AWS Services Flashcards
Service to specify who or what can access services and resources in AWS, centrally manage fine-grained permissions, and analyze access to refine permissions across AWS.
IAM
A service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface.
S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service)
A web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.
EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute)
a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database. a fast persistent key–value datastore with built-in support for replication, autoscaling, encryption at rest, and on-demand backup
DynamoDB
a web service running “in the cloud” designed to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of a relational database for use in applications
RDS
an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It is designed to enable developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers
Lambda
A service that enables you to monitor your complete stack and use alarms, logs, and events data to take automated actions and reduce mean time to resolution.
Cloudwatch
a content delivery network (CDN) operated by Amazon Web Services. The content delivery network was created to provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers to cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, to improve access speed for downloading the content.
Cloudfront
a service that enables data analysts to perform interactive queries in the web-based cloud storage service, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
Athena
a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. It can back up data in the cloud and on premises, and allows users to configure backup policies and monitor activity for their AWS resources in one place.
AWS Backup
a relational database management system (RDBMS) built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.
Aurora
Service that helps you manage the account information and metadata for all of the AWS accounts in your organization.
AWS Account Management
a web service that enables you to download AWS security and compliance documents such as ISO certifications and SOC reports.
Artifact
a cryptographic service for creating and maintaining hardware security modules (HSMs) in your AWS environment.
CloudHSM
Service that provides a detailed view of the configuration of AWS resources in your AWS account
Config
fully managed in-memory data store and cache service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service improves the performance of web applications by retrieving information from managed in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases.
Elasticache
provides raw block-level storage that can be attached to Amazon EC2 instances and is used by Amazon Relational Database Service.
EBS (Elastic Block Store)
Fully managed file system for EC2.
EFS (Elastic File System)
Highly secure, reliable, and scalable way to run containers.
ECS (Elastic Container Service)
Serverless event bus for SaaS apps
Eventbridge
Managed threat protection service
GuardDuty
a virtual private server (VPS) provider and is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a solution to build and host their applications on cloud.
Lightsail
a commercial cloud computing service that provides a virtual private cloud, by provisioning a logically isolated section of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
