AWS Core Services Flashcards

1
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Service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers on AWS

A

Amazon EC2

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2
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Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and services across a specific list of technologies

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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3
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Service that enables you to use compute resources without having to launch or manage the underlying infrastructure - this is leveraged in serverless architectures

A

AWS Lambda

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4
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Highly-available AWS Domain Name Service (DNS) service that can be leveraged in creating highly available and fault tolerant applications. This is a global service.

A

Amazon Route 53

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5
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Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define

A

Amazon VPC

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6
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Cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your data center to AWS

A

AWS Direct Connect

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7
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Fully managed API management service that handles concepts like authentication, logging, and throttling for your API layer

A

Amazon API Gateway

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8
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Amazon‘s global Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that enables your users to get content from a server that is closest to them

A

Amazon CloudFront

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9
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Service that enables you to distribute traffic across multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, Lambda).

A

Elastic Load Balancing

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10
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Service that provides object storage for objects up to 5 TB in size - with no limit on the total storage

A

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

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11
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Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to access.

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S3 Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive

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12
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Persistent block storage designed for use with a single EC2 server. It can scale to support petabytes of data and supports different volume types.

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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13
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Fully managed NFS file system designed for Linux workloads with support for petabytes of data

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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

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14
Q

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

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AWS Snowball

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15
Q

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

A

AWS Snowmobile

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16
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Managed pub/sub (publish / subscribe) messaging service. This can enable fan-out architecture with one message triggering multiple actions.

A

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

17
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Managed message queue service. This can enable fault tolerant and serverless applications. This supports standard and FIFO (first-in first-out) queues.

A

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

18
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Manages the orchestration of complex workflows which are defined using Amazon States Language. It can be leveraged in a serverless architecture.

A

AWS Step Functions

19
Q

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

A

AWS CloudTrail

20
Q

Managed service for launching infrastructure based on templates

A

AWS CloudFormation

21
Q

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

A

Amazon CloudWatch

22
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Provides continual analysis of AWS resources to ensure they are meeting rules defined in the service

A

AWS Config

23
Q

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

A

AWS Systems Manager

24
Q

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

A

AWS Control Tower

25
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Managed service for relational databases including support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora

A

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

26
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MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database that was built for the cloud

A

Amazon Aurora

27
Q

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

A

Amazon DynamoDB

28
Q

Managed petabyte scale data warehousing solution on AWS. In addition, Redshift Spectrum support querying exabytes of data stored in Amazon S3.

A

Amazon Redshift

29
Q

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

A

Amazon Elasticache

30
Q

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

A

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)