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AWS Key Services - "Technology" 36% Flashcards

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What are the key features of the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud “VPC”?

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lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.

You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.

customize the network configuration

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What are the key features of AWS Direct Connect?

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Used to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.

Can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.

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What are the key features of EC2?

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A web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers

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What are the key features of Auto Scaling?

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Monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.

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What are the key features of the EC2 Dedicated Hosts?

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A physical server with EC2 instance capacity fully dedicated to your use.

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What are the key features of Elastic Block Store?

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A block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale

Designed for mission-critical systems, EBS volumes are replicated within an Availability Zone (AZ) and can easily scale to petabytes of data

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What is Elastic Beanstalk?

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-Used for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed
(with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.)

-Upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment

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What is Elastic Load Balancing?

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A service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones.

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What is Amazon CloudFront?

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a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds,

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What is Amazon Route 53?

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A cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service.

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What is AWS Shield?

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a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.

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What is Amazon WAF?

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a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.

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What is Amazon S3?

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An object storage service.

Designed for 99.999999999% (11 9’s) of durability.

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What is AWS Snowball?

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A petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses devices designed to be secure to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud.

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What is Amazon S3 Glacier & S3 Glacier Deep Archive?

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Amazon S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive are a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage classes for data archiving and long-term backup.

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What is Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

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Used to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.

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What is Amazon RDS Aurora?

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a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud.

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What is Amazon DynamoDB?

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Key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.

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What is Amazon Redshift?

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Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. You can upload your data set and then perform data analysis queries.

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What is AWS DMS (Data Migration Services)?

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Helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely.

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What is Amazon EMR?

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A cloud-native big data platform, allowing teams to process vast amounts of data quickly, and cost-effectively at scale

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What is AWS CloudTrail?

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A service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account. With CloudTrail, you can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure.

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What is Amazon Elastic Search Service?

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A fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and operate Elasticsearch at scale with zero down time.

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What is Amazon CloudWatch?

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A monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health.

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What is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose?

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Used to load streaming data into data lakes, data stores and analytics tools.

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What is AWS Lambda?

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A service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume - there is no charge when your code is not running.

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What is AWS Cloud​Formation?

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A service that provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment. CloudFormation allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts.

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What is the AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculators?

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TCO calculators allow you to estimate the cost savings when using AWS and provide a detailed set of reports that can be used in executive presentations.

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What is the AWS Cost Explorer?

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AWS Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

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What is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely.

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What is AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?

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AWS Key Management Service (KMS) makes it easy for you to create and manage keys and control the use of encryption across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications.

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What is Amazon Cognito?

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Amazon Cognito provides authentication, authorization, and user management for your web and mobile apps. Add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily.

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What is the AWS Finance Team?

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This team provides data driven analysis, strategic decision support, financial planning, and controllership to teams that plan and build data centers, design and source servers, and develop and sell cloud services at massive scale to developers and businesses all over the world.

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What is AWS Organization?

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Helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across multiple AWS accounts.

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What is AWS KMS?

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Provides a highly available key storage, management, and auditing solution for you to encrypt data within your own applications and control the encryption of stored data across AWS services.

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What is AWS Config?

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A service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.

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What is the AWS database service that allows you to upload data structured in key-value format?

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DynamoDB is AWS’ NoSQL database offering. NoSQL databases are used for non-structured data that are typically stored in JSON-like, key-value documents.

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What is AWS Support Consierge?

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Included as part of the Enterprise Support plan, the Support Concierge Team are AWS billing and account experts that specialize in working with enterprise accounts.

** 24 x7 access to AWS billing and account inquires.

** Guidance and best practices for billing allocation, reporting, consolidation of accounts, and root-level account security.

** Access to Enterprise account specialists for payment inquiries, training on specific cost reporting, assistance with service limits, and facilitating bulk purchases.

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What is AWS Infrastructure Event Management?

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AWS Infrastructure Event Management is a structured program available to Enterprise Support customers (and Business Support customers for an additional fee) that helps you plan for large-scale events such as product or application launches, infrastructure migrations, and marketing events.

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What is Amazon Support API?

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Provides access to some of the features of the AWS Support Center via an API.

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What is the AWS Personal Health Dashboard?

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Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.

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What is AWS Artifact?

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A self-service audit artifact retrieval portal that provides our customers with on-demand access to AWS’ compliance documentation and AWS agreements.

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What is AWS Systems Manager

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Gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS. Systems Manager provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources.

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What is AWS Certificate Manager?

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A service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources.

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What is Amazon AMI?

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Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a template that contains a software configuration (for example, an operating system, an application server, and applications). This template save time and avoid errors when configuring settings to create new instances. You specify an AMI when you launch an instance, and you can launch as many instances from the AMI as you need. You can also launch instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

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What is Amazon SWF?

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Amazon SWF (Simple Workflow Service) is an Amazon Web Services tool that helps developers coordinate, track and audit multi-step, multi-machine application jobs. Enables a developer to manage dependencies, scheduling, load distribution and other associations with each worker

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