AWS Services Flashcards

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Amazon EC2

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Service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers on AWS

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and

services across a specific list of technologies

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AWS Lambda

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Service that enables you to use compute resources
without having to launch or manage the underlying
infrastructure - this is leveraged in serverless
architectures

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4
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Amazon Route 53

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Highly-available AWS Domain Name Service (DNS)
service that can be leveraged in creating highly
available and fault tolerant applications. This is a global
service.

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5
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Amazon VPC

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Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you
define

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AWS Direct Connect

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Cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your data center to AWS

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Amazon API Gateway

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Fully managed API management service that handles
concepts like authentication, logging, and throttling for
your API layer

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Amazon CloudFront

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Amazon‘s global Content Delivery Network (CDN)
service that enables your users to get content from a
server that is closest to them

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Elastic Load Balancing

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Service that enables you to distribute traffic across
multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, Lambda).
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10
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Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3)
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Service that provides object storage for objects up to 5 TB in size - with no limit on the total storage

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11
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S3 Glacier and Glacier

Deep Archive

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Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are

designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to access.

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12
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Amazon Elastic Block

Store (EBS)

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Persistent block storage designed for use with a single EC2 server. It can scale to support petabytes of data and supports different volume types.

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13
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Amazon Elastic File

System (EFS)

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Fully managed NFS file system designed for Linux

workloads with support for petabytes of data

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AWS Snowball

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Petabyte scale data transfer service where a physical

device is delivered to your organization and returned by a local carrier then loaded into Amazon S3

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AWS Snowmobile

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Exabyte scale data transfer service where a ruggedized shipping container is sent to your office then loaded into Amazon S3

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16
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Amazon Simple
Notification Service
(SNS)

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Managed pub/sub (publish / subscribe) messaging
service. This can enable fan-out architecture with one
message triggering multiple actions.

17
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Amazon Simple Queue

Service (SQS)

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Managed message queue service. This can enable fault tolerant and serverless applications. This supports
standard and FIFO (first-in first-out) queues.

18
Q

AWS Step Functions

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Manages the orchestration of complex workflows which are defined using Amazon States Language. It can be leveraged in a serverless architecture.

19
Q

AWS CloudTrail

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Service that provides audit trail for all services used in an AWS account (across all interaction methods)

20
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AWS CloudFormation

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Managed service for launching infrastructure based on templates

21
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Amazon CloudWatch

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Monitoring and management service that integrates
with most AWS services. It provides both metrics and
alarms based on those metrics.

22
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AWS Config

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Provides continual analysis of AWS resources to ensure they are meeting rules defined in the service

23
Q

AWS Systems Manager

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Service that provides a collection of tools and insight

into operational data for central management of those cloud or on-premise instances.

24
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AWS Control Tower

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System that launches a multi-account configuration

based on AWS best practices

25
Q

Amazon Relational
Database Service
(RDS)

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Managed service for relational databases including

support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora

26
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Amazon Aurora

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MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database that was built for the cloud

27
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Amazon DynamoDB

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Fully managed NoSQL database service that has
extremely low latency and scaling based on
configuration

28
Q

Amazon Redshift

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Managed petabyte scale data warehousing solution on AWS. In addition, Redshift Spectrum support querying
exabytes of data stored in Amazon S3.

29
Q

Amazon Elasticache

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Fully-managed in-memory data store that supports

memcached and Redis engines

30
Q

AWS Database
Migration Service
(DMS)

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Service that enables you to move your data (from

popular commercial and open source databases) easily onto the cloud