AWS Flashcards
What is AWS?
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services
It’s a platform that provides:
- database storage
- secure cloud services
- offering to compute power
- content delivery
many other services
What is a S3 bucket in AWS?
A public cloud storage resource available in S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Amazon S3 buckets are similar to file folders, store objects, which consist of data and its descriptive metadata.
By default, S3 is not encrypted, you would need to enable server-side encryption in your object metadata when it’s uploaded.
What is Amazon EC2?
Amazon EC2 = Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
A web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.
“Launch applications when needed without upfront commitments.”
What is AWS Lambda?
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events & automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you.
You can use AWS Lambda to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security.
What is Amazon DynamoDB?
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. With DynamoDB, you can create database tables that can store and retrieve any amount of data, and serve any level of request traffic.
What is AWS API gateway?
Amazon API Gateway is an AWS service that enables developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
You can create APIs that access AWS or other web services, as well as data stored in the AWS Cloud.
