AWS Services Flashcards
AWS CloudFront
-Edge networking-
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network operated by Amazon Web Services.
AWS Route 53
-Edge networking-
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) service.
AWS Global Accelerator
-Edge networking-
AWS Global Accelerator is 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.
Amazon VPC
-Network foundation-
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define.
AWS Transit Gateway
-Network foundation-
AWS Transit Gateway connects your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks through a central hub. This connection simplifies your network and puts an end to complex peering relationships. Transit Gateway acts as a highly scalable cloud router—each new connection is made only once.
AWS Private Link
-Network foundation-
AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), supported AWS services, and your on-premises networks without exposing your traffic to the public internet. Interface VPC endpoints, powered by PrivateLink, connect you to services hosted by AWS Partners and supported solutions available in AWS Marketplace.
Amazon API Gateway
- Application networking-
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
AWS App Mesh
- Application networking-
AWS App Mesh provides application-level networking so your services can communicate across multiple types of compute infrastructure.
AWS Cloud Map
- Application networking-
AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically changing resources.
AWS Direct Connect
AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service that links your network directly to AWS to deliver consistent, low-latency performance.
AWS Cloud Wan
AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network—connecting your cloud and on-premises resources.
AWS Client VPN
AWS Client VPN is a fully-managed remote access VPN solution used by your remote workforce to securely access resources within both AWS and your on-premises network.
AWS Firewall manager
AWS Firewall Manager is 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.
AWS Shield
AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.
AWS Network firewall
With AWS Network Firewall, you can create firewall rules that provide fine-grained control over network traffic and easily deploy firewall security across your VPCs.
AWS WAF
AWS WAF helps you protect against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
AWS Elastic Load Balancer
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones (AZs).
AWS NACLs
A network access control list (NACL) is an optional layer of security for your VPC that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of one or more subnets.
AWS site to site VPN connection
AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully-managed service that creates a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels.
AWS Control Tower
AWS Control Tower orchestrates multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization.
AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations enables centralized cloud account management as you grow and scale your AWS resources.
AWS Budgets
Monitor costs and usage. Set your preferred budget period to daily, monthly, quarterly, or annually, and create specific budget limits.
AWS License Manager
AWS License Manager is a service that makes it easier for you to manage your software licenses from software vendors (for example, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM) centrally across AWS and your on-premises environments.
AWS Well-Architected Tool
The AWS Well-Architected Tool is designed to help you review the state of your applications and workloads against architectural best practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and track progress over time.