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What is AWS Lambda?

Serverless

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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.
Integrates directly with event notification & invokes code automatically

Have 15 minutes maximum run-time.

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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?

Networking & Content Delivery

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Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple resources.

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What is Amazon SNS?

Application Integration

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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?

Application Integration

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

Uses FIFO metholodogy.
Cannot introduce duplicates.

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What is Amazon ECS?

Containers

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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?

Containers

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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?

Compute

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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?

Networking & Content Delivery

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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 Route 53?

Networking & Content Delivery

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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?

Management & Governance

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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)?

Management & Governance

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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.

Take SDK take complexity out of coding by prociding language-specific APIs for AWS services.

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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?

Management & Governance

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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?

Design secure workloads and applications

Design Secure Architectures

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud:
Regional service that 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?

Networking & Content Delivery

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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?

Machine Learning

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Helps you discover patterns in text.

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What is Amazon Fraud Detector?

Machine Learning

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Identifies fraudulent activities.

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What is Amazon Lex?

Machine Learning

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Builds voice & text chatbots.

Machine Learning

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What is Amazon SageMaker?

Machine Learning

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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?

Database

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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?

Management & Governance

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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?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

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Access AWS security & compliance reports & special online agreements

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What is Amazon Athena?

Analytics

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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?

Analytics

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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?

Networking & Content Delivery

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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?

Machine Learning

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ML service that converts text to audio.

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What is Amazon Translate?

Machine Learning

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ML translation service.

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What is Amazon Textract?

Machine Learning

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ML service that extracts text from scanned documents.

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What is Amazon CloudWatch?

Management and Governance

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

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What is AWS Config?

Management & Governance

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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)?

Migration & Transfer

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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?

Networking & Content Delivery

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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?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

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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?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

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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?

Networking & Content Delivery

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

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What is AWS VPC?

Networking & Content Delivery

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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)?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

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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).

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What is AWS Online Tech Talks?

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Live, online presentations that cover range of topics at varying technical levels.

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What is AWS Classroom Training?

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In-person/virtual courses led by accredited AWS instructors which offer hands-on labs, exercises, & best practices to help customers.

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What is AWS Blog?

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What is AWS Forums?

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AWS resources that enable customers to interact w/ other AWS users & get feedback & support.

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What is AWS Storage Gateway?

Storage

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Gives your on-premises & in-cloud access to unlimited cloud storage where you can deploy as VM, Hyper-v, or Linux KVM virtual environment, or EC2 instance w/in Amazon VPC.

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What is Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)?

Storage

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Provides block-level storage volumes for Amazon EC2 instances.

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What is AWS Server Migration Service?

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Enables users to migrate on-premises servers to AWS.

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What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder?

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Converts media files from original source format into different formats that will play on various devices.

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What is Network Load Balancer?

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Elastic Load Balancing that operates at OSI Model Layer 4 & routes requests to targets based on destination IP address & port & doesn’t support path-based routing.

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What is Application Load Balancer?

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Elastic Load Balancing that operates at OSI Model Layer 7 & routes requests to targets based on request content.

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What is AWS OpsWorks Load Balancer?

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Feature of AWS OpsWorks that enables users to attach Elastic Load Balancing load balancer to layer of stack.

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What is Custom Load Balancer?

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User-defined load balancer that runs on Amazon EC2 instance.

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What is AWS Ground Station?

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Enables customers to communicate w/ satellites & download data from orbit.

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What is AWS Device Farm?

Front-End Web and Mobile

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Enables customers to test mobile & web applications on real devices in AWS Cloud

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What is Amazon QuickSight?

Analytics

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Fully managed, scalable, & server-less business intelligence service that allows users to create & share interactive dashboards & charts.

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What is Amazon Personalize?

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Managed machine learning service that customers can use to generate personalized recommendations for users.

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What is AWS Compute Optimizer?

Management & Governance

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Analyzes AWS resources’ configuration & utilizes metrics to provide you w/ recommendations.

