AWS Core Services

Question 1

Amazon EC2

Answer 1

Service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers
on AWS

Question 2

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 2

Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and
services across a specific list of technologies

Question 3

AWS Lambda

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Amazon Route 53

Answer 4

Highly-available AWS Domain Name Service (DNS)
service that can be leveraged in creating highly
available and fault tolerant applications.

Question 5

Amazon VPC

Answer 5

Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you
can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you
define

Question 6

AWS Direct Connect

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

Amazon API Gateway

Answer 7

Fully managed API management service that handles
concepts like authentication, logging, and throttling for
your API layer

Question 8

Amazon CloudFront

Answer 8

Amazon‘s global Content Delivery Network (CDN)
service that enables your users to get content from a
server that is closest to them.

Question 9

AWS Global
Accelerator

Answer 9

AWS networking service that routes your traffic through
the AWS global network, increasing the overall speed
through optimizations by AWS.

Question 10

Elastic Load Balancing

Answer 10

Service that enables you to distribute traffic across
multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, Lambda).

Question 11

Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3)

Answer 11

Service that provides object storage for objects up to 5
TB in size - with no limit on the total storage

Question 12

S3 Glacier and Glacier
Deep Archive

Answer 12

Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are
designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to
access.

Question 13

Amazon Elastic Block
Store (EBS)

Answer 13

Persistent block storage designed for use with a single
EC2 server. It can scale to support petabytes of data and
supports different volume types.

Question 14

Amazon Elastic File
System (EFS)

Answer 14

Fully managed NFS file system designed for Linux
workloads with support for petabytes of data

Question 15

AWS Snowball

Answer 15

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

Question 16

AWS Snowmobile

Answer 16

Exabyte scale data transfer service where a ruggedized
shipping container is sent to your office then loaded into
Amazon S3

Question 17

Amazon Simple
Notification Service
(SNS)

Answer 17

Managed pub/sub (publish / subscribe) messaging
service. This can enable fan-out architecture with one
message triggering multiple actions.

Question 18

Amazon Simple Queue
Service (SQS)

Answer 18

Managed message queue service. This can enable fault
tolerant and serverless applications. This supports
standard and FIFO (first-in first-out) queues.

Question 19

AWS Step Functions

Answer 19

Manages the orchestration of complex workflows which
are defined using Amazon States Language. It can be
leveraged in a serverless architecture.

Question 20

AWS CloudTrail

Answer 20

Service that provides audit trail for all services used in an
AWS account (across all interaction methods)

Question 21

AWS CloudFormation

Answer 21

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

Question 22

AWS OpsWorks

Answer 22

An infrastructure configuration management service
that provides a managed service for Chef and Puppet.

Question 23

Amazon CloudWatch

Answer 23

Monitoring and management service that integrates
with most AWS services. It provides both metrics and
alarms based on those metrics as well as logs

Question 24

AWS Config

Answer 24

Provides continual analysis of AWS resources to ensure
they are meeting rules defined in the service

Question 25

AWS Systems Manager

Answer 25

Service that provides a collection of tools and insight
into operational data for central management of those
cloud or on-premise instances

Question 26

AWS Control Tower

Answer 26

System that launches a multi-account configuration
based on AWS best practices

Question 27

Amazon Relational
Database Service
(RDS)

Answer 27

Managed service for relational databases including
support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL
Server, and Amazon Aurora

Question 28

Amazon Aurora

Answer 28

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database engine for
RDS that was built for the cloud

Question 29

Amazon Aurora
Serverless for RDS

Answer 29

An on-demand and auto-scaling version of Amazon
Aurora that does not require managing the underlying
infrastructure

Question 30

Amazon DynamoDB

Answer 30

Fully managed NoSQL database service that has
extremely low latency and scaling based on
configuration.

Question 31

Amazon Redshift

Answer 31

Managed petabyte scale data warehousing solution on
AWS

Question 32

Amazon Redshift
Spectrum

Answer 32

Service for querying exabytes of data stored in Amazon
S3

Question 33

Amazon Elasticache

Answer 33

Fully-managed in-memory data store that supports
memcached and Redis engines

Question 34

AWS Database
Migration Service
(DMS)

Answer 34

Service that enables you to move your data (from
popular commercial and open source databases) easily
onto the cloud