AWS Services Flashcards
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift is a fast fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. It is optimized for datasets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1000 per terabyte per year a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeCommit is a version control service that enables you to privately store and manage Git repositories in the AWS cloud.
Amazon Silk
Amazon Silk is a next-generation web browser available only on Kindle Fire. Built on a split architecture that divides processing between the client and the Amazon cloud Silk is designed to create a faster more responsive mobile browsing experience.
Amazon MQ
Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Amazon MQ provides interoperability with your existing applications and services. Amazon MQ works with your existing applications and services without the need to manage operate or maintain your own messaging system.
AWS IoT Device Defender
AWS IoT Device Defender is an AWS IoT security service that allows you to audit the configuration of your devices monitor your connected devices to detect abnormal behavior and to mitigate security risks. It gives you the ability to enforce consistent security policies across your AWS IoT device fleet and respond quickly when devices are compromised.
AWS Elemental MediaStore
AWS Elemental MediaStore is a video origination and storage service that offers the high performance predictable low latency and immediate consistency required for live origination. With AWS Elemental MediaStore you can manage video assets as objects in containers to build dependable cloud-based media workflows.
Alexa for Business
Alexa for Business gives you the tools you need to manage Alexa devices enroll users and assign skills. You can build your own voice skills using the Alexa Skills Kit and the Alexa for Business API. You can also make them available as private skills for your organization.
AWS Deep Learning AMIs
The AWS Deep Learning AMIs equip machine learning practitioners and researchers with the infrastructure and tools to accelerate deep learning in the cloud at any scale. You can quickly launch Amazon EC2 instances on Amazon Linux or Ubuntu preinstalled with popular deep learning frameworks. Examples include Apache MXNet and Gluon TensorFlow the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) Caffe Caffe2 Theano Torch and Keras. You can use these frameworks to train sophisticated custom AI models; experiment with new algorithms; or to learn new skills and techniques. Whether you need Amazon EC2 GPU or CPU instances there is no additional charge for the Deep Learning AMIs. You only pay for the AWS resources needed to store and run your applications.
AWS CloudTrail
With AWS CloudTrail you can monitor your AWS deployments in the cloud by getting a history of AWS API calls for your account including API calls made via the AWS Management Console the AWS SDKs the command line tools and higher-level AWS services. You can also identify which users and accounts called AWS APIs for services that support CloudTrail the source IP address the calls were made from and when the calls occurred. You can integrate CloudTrail into applications using the API automate trail creation for your organization check the status of your trails and control how administrators turn CloudTrail logging on and off.
Amazon SQS
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices distributed systems and serverless applications. Amazon SQS moves data between distributed application components and helps you decouple these components.
AWS Mobile SDK for Android
The AWS Mobile SDK for Android provides libraries code samples and documentation for developers to build connected mobile applications using AWS.
AWS Snowball
AWS Snowball is a service for customers who want to transport terabytes or petabytes of data to and from AWS or who want to access the storage and compute power of the AWS Cloud locally and cost effectively in places where connecting to the internet might not be an option.
AWS IoT 1-Click
AWS IoT 1-Click is a service that makes it easy for simple devices to trigger AWS Lambda functions that execute a specific action. Some examples of possible actions include calling technical support reordering goods and services or locking and unlocking doors and windows. Simple devices are cloud-connected single-purpose devices such as Wi-Fi and mobile network connected buttons.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a managed service that makes it easy todeploy operate and scale Elasticsearch a popular open-source search and analytics engine. Amazon ES also offers security options high availability data durability and direct access to the Elasticsearch API.
AWS Quick Starts
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Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift is a fast fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. It is optimized for datasets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1000 per terabyte per year a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.
Amazon Pinpoint
Amazon Pinpoint is a campaign management web service for mobile apps. Use Amazon Pinpoint to understand app user behavior and define which users to engage. Amazon Pinpoint helps you determine which push notifications to send decide when to deliver the notifications and track the results of your campaign.