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What is AWS Directory Service?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

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Provide many ways to use Microsoft Active Directory (AD) w/ other AWS services.

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What is Amazon Forecast?

Machine Learning

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Time-series forecasting service that uses same machine learning technology used at Amazon.com.

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What is AWS Managed Keys?

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KMS keys in your account that are created, managed, & used on your behalf by AWS service integrated with AWS KMS.

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What are AWS Owned Keys?

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Collection of KMS keys that AWS service owns & manages for use in multiple AWS accounts.

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What are CMKs (Customer Managed Keys)?

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Customer managed keys KMS keys in AWS account that you create, own, and manage

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What are AWS KMS Key?

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An AWS KMS key is logical representation of cryptographic key.

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What is AWS X-Ray?

Developer Tools

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Analyze & debug serverless & distributed applications such as those built using microservices architecture.

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What is Amazon Pinpoint?

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Allows marketers & developers to deliver customer-centric engagement experiences by capturing customer usage data to draw real-time insights.

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What is the AWS Abuse team?

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Assists you when AWS resources are used to engage in abusive behavior.

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What is AWS Glue?

Analytics

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Fully managed to extract, transform, & load (ETL) service that makes it easy for cutomers to prepare & load their data for analytics.

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What is AWS Professional Services?

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Global team of experts that help achieve your desired business outcomes when using AWS Cloud.

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What is the AWS Partner Network (APN)?

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Global partner program for tech & consulting business that use AWS to build solutions for customers.

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What is AWS Systems Manager?

Management & Governance

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Gives visibility & control of infrastructure on AWS.

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What is AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

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Create & manage cryptographic keys & control their use across AWS services & in your applications.

98
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What is Amazon Keyspaces?

Database

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Database service compatible w/ Apache Cassandra.

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What is Amazon Timestream?

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Serverless database service that stores & analyzes time-stamped data.

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What is VPC Endpoint?

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Virtual Network Component w/in AWS that allows resources inside VPC to privately connect to supported AWS Services w/out using public internet.

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What is AWS Cost & Usage Report (AWS CUR)?

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Contains comprehensive set of AWS cost & usage data available.

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What is Compute Optimizer?

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Helps customers find right AWS resources to meet application performance needs.

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What is AWS Cost Anomaly Detection?

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Help reduce cost surprises with machine learning.

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What are AWS Cost & Usage reports (AWS CUR)?

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Track AWS usage & provide estimated charges for account.

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What is AWS Cloud9?

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Cloud-based IDE that lets you write, run, & debug code in browser.

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What is Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)?

Containers

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Store, manage, & deploy Docker container images.

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What are AWS Local Zones?

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AWS Infrastructure deployment that place compute, storage, database, database, & other services closer to large population industry & IT centers.

108
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What is AWS Wavelength?

Compute

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AWS infrastructure designed for low latencies to mobile devices and endusers

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What is AWS Fargate?

Serverless

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Serverless compute engine for containers that works w/ both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) & Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS).

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What is Amazon MQ?

Application Integration

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Managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ & Rabbit MQ that makes it easy to set up & operate message brokers on AWS.

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What is AWS Systems Manager Session Manager?

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Fully-managed service that provides interactive browser-based shell & CLI experience.
No need to open new ports and you will not be charged.

112
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What is Amazon FSx?

Storage

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Fully managed file system service that allows users to launch, run, & scale file systems in cloud.

113
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What is Amazon Kendra?

Machine Learning

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ML powered search service that helps users find information across organization’s content.

114
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What is AWS Compliance?

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Has customers understand AWS controls to maintain security & data protection in AWS Cloud.

115
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What is Amazon Cognito?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

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Helps developers add authentication, authorization, & user management to their web & mobile apps.

It’s for mainly 3rd party & social media networks.

116
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What is AWS Identity Pool?

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Directory that stores user identifiers & generates temporary AWS credentials for users of app.

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What is Amazon Kinesis?

Analytics

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Collect & process large streams of data records in real time.

