AWS Services Flashcards
Learn all of the AWS Service offerings.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Compute - Delivers scalable, pay-as-you-go compute capacity in the cloud.
Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Compute - A web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data.
Auto Scaling
Compute - Allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down according to conditions you define.
Elastic Load Balancing
Compute - Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
CloudFront
Content Delivery - A web service that makes it easy to distribute content with low latency via a global network of edge locations.
Amazon Route 53
Networking - A highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Networking - Lets you provision a private, isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. You can define a virtual network topology that closely resembles a traditional network that you might operate in your own datacenter.
AWS Direct Connect
Networking - makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premise to AWS, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Database - A web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
Amazon DynamoDB
Database - A fully-managed, high performance, NoSQL database service that is easy to set up, operate, and scale.
Amazon ElastiCache
Database - A web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud.
Amazon Redshift
Database - A fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Offers you fast query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using the same SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications you use today.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Storage - Provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the Web.
Amazon Glacier
Storage - an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Storage - provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance.