AWS Services Flashcards
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Multi AZ Deployments
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- Design and operate applications and databases that automatically failover between zones without interruption
- Main purpose is high availability
- Always span at least two availability zones within a single region
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Multi Region Deployments
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- Main purpose is disaster recovery and local performance
- Each region can have a multi AZ-deployment
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Read Replicas
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- Main purpose is scalability
- Can be within an availability zone, cross-AZ, or cross-region.
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DynamoDB
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- Fully managed service, serverless
- Key-value NoSQL database
- Designed to run high-performance applications at any scale
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DynamoDB Global Tables
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- Replicate data automatically across your choice of AWS Regions and automatically scale capacity to accommodate workloads
- Access data locally in selected regions
- Active-active cross-region support
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DynamoDB Accelerator
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- In-memory cache that delivers fast read performance for your tables at scale by enabling you to use a fully managed in-memory cache
- Improve read performance up to 10 times
- DAX does not offer active-active cross-Region configuration
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Amazon Aurora
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- Fully managed relational database engine that’s compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- Aurora can deliver up to five times the throughput of MySQL and up to three times the throughput of PostgreSQL without requiring changes to most of your existing applications.
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Amazon Aurora w/ Multi-Master Cluster
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- In a multi-master cluster, all DB instances have read/write capability.
- All DB instances in a multi-master cluster must be in the same AWS Region.
- You can’t enable cross-Region replicas from multi-master clusters.
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Amazon RDS for MYSQL
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- Easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
- Cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks
- RDS does not support active-active configuration with cross-region support.
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AWS CloudFormation
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- Easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources
- Use AWS CloudFormation sample templates or create your own templates to describe your AWS resources
- Single source of truth for all your resources and helps you to standardize infrastructure components used across your organization
- CloudFormation templates allow you to estimate the cost of your resources.
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AWS Directory Service
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- Also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD
- Enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.
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Amazon LightSail
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- Easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS.
- Not best suited when deploying more complex resources, while CloudFormation can.
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AWS CodeDeploy
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- Automates code deployments to any instance, including EC2 instances and instances running on-premises.
- Unlike CloudFormation, it does not deal with infrastructure configuration and orchestration.
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AWS Trusted Advisor
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- Provides real-time guidance to help provision your resources following AWS best practices.
- Recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor regularly help keep your solutions provisioned optimally.
- AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your AWS environment and provides best practice recommendations in five categories: Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance, Service Limits.
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AWS Cost Explorer
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- Easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
- Recommendations feature in Cost Explorer helps you identify cost-saving opportunities by downsizing or terminating EC2 instances.
- See all of your underutilized EC2 instances across member accounts in a single view to immediately identify how much you can save.
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AWS Budgets
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- Set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.
- Use AWS Budgets to set reservation utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define.
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AWS Cost and Usage Reports
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- Most comprehensive set of cost and usage data available.
- Publish your AWS billing reports to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket that you own.
- Cost and Usage Reports cannot be used to identify under-utilized EC2 instances.
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Amazon CloudWatch
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**- Think resource performance monitoring, events, and alerts; think CloudWatch. **
- Used to create alarm to monitor your estimated charges
- Estimated charges are calculated and sent several times daily to CloudWatch as metric data
- Choose to receive alerts by email when charges have exceeded a certain threshold
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AWS Lambda
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- Run code without provisioning or managing servers.
- Pay only for the compute time you consume.
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AWS Systems Manager
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- Provides operational insights of its resources to quickly identify any issues that might impact applications using those resources
- Provides visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS.
- Provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources.
- Group resources, like Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3 buckets, or Amazon RDS instances, by application
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EC2 Instance
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- Web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
- Easiest way to provision servers on AWS Cloud and access the underlying OS.
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Step Function
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- Coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows
- Design and run workflows that stitch together services such as AWS Lambda, AWS Glue and Amazon SageMaker
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AWS Pricing Calculator
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- Explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS.
- Model your solutions before building them, explore the price points and calculations behind your estimate, and find the available instance types and contract terms that meet your needs.
- Enables you to make informed decisions about using AWS.
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Amazon ECS
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- Highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster.
- This is not a fully managed service and you can manage the underlying servers yourself.
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AWS Fargate
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- Serverless compute engine for containers.
- Works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
- Removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design.
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Amazon ECR
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- Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) can be used to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.
- Eliminates the need to operate your container repositories.
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Amazon Inspector
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- Automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications
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AWS Personal Health Dashboard
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- Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that might affect you.
