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 service is commonly used in a serverless architecture.
Amazon Elastic Container Service
Service that enables you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on AWS.
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Service that enables you to run Kubernetes in the AWS cloud. You would utilize this if you had a specific need to
AWS Fargate
Compute engine that works with both ECS and EKS. It is serverless and has a pay-for-what-you-use pricing This service is commonly used in a serverless architecture for container applications.
AWS App Runner
Service that enables you to build and run containerized web application without any prior container or infrastructure experience.
Amazon Route 53
Highly-available AWS Domain Name Service (DNS) service that can be leveraged in creating highly available DNS services. This is a global service, and it can be used in a hybrid cloud architecture.
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 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. This is a global service.
AWS Global Accelerator
AWS networking service that routes your traffic through the AWS global network, increasing the overall speed
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
Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to access.
Instant Retrieval – archive storage for data you don’t plan to access but can be retrieved in milliseconds
Flexible Retrieval – archive storage for data you don’t plan to access but can be retrieved in minutes to hours
Deep Archive – lowest cost archive storage for rarely accessed data which can be retrieved within 12 hours
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. This service can be used in a hybrid cloud architecture.
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. This service can assist in data migration into the cloud from your data center.
AWS Snowmobile
Exabyte scale data transfer service where a ruggedized shipping container is sent to your office then loaded into Amazon S3. This service can assist in data migration into the cloud from your data center.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Managed pub/sub (publish / subscribe) messaging service. This can enable fan-out architecture with one message triggering multiple actions. This service is commonly used in a serverless architecture.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Managed message queue service. This can enable fault tolerant and serverless applications. This supports standard and FIFO queues. This service is commonly used in a serverless architecture.
AWS Step Functions
Manages the orchestration of complex workflows which are defined using Amazon States Language. It can be leveraged in a serverless architecture. This service is commonly used 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. 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.
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
Managed service for relational databases including support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL 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. This service is commonly used in a serverless architecture.
Amazon DynamoDB
Fully managed NoSQL database service that has extremely low latency and scaling based on configuration. This service is commonly used in a serverless architecture.
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
Service that enables you to move your data (from popular commercial and open source databases) easily This service can assist in data migration into the cloud from your data center.
Amazon DocumentDB
Document database with MongoDB compatibility. You would leverage this if you needed to support a MongoDB Database in AWS
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
In-memory database that is Redis-compatible and provides very low latency.
Amazon Neptune
Service that provides a graph database on AWS. Graph databases are ideal for storing connections between items, such as social network connections.
Amazon Timestream
Database service that enables you to store data that is time-based. A simple example of this type of data would to be stored at the specific time when a reading took place. This service can be used in a serverless architecture.
Amazon WorkSpaces
Provides a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution.
AWS Kinesis
Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information. Includes Data Streams, Data Firehose, Data Analytics, and Video Streams
Amazon Lightsail
Lightsail includes the features developers need to launch projects: instances (virtual private servers), managed databases, object storage, load balancers, content delivery network (CDN) distributions, SSD-based block storage, static IP addresses, domain registration, DNS management, and snapshots (backups). These features are all available for a low, predictable monthly price.
AWS X-Ray
Analyze and debug your applications.
