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Acronyms Flashcards

1
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ARN

A

Amazon Resource Name

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EKS

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

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Grafana

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Open-source analytics and monitoring application

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Prometheus

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Open-source monitoring

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KMS

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Key Management Service
+ create/manage/control keys
- doesn’t store credentials

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6
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Secrets manager

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manage, retrieve, and rotate
database credentials, application credentials, OAuth tokens, API keys, and other secrets

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Amazon ECR

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Elastic Container Registry, stores Docker images
+scan on push (optional)

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CloudWatch

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Monitor Resources and applications realtime

Install EC2 agent to capture RAM
Compatible with SNS (and not SMS)

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Amazon MQ

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managed Message broker for ApacheMQ and RabbitMQ

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10
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AAWS Amplify

A

build full stack applications on AWS

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DynamoDB

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managed NoSQL
Can increase write capacity
24,000 read units per second and 3,300 writes
+ Autoscaling
DynamoDB streams can monitor DB and trigger lambda
Good for :
+Web session data
+ High-performance reads and writes for online transaction processing (OLTP)
+ Storing metadata for S3 objects

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DocumentDB

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Managed native JSON document database (MongoDB compatible)

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Keyspaces

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Managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database
+ scalable

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HSM

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hardware security modules (generate and store the encryption keys)

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AWS Security Hub

A

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) service
+ security best practice checks,
+ aggregates alerts,
+ automated remediation.

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SQS

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Simple Queue Service
+ Managed
+ Scales automatically
SQS dead-letter: Queue receiving messages that can’t be processed, great for debugging

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TTL

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Time To Live (used in DNS)

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AMI

A

Amazon Machine Images

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19
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Kendra

A

intelligent search service powered by machine learning.

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20
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EC2

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Can have roles attached
Instances:
C7g: High Compute
M6g: balanced
r6g: memory intensive application
T4g: burst CPU

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MSK

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Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka

22
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EFS

A

Amazon Elastic File System
elastic Network File Storage (NFS, SMB)

23
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EBS

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Amazon Elastic Block Store
block level storage volumes (no NFS, SMB)
Single AZ
Volumes:
SSD General Purpose
SSD Provisioned IOPS
HDD Throughput Optimized
HDD Cold

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Compute Optimiser

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Automate the collection of metrics for underutilized and underperforming compute instances

25
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Snow devices

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Snowball edge: 80TB
Snowcone: 8 TB (HDD) or 14(SSD)

26
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Neptune

A

Graph database

27
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Step Functions

A

low-code, visual workflow service
+serverless orchestration service that lets you integrate with AWS Lambda
+build distributed applications
+automate IT and business processes
+build data and machine learning pipelines

28
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Application Load Balancer

A
  • No static IP
29
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Network Load Balancer

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+ Static IP

30
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Gateways

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Storage:
+ NFS
+ SMB
+ integrate with an on-premises Active Directory.
Tape:
Volume:
+ Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)

31
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Aurora

A

mySQL and PostgreSQL
Failover by promoting replica or creating new primary

32
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Fargate

A

serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine
+ Elastic Container Service (ECS)
+ Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
ECS Fargate: Easiest transition to running containers in AWS. mimic what is currently running

33
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Pinpoint

A

marketing campaigns

34
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GuardDuty

A

Continuous threat detection service
+ malicious activity
+ detailed security findings

35
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Security Groups

A

+ Stateful
+ Instance level
+ New ones allow all outbound, no inbound
+ No deny rules
+ Quotas on their number

36
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Audit manager

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+ map your compliance
+ automated evidence collection

37
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Amazon Detective

A
  • No realtime (can’t scan for malicious activity)
38
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RDS

A

Database
Multi AZ failover by changing CNAME < 2min
Not serverless

39
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Route 53

A

Scalable DNS
+“AAAA”, “A” zone apex type to point to Application Load Balancer (ALB)

40
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SWF

A

Amazon Simple Workflow Service

41
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DMS

A

Database Migration Service
+ (CDC) Change data capture, replicates ongoing changes

42
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MGN

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Application Migration Service (MGN)
Automated lift-and-shift service

43
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Migration Hub

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  • Does not perform migration
    + View existing migration efforts
44
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SMS

A

Server Migration Service

45
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RTO and RPO

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Recovery Time Objective, Recovery Point Objective

46
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AppSync

A

Connect applications/services to data/events
+ GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs

47
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Personal Health Dashboard

A

Single place to learn about the availability and operations of AWS services

48
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EMR

A

Set of open-source big data applicatios.
+ DynamoDB load, query, join, import/export

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NACL

A

manage access to buckets and objects

50
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Amazon Inspector

A

Automated vulnerability management continually scans AWS workloads for :
+software vulnerabilities
+unintended network exposure.

51
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AWS Artifact

A

Compliance reports

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