AWS IoT Analytics
AWS IoT Analytics provides advanced data analysis for AWS IoT. You can collect large amounts of device data process messages and store them. You can then query the data and run sophisticated analytics to make accurate decisions in your IoT applications and machine learning use cases.
Amazon Sumerian
Amazon Sumerian is a set of tools for creating high-quality virtual reality (VR) experiences on the web. With Sumerian you can construct an interactive 3D scene without any programming experience test it in the browser and publish it as a website that is immediately available to users.
Amazon Neptune
Amazon Neptune is a fast reliable fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of Neptune is a purpose-built high-performance graph database engine that is optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency. Neptune supports the popular graph query languages Apache TinkerPop Gremlin and W3Cs SPARQL allowing you to build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. Neptune powers graph use cases such as recommendation engines fraud detection knowledge graphs drug discovery and network security.
Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon GuardDuty is a continuous security monitoring service.Amazon GuardDuty can help to identify unexpected and potentially unauthorized or malicious activity in your AWS environment.
AWS DeepLens
AWS DeepLens pairs a connected HD camera developer kit with a set of sample projects to help developers learn machine learning concepts using hands-on computer vision use cases. AWS DeepLens is preconfigured to work with multiple AWS services to provide a deep learning framework that is optimized for AWS DeepLens so it is easy to build computer vision applications. AWS DeepLens is powerful enough for experts but designed to help all developers get started quickly with little to no experience in deep learning.
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizeable computing capacityliterally servers in Amazon’s data centersthat you use to build and host your software systems.
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT enables secure bi-directional communication between Internet-connected things (such as sensors actuators embedded devices or smart appliances) and the AWS Cloud over MQTT and HTTP.
Amazon Cloud Directory
Amazon Cloud Directory is a cloud-native directory that can store hundreds of millions of application-specific objects with multiple relationships and schemas. Use Cloud Directory when you need a cloud-scale directory to share and control access to hierarchical data between your applications. With Cloud Directory you can organize application data into multiple hierarchies to support many organizational pivots and relationships across directory information.
AWS Systems Manager
Use AWS Systems Manager to organize monitor and automate management tasks on your AWS resources.
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway is a service that connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between your on-premises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure in the cloud.
Amazon ECS
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable fast container management service that makes it easy to run stop and manage Docker containers on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
Amazon QuickSight
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Amazon SNS
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a web service that enables applications end-users and devices to instantly send and receive notifications from the cloud.
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content for example .html .css .php image and media files to end users. CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of edge locations. When an end user requests content that you’re serving with CloudFront the user is routed to the edge location that provides the lowest latency so content is delivered with the best possible performance. If the content is already in that edge location CloudFront delivers it immediately. If the content is not currently in that edge location CloudFront retrieves it from an Amazon S3 bucket or an HTTP server (for example a web server) that you have identified as the source for the definitive version of your content.
AWS Greengrass
AWS Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS onto physical devices so they can act locally on the data they generate while still using the cloud for management analytics and durable storage. AWS Greengrass ensures your devices can respond quickly to local events and operate with intermittent connectivity. AWS Greengrass minimizes the cost of transmitting data to the cloud by allowing you to author AWS Lambda functions that execute locally.
AWS Blockchain Templates
Use AWS Blockchain Templates to quickly create and deploy open-source blockchain frameworks on AWS such as Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric.
AWS SDK for Ruby
The AWS SDK for Ruby helps you to get started building applications using AWS infrastructure services including Amazon S3 Amazon EC2 Amazon DynamoDB and more.
Amazon WAM
Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (Amazon WAM) offers a fast flexible and secure way for you to deploy and manage applications for Amazon WorkSpaces.
Amazon VPC
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to launch Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources into a virtual network that you’ve defined. This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that you’d operate in your own data center with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure of AWS.
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Welcome to the Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) documentation. Amazon SES is anemail sending and receiving service that provides an easy cost-effective way for you to send email.
