AWS Flashcards

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Operational Excellence: (5)

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Perform operations as code
Anticipate failure
Learn from all operational failures
Make frequent, small, reversible changes
Refine operations procedures frequently

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Reliability: (5)

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Scale horizontally
Stop guessing capacity
Test recovery procedures
Automatically recover from failure
Manage change in automation

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Performance Efficiency: (5)

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Democratize advanced technologies
Use serverless architectures
Go global in minutes
Experiment more often
Consider mechanical sympathy

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Stores/secures encrypted credentials/passwords, eliminating the need to hard-code them for API calls

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Secrets Manager

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5
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used to give your CloudFront distribution permission to fetch a private object from your origin server

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Origin Access Identity

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Connects VPCs and on-premises networks (Hub and Spoke)

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Transit Gateway

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Gather information about on-premises environment for migration

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Application Discovery Service:

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Moves large amounts of data from on-premises to AWS

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Data Sync

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ML-bases tool to recommend best compute solutions for a workload

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Compute Optimizer:

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One platform to manage VPC security groups, Shield, and WAF rules

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Firewall manager:

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Enables users to share AWS resources easily and securely.

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Resource Access Manager:

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Automates the set up and governance a secure and compliant multi-account AWS environment

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Control tower:

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Automates security checks across multiple accounts.

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Security Hub

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Allows for a single user’s password to seamlessly access many different machines/services (3rd party)

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Active Directory (MS)

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15
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automated deployment for workloads via cloud formation templates

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QuickStarts

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allows you to set up and run popular in-memory data stores (high throughput/low latency (like Redis and Memcached)

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Elasticache

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Provides on-premises applications with access to unlimited cloud storage

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Storage Gateway

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18
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For Site to site VPN (on premises side)

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Customer Gateway

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19
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For Site to site VPN (VPC Subnet side)

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Virtual Private Gateway

20
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Centralized console for managing hybrid cloud environment

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Systems Manager

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Connects on-premises services to 1000s of VPCs

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PrivateLink

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Launches popular file systems like Windows and Lustre

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Uses SQL to process data from data streams

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Kinesis Data Analytics:

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Centralize and automatic backup of data

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AWS Backup

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Self-service contact/call center GUI
Connect
26
5G routing for application traffic to servers without leaving the telecommunications network.
Wavelength
27
Message broker service - facilities message brokers (Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ) that allows cross-platform exchange of information (sub for SNS, SQS)
MQ:
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Create/trigger a rule to perform scheduled tasks (CRON), or to react to events happening within your AWS accounts
EventBridge
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grants access to a specific resource(s)
Resource-based policy:
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used to restrict which services, resources, and API actions users/roles can use (in Organizations)
Service Control Policies:
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View/Manage your resource limits in a centralized location
Service Quotas (Service Limits):
32
built by solutions architects to help deploy popular technologies
AWS Quick Starts:
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visually coordinate the the assembly of application components and microservices
Step Function:
34
USB security key device using tap/touch
U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) Security Key:
35
in-memory cache that delivers fast read performance of DynamoDB tables
DAX:
36
provisioning rightsizing recommendations for EC2/auto scaling, EBS, and Lambda
Compute Optimizer:
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replicate data and scale automatically across regions (active/active)
Dynamo DB Global Tables:
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A service that creates temporary, limited-privileges credentials (when request is approved)
Security Token Service (STS)
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A way to extend Microsoft AD onto AWS
Directory Services
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Converts media files stored in S3 into the formats required by customer playback devices (phones, etc.)
Elastic Transcoder
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Store and sync data across mobile and web apps in real-time without a GraphQL server
AppSync
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Tools and services for developing and deploying scalable full stack web and mobile applications.
Amplify
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Application testing service - web and mobile apps against desktop browsers, real mobile devices, and tablets
Device Farm
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Scan and gather information about on-premises data centers and dependency mapping
Application Discovery Service
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Simplify migration by using lift-and-shift
Application migration service
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A scalable 2-way (outbound/inbound) marketing communications service
Pinpoint
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Allows you to download satellite data to your AWS VPC within seconds
Ground Station