AWS Services Flashcards

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AWS Certificate Manager

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Use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. ACM removes the time-consuming manual process of purchasing, uploading, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor evaluates your account by using checks. These checks identify ways to optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve security and performance, reduce costs, and monitor service quotas. You can then follow the recommendations to optimize your services and resources.

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AWS Trusted Advisor for Basic Support & Developer Support

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Access core security checks and checks for service quotas.

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AWS Trusted Advisor for AWS Business Support and AWS Enterprise Support

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Access all checks, including cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service quotas.

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AWS Artifact

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Central resource for compliance-related information. It provides on-demand access to security and compliance reports from AWS and ISVs who sell their products on AWS Marketplace.

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AWS Trusted Advisor Priority

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Available to AWS Enterprise Support customers, provides prioritized an context-driven recommendations that come from your AWS account team as well as machine-generated checks from AWS services.

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AWS CloudFormation

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Lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code.

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Amazon Redshift

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Best price-performance for cloud data warehousing. Uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at any scale.

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Amazon DynamoDB

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Fast, flexible NoSQL database service for single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. A fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale. DynamoDB offers built-in security, continuous backups, automated multi-Region replication, in-memory caching, and data import and export tools.

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Amazon SQS

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Fully managed message queuing for microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Lets you send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available.

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Amazon S3 Glacier

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Long-term, secure, durable storage classes for data archiving at the lowest cost and milliseconds access.

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Amazon EC2

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Secure and resizable compute capacity for virtually any workload. Offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload.

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Amazon GuardDuty

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A threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and delivers detailed security findings for visibility and remediation. Review detailed findings, in the console, integrate into event management or workflow systems, and initiate AWS Lambda for automated remediation or prevention.

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Amazon Inspector

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Automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.

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Amazon SNS

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Fully managed Pub/Sub service for A2A and A2P messaging. Provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications.

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Amazon SES

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Get reliable, scalable email to communicate with customers at the lowest industry prices. Lets you reach customers confidently without an on-premises Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) system.

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AWS Lambda

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Run code without thinking about servers or clusters. Is a serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers. You can trigger Lambda from over 200 AWS services and software as a service (SaaS) applications, and only pay for what you use.

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AWS Organizations

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Centrally manage your environment as you scale your AWS resources. Lets you create new AWS accounts at no additional charge. With accounts in an organization, you can easily allocate resources, group accounts, and apply governance policies to accounts or groups.

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AWS Personal Health Dashboard

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View important events and changes affecting your AWS environment. A single place to learn about the availability and operations of AWS services.

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Amazon Rekognition

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Automate your image and video analysis with machine learning. Service can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in an image or video. It can also detect inappropriate content.

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Amazon Forecast

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Forecast business outcomes easily and accurately using machine learning. A time-series forecasting service based on machine learning (ML) and built for business metrics analysis.

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Amazon Transcribe

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Automatically convert speech to text.

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Amazon Lex

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Build chatbots with conversational AI. A fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) service with advanced natural language models to design, build, test, and deploy conversational interfaces in applications.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

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Easily stream data at any scale. A serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

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Gain actionable insights from streaming data with serverless, fully managed Apache Flink. The easiest way to transform and analyze streaming data in real time using Apache Flink.

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EC2 On-Demand Pricing

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Pay for compute capacity by the hour or the second depending on which instances you run. No longer-term commitments or upfront payments are needed.

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EC2 Spot Pricing

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Allow you to request spare Amazon EC2 computing capacity for up to 90% off the On-Demand price. Recommended for; Applications that have flexible start and end times, Applications that are feasible only at very low compute prices, Users with urgent computing needs for large amounts of additional capacity.

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EC2 Reserved or Savings Plan Pricing

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A flexible pricing model that offers low prices on EC2 and Fargate usage, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hour) for a one- or three-year term.

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EC2 Dedicated Hosts

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A Dedicated Host is a physical EC2 server dedicated for your use. Dedicated Hosts can help you reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses, including Windows Server, SQL Server, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (subject to your license terms), and can also help you meet compliance requirements.

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Amazon CloudFront

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A content delivery network (CDN) service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience.

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AWS Global Accelerator

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Improve application availability, performance, and security using the AWS global network. A networking service that helps you improve the availability, performance, and security of your public applications. Global Accelerator provides two global static public IPs that act as a fixed entry point to your application endpoints, such as Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, and elastic IPs.

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Amazon S3

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An object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

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AWS Cost and Usage Report

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You can review, itemize, and organize the most comprehensive cost and usage data for your account.

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AWS Compute Optimizer

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Help you to avoid overprovisioning or underprovisioning three types of AWS resources—Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance types, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, and AWS Lambda functions—based on your utilization data.

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AWS Budgets

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Improve planning and cost control with flexible budgeting and forecasting. Set custom budgets to track your costs and usage, and respond quickly to alerts received from email or SNS notifications if you exceed your threshold.

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AWS ElastiCache

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Unlock microsecond latency and scale with in-memory caching. A fully managed, in-memory caching service supporting flexible, real-time use cases. You can use ElastiCache for caching, which accelerates application and database performance, or as a primary data store for use cases that don’t require durability like session stores, gaming leaderboards, streaming, and analytics. ElastiCache is compatible with Redis and Memcached.

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Amazon RDS

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Set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud with just a few clicks. A collection of managed services that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud. Choose from seven popular engines — Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility, Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server — and deploy on-premises with Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts.

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AWS Amplify

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Build full-stack web and mobile apps in hours. Easy to start, easy to scale. A complete solution that lets frontend web and mobile developers easily build, ship, and host full-stack applications on AWS, with the flexibility to leverage the breadth of AWS services as use cases evolve. No cloud expertise needed.

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AWS Ampsync

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Accelerate application development with serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs. Simplify application development through a single endpoint to securely query, update, or publish data.

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Amazon Route 53

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A highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Route 53 connects user requests to internet applications running on AWS or on-premises.

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Amazon CloudWatch

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Collects and visualizes real-time logs, metrics, and event data in automated dashboards to streamline your infrastructure and application maintenance.

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AWS X-Ray

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Provides a complete view of requests as they travel through your application and filters visual data across payloads, functions, traces, services, APIs, and more with no-code and low-code motions.

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AWS Firewall Manager

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A security management service that allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organizations. As new applications are created, Firewall Manager makes it easier to bring new applications and resources into compliance by enforcing a common set of security rules.

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AWS Network Firewall

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Deploy network firewall security across your VPCs. Define firewall rules that provide fine-grained control over network traffic. Network Firewall works together with AWS Firewall Manager so you can build policies based on Network Firewall rules and then centrally apply those policies across your virtual private clouds (VPCs) and accounts.

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Amazon Detective

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Analyze and visualize security data to investigate potential security issues.
Simplifies the investigative process and helps security teams conduct faster and more effective investigations. With the Amazon Detective prebuilt data aggregations, summaries, and context, you can quickly analyze and determine the nature and extent of possible security issues.

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AWS WAF

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Helps you protect against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.