AWS: Cloud 101

Prompts and answers

• What decade did companies start having widespread reliance on internet-connected services?
  1990s
• Was EC2 Autoscaling the first autoscaling service in AWS? (yea/nay)
  nay
• How close together (in miles) should Availability Zone's data centers be?
  60
• What continent has no AWS Region?
  Antarctica
• What country has its own AWS partition?
  China
• Is a major purchase intended to be used by a business over a long period of time a capital expense or operating expense?
  capital expense
• Who announced the "API Mandate" at AWS?
  Jeff Bezos
• What is AWS native "Infrastructure-as-Code" tool?
  CloudFormation
• Does serverless cost more or less when running idle than traditional servers?
  less
• What is the flag after completing the exercise?
  THM{AWS_CLOUD__00100}