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Cracking the IT Architect Interview

You're reading from   Cracking the IT Architect Interview The ultimate guide to successful interviews for Enterprise, Business, Domain, Solution, and Technical Architect roles as well as IT Advisory Consultant and Software Designer roles

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121690
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Amazon Web Services


Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud computing platform by www.amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services.

What are the key components of AWS?

The AWS components are:

  • S3 is used to retrieve datasets involved in cloud architecture and is used to store the output datasets that are the result of the computations.

  • SQS is leveraged for buffering requests received by the Amazon controller. It is the component used for communication between different controllers.

  • SimpleDB is used to store intermediate logs and tasks performed by the user.

  • EC2 is used to run a large distributed processing on the Hadoop cluster and provides automatic parallelization and scheduling.

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Why is the isolation feature needed in Amazon Web Services?

Isolation facilitates a...

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