AWS Main Services Flashcards
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, you pay only for the compute time you consume - and there is no charge when your code is not running
AWS S3
AWS S3 is an object storage service which means you can store and protect any ammount of data for a range of use cases such as websites, mobile applications and files. AWS S3 is designed for 99.999999999 (11 9’s) of durability
AWS Athena
Athena is a serverless interactive query service used to analyze data in S3 using SQL
AWS EMR
Elastic Map Reduce provides a managed Hadoop framework to process huge data sets across dynamically scalable EC2 instances
AWS Kinesis
Kinesis allows you to collect, process, and analyze real time streaming data. You can ingest real-time data such as video, audio and IoT telemetry
AWS Redshift
Redshift is a fast scalable data warehouse that makes it simple and cost effective to analyse data across your data warehouse and data lake. Redshift is 10x faster by using machine learning, massively parallel query execution and columnar storage on high-performance disk
AWS Quicksight
Quicksight is a fast, cloud powered BI tool
AWS Data Pipeline
AWS data pipeline is a web service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premise at specified intervals
AWS Glue
AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL service
AWS Lake Formation
AWS Lake Formation makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores all your data in raw form and ready for analysis
AWS SNS
AWS Simple Notification Service is a highly available, durable, secure and fully managed pub/sub messaging service that provides topics for high-throughput push based many-to-many messaging
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer is an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand and manage your AWS costs and usage over time
AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets gives you the flexibility to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount
AWS Cost & Usage Report
AWS Cost & Usage Report is a single location for accessing comprehensive information about your AWS costs and usage
AWS Managed Blockchain
AWS Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage scalable blockchain networks using the popular open source frameworks “Hyperledger Fabric” and “Ethereum”
AWS Chime
AWS Chime is a communications service much like Skype and Zoom
AWS EC2
AWS EC2 is a web service that provides secure, scalable compute capacity in the cloud. It provides you with complete control over your computing resources and lets you run on AWS’s proven computing environment
EC2 On-Demand Instances
With On-demand EC2 Instances, you pay for compute power by the hour, with no long term commitments. You can increase or decrease your compute capacity depending on the demands of your application and only pay the specified hourly rate for the instance you use
EC2 Reserved Instances
EC2 Reserved Instances provide a discount (of up to 75%) vs On-Demand, but are reserved for longer periods of time. Convertible Reserved Instances allow the instance to change families, OS, types etc
EC2 Spot Instances
EC2 Spot Instances allow you to bid on space AWS EC2 computing capacity.
AWS EC2 Auto-Scaling
AWS EC2 Auto-Scaling allows you to add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions you define. Dynamic scaling responds to changing demand and predictive scaling automatically scheduled the right number of EC2 instances based on predicted demand. The can both be used together
AWS Elastic Container Registry
AWS Elastic Container Registry is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage and deploy Docker images
AWS Elastic Container Service
AWS Elastic Container Service is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS
AWS Lightsail
AWS Lightsail is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS
AWS Batch
AWS Batch enables developers, data scientists and engineers to easily ad efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal amount of compute resources based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go and Docker on familiar services such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger and Internet Information Services (IIS)
AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate is a compute engine for AWS ECS that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters
AWS SES
AWS SES (Simple E-mail Service) is a cloud based e-mail sending service using AWS SMTP interface or one of the SDK’s to integrate SES directly into your existing applications
AWS Aurora
AWS Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high end commercial databases, with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. It also provides this at 1/10 the cost . AWS Aurora is also a fully managed RDS (Relational Database Service)
AWS RDS
AWS RDS (Relational Database Service) is an easy to set-up orperate and scale relational database in the cloud. AWS RDS is available on several database instance types - and provides you with six familiar engines to choose from including, AWS Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Maria DB, Oracle Database and SQL Server
AWS Database Migration Service
AWS Database Migration Service is used to easily migrate or replicate your existing database to AWS RDS databases
AWS Dynamo DB
AWS Dynamo DB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Its a fully managed, multi-region, multimaster database with built in security, backup, restore and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications. Dynamo DB can handle more than 10 trillion requests per day and support peaks of more than 20 million requests per second
AWS ElastiCache
AWS ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud
AWS Neptune
AWS Neptune is a fast reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of AWS Neptune is a purpose-built, high performance graph database engine optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency
AWS Timestream
AWS Timestream is a fully managed time-series database service for IoT and operational applications, making it easy to store and analyze trillions of events per day at 1/10th the cost of relational databases
AWS Code Commit
AWS Code Commit is a fully managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories. Making it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices
AWS IoT Greengrass
AWS IoT Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS to devices so that they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics and durable storage. With AWS IoT Greengrass, connected devices can run AWS Lambda functions, execute predictionsbased on Machine Learning Models and communicate with other devices even when not connected to the internet
AWS Sagemaker
AWS Sagemaker is a fully managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train and deploy machine learning models at any scale
AWS Sagemaker GroundTruth
AWS Sagemaker GroundTruth helps you build highly accurate training data sets for machine learning quickly
AWS Comprehend
AWS Commprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses Machine Learning to find insights and relationships in text, with no Machine Learning experience required
AWS Lex
AWS Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text
AWS Rekognition
AWS Rekognition is a service that makes it easy to add image analysis to your applications, detecting objects, scenes and faces in images
AWS Elastic Inference
AWS Elastic Inference allows you to attach low-cost GPU powered acceleration to AWS EC2 and AWS Sagemaker instances to reduce the cost of running deep learning inference by up to 75%
AWS Control Tower
AWS Control Tower automates the set up of a baseline environment or landing zone that is a secure, well-architected multi-account AWS Environment. The configuration of the landing zone is based on best practices that have been established by AWS experience
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and system-administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating then in an orderly and predictable fashion. You can use the AWS cloud formation templates or create your own
AWS Config
AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance
AWS Snowball
AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transfer solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS
AWS Transfer for SFTP
AWS Transfer for SFTP is a fully managed service that enables the transfer of files directly into and out of S3 suing the secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) - also known as secure shell (SSH) File Transfer Protocol. AWS Transfer integrates with existing authentication systems and provides DNS routing with Amazon Route 53
AWS Route 53
AWS Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) web service. Its designed to route users to internet applications
AWS Cognitio
AWS Cognitio lets you add user-sign-up, sign-in and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. Its also provides the functionality to authenticate through Social Identity Providers such as Facebook/Twitter etc
AWS RoboMaker
AWS RoboMaker is a service that makes it easy to develop, test and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale
AWS Glacier
AWS Glacier is a secure, durable and extremely low cost storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. However access options range from a few minutes to several hours