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What is Amazon Glue?

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Serverless data integration service to discover, prepare, move, & integrate data.

119
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What is Amazon OpenSearch?

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Ingest, secure, search, aggregate, view, & analyze data for use cases s/a log analytics, application search, enterprise search, & more.

120
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What is Amazon EventBridge?

Application Integration

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Serverless service that uses events to connect application components together making it easier to build scalable event-driven applications.

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What is AWS PrivateLink?

Networking & Content Delivery

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Networking service that allows secure connectivity (without public internet) b/w AWS virtual private clouds (VPC’s), AWS Services, & on-premises networks.

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What is AWS Foundation?

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Provides guided path to help customers deploy, configure, & secure workloads while ensuring they are ready for on-going operations in cloud.

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What is AWS Migration Evaluator?

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Data-driven assessments & business cases for AWS cloud planning & migration.

124
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What is Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration (S3TA)?

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Enables fast, easy, & secure transfer of files over long distances b/w client & Amazon S3 bucket. Leverages CloudFront’s globally distributed AWS Edge Locations.

125
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What is AWS OpsWork

A

Configuration management service that proves managed instances of Chef & Puppet.

126
Q

What is a VPC Peering Connection?

A

Networking connection b/w two VPC’s that enables you to route traffic b/w them privately & can communicate with each other in the same network.

127
Q

What is U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) security key?

A

Device you can plug into USB port on your computer.

128
Q

What are AWS Step Functions?

Application Integration

A

Workflow service that helps build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, & create data & ML pipelines.

129
Q

What is AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS)?

130
Q

What is the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)?

A

Open source software development framework to model & provision your cloud application resources using familiar languages.

131
Q

What is AWS DataSync?

Migration & Transfer

A

Service that helps move & replicate data b/w AWS storage services & other systems.

132
Q

What is Amazon Inspector?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Automatically scans AWS resources for software vulnerabilities & unintended network exposure.

133
Q

What is S3 Lifecycle Configuration?

A

Set of rules that define actions that Amazon S3 applies to group of objects:
- Transaction Actions: move objects to another storage class
- Expiration Actions: Delete objects after a specified retention period.

134
Q

What is AWS CloudHSM?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that allows users to generate & use their own encryption keys on AWS & provides secure storage for cryptographic keys & processes cryptographic operations.

Helps users:
- Meet data security compliance requirements
- Deploy workloads w/ high reliability & low latency
- Manage HSM capacity & control costs.
- Pay by hour
- Demonstrate compliance w/ security & privacy regulations.

135
Q

What is AWS IAM Identity Center?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Used to manage sign-in security & access across multiple AWS accounts.

Built on top of AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM) to simplify access management to multiple AWS accounts, AWS applications, & other SAML-enabled cloud applications.

Mainly for AWS Users.

136
Q

What is AWS Batch?

Compute

A

Run batch computing workloads on AWS Cloud.

137
Q

What is Amazon Timestream?

A

Database service that stores & analyzes time-series data.

138
Q

What is Amazon Neptune?

Database

A

Fully managed graph database service that helps users build & run applications that work w/ large, connected datasets.

139
Q

What is Amazon IoT Core?

A

Managed cloud platform from AWS that allows connected devices to securely interact w/ other devices & cloud applications.

140
Q

What is AWS Control Tower?

Management & Governance

A

Tool that helps users set up & manage secure, multi-account AWS management by creating landing zone quickly.

141
Q

What is AWS Well-Architected Tool?

Management & Governance

A

Service in cloud that provides consistent process for measuring your architecture using AWS best practices.

142
Q

What is AWS CodeArtifact?

A

Managed service that helps organizations store, publish, & share software packages for application development.

143
Q

What is AWS CodeStar?

A

Cloud-based service that helps users develop, build, & deploy applications on AWS.

144
Q

What is Amazon Workspaces?

A

Cloud-based virtual desktop service that allows users to access applications & data from web & variety of devices.

145
Q

What is Amazon Forecast?

