AWS Services Flashcards
Object file storage option, durable storage, lower overall CPU resources, URL per object, Cost = storage class and GB. HTTP code for successful upload is 200.
Simple Storage Service (S3)
Fast, easy, secure data transfer over long distances
S3 Transfer Acceleration
Not frequently accessed, data archive, most cost efficient, import data = API, console, S3 lifecycle policies. Expedited is 1-5 minutes, Standard is 3-5 hours, and Bulk is 5-12 hours.
Glacier
Virtual hard disk in the cloud. Snapshots are stored on Amazon S3.
Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Move tens of TB of data into the cloud
SnowBall
Golden Image or Gold Load
Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
Like S3 but for on-prem and AWS instances. Allows you to connect multiple EC2 instances concurrently using file-level protocols.
Elastic File System (EFS)
Data Warehouse, ideally suited to analytics using SQL queries
Redshift
Fully managed NoSQL. Scale at the push of a button without incurring any downtime.
DynamoDB
Data redundancy across regions: read replicas, automated patches & backups, resize capacity, see the list of supported DBs in the AWS FAQ. No need to manage operating systems. Supports automated backups as a default configuration.
Relational Database Service (RDS)
Migrate existing databases from your datacenter
Database Migration Service (DMS)
A large number of data sets processed using Hadoop framework
EMR
Fully managed MySQL
Aurora
Decouple resources, store messages across distributed systems
Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Send and receive notifications, can be used for building and integrating loosely-coupled, distributed applications.
Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Send and receive emails
Simple Email Service (SES)
Edge location, content delivery network CDN, DDOS protection
CloudFront
Security testing performed by the customer on permit from AWS
Penetration Testing
Host resources, virtual network dedicated to your account
Virtual Pricate Cloud (VPC)
Infrastructure as Code
CloudFormation
Deploy and manage apps
Elastic Beanstalk
Cache web app data
ElastiCache
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Support Plans
Connect on-premise to AWS
AWS VPN
Image and video analysis
Rekognition
Turns text into speech
Polly
Collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time
Kinesis
Connects on-premises software appliance with cloud storage
Storage Gateway
Provides authentication, authorization, and user mgmt for your web & mobile apps
Cognito
Config and operate apps using Puppet or Chef
OpsWorks
cloud-based contact center
Connect
Runs batch jobs efficiently
AWS Batch
media transcoding
Elastic Transcoder
Coordinate components of distributed applications as a series of steps in a visual workflow.
AWS Step Functions
Designed to be used for operational analytics.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Load data from Amazon S3, transform it, and move it to another destination.
AWS Glue
Create sophisticated, interactive graph applications
Amazon Neptune
Pay per use, virtual servers, how to secure: security groups, network access lists Cost factors (Instance type, AMI, Region)
Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
Flexible, spontaneously terminated, noncritical apps
Spot Instance
You pay for compute capacity by the second with no long-term commitments. You have full control over its lifecycle—you decide when to launch, stop, hibernate, start, reboot, or terminate it. short-term, irregular workloads that cannot be interrupted. dev and test environments
On Demand Instance
At least a year, continuous high usage +90-100% Models No upfront, partial upfront, full upfront. A billing discount applied to the use of On-Demand Instances in your account
Reserved Instances
Distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances, multi AZ not multi region
Elastic Load Balancer
Demand-based in and out scaling
Auto Scaling
Compute service running containerized applications
ECS
Publish serverless app to developers or customers
Serverless Application Repository
An easy way to create virtual private servers for developers
Lightsail
Acts as a hub that controls how traffic is routed among all the connected networks for VPCs and on-premise data centers.
AWS Transit Gateway
DDOS protection
AWS Shield
Cost optimization, security, infrastructure recommendations
Trusted Advisor
Security compliance, inspect EC2 against common threats
Inspector
Unauthorized access, service to activate IAM, extra layer of protection
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Metrics collection tracking, CPU utilization
CloudWatch
Governance, compliance and risk audits access to resources. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events
CloudTrail
Domain name service (DNS), register a domain. Healthcheck to web & app servers
Route 53
Self-service audit artifact retrieval portal that provides customers with on-demand access to AWS’ compliance documentation and AWS agreements
AWS Artifact
Helps customers centrally govern their environments as they grow and scale their workloads on AWS
AWS Organizations
Certificate Manager
Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM)
Encryption key management
CloudHSM
Threat intelligence based on VPC flow logs, cloudTrail event logs, and DNS logs
GuardDuty
Provides the ability to detect inadvertent data leaks of PII and user credential data.
Amazon Macie
Provides resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notificiations to enable security and regulatory compliance.
AWS Config
auto build, test, and deploy apps
Code Pipeline
analyses apps identifying issues & opportunities for optimization
X-Ray
Complete tasks across distributed application components
Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
specialized graph-based directory store that provides a foundational building block for developers
Cloud Directory
Hosts Git repositories, used for software version control.
CodeCommit
Serverless code service
Lambda
Enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale.
SageMaker
Service used to run Docker containers
Fargate
Review & forecast spending, manage costs
Cost Explorer
Number of servers migrated, from on-premise to AWS
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Estimate monthly bill
Simple Monthly Calculator
Web-based interface to manager AWS resources
AWS Management Console
Open source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in your command-line shell
AWS CLI