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Virtual MFA device
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- Software app that runs on a phone or other device and emulates a physical device.
- Generates a six-digit numeric code based upon a time-synchronized one-time password algorithm.
- The user must type a valid code from the device on a second webpage during sign-in.
- Each virtual MFA device assigned to a user must be unique.
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U2F security key
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- Physical device that you plug into a USB port on your computer.
- U2F is an open authentication standard hosted by the FIDO Alliance.
- When you enable a U2F security key, you sign in by entering your credentials and then tapping the device instead of manually entering a code.
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Hardware MFA device
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- Hardware device that generates a six-digit numeric code based upon a time-synchronized one-time password algorithm.
- User must type a valid code from the device on a second webpage during sign-in. Each MFA device assigned to a user must be unique.
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AWS Elastik Beanstalk
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- Easy-to-use platform-as-a-service for deploying and scaling web applications and services.
- Upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring.
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Amazon Simple Notification Service
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- Highly available, durable, secure, fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables you to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
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Amazon SageMaker
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- Fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly.
- Removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it easier to develop high-quality models.
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Amazon Lightsail
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- Easy-to-use cloud platform that offers you everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.
- Offers several preconfigured, one-click-to-launch operating systems, development stacks, and web applications, including Linux, Windows OS, and WordPress.
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AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive
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- Amazon S3’s lowest-cost storage class and supports long-term retention and digital preservation for data that may be accessed once or twice in a year.
- Designed for those in highly-regulated industries, such as the Financial Services, Healthcare, and Public Sectors — that retain data sets for 7-10 years or longer to meet regulatory compliance requirements.
- Also used for backup and disaster recovery use cases.
- It has a retrieval time (first byte latency) of 12 to 48 hours.
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AWS S3 Standard
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- Storage class offering high durability, availability, and performance object storage for frequently accessed data.
- S3 Standard has a retrieval time (first byte latency) of milliseconds.
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AWS S3 Intelligent-Tiering
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- Storage class designed to optimize costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective access tier
- It works by storing objects in two access tiers: one tier that is optimized for frequent access and another lower-cost tier that is optimized for infrequent access.
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AWS S3 Glacier
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- Secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long-term backup.
-Designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements. - S3 Glacier has a retrieval time (first byte latency) of minutes or a few hours.
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AWS Quick Starts Reference
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- Help you deploy popular technologies on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability.
- Includes AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployment and a guide that discusses the architecture and provides step-by-step deployment instructions.
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AWS Whitepapers
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- Technical content authored by AWS and the AWS community to expand your knowledge of the cloud. - They include technical whitepapers, technical guides, reference material, and reference architectures diagrams.
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AWS Auto Scaling
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- Monitors your applications and automatically adjusts the capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.
- Easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes.
- Pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications and Amazon CloudWatch monitoring fees.
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AWS Forums
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- AWS community platform where people can help each other.
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Identity and Access Management (IAM)
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- Enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely.
- Create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.
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Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
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- Object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
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AWS Service Health Dashboard
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- Publishes most up-to-the-minute information on the status and availability of all AWS services in tabular form for all Regions that AWS is present in.
- AWS Service Health Dashboard offers the possibility to subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of interruptions to each service.
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Amazon SNS
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- Highly available, durable, secure, fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables you to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
- Can be used to deliver notifications, but it does not provide current services’ status.
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AWS Organizations
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- Helps you centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts.
- Using AWS Organizations, you can automate account creation, create groups of accounts to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these groups for governance.
- You can also simplify billing by setting up a single payment method for all of your AWS accounts.
- AWS Organizations is available to all AWS customers at no additional charge.
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AWS SSO (Single Sign-On)
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- Enables you to makes it easy to centrally manage access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications and provide users with single sign-on access to all their assigned accounts and applications from one place.
- Easily manage SSO access and user permissions to all of your accounts in AWS Organizations centrally.
- You can use AWS SSO to quickly and easily assign and manage your employees’ access to multiple AWS accounts.
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AWS Cognito
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- Add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily.
- Authenticate users through social identity providers such as Facebook, Twitter, or Amazon, with SAML identity solutions, or by using your own identity system.
- It is an identity management solution for customers/developers building B2C or B2B apps for their customers.
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AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
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- Unified tool to manage your AWS services.
- Control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.
- Access keys consist of an access key ID and secret access key, which are used to sign programmatic requests to AWS using the CLI or the SDK.
