AWS Flashcards

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Define acronym: EC2

A

Elastic Cloud Compute

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What is EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute)?

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VMs, Linux or Windows, computational brain behind app, not limited to a single region (availability zones)

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Define acronym: ELB

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Elastic Load Balance

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4
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What is ELB?

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Elastic Load Balance are the rules that allow traffic to be distributed between availability zones

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5
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Define acronym: EBS

A

Elastic Block Storage

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What is EBS (Elastic Block Storage)?

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Like a HD, stores persistent files and apps that are accessed often, 1GB to 1TB but must be located in same AZ

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Define acronym: S3

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Simple Storage Service

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What is S3 (Simple Storage Service)?

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public facing data, ex. new twitter profile pic, static content, videos, music

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9
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IaaS

A

Infrastructure as a Service

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10
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PaaS

A

Platform as a Service

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11
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SaaS

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Software as a Service

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12
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VPC

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Virtual Private Cloud

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13
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IAM

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Identity Access Management

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14
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ECR

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EC2 Container Registry

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15
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What is EC2 Container Registry?

A

fully-managed Docker container registry to store, manage, deploy Docker container images

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16
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What is Amazon Lightsail?

A

launch and manage virtual private server (VM, SSD storage, data transfer, DNS mgmt)

17
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What is AWS Batch?

A

easily and efficiently run 100s/1000s batch computing jobs

18
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What is Elastic Beanstalk?

A

deploying and scaling web apps and services with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, etc on Apache, Nginx, IIS, etc

19
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What is AWS Direct Connect?

A

establish dedicated network connection from premises to AWS using VLANs

20
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What is Route 53?

A

HA and scalable DNS

21
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What is CloudFront?

A

global content delivery network (CDN), accelerates delivery of web, APIs, video, web assets

22
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What is AWS Snowmobile?

A

exbyte-scale data transfer for extremely large data to AWS, up to 100 PB per Snowmobile, 45-foot shipping container by semi-trailer truck

23
Q

What is AWS Snowball Edge?

A

100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute

24
Q

What is AWS Snowball?

A

petabyte-scale data transport solution

25
Q

What is AWS Database Migration Service?

A

source db remains fully operational during migration

26
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What is AWS Application Discovery Service?

A

helps system integrators plan app migration projects by auto identifying apps in on-prem data centers, dependencies, and performance profiles

27
Q

What is Amazon ElastiCache?

A

web service easy to deploy and sacle in-memory cache for web apps

28
Q

What is Amazon DynamoDB?

A

NoSQL database, consistent single-digit millisecond latency for gaming, ad-tech, IoT

29
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What is Amazon Aurora?

A

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database

30
Q

What is AWS Storage Gateway?

A

enables hybrid storage between on-prem and AWS

31
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What is Amazon Glacier?

A

low-cost storage for archiving and long-term backup

32
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What is Elastic File System

A

simple, scalable file storage for EC2

33
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EFS

A

Elastic File System

34
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What is Elastic Block Store?

A

persistent block storage volumes for EC2, auto replication to AZs

35
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EBS

A

Elastic Block Store

36
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What is AWS Lambda?

A

run code without provisioning or managing servers. pay only for time you consume, no charge when code not running