A

Cloud-based service that uses machine learning to generate forecasts.

146
Q

What is CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?

A

Automated IT Resilience solution that lets you recover your environment from unexpected infrastructure or application outages, data corruption, ransomware, or other malicious attacks.

147
Q

What is Amazon EC2 Image Builder?

A

Simplifies building, testing, & deployment of VM & container images for use on AWS or on-premises.

148
Q

What are AWS Provisioned IOPS?

A

Volumes backed by SSDs that are highest performance volumes designed for critical, IOPS-intensive, & throughput-intensive workloads that require low latency.

149
Q

What is AWS Firewall Manager?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Service that helps centrally manage & enforce firewall rules across multiple AWS accounts & resources.

Uses services: AWS WAF, AWS Shield.

150
Q

What is AWS Certificate Manager?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Helps you manage & deploy SSL/TLS certificates for your websites & applications which secure & make sure data b/w users & servers is encrypted.

151
Q

What is Amazon Image Builder?

A

Service that has you automatically create & maintain VM images or Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in AWS which are used to launch EC2 instances in cloud.

152
Q

What is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

A

Allows you to collect, process, & analyze real-time streaming data at scale for immediate insights & actions.

153
Q

What is AWS CloudHub?

A

Fully managed integration service that enables secure & scalable communication b/w multiple VPC’s across different regions in AWS.

154
Q

What is Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager?

A

Automates creation, retention, & deletion of EBS snapshots & EBS-backed AMIs based on user-defined policies to help manage lifecyle of EBS resources.

155
Q

What is AWS Data Exchange?

Analytics

A

Allows users to securely find, suscribe to, & use 3rd party data from variety of sources for analytics & machine learning applications.

156
Q

What is AWS Data Pipeline?

Analytics

A

Cloud-based service that automates movement & transformation of data b/w different AWS compute & storage services, as well as on-premises data sources.

157
Q

What is AWS Lake Formation?

Analytics

A

Simplifies process of setting up, securing, & managing data lake on AWS, enabling users to quickly collect, store, & analyze data from various sources.

158
Q

What is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MFK)?

Analytics

A

Fully managed service that makes it easy to set up, operate, & scale Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming applications w/out need to manage underlying infrastructure.

159
Q

What is Amazon OpenSearch Service?

Analytics

A

Fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, & scale OpenSearch clusters for real-time search, analytics, & log monitoring applications.

160
Q

What is Amazon Redshift?

Analytics, Database

A

Fully managed data warehouse service that enables fast & scalable analytics on large datasets using SQL-based queries & machine learning tools.

161
Q

What is Amazon AppFlow?

Application Integration

A

Fully managed integration service that enables users to securely transfer data b/w AWS services & 3rd-party applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, & more, w/out writing code.

162
Q

What is AWS AppSync?

Application Integration, Serverless

A

Fully managed service that simplifies development of GraphQL APIs by handling real-time data synchronization, offline access, & data querying from multiple sources like databases, APIs, & other services.

163
Q

What is AWS Budgets?

AWS Cost Management

A

Allows users to set custom cost & usage budgets for their AWS resources & receive alerts when thresholds are exceeded.

164
Q

What is AWS Cost and Usage Report?

AWS Cost Management

A

Detailed, customizable report that provices comprehensive data on your AWS costs, usage, & resource consumption helping you analyze & optimize spending.

165
Q

What is AWS Cost Explorer?

AWS Cost Management

A

Allows users to visualize, analyze, & explore their AWS spending patterns over time, helping to identify cost drivers & optimize usage.

166
Q

What are AWS Savings Plans?

AWS Cost Management

A

Flexible pricing models that offer significant savings on AWS compute usage in exchange for committing to consistent usage level over 1 or 3 year term.

flexible pricing models that offer significant savings on AWS compute usage in exchange for committing to a consistent usage level over a one- or three-year term.

167
Q

What is Amazon EC2?

Compute

A

Scalable compute service that allows users to run virtual servers, called instances, on-demand in cloud to host applications & workloads.

