AWS Services Flashcards

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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Allow understanding of your service limits (and how close you are to them). Allow you to request limit increses or shut down resources before the limit is reached.

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AWS Cloud HSM

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Cloud-Based Hardware Security Module (HSM)

Enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys on the AWS Cloud

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AWS SQS

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Simple Queue Service is a highly reliable, scalable message queuing service that enables asynchronous message-based communication between distributed components of an application.

Microservices +++

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AWS CAF

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Cloud Adoption Framework

=> Help organizations design and travel an accelerated path to successful cloud adoption

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AWS Cloud Directory

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AWS Cloud Directory
=> Cloud-native, highly scalable, high-performance directory service provides web-based directories to make it easy for you to organize and manage all your application ressources

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Amazon SWF

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Simple Workflow Service

=> Web service that makes it easy to coordinate work across distributed application components

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Amazon ACM

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AWS Certificate Manager

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Amazon DMS

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Database Migration Service

=> Used to migrate databases from your on-premises database system into AWS

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AWS Application Discovery Service

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Helps systems integrators quickly and reliably plan application migration projects by automatically identifying applcations running in on-premises data centers, their associated dependencies, and their performance profiles

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AWS Config

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Can discover existing and deleted AWS resources, determine your overall compliance against rules, and dive into configuration details of a resource at any point in time

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AWS Service Health Dashboard

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Publish most up-to-the-minute information on AWS service Availability

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Amazon Cognito

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Lets customer add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to their web and mobile apps quickly and easily (using Google or Facebook accounts)

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Amazon GuardDuty

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Threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts and workloads

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AWS Storage Gateway

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Hybrid Storage service that enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS Cloud storage

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AWS OpsWorks

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Configuration Management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet

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Amazon Rekognition

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Service that makes it easy to add image analysis to your applications

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Dynamo DB Global Tables

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Ideal for massively scaled applications with globally dispersed users

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On-Demande Instance

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You pay for compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments

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Reserved Instances

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Minimum of 1 year reservation

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Standard Reserved Instance

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Provide the most significant discount (75%) and are best suited for steady-state usage

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Convertible Reserved Instance

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Discount (54%) and the capability to change the attributes of the Reserved Instance as long as the exchange results in the creation of Reserved Instance of eaqual or greater value

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Scheduled Reserved Instance

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Theses are available to launch within the time windows you reserve

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Spot Instances

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Less cost and possible interruptions

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Dedicated Instances

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Specific hardware for this instance

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AWS Fargate

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Compute engine for deploying and managing containers, which frees you from having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure

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AWS SMS

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Server Migration Service

=> Agentless Service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS

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AWS Global Accelerator

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Networking service that improves the availability and performance of the applications that you offer to your global users

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Amazon Kinesis

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Analytics service that allows you to easily collect, process and analyze video and data streams in real time

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Amazon QuickSight

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Fast business analytics service, that can be used to deliver insights quickly to everyone in your organization

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Amazon ECR

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Elastic Container Registry

=> Docker container registry that allows developers to store, manage and deploy docker container image

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Amazon Athena

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Interactive Query service that is mainly used to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL

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Amazon EMR

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Elastic MapReduce
=> Helps you analyze and process vast amounts of data by distributing the computational work across a cluster of virtual servers running in the AWS Cloud
=> Using Hadoop

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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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Enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and an S3 bucket

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AWS Snowball

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Petabyte-Scale data transport solution that uses devices designed to be secure to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud

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AWS Snowmobile

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Exabyte-Scale data transfer service, used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS

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Operational Excellence

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Ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to improve suporting processes and procedures

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Reliability

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Recover from infrastructure or service disruptions

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Amazon Aurora

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Mysql and PostgreSQL compatible relational database built for the Cloud, combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with cost-effectiveness

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Application container makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud.

Developers simply upload their application code, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load-balancing, auto-scaling, and application health-monitoring.

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AWS X-Ray

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Helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications in production or under development, such as those built using microservice architecture

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AWS Inspector

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Helps you to identify security vulnerabilities as well as deviations from security best practices in applications.

NOT for troubleshooting performance issues

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AWS CloudTrail

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Service allows you to track all users actions that are taken in your AWS Account