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Auto Scaling
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- Helps you ensure that you have the correct number of EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application.
- Create collections of EC2 instances, called Auto Scaling groups.
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Network Load Balancer
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- Load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required.
- It distributes traffic, does not scale resources.
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Application Load Balancer
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- Serves as the single point of contact for clients.
- Distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones.
- It distributes traffic, does not scale resources.
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AWS Systems Manager Session Manager
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- Fully-managed service that provides you with an interactive browser-based shell and CLI experience.
- It helps provide secure and auditable instance management without the need to open inbound ports, maintain bastion hosts, and manage SSH keys.
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Amazon EC2 Instance Connect
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- Simple and secure way to connect to your Linux instances using Secure Shell (SSH).
- Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and principals to control SSH access to your instances, removing the need to share and manage SSH keys.
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Amazon Inspector
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- Automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications
- Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices.
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Amazon Route 53
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- Highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
- Designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications through domain addresses
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AWS OpsWorks
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- Configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.
- Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers.
- OpsWorks lets you use Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments.
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AWS Batch
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- Enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS.
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CloudWatch Logs
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- Monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, AWS CloudTrail, Route 53, and other sources such as on-premises servers.
- Enables you to centralize the logs from all of your systems, applications, and AWS services that you use, in a single, highly scalable service.
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AWS CloudTrail
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- Enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.
- Log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure.
- Provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command-line tools, and other AWS services.
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S3 One Zone-IA
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- Ffor data that is accessed less frequently but requires rapid access when needed.
- Unlike other S3 Storage Classes which store data in a minimum of three Availability Zones (AZs), S3 One Zone-IA stores data in a single AZ and costs 20% less than S3 Standard-IA.
- S3 One Zone-IA offers the same high durability, high throughput, and low latency of S3 Standard, with a low per GB storage price and per GB retrieval fee.
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S3 Standard Infrequent Access (Standard-IA)
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- For data that is accessed less frequently but requires rapid access when needed.
- Matches the high durability, high throughput, and low latency of S3 Standard, with a low per GB storage price and per GB retrieval fee.
63
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APN Consuling Partners
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- Global partner program for technology and consulting businesses that leverage Amazon Web Services to build solutions and services for customers.
- APN Consulting Partners are professional services firms that help customers of all types and sizes design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on AWS, accelerating their migration to AWS cloud.
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APN Technology Partners
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- Provide hardware, connectivity services, or software solutions that are either hosted on or integrated with, the AWS Cloud.
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Concierge Support Team
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- AWS billing and account experts that specialize in working with enterprise accounts.
- They will quickly and efficiently assist you with your billing and account inquiries.
- The Concierge Support Team is only available for the Enterprise Support plan.
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Elastic Load Balancing
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- Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses.
- Handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones.
- Three types: Application Load Balancer (best suited for HTTP and HTTPS traffic), Network Load Balancer (best suited for TCP traffic), and Classic Load Balancer.
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Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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- Provides the information required to launch an instance.
- The AMI must be in the same region as that of the EC2 instance to be launched.
68
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Amazon Macie
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- Fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS.
- Automatically provides an inventory of Amazon S3 buckets
- Macie applies machine learning and pattern matching techniques to the buckets you select to identify and alert you to sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII).
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AWS Glue
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- Fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.
- AWS Glue job is meant to be used for batch ETL data processing.
70
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Amazon Polly
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- Service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products.
- Polly’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) service uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize natural sounding human speech.
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AWS Secrets Manager
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- Hhelps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources.
- Enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.
- Users and applications retrieve secrets with a call to Secrets Manager APIs, eliminating the need to hardcode sensitive information in plain text.
72
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AWS Marketplace
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- Digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.
- The AWS Marketplace enables qualified partners to market and sell their software to AWS Customers.
- AWS Marketplace offers two ways for sellers to deliver software to customers: Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and Software as a Service (SaaS).
73
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AWS Enterprise Support Plan
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- AWS Enterprise Support provides customers with concierge-like service where the main focus is on helping the customer achieve their outcomes and find success in the cloud.
- With Enterprise Support, you get access to online training with self-paced labs, 24x7 technical support from high-quality engineers, tools and technology to automatically manage the health of your environment, consultative architectural guidance, a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) to coordinate access to proactive/preventative programs and AWS subject matter experts.
74
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AWS Developer Support Plan
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- AWS recommends Developer Support if you are testing or doing early development on AWS and want the ability to get technical support during business hours as well as general architectural guidance as you build and test.
