AWS Services Flashcards
Learn the services offered in/through Amazon Web Services.
A fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish,
maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
Amazon API Gateway
A fully managed, secure service for streaming desktop applications to users
without rewriting those applications.
Amazon AppStream 2.0
An interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3
using ANSI SQL. Athena is serverless, so there’s no infrastructure to manage.
Athena scales automatically and is simple to use, so you can start analyzing your
datasets within seconds.
Amazon Athena
A fully managed MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines
the speed and availability of commercial databases with the simplicity and costeffectiveness
of open-source databases.
Amazon Aurora
A secure, real-time, unified communications service that transforms meetings by
making them more efficient and easier to conduct.
Amazon Chime
A service that provides a highly scalable directory store for your application’s
multihierarchical data.
Amazon Cloud Directory
An AWS content delivery service that helps you improve the performance,
reliability, and availability of your websites and applications.
Amazon CloudFront
A fully managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage,
and scale a search solution for your website or application.
Amazon CloudSearch
A web service that you can use to monitor and manage various metrics, and
configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics.
Amazon CloudWatch
A web service that makes it easy to save mobile user data, such as app
preferences or game state, in the AWS Cloud without writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure. Amazon Cognito offers mobile identity
management and data synchronization across devices.
Amazon Cognito
A service solution that offers easy, self-service configuration and provides
dynamic, personal, and natural customer engagement at any scale.
Amazon Connect
A service that collects log data from your AWS resources to analyze and identify
the root cause of security findings or suspicious activities.
Amazon Detective
A fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable
performance with seamless scalability.
Amazon DynamoDB
A web service for launching and managing Linux/UNIX and Windows Server
instance (p. 727)s in Amazon’s data centers.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
A web service designed to launch or terminate instance (p. 727)s automatically
based on user-defined policies
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
service that provides block level storage volume for use with EC2
instance.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
A fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to
store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. Amazon ECR is integrated
with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
A highly scalable, fast, container (p. 716) management service that makes it
easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster (p. 715) of EC2
instance (p. 721)s.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
A file storage service for EC2 (p. 698) instance (p. 727)s. Amazon EFS is easy
to use and provides a simple interface with which you can create and configure
file systems. Amazon EFS storage capacity grows and shrinks automatically as you add and remove files.
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
managed service that simplifies running Kubernetes on AWS without your
needing to stand up or maintain your own Kubernetes control plane.
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Lightsail is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private
server with AWS. Lightsail offers bundled plans that include everything you need
to deploy a virtual private server, for a low monthly rate.
Amazon Lightsail
An encrypted machine image stored in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon
EBS) (p. 699) or Amazon Simple Storage Service (p. 702). AMIs function similar
to a template of a computer’s root drive. They contain the operating system and
can also include software and layers of your application, such as database servers,
middleware, and web servers.
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
A security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify,
and protect sensitive data in AWS.
Amazon Macie
A fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. With
Amazon Redshift, you can analyze your data using your existing business
intelligence tools.
Amazon Redshift