AWS Services

Question 1

EC2

Answer 1

(Elastic Cloud Computing). VM servers.

Question 2

ECS

Answer 2

Run and manage docker containers at scale.

Question 3

Lambda

Answer 3

Upload code to use as you wish, without infrastructure.

Question 4

Lightsail

Answer 4

VPS (Virtual Private Service). Automated/simple EC2 without knowing AWS stuff.

Question 5

S3

Answer 5

(Simple Storage Service). Permanent cloud disk storage buckets.

Question 6

EFS

Answer 6

(Elastic File System). Like a NAS for multiple VMs axs.

Question 7

Glacier

Answer 7

Archival storage.

Question 8

Snowball

Answer 8

Physical disk for mailing data to AWS.

Question 9

Storage Gateway

Answer 9

VM in datacenter that replicates data to AWS.

Question 10

RDS

Answer 10

(Relational Database Service). Host any RDS.

Question 11

DynamoDB

Answer 11

Host any non-relational DBs.

Question 12

Elasticache

Answer 12

Cache common DB queries to lighten load on DB.

Question 13

Red Shift

Answer 13

Data warehousing queries to lighten load on DB.

Question 14

AWS Migration Hub

Answer 14

Track apps migrating to AWS.

Question 15

Application Discovery Service

Answer 15

Discover and track apps & dependencies.

Question 16

Database Migration Service

Answer 16

Migrate DBs to AWS.

Question 17

Server Migration Service

Answer 17

Migrate Servers to AWS.

Question 18

Snowball

Answer 18

Physical disk for mailing data to AWS.

Question 19

VPC

Answer 19

(Virtual Private Cloud). Like a datacenter with firewalls, LANs etc.

Question 20

CloudFront

Answer 20

CMS.

Question 21

Route53

Answer 21

DNS.

Question 22

API Gateway

Answer 22

Develop own APIs for services to talk to.

Question 23

Direct Connect

Answer 23

Private tunnel into your VPC.

Question 24

CloudWatch

Answer 24

Monitoring EC2.

Question 25

CloudFormation

Answer 25

Use scripts to provision infrastructure.

Question 26

CloudTrail

Answer 26

Logs all infrastructure changes.

Question 27

Config

Answer 27

Monitors and snapshots whole AWS config.

Question 28

Trusted Advisor

Answer 28

Audits and advises on various disciplines.

Question 29

EMR

Answer 29

(Elastic Map Reduce). For analysing big data.

Question 30

Kinesis

Answer 30

Ingest large data into AWS e.g. tweet feeds.

Question 31

IAM

Answer 31

(Identity Access Management). Manage security and access.

Question 32

Inspector

Answer 32

Agent running on EC2 instances to look for vulnerabilities.

Question 33

Certificate Manager

Answer 33

SSL certs.

Question 34

CloudHSM

Answer 34

(Hardware Security Module). Dedicated place to store keys for accessing EC2 instances.

Question 35

Directory Service

Answer 35

For integrating AD into AWS.

Question 36

WAF

Answer 36

(Web Application Firewall). App/content-aware level protection e.g. evil scripts.

Question 37

Shield

Answer 37

DDOS protection.

Question 38

SNS

Answer 38

(Simple Notification Service). For billing alarms.

Question 39

SQS

Answer 39

(Simple Queue Service). For queueing uploads etc. to your EC2 instances.

Question 40

SWF

Answer 40

(Simple Workflow Service). Workflows for physical processes.

Question 41

Simple Email Service

Answer 41

SMTP.

Question 42

Work Docs

Answer 42

Dropbox equivalent.