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AWS Services Flashcards

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What is AWS Lambda?

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serverless service that allows you to run code without provision/manage a service. Only pay for compute time you use.
Best for quick workloads.

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What is EC2?

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Web service that provides a secure, scalable computing environment in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud

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What is Elastic Load Balancing?

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Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple resources.

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What is Amazon SNS?

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Amazon Simple Notification Service:
Publish/suscribe service. Using topics publisher publishes messages to suscribers.

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What is Amazon SQS?

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Amazon Simple Queue Service:
Service that enables you to send, store, & receive messages between software components through a queue.

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What is Amazon ECS?

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Amazon Elastic Container Service:
Highly scalable & high performance management system that enables you to run & scale containerized applications on AWS.

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What is Amazon EKS?

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service:
Fully managed service that allows you to run Kubernetes on AWS.

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What is Amazon Fargate?

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Serverless compute engine for containers that works with ECS & EKS.

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What is AWS Outposts?

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Service that lets you run AWS infrastructure, services, & tools in your own on-premises data center using hybrid approach.

HINT: Think of a mini-region within your on-premises data center.

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What is Amazon CloudFront?

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Content delivery service that uses network of Edge Locations to cache (store as a local copy) & deliver content to customers globally.

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What is Amazon Route53?

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Highly available & scalable cloud DNS service.
Enables to customize routing policies to reduce latency.

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What is the AWS Management Console?

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Web-based interface for accessing & managing AWS services.

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What is the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?

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Allows you to control many AWS services directly from command line with one tool.
You can automate your application/service’s actions through scripts.

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What are Software Development Kits (SDKs)

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Set of platform-specific building tools like debuggers, compilers, and libraries for you to build your applications.

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What is Elastic Beanstalk?

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Deploys resources necessary to peform:
- Adjusting capacity
- Load Balancing
- Automatic Scaling
- Application Health Monitoring

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What is AWS CloudFormation?

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Infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to model, provision, & manage AWS & 3rd Party resources using a template.

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What is Amazon VPC?

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud:
Enables you to provision isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch resources in virtual network you define.

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What is AWS Direct Connect?

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Allows you to establish dedicated private connection b/w data center and VPC.

  • Helps reduce network costs & increase bandwidth amount that can travel through your network.
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What is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?

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Managed service that lets you to run relational databases in AWS Cloud.
- Automates tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, & backups.
- Many RDS engines offer encryption at rest & encryption in transit.

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What is the AWS Personal Health Dashboard?

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Provides alerts & remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that can affect you.

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What is AWS Transcribe?

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Converts audio to text.

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What is Amazon Comprehend?

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Helps you discover patterns in text.

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What is Amazon Fraud Detector?

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Identities fraudulent activities.

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What is Amazon Lex?

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Builds voice & text chatbots.

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What is Amazon SageMaker?

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Build, train, & deploy Machine Learning models quickly.

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What is AmazonDeep Racer?

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1/18 scale race that you can use to test reinforcement learning models.

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What is Amazon Augmented AI?

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Machine Learning service which makes it easy to build workflows needed for human review.

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What is Amazon ElastiCache?

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Adds caching layers on top of database to improve read times of common requests.
Supports Redis & Memcached.

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What is AWS Marketplace?

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Digital catalog that includes software listings from independent software vendors where you can find, test, & buy software that runs on AWS.

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What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

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Online tool that inspects AWS environment & provides real-time guidance in accordance w/ AWS best practices.

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What is AWS Quick Starts?

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Automate workload deployments into AWS environment

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What is AWS Artifact?

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Access AWS security & compliance reports & special online agreements

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What is Amazon Athena?

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Serverless interactive query service to analyze data in S3 using standard SQL. Only pay for queries that you run.

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What is Amazon CloudSearch?

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AWS Cloud Service search solution for website or application.

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What is Amazon DataZone?

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Data Management Service used to publish data & make it available to business data catalog through personalized web application.

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What is Amazon EMR?

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Big data platform for processing big data using open source tools such as Apache tools which makes it easy for you set up, operate, & scale big data environments by automating time-consuming tasks.

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What is Amazon FinSpace?

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Data Management & Analytics service purpose for Financial Services Industry (FSI) which reduces time for finding & preparing petabytes of financial data for analysis to minutes.

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What is Data Firehose?

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Fully managed service that automatically scales to match data throughput & doesn’t need ongoing administration which makes it easy to load streaming data into data stores & analytics tools.

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What is Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink?

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Fully managed service lets you use an Apache Flink application to process streaming data.

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What is AWS Client VPN?

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Managed client-based VPN service that lets you access AWS & on-premises network resources where you can access them using an OpenVPN based VPN Client.

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What is Amazon Connect?

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Omnichannel cloud contact center that provides customer support.

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What is Amazon Site-to-Site VPN?

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Creates encrypted network path b/w on-premises network & AWS Cloud via your internet (connection not private & not consistent).

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What is Amazon Polly?

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ML service that converts text to audio.

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What is Amazon Translate?

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ML translation service.

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What is Amazon Textract?

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ML service that extracts text from scanned documents.

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What is Amazon CloudWatch?

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Monitors AWS resources & applications that you run in real time.

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What is AWS Config?

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Assess, audit, & evaluate configurations of AWS resources.

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What is AWS IAM?

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Manage access to AWS services & resources securely.

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What is Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

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Caching service used to reduce response times from DynamoDB table.

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What is AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)?

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Migrate data from on-premises databases to database in AWS.

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What is Migration HUB?

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Service that helps plan & track application migrations.

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What is AWS Application Migration Service?

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Automated life-&-shift solution that migrates physical services & databases to EC2 instances.

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What is Application Discovery Service?

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Collects info a/b usage & configuration of on-premises services to help plan migration to AWS.

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What is AWS Cloud Map?

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Creates & maintains map of backend services.

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What is AWS Systems Manager OptsCenter?

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Central location of IT Professionals to view, investigate, & resolve operational work items.

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What is AWS Global Accelerator?

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Networking service that improves performance of users’ network traffic & uses AWS global network infrastructure.

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What is AWS Global Infrastructure?

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Global network of data centers & resources that provides cloud computing services.

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What is AWS Code Pipeline?

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Manages code movement b/w individual services.

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What is Amazon Macie?

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Automated Security Assessment service that helps improve security & compliance of AWS deployed applications.

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What is AWS Secrets Manager?

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Helps you protects secrets needed to access applications, services, & IT resources.

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What is AWS Code Artifact

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Managed artifact repo service that shares software ready for deployment.

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What is AWS CodeBuild?

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Helps users to automatically compile source code, run unit tests, & produce software packages ready for deployment.

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What is AWS CodeCommit?

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Source code version control service.

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What is AWS Transit Gateway?

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Central Hub to connect Virtual Private Clouds (VPC’s) & on-premises networks.

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What is AWS VPC?

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Provisioning logically isolated section of AWS Cloud to launch AWS resources in virtual network.

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What is AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)?

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Web service for securely controlling access to AWS services using policy of least privilege (granted only the permissions necessary to perform their required tasks).

AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (14 decks)

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