AWS Connectivity Flashcards
What is a networking service that you can use to establish boundaries around your AWS resources?
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
What is a section of a VPC that can contain resources such as Amazon EC2 instances?
Subnet
What allows public traffic from the internet to access your VPC or a connection between a VPC and the internet?
Internet gateway
What is needed to access private resources on VPC?
Virtual private gateway
What is a service that enables you to establish a dedicated private connection between your data center and a VPC?
AWS Direct Connect
What is a unit of data sent over the internet or a network?
Packet
What is is a virtual firewall that controls and checks inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level?
Network Access Control List (NACL)
What is is a virtual firewall that controls and checks inbound and outbound traffic at the Amazon EC2 instance level?
Security Group
What is a type of packet filtering that remembers nothing and check packets that cross the subnet border each way: inbound and outbound?
Stateless packet filtering
What do you all a packet check remember previous decisions made for incoming packets?
Stateful packet filtering
What translates a web address to IP address?
Domain Name Service (DNS)
A section of a VPC in which you can group resources based on security or operational needs.
Subnet