AWS Compute Services Flashcards
Secure and resizable compute capacity (virtual servers) in the cloud
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Run fault-tolerant workloads for up to 90% off
Amazon EC2 Spot Instance
Automatically add or remove compute capacity to meet changes in demand
Amazon EC2 Autoscaling
Easy-to-use cloud platform that offers you everything you need to build an application or website
Amazon Lightsail
Fully managed batch processing at any scale
AWS Batch
Highly secure, reliable, and scalable way to run containers
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Run containers on customer-managed infrastructure
Amazon ECS Anywhere
Easily store, manage, and deploy container images
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Fully managed Kubernetes service
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Create and operate Kubernetes clusters on your own infrastructure
Amazon EKS Anywhere
Serverless compute for containers
AWS Fargate
A fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy
containerized web applications and APIs, at scale
AWS App Runner
Run code without thinking about servers. Pay only for the compute time you consume
AWS Lambda
Run AWS infrastructure and services on premises for a truly consistent hybrid experience
AWS Outposts
Collect and process data in rugged or disconnected edge environments
AWS Snow Family
Deliver ultra-low latency application for 5G devices
AWS Wavelength
Preferred service for all vSphere workloads to rapidly extend and migrate to the cloud
VMWare Cloud on AWS
Run latency sensitive applications closer to end-users
AWS Local Zones
Flexible pricing model that provides savings of up to 72% on AWS compute usage
AWS Savings Plan
Recommends optimal AWS compute resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance
AWS Compute Optimizer
Easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services
AWS Beanstalk
Build and maintain secure Linux or Windows Server images
EC2 Image Builder
Automatically distribute incoming application traffic across multiple targets
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale.
AWS SageMaker
Extract text and data from documents to make them more usable for your enterprise instead of them just being locked away in a repository.
Amazon Textract
What is an autonomous 1/18 scale race car that you can use to test reinforcement learning models?
AWS DeepRacer
Enabling connected devices to communicate all around the world.
Internet of Things (IoT)
Pay as you use satellite service
AWS Ground Station
What is a service that enables you to build conversational interfaces using voice and text?
Amazon Lex
A service that enables you to identify potentially fraudulent online activities.
Amazon Fraud Detector
Which service enables you to build the workflows that are required for human review of machine learning predictions?
Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I)
Automate the deployment of workloads into your AWS environment
AWS Quick Starts / Partner Solutions
A service that enables you to set up, manage, and scale a distributed in-memory or cache environment in the cloud
Amazon ElastiCache
A service that monitors your applications and automatically adds or removes capacity from your resource groups in response to changing demand
AWS Auto Scaling
A service that makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data
Amazon Kinesis
What is a cloud-based IDE that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser?
AWS Cloud9
What is a set of tools and frameworks that accelerate the development of mobile and web applications on AWS?
AWS Amplify
What is a service that makes it easy to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment based on industry best practices?
AWS Control Tower
What is a deployment service that automates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises instances, serverless Lambda functions, or Amazon ECS services?
AWS CodeDeploy
What is a fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories?
AWS CodeCommit
What is a software that lets you run local compute, messaging, data caching, sync, and ML inference capabilities on connected devices in a secure way?
AWS IoT Greengrass
Which channel shares a collection of offerings to help you achieve specific business outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption through paid engagements in several specialty practice areas?
AWS Professional Services
Which service is designed to allow U.S. government agencies and customers to move sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements?
AWS GovCloud
What service lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources?
AWS Certificate Manager
What is an server-less, interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL?
Amazon Athena
What is a managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application?
Amazon CloudSearch
What is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto?
Amazon EMR
What is a data management and analytics service purpose-built for the financial services industry (FSI)?
Amazon FinSpace
What is a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy for you to deliver insights to everyone in your organization?
Amazon QuickSight
What is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics?
AWS Glue
What is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days?
AWS Lake Formation
What is a fully managed service that makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows?
AWS Step Functions
Serverless compute for containers
AWS Fargate
A command-line tool for modernizing .NET and Java applications into containerized applications.
AWS App2Container (A2C)
What is a fast, scalable, fully managed time series database service for IoT and operational applications that makes it easy to store and analyze trillions of events per day at 1/10th the cost of relational databases?
Amazon Timestream
What is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK)?
Amazon Correto
What is a browser-based shell that makes it easy to securely manage, explore, and interact with your AWS resources?
AWS CloudShell
Enables you to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS. Provides a unified user interface, enabling you to easily manage your software development activities in one place.
AWS CodeStar
Fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates
AWS CodePipeline
Helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications in production or under development, such as those built using a microservices architecture.
Amazon X-Ray
Centrally manage your desktop applications and securely deliver them to any computer.