75
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AWS Business Support Plan
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- AWS recommends Business Support if you have production workloads on AWS and want 24x7 access to technical support and architectural guidance in the context of your specific use-cases.
76
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AWS Basic Support Plan
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- Basic support plan is included for all AWS customers.
77
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VPC Peering Connection
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- Networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them privately.
- Instances in either VPC can communicate with each other as if they are within the same network.
78
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Site to Site VPN
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- Creates a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS cloud resources.
- This connection goes over the public internet.
79
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AWS Direct Connect
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- Creates a dedicated private connection from a remote network to your VPC.
- This is a private connection and does not use the public internet.
- Takes at least a month to establish this connection.
80
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VPC endpoint
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- Enables you to privately connect your VPC to supported AWS services and VPC endpoint services powered by AWS PrivateLink without requiring an internet gateway, NAT device, VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect connection.
81
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AWS Storage Gateway
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- Hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.
- All data transferred between the gateway and AWS storage is encrypted using SSL (for all three types of gateways - File, Volume and Tape Gateways).
- Data encryption is automatically enabled
82
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Amazon RedShift
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- Fully-managed petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse product designed for large scale data set storage and analysis.
- Amazon Redshift requires a well-defined schema.
83
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AWS Config
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- Service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
- Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations.
84
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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
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- Provides a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.
- It is built to scale on-demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.
85
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AWS CloudHSM
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- Cloud-based Hardware Security Module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your encryption keys on the AWS Cloud.
- Manage your encryption keys using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs.
- Fully-managed service that automates time-consuming administrative tasks for you, such as hardware provisioning, software patching, high-availability, and backups.
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AWS Key Management Service
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- Makes it easy for you to create and manage cryptographic keys and control their use across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications.
- AWS KMS is a secure and resilient service that uses hardware security modules that have been validated under FIPS 140-2, or are in the process of being validated, to protect your keys.
87
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AWS Weighted routing policy
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- Weighted routing lets you associate multiple resources with a single domain name (example.com) or subdomain name (acme.example.com) and choose how much traffic is routed to each resource.
88
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AWS X-Ray
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- Analyze and debug serverless and distributed applications such as those built using a microservices architecture
- With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors
89
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Amazon Pinpoint
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- Allows marketers and developers to deliver customer-centric engagement experiences by capturing customer usage data to draw real-time insights
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AWS CodePipeline
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- Continuous delivery service that enables you to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software.
- With AWS CodePipeline, you model the full release process for building your code, deploying to pre-production environments, testing your application and releasing it to production.
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AWS Local Zones
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- Allow you to use select AWS services, like compute and storage services, closer to more end-users, providing them very low latency access to the applications running locally.
- AWS Local Zones are also connected to the parent region via Amazon’s redundant and very high bandwidth private network, giving applications running in AWS Local Zones fast, secure, and seamless access to the rest of AWS services.
- You should use AWS Local Zones to deploy workloads closer to your end-users for low-latency requirements.
92
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AWS Wavelength
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- Extends the AWS cloud to a global network of 5G edge locations to enable developers to innovate and build a whole new class of applications that require ultra-low latency.
- Wavelength Zones provide a high-bandwidth, secure connection to the parent AWS Region, allowing developers to seamlessly connect to the full range of services in the AWS Region through the same APIs and toolsets.
93
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SMS text message-based MFA
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- MFA in which the IAM user settings include the phone number of the user’s SMS-compatible mobile device.
- When the user signs in, AWS sends a six-digit numeric code by SMS text message to the user’s mobile device.
- The user is required to type that code on a second webpage during sign-in.
94
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AWS Direct Connect
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- Cloud service that links your network directly to AWS, bypassing the internet to deliver more consistent, lower-latency performance.
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AWS Service Quotas
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- Service Quotas enables you to view and manage your quotas for AWS services from a central location.
- Quotas, also referred to as limits in AWS, are the maximum values for the resources, actions, and items in your AWS account.
- Each AWS service defines its quotas and establishes default values for those quotas.
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
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- Easy to use, high-performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction-intensive workloads at any scale.
- A broad range of workloads, such as relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows are widely deployed on Amazon EBS.
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AWS Instance Store
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- Provides temporary block-level storage for your EC2 instance.
- This storage is located on disks that are physically attached to the host computer.
- Instance store is ideal for the temporary storage of information that changes frequently
- Instance storage is temporary, data is lost if instance experiences failure or is terminated
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
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- Highly scalable, high-performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances
99
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Reserved Instances
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- Provide you with significant savings (up to 75%) on your Amazon EC2 costs compared to On-Demand Instance pricing.
