AWS Core Services Flashcards
Amazon EC2
Service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers
on AWS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and
services across a specific list of technologies
AWS Lambda
Service that enables you to use compute resources
without having to launch or manage the underlying
infrastructure - this is leveraged in serverless
architectures
This service is commonly.* used in a serverless architecture.
Amazon Route 53
Highly-available AWS Domain Name Service (DNS)
service that can be leveraged in creating highly
available and fault tolerant applications.
Amazon VPC
Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you
can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you
define
AWS Direct Connect
Cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a
dedicated network connection from your data center to
AWS. This connection does not go over the public
Internet.
Amazon API Gateway
Fully managed API management service that handles
concepts like authentication, logging, and throttling for
your API layer
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon‘s global Content Delivery Network (CDN)
service that enables your users to get content from a
server that is closest to them.
AWS Global
Accelerator
AWS networking service that routes your traffic through
the AWS global network, increasing the overall speed
through optimizations by AWS.
Elastic Load Balancing
Service that enables you to distribute traffic across
multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, Lambda).
Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3)
Service that provides object storage for objects up to 5
TB in size - with no limit on the total storage
S3 Glacier and Glacier
Deep Archive
Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are
designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to
access.
Amazon Elastic Block
Store (EBS)
Persistent block storage designed for use with a single
EC2 server. It can scale to support petabytes of data and
supports different volume types.
Amazon Elastic File
System (EFS)
Fully managed NFS file system designed for Linux
workloads with support for petabytes of data
AWS Snowball
Petabyte scale data transfer service where a physical
device is delivered to your organization and returned by
a local carrier then loaded into Amazon S3
AWS Snowmobile
Exabyte scale data transfer service where a ruggedized
shipping container is sent to your office then loaded into
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple
Notification Service
(SNS)
Managed pub/sub (publish / subscribe) messaging
service. This can enable fan-out architecture with one
message triggering multiple actions.
Amazon Simple Queue
Service (SQS)
Managed message queue service. This can enable fault
tolerant and serverless applications. This supports
standard and FIFO (first-in first-out) queues.
AWS Step Functions
Manages the orchestration of complex workflows which
are defined using Amazon States Language. It can be
leveraged in a serverless architecture.
AWS CloudTrail
Service that provides audit trail for all services used in an
AWS account (across all interaction methods)
AWS CloudFormation
Managed service for launching infrastructure based on
templates. This approach is known as infrastructure as
code. CloudFormation also provides drift detection to
know when infrastructure has veered from what is
defined in the template
AWS OpsWorks
An infrastructure configuration management service
that provides a managed service for Chef and Puppet.
Amazon CloudWatch
Monitoring and management service that integrates
with most AWS services. It provides both metrics and
alarms based on those metrics as well as logs
AWS Config
Provides continual analysis of AWS resources to ensure
they are meeting rules defined in the service
AWS Systems Manager
Service that provides a collection of tools and insight
into operational data for central management of those
cloud or on-premise instances
AWS Control Tower
System that launches a multi-account configuration
based on AWS best practices
Amazon Relational
Database Service
(RDS)
Managed service for relational databases including
support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL
Server, and Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora
MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database engine for
RDS that was built for the cloud
Amazon Aurora
Serverless for RDS
An on-demand and auto-scaling version of Amazon
Aurora that does not require managing the underlying
infrastructure
Amazon DynamoDB
Fully managed NoSQL database service that has
extremely low latency and scaling based on
configuration.
Amazon Redshift
Managed petabyte scale data warehousing solution on
AWS
Amazon Redshift
Spectrum
Service for querying exabytes of data stored in Amazon
S3
Amazon Elasticache
Fully-managed in-memory data store that supports
memcached and Redis engines
AWS Database
Migration Service
(DMS)
Service that enables you to move your data (from
popular commercial and open source databases) easily
onto the cloud
