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4 questions in Deployment Diagrams.

  1. Deployment Diagrams intermediate Multiple choice

    An auditor asks what happens to your service if a single availability zone fails. Which diagram answers the question directly?

    3 min answer deploymentavailability zonesquorumresilience
  2. Deployment Diagrams intermediate

    What does a deployment diagram communicate that a container diagram cannot, and what is most often missing from it?

    2 min answer deployment-diagramtopologyfailure-domainscloudflare
  3. Deployment Diagrams intermediate Multiple choice

    What does a deployment diagram show that a container diagram cannot?

    2 min answer deploymentfailure-domainsredundancyblast-radius
  4. Deployment Diagrams intermediate

    Your deployment diagram shows three availability zones with every service replicated into each and a mesh spreading calls evenly across zones. Finance asks why network charges are $14k of a $90k monthly cloud bill. Estimate the cross-zone traffic implied by that number and say what you would annotate on the diagram.

    3 min answer deployment-diagramcross-zonecostannotation