168
Q

What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?

Compute

A

Automatically adjusts numbes of EC2 instances when according to traffic demands.

169
Q

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Compute

A

Fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, manage, & scale web applications & services by automatically handling infrastructure provisioning, load balancing, & application health monitoring.

170
Q

What is AWS Serverless Application Repository?

Compute

A

Fully managed service that allows developers to discover, deploy, & publish serverless applications & components built on AWS Lambda & other serverless services.

171
Q

What is VMware Cloud on AWS?

Compute

A

Hybrid cloud service that enables organizations to run VMware-based workloads on AWS infrastructure integrating on-premises VMWare enviornments w/ cloud.

172
Q

What is Amazon ECS Anywhere?

Containers

A

Run & manage Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) clusters on your premises hardware or in other cloud enviornments, extending capabilities of ECS beyond AWS.

173
Q

What is Amazon EKS Anywhere?

Containers

A

Run & manage Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters on your premises infrastructure or in other cloud enviornments, bringing benefits of EKS to data centers or edge locations.

174
Q

What is Amazon EKS Distro?

Containers

A

Open-source distribution of Kubernetes software used by Amazon EKS, which you can run anywhere (on-premises, other clouds, own data center) giving consistent & secure Kubernetes experience across enviornments.

175
Q

What is Amazon Aurora

Database

A

Fully managed, MySQL & PostgreSQL-compatible relational database service that offers high performance, scalability, & availability w/ automatic backups, encryption, & failover.

176
Q

What is Amazon Aurora Serverless?

Database

A

Fully managed, auto-scaling relational database service that adjusts it’s capacity based application needs/traffic.

177
Q

What is DocumentDB?

Database

A

Fully managed NoSQL document database service designed to be compatible w/ MongoDB giving scalable, secure, & high performance storage for JSON data.

178
Q

What is Amazon DynamoDB?

Database

A

Fully managed serverless NoSQL database service that provides fast & predictable performance w/ scalability for applications requiring low-latency data access.

179
Q

What is Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)?

Database

A

Fully managed, immutable, & transparent ledger database that provides centralized & cryptographically verifiable transaction log for applications requiring data integrity & auditing.

180
Q

Da

What is Amazon RDS?

Database

A

Fully managed cloud database service that simplifies setup, operation, & scaling of relational databases, supporting engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, & Oracle.

181
Q

What is AWS Amplify?

Front-End Web and Mobile

A

Set of tools & services that enables developers to build & deploy scalable, full-stack web & mobile applications quickly, w/ built-in features like authentication, storage, & APIs.

182
Q

What is Amazon API Gateway?

Front-End Web and Mobile

A

Fully managed service that enables developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, & secure APIs for accessing backend services at any scale.

183
Q

What is Amazon Pinpoint?

Front-End Web and Mobile

A

Scalable marketing communications service that allows business to send targeted, personalized messages across multiple channels, including email, SMS, push notifications, & voice.

184
Q

What is Amazon Rekognition?

Machine Learning

A

ML-based service that enables developers to add image & video analysis features, s/a object detection, facial recognition, & text extraction, to applications.

185
Q

What is Amazon Transcribe?

Machine Learning

A

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that converts audio files into accurate, searchable text, making it easier to analyze & process spoken content.

186
Q

What is AWS Auto Scaling?

Management & Governance

A

Service that automatically adjusts capacity of your Amazon EC2 instances, load balancers, & other resources based on traffic demand to ensure optimal performance & cost efficiency.

187
Q

What is AWS CloudTrail?

Management & Governance

A

Service that enables governance, compliance, & auditing by logging & monitoring API calls made on your AWS account, providing detailed records of actions taken on your resources.

188
Q

What is AWS Health Dashboard?

Management & Governance

A

Provices real-time visibility into AWS services & regions status giving detailed info on incidents, outages, & scheduled maintenence affecting your resources.

189
Q

What is AWS License Manager?

