs.
• A geographical area. • Each has redundant power,
• Each provides full redundancy and connectivity to the networking and connectivity, and
network. is housed in a separate facility.
• Selection is based on compliance, latency, and geographic
requirements.
Points of Presence (PoPs)
• in major cities worldwide
• optimize connectivity and routing,
ensuring faster, near real-time user
experiences
• Consists of edge locations
and a much smaller number
of Regional edge caches
• Used with Amazon
CloudFront : Delivers content
via a global Content Delivery
Network (CDN).
• Regional edge caches
store less frequently
accessed content to
optimize performance
Features
AWS
categories of
services:
QUIZ 6. Which of the following best describes AWS CloudFront?
a) A storage service for managing large files
1. What is the primary purpose of an AWS Region? b) A service that helps deploy EC2 instances
a) To provide geographic redundancy c) A content delivery network (CDN)
b) To host a collection of Availability Zones d) A serverless database
c) To ensure that data is always backed up 7. Which AWS service provides scalable compute capacity in
d) To provide content delivery to end users the cloud?
2. How many Availability Zones (AZs) are typically a) AWS Lambda
found within a single AWS Region? b) Amazon EC2
a) One c) Amazon S3
b) Two or more d) Amazon VPC
c) Five 8. Which AWS service is used for provisioning virtual private
d) Ten or more networks (VPNs) between AWS and on-premises
3. What is the key function of AWS Edge environments?
Locations? a) AWS Direct Connect
a) To store data backups b) AWS VPN
b) To manage security c) Amazon CloudFront
c) To cache content closer to users and reduce latency d) Amazon EC2
d) To run databases 9. Which of the following is a feature of AWS Elastic Load
4. Which AWS service is primarily used for content Balancing (ELB)?
delivery via Edge Locations? a) It automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets
a) Amazon EC2 b) It stores and backs up data
b) Amazon S3 c) It processes database queries
c) Amazon CloudFront d) It directly manages cloud storage
d) Amazon RDS 10. Which AWS service allows you to create and manage a
5. What is an Availability Zone (AZ) in AWS? virtual private cloud (VPC)?
a) A geographical area within an AWS Region a) AWS IAM
b) A single, isolated data center within a Region b) Amazon VPC Answers:
c) A connection point to AWS services c) AWS S3 1.b – 2.b – 3.c – 4.c – 5.b
d) A network of cloud applications d) Amazon RDS
6.c – 7.b – 8.b – 9.a – 10.b
