Appendix Flashcards
Amazon Athena
A serverless, interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL
Amazon OpenSearch Service (ES)
Makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale Elasticsearch for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring and many more use cases
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
Simplifies running Hadoop and related big data applications on AWS
AWS Glue
A serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare and combine data for analytics, machine learning and application development
Amazon Kinesis
Platform for streaming data on AWS that makes it easy to load and analyze streaming data
Amazon QuickSight
A scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud
AWS Budgets
Gives the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Offers a secure, durable and available hosted queue that lets you integrate and decouple distributed software systems and components
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
Managed service that provides message delivery from publishers to subscribers (also known as producers and consumers). Publishers communicate asynchronously with subscribers by sending messages to a topic, which is a logical access point and communication channel
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
A web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
An easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with various programming languages and technologies
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
A fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy Docker container images
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Makes it easy to deploy, manage and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses
AWS Fargate
A compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters
AWS Lambda
Lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers
Amazon Aurora
A MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases
Amazon DynamoDB
A key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. A fully managed, multiregion, multimaster database with built-in security, backup and restore and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications
Amazon Elasticache
A web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Makes it easy to set up, operate and scale a relational database in the cloud
Amazon Redshift
The most widely used cloud data warehouse, makes fast, simple and cost effective solutions to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing BI tools
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Helps you maintain application availability and allows you to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions you define
AWS Backup
Enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services
AWS CloudFormation
Gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion
AWS CloudTrail
A web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you
Amazon CloudWatch
A monitoring and management service built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE) and IT managers. Provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, understand and respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization and get a unified view of operational health
AWS Config
A fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance
Amazon EventBridge
A serverless event bus that makes it easier to build event-driven applications at scale using events generated from your applications, integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and AWS services
AWS Organizations
Helps you centrally manage and govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources. Programmatically create new AWS accounts and allocate resources, group accounts to organize your workflows, apply policies to accounts or groups for governance, and simplify billing by using a single payment method for all your accounts
AWS Resource Access Manager
Helps you securely share you resources across AWS accounts, within your organization or organizational units (OUs) in AWS Organizations and with IAM roles and IAM users for supported resource types
AWS Systems Manager
Gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS. Provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources
AWS Trusted Advisor
An online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment. Provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices
AWS Database Migration Service
Helps you migrate databases to AWS easily and securely. Source database remains fully operational during migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database
AWS DataSync
A data transfer service that makes it easy for you to automate moving data between on premises storage and Amazon S3 or Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS). Automatically handles many tasks related to data transfers that can slow down migrations or burden IT operations
AWS Migration Hub
Provides a single location to track the progress of application migrations across multiple AWS and partner solutions. Allows you to choose the AWS and partner migration tools that best fit your needs, while providing visibility into the status of migrations across your portfolio of applications
AWS Server Migration Service (SMS)
An agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. Automate, schedule and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for large-scale migrations
AWS Snowball
An edge computing, data migration and edge storage device that comes in two options
AWS Transfer Family
Provides fully managed support for file transfers directly into and out of Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS with support for SFTP, FTPS, FTP
Amazon API Gateway
A fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor and secure APIs at any scale
Amazon CloudFront
A fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer friendly environment
Amazon Route 53
A highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Designed to give developers and business a reliable, cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating human readable names into numeric IP addresses
AWS Direct Connect
Makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Establish private connectivity between AWS and your data center, office or co-location environment
AWS Global Accelerator
A networking service that improves the availability and performance of the applications that you offer to your global users
AWS Transit Gateway
A service that enables customers to connect their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPCs) and their on-premises networks to a single gateway
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define
AWS Certificate Manager
A service that lets you easily provision, manage and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources
AWS Directory Service
Also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD; enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud
Amazon GuardDuty
A threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads. Monitors for activity such as unusual API calls or potentially unauthorized deployments, etc.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups and use permissions to allow and deny their access to resources
Amazon Inspector
An automated security assessment service that helps improve security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS
AWS Key Management Service
Makes it easy for you to create and manage keys and control the use of encryption across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications. It is also integrated with AWS CloudTrail to provide you with logs of all key usage to help meet regulatory and compliance
Amazon Macie
A security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify and protect sensitive data in AWS. Recognizes sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property
AWS Secrets Manager
Helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services and IT resources. Enables you to easily rotate, manage and retrieve database credentials, API and other secrets throughout their lifecycle
AWS Shield
A managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. Provides you with always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency
AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)
A cloud SSO service that makes it easy to centrally manage SSO access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications
AWS WAF
A web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security or consume excessive resources
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Each EBS volume is automatically replicated within its AZ to protect you from component failure, offering high availability and durability
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Provides a simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. Built to scale on demand
Amazon FSx
A fully managed file system that is optimized for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing, machine learning and media data processing workflows
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
An object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security and performance
Amazon S3 Glacier
A secure, durable and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability and provides comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements
AWS Storage Gateway
A hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage. You can use the service for backup and archiving, disaster recovery, cloud data processing, storage tiering and migration
