AWS Flashcards
Operational Excellence: (5)
Perform operations as code
Anticipate failure
Learn from all operational failures
Make frequent, small, reversible changes
Refine operations procedures frequently
Reliability: (5)
Scale horizontally
Stop guessing capacity
Test recovery procedures
Automatically recover from failure
Manage change in automation
Performance Efficiency: (5)
Democratize advanced technologies
Use serverless architectures
Go global in minutes
Experiment more often
Consider mechanical sympathy
Stores/secures encrypted credentials/passwords, eliminating the need to hard-code them for API calls
Secrets Manager
used to give your CloudFront distribution permission to fetch a private object from your origin server
Origin Access Identity
Connects VPCs and on-premises networks (Hub and Spoke)
Transit Gateway
Gather information about on-premises environment for migration
Application Discovery Service:
Moves large amounts of data from on-premises to AWS
Data Sync
ML-bases tool to recommend best compute solutions for a workload
Compute Optimizer:
One platform to manage VPC security groups, Shield, and WAF rules
Firewall manager:
Enables users to share AWS resources easily and securely.
Resource Access Manager:
Automates the set up and governance a secure and compliant multi-account AWS environment
Control tower:
Automates security checks across multiple accounts.
Security Hub
Allows for a single user’s password to seamlessly access many different machines/services (3rd party)
Active Directory (MS)
automated deployment for workloads via cloud formation templates
QuickStarts
allows you to set up and run popular in-memory data stores (high throughput/low latency (like Redis and Memcached)
Elasticache
Provides on-premises applications with access to unlimited cloud storage
Storage Gateway
For Site to site VPN (on premises side)
Customer Gateway
For Site to site VPN (VPC Subnet side)
Virtual Private Gateway
Centralized console for managing hybrid cloud environment
Systems Manager
Connects on-premises services to 1000s of VPCs
PrivateLink
Launches popular file systems like Windows and Lustre
FSx:
Uses SQL to process data from data streams
Kinesis Data Analytics:
Centralize and automatic backup of data
AWS Backup