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AWS Cloud Flashcards

1
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A virtual server launched in AWS console

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Instance

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Negative Trust Advisor Checks

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A false negative - Ok Status (green check) or a False positive is an alert that was actually intentional.

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Identifies resource usage that’s approaching AWS Region or service limits.

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Service Limits

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Identifies any running resources that through poor configuration are unnecessary vulnerable to service disruption.

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Fault Tolerance

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Identifies any failures to use security best-practice configurations

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Security

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Identifies configuration settings that might be blocking performance improvements.

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Performance

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Identifies any resources that are running and costing you money but are either underutilized or inactive.

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Cost Optimization

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5 Categories of Trusted Advisors

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Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance and Service Limits

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Alerts users to the best practice compliance of their running account resources.

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Trusted Advisor

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10
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Frequently asked questions can be found here.

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AWS Knowledge Area

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Types of Documentations

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HTML (browser viewing), PDF (offline/printing); Kindle (ebook); GitHub (MarkDown Formatted)

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12
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Provides offerings/detailed guidance to achieve specific outcomes and work with 3rd party consultants from APN to help build your deployment.

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AWS Professional Services Organization

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Website or Application that’s still in the development stages.

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Non-production workload.

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14
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Large production deployments with global footprint that can’t afford downtime. $15K+ Access to TAM for 24/7 guidance/advice, 24/7 access to cloud engineer support & 15min response time for critical troubleshooting.

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Enterprise Plan

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Small Operations running relatively light production infrastructure. $100+, Response from cloud engineer via email, chat or phone within an hour. Less severe issues can take longer than 24 hours. 3rd party software.

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Business Plan

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Organizations still testing and planning deployments. For running nonproduction workloads. Cannot discuss specific problems with AWS Support, only general info during business hours. Limited trust advisor access.

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Developer Plan

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Can only contact in response to account related issues (bill payment)/Limited trust advisor access

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Basic Plan

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Support Plans Are

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Basic, Developer, Business & Enterprise

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Hub for accessing account administration, payment and tax status management, cost monitoring and cost control. The best place to get a quick summary of this months spend for your account.

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AWS Billing Dashboard

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20
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Centralize and manage the security and operations of multiple AWS accounts controlled by a single company through this. Also good when you give some operations to upstream vendors.

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AWS Organization

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21
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Only used to interact with billing tools. Used to track your account spending. To more effectively track and manage the source of account costs. Help you identify resources for the purpose of tracking your account spending.

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Cost Allocation Tags

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Identify the purpose and owner of a particular running resource. Help you understand and control deployment.

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Resource Tags

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23
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Represent a resource and its actions. Different types do different things.

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Tags

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24
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Virtualization and analysis of volumes of data.

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Amazon QuickSight

25
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Info on the full range of activity on your account. Resources running and how much they are costing you. Send in depth and ongoing CSV-formatted data to Redshift or QuickSight for analysis.

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Cost & Usage Reports

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Provides visualizations and graphs to more easily monitor historical and current costs.

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Cost Explorer

27
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Understand the status of any active EC2, RDS, Redshift or Elasticache reserve instances that you have.

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Reservation Budgets

28
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Track particular categories of resource consumption.

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Usage Budget

29
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Monitor costs being incurred against your account. Settings you can control are period, instance type and start and stop dates.

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Cost Budget

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Used to set alerts. Track a specified set of events, so that when a preset threshold is approached or passed, an alert or email is triggered. Allow you to design graphs within the browser interface to track your account spending.

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AWS Budget

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Only allowed to run 20 on demand & 20 reserved instances of EC2 m5 large at any time within a single AWS region. Region pricing varies. Most are adjustable.

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Service Limits

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Used to compare what your currently paying for on-premise servers with what the same workload would cost on AWS. Looks at server, storage, network and IT labor information.

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Total Cost of Ownership Calculator

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Understand what running any combination of AWS resources will cost you. To accurately model multi-tiered application stack pricing. Not all AWS services are included on this though.

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Simple Monthly Calculator

34
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Lets you run code in response to network triggers without having to worry about provisioning any underlying server infrastructure.

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Lambda

35
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Enterprise scale email service for organizations that send out large volumes of emails.

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Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

36
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A lost cost storage service that’s ideal for long term storage/not quick access to data.

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Glacier

37
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Used to track resource performance and costs.

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CloudWatch

38
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Allow users and applications to connect with mobile and web-based resources.

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APIs (application programming interface)

39
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Manage your organization’s application programming interfaces (APIs).

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API Gateway

40
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Content delivery network that you use to serve cached copies of your content to remote users at low latency rates.

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CloudFront

41
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Service for storing and managing Docker container images.

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Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

42
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Used as the primary data drives for EC2 instances.

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Elastic Block Storage Volumes (EBS)

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Permanently Free Services

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10 alarms on CloudWatch and 10 custom monitoring metrics. 10GB of stored objects on Amazon Glacier and 62,000 outbound emails on Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES). 1 million requests & 3.2 million seconds of compute time for Lambda functions.

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Free Tier Services

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12 months free. Run low-powered EC2 and RDS instances. Run r2.micro instances. 750 hours/month without being billed. Use 5 GB of S3 Storage Capacity. 30 GB of EBS Volumes. 500MB/month of free storage on ECR. 50 GB of outbound data transfers (annually) and 2 million (annually) HTTP or HTTPS requests for CloudFront. 1 million API calls/month on API Gateway.

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Configured to force compliance with your budget and application needs. Handles the start ups and shut downs to optimize performance in between those limits.

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Auto Scaling

46
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Allows applications to grow to meet need. Automatically grow in capacity to meet any changes in demand. The ability of an application to automatically add preconfigured compute resources to meet increasing demand.

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Scalability

47
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Matches compute power to both rising and falling demand. Services that are built to be easily and automatically resized.

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Elasticity

48
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Logically partitioning physical compute and storage devices into multiple smaller virtual devices.

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Server Virtualization

49
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Makes it possible to design code that reacts to external events) let developers run code on cloud servers. Customers are aware their code and the network events that trigger it.

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Serverless architectures/Virtualization

50
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Service provided over a public network directly to end users. Ex: Google’s Gmail Service

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Software As A Service (SaaS)

51
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Service that abstracts the underlying infrastructure, providing a specialized interphase for you to add your application code. Masks Complexity. Ex: Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic Container Service (ECS).

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Platform As A Service (PaaS)

52
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Service that gives you direct control over underlying compute and storage resources. Provides full access.near-full control over virtualized hardware resources. Ex: Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) for virtual machine instances, Elastic Block Store (EBS) for storage volumes and Elastic Load Balancing.

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Infrastructure As A Service (laaS)

53
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Software used to administrate virtualized resources run on physical infrastructure. Common technology for hosting VMs.

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Hypervisor

54
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2 Benefits of Virtualization Model

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  1. Speed 2. Efficiency
55
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Includes a specialized processor speed, capacity and storage size.

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Virtual Machine (VM)

56
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On demand computing resources

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Virtualization

57
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Pay As You Go

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Operating Expense (Capex)

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On-premise infrastructure tends to be more this heavy since you need to purchase loads of expensive hardware upfront. Cloud Operations involve virtually none of these costs.

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Capital Expense (Capex)

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