AWS Core Services-Services List Flashcards

1
Q

Service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers on AWS.

A

Amazon EC2

[COMPUTE SERVICES]

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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

A

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

[COMPUTE SERVICES]

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3
Q

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.

A

AWS Lambda

[COMPUTE SERVICES]

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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, and it can be used in a hybrid cloud architecture.

A

Amazon Route 53

[CONTENT AND NETWORK DELIVERY SERVICES}

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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

[CONTENT AND NETWORK DELIVERY SERVICES]

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6
Q

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.

A

AWS Direct Connect

[CONTENT AND NETWORK DELIVERY SERVICES]

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7
Q

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

A

Amazon API Gateway

[CONTENT AND NETWORK DELIVERY SERVICES]

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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.

This is a global service.

A

Amazon CloudFront

[CONTENT AND NETWORK DELIVERY SERVICES]

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9
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AWS networking service that routes your traffic through the AWS global network, increasing the overall speed through optimizations by AWS.

A

AWS Global Accelerator

[CONTENT AND NETWORK DELIVERY SERVICES]

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10
Q

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

A

Elastic Load Balancing

[CONTENT AND NETWORK DELIVERY SERVICES]

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11
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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) Service that provides object storage for objects up to 5 TB in size - with no limit on the total storage

[FILE STORAGE AND DATA TRANSFER SERVICES]

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12
Q

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

A

S3 Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive

[FILE STORAGE AND DATA TRANSFER SERVICES]

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13
Q

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

A

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

[FILE STORAGE AND DATA TRANSFER SERVICES]

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14
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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

A

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

[FILE STORAGE AND DATA TRANSFER SERVICES]

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15
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

This service can assist in data migration into the cloud from your data center.

A

AWS Snowball

[FILE STORAGE AND DATA TRANSFER SERVICES]

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16
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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.

A

AWS Snowmobile

[FILE STORAGE AND DATA TRANSFER SERVICES]

17
Q

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.

A

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

[APP INTEGRATION SERVICES]

18
Q

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

This service is commonly used in a serverless
architecture.

A

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

[APP INTEGRATION SERVICES]

19
Q

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.

A

AWS Step Functions

[APP INTEGRATION SERVICES]

20
Q

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

A

AWS CloudTrail

[MANAGEMENT & GOVERNANCE SERVICES]

21
Q

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.

A

AWS CloudFormation

[MANAGEMENT & GOVERNANCE SERVICES]

22
Q

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

A

AWS OpsWorks

[MANAGEMENT & GOVERNANCE SERVICES]

23
Q

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

A

Amazon CloudWatch

[MANAGEMENT & GOVERNANCE SERVICES]

24
Q

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

A

AWS Config

[MANAGEMENT & GOVERNANCE SERVICES]

25
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

[MANAGEMENT & GOVERNANCE SERVICES]

26
Q

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

A

AWS Control Tower

[MANAGEMENT & GOVERNANCE SERVICES]

27
Q

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

A

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

[DATABASE SERVICES & UTILITIES]

28
Q

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

A

Amazon Aurora

[DATABASE SERVICES & UTILITIES]

29
Q

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.

A

Amazon Aurora Serverless for RDS

[DATABASE SERVICES & UTILITIES]

30
Q

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

This service is commonly used in a serverless
architecture.

A

Amazon DynamoDB

[DATABASE SERVICES & UTILITIES]

31
Q

Managed petabyte scale data warehousing solution on AWS

A

Amazon Redshift

[DATABASE SERVICES & UTILITIES]

32
Q

Service for querying exabytes of data stored in Amazon S3

A

Amazon Redshift Spectrum

[DATABASE SERVICES & UTILITIES]

33
Q

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

A

Amazon Elasticache

[DATABASE SERVICES & UTILITIES]

34
Q

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

This service can assist in data migration into the cloud from your data center.

A

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

[DATABASE SERVICES & UTILITIES]