Amazon AppStream 2.0
Fully managed, secure cloud desktop service
Amazon WorkSpaces
Fully managed service that lets you provide your employees with secure, easy access to your internal corporate websites and web apps using their mobile phones
Amazon WorkLink
An app testing service that lets you test and interact with your Android, iOS, and web apps on many devices at once, or reproduce issues on a device in real time
AWS Device Farm
A serverless back-end for mobile, web, and enterprise applications.
AWS AppSync
A configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.
AWS OpsWorks
First fully managed delivery service for container and serverless applications.
AWS Proton
Makes it easy to monitor and control microservices running on AWS.
AWS App Mesh
Define custom names for your application resources, and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically changing resources.
AWS Cloud Map
Improves application availability by continuously monitoring the health of your application endpoints and routing traffic to the closest healthy endpoints.
AWS Global Accelerator
Simplifies the security of data shared with cloud-based applications by eliminating
the exposure of data to the public Internet
AWS PrivateLink
Establish secure connections between your on-premises networks, remote offices, client devices, and the AWS global network
AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Create and manage a single connection from the central gateway in to each Amazon VPC, on-premises data center, or remote office across your network.
AWS Transit Gateway
Fully managed quantum computing service that helps researchers and developers get started with the technology to accelerate research and discover
AWS Braket
A service that makes it easy to develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale
AWS RoboMaker
Lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily.
Amazon Cognito
Automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build a linked set of data that enables you to easily conduct faster and more efficient security investigations.
Amazon Detective
A threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads.
Amazon GuardDuty
An automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.
Amazon Inspector
A developer tool that provides intelligent recommendations to improve code
quality and identify an application’s most expensive lines of code.
AWS CodeGuru
Offers architecture and scaling guidance and operational support during the preparation and execution of planned events, such as shopping holidays, product launches, and migrations.
Infrastructure Event Management (IEM)
Automation runbooks written and maintained by the AWS Support team. These runbooks help you troubleshoot common issues with your AWS resources, proactively monitor and identify network issues, collect and analyze logs, and more.
Support Automation Workflows
One of the features of Amazon Aurora that allows you to easily undo mistakes on your database.
Amazon Aurora Backtrack
Which type of Elastic Load Balancer supports path-based routing, host-based routing, and bi-directional communication channels using WebSockets?
Application Load Balancer
A tool that minimizes downtime and data loss by providing fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS Cloud.
CloudEndure
Is associated with the access keys that are used in managing your cloud resources via the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?
IAM User
What should you provide to your developers to allow them to access your AWS services through the AWS CLI?
Access Keys
Which service provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services?
AWS CloudTrail
Which of the following allows you to categorize and track your AWS costs on a detailed level?
Cost allocation tags
A customer currently has a Basic support plan and they are planning to use the Infrastructure Event Management, Well-Architected Reviews and Operations Reviews features in AWS. What should they do in order to access these features in the most cost-effective manner?
Upgrade to Enterprise support Plan
In Amazon EC2, which pricing construct adjusts its price based on supply and demand of EC2 instances?
Spot Instance
Will transferring EC2 files between two AWS Regions incur charges?
Yes, AWS charges you for data transferred between two different Regions. This is similar to the costs incurred from the data transfer between the AWS network and the public internet.
What cloud best practice reinforces the use of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) design principle?
Decoupling components / loosely-coupled architecture
Allows you to upload a single object as a set of parts
Multipart upload
AWS’s digital user engagement service that enables AWS customers to effectively communicate with their end users and measure user engagement across multiple channels including email, Text Messaging (SMS) and Mobile Push Notifications.
Amazon Pinpoint
True or False? When you create a trail in the AWS Management Console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions by default
True
What feature will allow you to label and sort your EC2 instances according to their deployment stage (development, staging, production)?
Instance tags
You noticed that you cannot reach one of your EC2 web servers behind an ELB whenever you enter the DNS name of your load balancer. What should you first check to gain more insight on the issue?
ELB Health Check
Allows you to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources.
AWS Systems Manager
Right or Wrong? You should use your root account to administer your account.
Wrong. You should instead create an IAM user with administrative privileges that will be used as the administrator of your AWS account.
In implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) in your cloud architecture, which service will make it easy for you to set up your entire development and continuous delivery toolchain for coding, building, testing, and deploying your application code?
AWS CodeStar
What is the lowest support plan that allows an unlimited number of technical support cases to be opened?
Developer Support Plan
What AWS service can monitor the compliance status of your AWS resources against a set of compliance guidelines?
AWS Config
Simplifies contact center operations, improves agent efficiency, lowers costs, and can scale to support millions of customers.
Amazon Connect
A highly scalable and cost-effective service for sending and receiving emails.
AWS SES
Creates a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS cloud resources.
AWS Site-to-Site VPN
Makes it easy and cost-effective to launch and run popular file systems.
Examples are:
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
Amazon FSx for Lustre
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS)
Amazon FSx