AWS Service Categories Overview

Question 1

What are the AWS foundational services?

Answer 1

Compute, Networking, and Storage

Question 2

List some AWS services in the
Storage service category.

Answer 2

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier

Question 3

An object storage service that offers scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Use it to store and protect any amount of data for websites, mobile apps, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and big data analytics

Answer 3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Question 4

High-performance block storage that is designed for use with Amazon EC2 for both throughput-intensive and transaction-intensive workloads. It’s used for a range of workloads, such as relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows

Answer 4

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Question 5

Provides a scalable, fully managed elastic Network File System (NFS) file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It’s built to scale on demand to petabytes, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files. It reduces the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.

Answer 5

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

Question 6

A secure, durable, and low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 11 9s (99.999999999 percent) of durability, and to provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities to meet stringent regulatory requirements.

Answer 6

Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier

Question 7

List some AWS services in the
Compute service Category.

Answer 7

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Lambda

Question 8

A Compute service that provides resizable compute capacity as virtual machines in the cloud.

Answer 8

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Question 9

It enables you to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions that you define.

Answer 9

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Question 10

A service for deploying and scaling web applications and services on familiar servers such as Apache HTTP Server and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).

Answer 10

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Question 11

This service enables you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time that you consume, so you won’t be charged when your code isn’t running.

Answer 11

AWS Lambda

Question 12

Name some AWS services under
Networking and Content Delivery service category.

Answer 12

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Transit Gateway
Amazon Route 53
AWS Direct Connect
AWS VPN

Question 13

This Networking service enables you to provision logically isolated sections of the AWS Cloud.

Answer 13

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

Question 14

It automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions

Answer 14

Elastic Load Balancing

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Amazon CloudFront

Question 16

A service that enables customers to connect their virtual private clouds (VPCs) and their on-premises networks to a single gateway.

Answer 16

AWS Transit Gateway

Question 17

A scalable, cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service that’s designed to give you a reliable way to route end users to internet applications. It translates names (like www.example.com) into the numeric IP addresses (like 192.0.2.1) that computers use to connect to each other.

Answer 17

Amazon Route 53

Question 18

A networking service that provides a way to establish a dedicated private network connection from your data center or office to AWS, which can reduce network costs and increase bandwidth throughput.

Answer 18

AWS Direct Connect

Question 19

A networking service that provides a secure private tunnel from your network or device to the AWS global network.

Answer 19

AWS VPN

Question 20

What are some AWS services under Security, Identity, and Compliance service category?

Answer 20

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS Organizations
Amazon Cognito
AWS Artifact
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
AWS Shield

Question 21

It enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. By using this service, you can create and manage AWS users and groups. You can use permissions to allow and deny user and group access to AWS resources.

Answer 21

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Question 22

This service allows you to restrict what services and actions are allowed in your accounts.

Answer 22

AWS Organizations

Question 23

This networking service lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps.

Answer 23

Amazon Cognito

Question 24

This service provides on-demand access to AWS security and compliance reports and select online agreements.

Answer 24

AWS Artifact

Question 25

A service that enables you to create and manage keys. You can use this service to control the use of encryption across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications.

Answer 25

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

Question 26

A managed distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.

Answer 26

AWS Shield

Question 27

List some of the AWS services under Database service category.

Answer 27

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Amazon Aurora Amazon Redshift Amazon DynamoDB

Question 28

This database service makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks, such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

Answer 28

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

Question 29

A relational database that’s compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. It’s up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases.

Answer 29

Amazon Aurora

Question 30

It enables you to run analytic queries against petabytes of data that’s stored locally in this service.

Answer 30

Amazon Redshift

Question 31

A key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching.

Answer 31

Amazon DynamoDB

Question 32

What are the AWS services included in the Containers service category?

Answer 32

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) AWS Fargate

Question 33

A highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers.

Answer 33

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Question 34

A fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

Answer 34

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)

Question 35

Using this service makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications that use Kubernetes on AWS.

Answer 35

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

Question 36

A compute engine for Amazon ECS that enables you to run containers without managing servers or clusters.

Answer 36

AWS Fargate

Question 37

Name some AWS service under AWS Cost Management service category.

Answer 37

AWS Cost and Usage Report AWS Budgets AWS Cost Explorer

Question 38

Contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available, including additional metadata about AWS services, pricing, and reservations.

Answer 38

AWS Cost and Usage Report

Question 39

Enables you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.

Answer 39

AWS Budgets

Question 40

Has an easy-to-use interface that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

Answer 40

AWS Cost Explorer

Question 41

List some of the services under Management and Governance service category.

Answer 41

AWS Management Console AWS Config Amazon CloudWatch AWS Auto Scaling AWS Command Line Interface AWS Trusted Advisor AWS Well-Architected Tool AWS CloudTrail

Question 42

A management service that rovides a web-based user interface for accessing your AWS account.

Answer 42

AWS Management Console

Question 43

A management service that provides a service that helps you track resource inventory and changes.

Answer 43

AWS Config

Question 44

A management service that enables you to monitor resources and applications.

Answer 44

Amazon CloudWatch

Question 45

A management service that provides features that allow you to scale multiple resources to meet demand.

Answer 45

AWS Auto Scaling

Question 46

A management service that provides a unified tool to manage AWS services.

Answer 46

AWS Command Line Interface

Question 47

A management service helps you optimize performance and security.

Answer 47

AWS Trusted Advisor

Question 48

A management service provides help in reviewing and improving your workloads.

Answer 48

AWS Well-Architected Tool

Question 49

A management service tracks user activity and API usage.

Answer 49

AWS CloudTrail

Question 50

What are some AWS services under Cost Management service category?

Answer 50

AWS Cost and Usage Report AWS Budgets AWS Cost Explorer

Question 51

Contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available, including additional metadata about AWS services, pricing, and reservations.

Answer 51

AWS Cost and Usage Report

Question 52

Enables you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.

Answer 52

AWS Budgets

Question 53

Has an easy-to-use interface that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time

Answer 53

AWS Cost Explorer