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What are the three fundamental principles of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization (5 pillars: design for failure, security by default, elasticity, and pay-as-you-go)
Which AWS service provides a managed relational database with automatic failover and read replicas?
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service). Supports Multi-AZ deployments for high availability and Read Replicas for scaling read traffic.
What is the primary purpose of Amazon CloudFront?
CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that caches content at edge locations globally to reduce latency and improve performance for end users.
How does AWS Auto Scaling determine when to launch or terminate EC2 instances?
Auto Scaling uses target tracking policies, step scaling policies, or scheduled actions based on CloudWatch metrics (CPU, memory, custom metrics) to maintain desired capacity.
What is the difference between a Security Group and a Network ACL?
Security Groups are stateful (instance-level), allow only allow rules, apply to ENIs. NACLs are stateless (subnet-level), support both allow/deny rules, evaluated in order.
Which storage service should you use for high-performance databases requiring consistent sub-millisecond latency?
Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL) for key-value/document data, or Amazon ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached) for in-memory caching with microsecond latency.
What does S3 Transfer Acceleration do and what is the underlying mechanism?
Transfer Acceleration uses CloudFront edge locations and optimized network paths to enable faster uploads to S3 by routing traffic through the nearest edge location instead of the origin region.
In a disaster recovery scenario, what is RPO and RTO, and which is more critical for failover design?
RPO (Recovery Point Objective) = acceptable data loss time; RTO (Recovery Time Objective) = acceptable downtime. RTO determines which DR strategy (backup/restore, pilot light, warm standby, multi-region) to implement.
How do you optimize costs for variable compute workloads while maintaining availability?
Use Auto Scaling groups with a mix of On-Demand instances (baseline) and Spot Instances (burst capacity), combined with Reserved Instances for predictable baseline load.
What architectural pattern ensures data consistency across multiple AWS regions for a global application?
Use DynamoDB Global Tables for multi-region replication with eventual consistency, or replicate RDS across regions with read replicas and promote on failover; application must handle eventual consistency.
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