- Reserved Instances are not physical instances, but rather a billing discount applied to the use of On-Demand Instances in your account.
100
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On-Demand Instance
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- You have full control over its lifecycle — you decide when to launch, stop, hibernate, start, reboot, or terminate it.
- There is no long-term commitment required when you purchase On-Demand Instances.
- There is no upfront payment and you pay only for the seconds that your On-Demand Instances are running.
- On-demand instances cannot be interrupted.
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Spot Instance
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- Unused EC2 instance that is available for less than the On-Demand price.
- Because Spot Instances enable you to request unused EC2 instances at steep discounts (up to 90%), you can lower your Amazon EC2 costs significantly.
- Spot Instances are well-suited for data analysis, batch jobs, background processing, and optional tasks.
- These can be terminated at short notice, so these are not suitable for critical workloads that need to run at a specific point in time.
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Dedicated Host
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- Allow you to use your eligible software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle on Amazon EC2 so that you get the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of using your licenses, but with the resiliency, simplicity, and elasticity of AWS.
- Physical server fully dedicated for your use, so you can help address corporate compliance requirement.
101
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AWS Acceptable Use Policy
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- The Acceptable Use Policy describes prohibited uses of the web services offered by Amazon Web Services, Inc. and its affiliates (the “Services”) and the website located at http://aws.amazon.com (the “AWS Site”).
102
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Amazon Transcribe
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- Add speech-to-text capability to your applications.
- Amazon Transcribe uses a deep learning process called automatic speech recognition (ASR) to convert speech to text quickly and accurately.
- Amazon Transcribe can be used to transcribe customer service calls, to automate closed captioning and subtitling, and to generate metadata for media assets.
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Amazon Polly
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- Use to turn text into lifelike speech thereby allowing you to create applications that talk.
- Polly’s Text-to-Speech (TTS) service uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize natural sounding human speech.
104
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AWS Compute Optimizer
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- AWS Compute Optimizer helps you identify the optimal AWS resource configurations, such as Amazon EC2 instance types, Amazon EBS volume configurations, and AWS Lambda function memory sizes, using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics.
- AWS Compute Optimizer delivers recommendations for selected types of EC2 instances, EC2 Auto Scaling groups, EBS volumes, and Lambda functions.
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Amazone EC2 Instances
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AWS CloudFront
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- Fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment.
- Accelerate static website content delivery, Live & on-demand video streaming, Security, Customizable content delivery with Lambda@Edge
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Shared Responsibility Model - Customer
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- Customer Data
- Platform, Identity & Access Management, Applications
- OS, Netowrk, Firewall Configuration
- Client Side Data Encryption & Data Integrity Authentication
- Server Side Encryption
- Netowrking Traffic Protection
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Shared Responsibility Model - AWS
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- Software: Compute, Storage, Database, Networking
- Hardware: Regions, AZ, Edge Locations
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AWS Partner Solutions
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- Outline the architectures for popular enterprise solutions on AWS and provide AWS CloudFormation templates to automate their deployment.
- Each Partner Solution launches, configures, and runs the AWS compute, network, storage, and other services required to deploy a specific workload on AWS, using AWS best practices for security and availability.
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AWS Snowball
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- Petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud.
- Addresses common challenges with large-scale data transfers, including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns.
- Migrate analytics data, genomics data, video libraries, image repositories, and backups. Transferring data with Snowball is simple, fast, secure, and can cost as little as one-fifth the cost of using high-speed internet.
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AWS Shared Controls
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- Apply to both the infrastructure layer and customer layers, but in completely separate contexts or perspectives.
- AWS provides the requirements for the infrastructure and the customer must provide their own control implementation within their use of AWS services.
Examples include: Patch Management, Configuration Management, Awareness & Training
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Amazon EMR (Elastic Map Reduce)
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- AWS Managed Service
- Launches clusters in minutes. You don’t need to worry about node provisioning, infrastructure setup, Hadoop configuration, or cluster tuning.
- Amazon EMR takes care of these tasks so you can focus on analysis.
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Convertable Reserved Instance (RI)
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- When your needs change, you can exchange your Convertible Reserved Instances and continue to benefit from the reservation’s pricing discount.
- With Convertible RIs, you can exchange one or more Reserved Instances for another Reserved Instance with a different configuration, including instance family, operating system, and tenancy.