Amazon Pinpoint
Amazon Pinpoint is a campaign management web service for mobile apps. Use Amazon Pinpoint to understand app user behavior and define which users to engage. Amazon Pinpoint helps you determine which push notifications to send decide when to deliver the notifications and track the results of your campaign.
Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage and you pay only for the queries you run. To get started simply point to your data in S3 define the schema and start querying using standard SQL.
Identity & Access Management
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service for securely controlling access to AWS services. With IAM you can centrally manage users security credentials such as access keys and permissions that control which AWS resources users and applications can access.
Amazon Connect
Amazon Connect is a contact center as a service (CCaS) solution that offers easy self-service configuration and enables dynamic personal and natural customer engagement at any scale.
AWS Mobile SDK for iOS
The AWS Mobile SDK for iOS provides a library code samples and documentation for developers to build connected mobile applications using AWS.
Amazon SWF
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) makes it easy to build applications that coordinate work across distributed components. In Amazon SWF a task represents a logical unit of work that is performed by a component of your application. Coordinating tasks across the application involves managing intertask dependencies scheduling and concurrency in accordance with the logical flow of the application. Amazon SWF gives you full control over implementing tasks and coordinating them without worrying about underlying complexities such as tracking their progress and maintaining their state.
Amazon RDS
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that makes it easier to set up operate and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.
Amazon Lumberyard (Beta)
Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitchwith full source. Lumberyard provides a growing set of tools to help you create the highest quality games engage massive communities of fans and connect games to the vast compute and storage of the cloud. Participate in the forums or learn about new changes on our blog.
Amazon Polly
Amazon Polly is a Text-to-Speech (TTS) cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech. You can use Amazon Polly to develop applications that increase engagement and accessibility. Amazon Polly supportsmultiple languages and includes a variety of lifelike voices so you can build speech-enabled applications that work in multiple locations and use the ideal voice for your customers.
Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Comprehend uses natural language processing (NLP) to extract insights about the content of documents without the need of any special preprocessing. Amazon Comprehend processes any text files in UTF-8 format. It develops insights by recognizing the entities key phrases language sentiments and other common elements in a document. Use Amazon Comprehend to create new products based on understanding the structure of documents. With Amazon Comprehend you can search social networking feeds for mentions of products scan an entire document repository for key phrases or determine the topics contained in a set of documents.
Amazon Macie
Amazon Macie is a security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover classify and protect sensitive data in AWS. Amazon Macie recognizes sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property and provides you with dashboards and alerts that give visibility into how this data is being accessed or moved.
AWS Batch
AWS Batch enables you to run batch computing workloads on the AWS Cloud. Batch computing is a common way for developers scientists and engineers to access large amounts of compute resources. AWS Batch removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of configuring and managing the required infrastructure.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is storage for the Internet. You can use Amazon S3 to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time from anywhere on the web. You can accomplish these tasks using the simple and intuitive web interface of the AWS Management Console.
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudSearch is a fully managed service in the cloud that makes it easy to set up manage and scale a search solution for your website. Amazon CloudSearch enables you to search large collections of data such as web pages document files forum posts or product information. With Amazon CloudSearch you can quickly add search capabilities to your website without having to become a search expert or worry about hardware provisioning setup and maintenance. As your volume of data and traffic fluctuates Amazon CloudSearch automatically scales to meet your needs.
Amazon ECR
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store manage and deploy Docker container images.
AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications as a series of steps in a visual workflow. You can quickly build and run state machines to execute the steps of your application in a reliable and scalable fashion.
AWS Artifact
AWS Artifact is a web service that enables you to download AWS security and compliance documents such as ISO certifications and SOC reports.
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service that compiles your source code runs unit tests and produces artifacts that are ready to deploy.
AWS SDK for .NET
The AWS SDK for .NET makes it easier for Windows developers to build .NET applications that tap into the cost-effective scalable and reliable AWS infrastructure services such as Amazon S3 Amazon EC2 and DynamoDB.
Amazon VPC
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to launch Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources into a virtual network that you’ve defined. This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that you’d operate in your own data center with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure of AWS.