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AWS Solutions Architect

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Essential AWS concepts for Solutions Architect certification: services, architecture, and cloud best practices

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  1. 1What does AWS stand for?
    Amazon Web Services
  2. 2What type of company is AWS?
    Subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs
  3. 3When was AWS founded for web services?
    July 2002
  4. 4When did AWS launch cloud computing services?
    March 2006
  5. 5Who is the CEO of AWS as of 2024?
    Matt Garman
  6. 6What was AWS's revenue in 2025?
    $128.7 billion
  7. 7What was AWS's operating income in 2025?
    $45.6 billion
  8. 8What is AWS's market share for cloud infrastructure (2023 Q1)?
    31%
  9. 9What is Microsoft Azure's market share?
    25%
  10. 10What is Google Cloud's market share?
    11%
  11. 11What is EC2?
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud - allows users to have virtual clusters of computers with high availability
  12. 12What does S3 stand for?
    Amazon Simple Storage Service
  13. 13What is AWS Lambda?
    A serverless function that can perform arbitrary code triggered by hundreds of events including HTTP calls
  14. 14What is autoscaling?
    A process that allows clients to use more computing during high application usage and scale down to reduce costs when traffic is lower
  15. 15What is the AWS pricing model called?
    Pay-as-you-go
  16. 16What protocol are AWS APIs accessed over?
    HTTP using REST architectural style and SOAP for older APIs, JSON for newer ones
  17. 17When was Amazon S3 launched?
    March 14, 2006
  18. 18When was EC2 launched?
    August 2006
  19. 19What was the first AWS infrastructure service for public usage?
    Simple Queue Service (SQS) in November 2004
  20. 20Who was the first CEO of AWS?
    Andy Jassy
  21. 21What is the annual AWS conference called?
    re:Invent
  22. 22When was the first re:Invent conference held?
    November 27, 2012
  23. 23Where is re:Invent held?
    Las Vegas
  24. 24When did AWS launch its certification program?
    April 30, 2013
  25. 25What is AWS Activate?
    Program launched in October 2013 for startups to leverage AWS credits, integrations, and expert access
  26. 26What is APN?
    AWS Partner Network, launched in 2014 to help AWS-based companies grow
  27. 27What Israeli company did AWS acquire in 2015?
    Annapurna Labs (microelectronics company)
  28. 28When did all of Amazon.com's retail sites migrate to AWS?
    November 2010
  29. 29What was AWS's first estimated revenue in 2012?
    Over $1.5 billion
  30. 30What did Netflix announce at 2012 re:Invent?
    Plans to migrate 100% of infrastructure to AWS

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