- AWS provides the root or system privileges only for a limited set of services, which includes
- Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
- Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
- Elastic BeanStalk
- Opswork
- AWS does not provide root privileges for managed services like RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Glacier etc
- For RDS, if you need Admin privileges or want to use features not enabled by RDS, you can go with the Database on EC2 approach
Sample Exam Questions
- Which services allow the customer to retain full administrative privileges of the underlying EC2 instances? Choose 2 answers
- Amazon Elastic Map Reduce
- Elastic Load Balancing
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon Relational Database service
- Which for the services provide root access
- Elastic Beanstalk
- EC2
- Opswork
- DynamoDb
- RDS
- S3
- A client application requires operating system privileges on a relational database server. What is an appropriate configuration for highly available database architecture?
- A standalone Amazon EC2 instance
- Amazon RDS in a Multi-AZ configuration
- Amazon EC2 instances in a replication configuration utilizing a single Availability Zone
- Amazon EC2 instances in a replication configuration utilizing two different Availability Zones