Additional Services Flashcards
AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)
Allows customers to share resources between multiple AWS accounts
AWS Firewall Manager
Makes it possible to manage VPC security groups, AWS Shield Advanced and WAF rules on one platform even across multiple AWS accounts
Athena
Uses SQL queries to find data stored in S3
AWS Backup
Lets you centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for all of your data
AWS Glue
AWS Glue can discover, clean, and bring data together in one place for analysis using the Apache Spark big data framework.
Batch
Allows you to run thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS without having to build any infrastructure (uses Docker)
Cognito
Lets you add user access control to your application (integrates with many providers such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Active Directory)
Elastic File System (EFS)
A SCALABLE file system for Linux instances (multiple instances can even share one EFS volume)
Inspector
Analyzes your EC2 instances for security vulnerabilities and common misconfigurations
Kinesis
Processes large amounts of data in real time (useful for analyzing streaming data like video, audio, and access logs)
Macie
Macie automatically finds and classifies sensitive data stored in AWS. It uses machine learning to recognize sensitive data such as personally identifiable information or trade secrets and shows you how that data is being used in AWS.
Neptune
A graph database that you can use to store and query highly connected data sets (useful for recommendation engines, social networks, fraud detection, etc…)
Simple Queue Service (SQS)
SQS is a message broker that different components of your application can use to send messages to each other.
WorkDocs
WorkDocs is a secure content sharing and collaboration service.
WorkSpaces
Workspaces lets you provision Linux or Windows virtual desktops in the cloud.
