AWS Services

Question 1

EC2

Answer 1

Compute: Elastic Compute Cloud

Question 2

Elastic Load Balancing

Answer 2

Compute: Load balancing for EC2

Question 3

Cloud Watch

Answer 3

Compute: Collect logs and metrics from EC2 nodes

Question 4

Auto Scaling

Answer 4

Compute: Policy defined instance creation

Question 5

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 5

Compute: Abstraction layer for simplified deployment of auto scaled EC2 instances

Question 6

LightSail

Answer 6

Compute: PAAS; Simplest EC2 deployments (e.g. WordPress site)

Question 7

Lambda

Answer 7

Compute: Chainable functions

Question 8

Serverless Repo

Answer 8

Compute: Repo of pre-built Lambda functions

Question 9

Outposts

Answer 9

Compute: Run AWS APIs on your own infrastructure

Question 10

Elastic Container Registry

Answer 10

Compute: Place to store and find Docker Containers

Question 11

Elastic Container Service

Answer 11

Compute: API for starting, stopping, and allocating VMs to your containers and then configuring them in the environment

Question 12

Kubernetes Service

Answer 12

Compute: Kubernetes for AWS

Question 13

Fargate

Answer 13

Compute: Containers behave like serverless functions removing the need to allocate EC2 instances

Question 14

App Runner

Answer 14

Compute: Point it to a container and it handles all orchestration

Question 15

S3

Answer 15

Storage: Simple storage service

Question 16

Glacier

Answer 16

Storage: Higher latency; low cost

Question 17

Elastic Block Storage

Answer 17

Storage: low latency, intensive data processing;

Question 18

Elastic File System

Answer 18

Storage: Performant and fully managed; High cost

Question 19

SimpleDb

Answer 19

Database: Genera purpose No-SQL; too simple

Question 20

DynamoDB

Answer 20

Database: Document DB; scales, fast, cheap;

Question 21

DocumentDB

Answer 21

Database: Copy of MongoDB

Question 22

Elastic Search

Answer 22

Database: Full text search engine

Question 23

RDS

Answer 23

Database: Relational database service

Question 24

Aurora

Answer 24

Database: Amazon proprietary RDBMS with higher performance

Question 25

Aurora Serverless

Answer 25

Database: Only pay for the time the database is in use

Question 26

Neptune

Answer 26

Database: Graph database

Question 27

Elastic Cache

Answer 27

Database: Fully managed version of Redis in-memory database (fast/low latency)

Question 28

Timestream

Answer 28

Database: Time-series database for queries and analytics on time based data

Question 29

Quantum Ledger

Answer 29

Database: Immutable set of crypto transactions (blockchain)

Question 30

RedShift

Answer 30

Analytics: Data warehouse to move away from Oracle but still use SQL

Question 31

Lake Formation

Answer 31

Analytics: Data lake for large repositories of unstructured data

Question 32

Kinesis

Answer 32

Analytics: Capture realtime data streams and process them to feed the data to visualization software

Question 33

Map Reduce

Answer 33

Analytics: Run Apache Spark to stream and process massive data sets using parallel, distributed algorithms

Question 34

MSK

Answer 34

Analytics: Fully managed Kafka service

Question 35

Glue

Answer 35

Analytics: Serverless ETL tooling

Question 36

Data Exchange

Answer 36

Machine Learning: Purchase and subscribe to data sources

Question 37

SageMaker

Answer 37

Machine Learning: Connect to and build ML models to process data; tensor flow, pytorch; jupiter notebook

Question 38

Rekognition

Answer 38

Machine Learning: Image recognition

Question 39

Lex

Answer 39

Machine Learning: Conversational ML

Question 40

IAM

Answer 40

Dev Essentials: Identity and access manager

Question 41

Cognito

Answer 41

Dev Essentials: Login with a variety of methods

Question 42

SNS

Answer 42

Dev Essentials: Simple notification service

Question 43

SES

Answer 43

Dev Essentials: Simple email service

Question 44

Cloud Formation

Answer 44

Dev Essentials: (Infrastructure as code) Create templates that describe AWS resources required and CloudFormation provisions and configures them

Question 45

Amplify

Answer 45

Dev Essentials: SDKs to connect to your infrastructure on AWS

Question 46

Budgets

Answer 46

Dev Essentials: Cost estimation

Question 47

Edge Locations

Answer 47

Act as on and off ramps to the AWS Global network

Question 48

AWS Global Accelerator

Answer 48

Uses edge locations to quickly reach AWS resources in other regions

Question 49

CloudFront

Answer 49

CDN that uses edge locations as an off-ramp to provide storage and compute near the user

Question 51

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Answer 51

Generate a special URL to allow users to upload files to a nearby edge location that can then be rapidly moved via the AWS network to reach S3

Question 52

Direct Connect

Answer 52

Private/dedicated connection between your data center and AWS