AWS Services - def Flashcards
Delivers scalable, pay-as-you-go compute capacity in the cloud.
Compute - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
A web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data.
Compute - Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down according to conditions you define.
Compute - Auto Scaling
Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.
Compute - Elastic Load Balancing
A web service that makes it easy to distribute content with low latency via a global network of edge locations.
Content Delivery - CloudFront
A highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
Networking - Amazon Route 53
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.
Networking - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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.
Networking - AWS Direct Connect
A web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
Database - Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
A fully-managed, high performance, NoSQL database service that is easy to set up, operate, and scale.
Database - Amazon DynamoDB
A web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud.
Database - Amazon ElastiCache
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.
Database - Amazon Redshift
Provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the Web.
Storage - Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
An extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup.
AStorage - mazon Glacier
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.
Storage - Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport.
Storage - AWS Import/Export
A service connecting an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization’s on-premises IT environment and AWS’s storage infrastructure.
Storage - AWS Storage Gateway
Enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users. Enables you to create and manage users in AWS, and enables you to grant access to AWS resources for users managed outside of AWS in your corporate directory.
Deployment & Mgmt - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
A web service that provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources, starting with Amazon EC2.
Deployment & Mgmt - Amazon CloudWatch
An even easier way to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. You simply upload your application, and automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.
Deployment & Mgmt - AWS Elastic Beanstalk
A service that gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of related AWS resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion.
Deployment & Mgmt - AWS CloudFormation
A service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services as well as on-premise data sources at specified intervals.
Deployment & Mgmt - AWS Data Pipeline
A DevOps platform for managing applications of any scale or complexity on the AWS cloud.
Deployment & Mgmt - AWS OpsWorks
A service that helps you meet corporate, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated appliances within the AWS cloud. You maintain full ownership, control and access to keys and sensitive data while Amazon manages the appliances in close proximity to your applications and data for maximum performance.
Deployment & Mgmt - AWS CloudHSM
A fully-managed search service in the cloud that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their applications.
Application Services - Amazon CloudSearch
Helps you coordinate the processing steps in your applications and manage distributed execution state.
Application Services - Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
Provides a hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers, making it easy to build automated workflow between Web services.
Application Services - Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
A web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud.
Application Services - Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
A highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for the cloud.
Application Services - Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
A fully managed service that makes it easy to convert media files in the cloud with scalability and at a low cost.
Application Services - Amazon Elastic Transcoder