Management & Governance

A

Helps you manage & track software licences across AWS & on-premises enviornments, ensuring compliance & optimizing usage.

190
Q

What is Amazon Managed Grafana?

Management & Governance

A

Fully managed service that lets you visualize & analyze operational data from many sources use Grafana w/out managing infrastructure.

191
Q

What is Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus?

Management & Governance

A

Fully managed monitoring service that enables you to collect, store, & query Prometheus metrics at scale, w/out managing infrastructure.

192
Q

What is AWS Organizations?

Management & Governance

A

Centrally manage & organize multiple AWS accounts, enabling consolidating billing, policy management, & account governance at scale.

193
Q

What is AWS Proton?

Management & Governance

A

Fully managed service that automates deployment, management, & scaling of containerized & serverless applications, helping developers & operations teams work together.

194
Q

What is AWS Service Catalog?

Management & Governance

A

Lets organizations create, manage, & distribute approved collections AWS resournces, letting secure deployment of applications & infrastructure across teams.

195
Q

What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder?

Media Services

A

Fully managed media transcoding service that converts audio & video files into formats that can be played on many devices.

196
Q

What is Amazon Kinesis Video Streams?

Media Services

A

Fully managed service that lets you stream, store, & analyze video data from connected devices in real time.

197
Q

What is AWS Application Discovery Service?

Migration & Transfer

A

Plan migration to AWS by automatically collecting & organizing info a/b on-premises data center’s applications, dependencies, & infrastructure.

198
Q

What is AWS Application Migration Service?

Migration & Transfer

A

Simplifies & automates migration of applications from on-premises or other clouds to AWS, by continuously replicating live server data w/ minimal downtime.

199
Q

What is AWS Migration Hub?

Migration & Transfer

A

Gives central location to track & manage progress of application migrations across many AWS & partner migration tools letting you see into migration projects.

200
Q

What is AWS Snow Family?

Migration & Transfer

A

Set of phyiscal devices & services that help organizations securely transfer lots of data to/from cloud either through edge computing & offline data transport.

201
Q

What is AWS Transfer Family?

Migration & Transfer

A

Fully managed service that enables secure & scalable file transfers over SFTP, FTPS, & FTP directly in/out of S3 or EFS.

202
Q

What is AWS Site-to-Site VPN?

Networking & Content Delivery

A

Fully managed service that makes secure & encrypted connection b/w an organization on-premises network & Amazon VPC over the internet.

203
Q

What is AWS Audit Manager

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Service that helps organizations automate auditing process & accessing AWS usage to make sure compliance w/ industry standards & regulations.

204
Q

What is Amazon Detective?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Service that helps analyze & investigate security data to identify & understand potential security issues in your AWS enviornment.

205
Q

What is Amazon GuardDuty?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Threat detection that always monitors for bad/unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts & workloads.

206
Q

What is AWS Network Firewall?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Managed, scalable firewall service that provides network traffic filtering & protection for Amazon VPCs.

207
Q

What is AWS Resource Access Manager

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Service that allows you to securely share AWS resources across accounts or w/in organization.

208
Q

What is AWS Security Hub?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Centralized security service that aggregates, organizes, & prioritizes security findings from many AWS services & 3rd-party tools to help monitor & respond to security threats.

209
Q

What is AWS Shield?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Managed DDoS protection service that helps safeguard applications running on AWS from DDoS attacks.

210
Q

What is AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall)?

Security, Identity, & Compliance

A

Managed service that protects web applications from common web exploits by allowing you to define customizable rules to filter & monitor HTTP/HTTPS requests.

211
Q

What is Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)?

Storage

A

Scalable, fully managed file storage service that gives shared access to file systems for many EC2 instances & on-premises servers.

212
Q

What is Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)?

Storage

A

Scalable, durable, & low-cost object storage service that allows you to store & retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on web.

213
Q

What is Amazon S3 Glacier?

Storage

A

Low-cost, long-term archival storage servivce designed for data that’s not accessed that much, offering retrieval times from minutes to hours.

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