AWS Study Cards 1 Flashcards
Lex
Lex is AI chatbot — Clue: ALexa, which you can chat/speak to, from Amazon!
Polly
Polly is a text to speech — Clue: Imagine a parrot polly reading from text!
Snowball
Snowball are devices which can be used to transfer large amount of data from you to cloud. — Clue, imagine throwing a heavy snowball.
Cloudfront
CloudFront: CDN — Clue: Raining from the cloud, video reaches from CDN edge location, caching, etc.
Quicksight
QuickSight is a business intelligence for data visualisation — Clue, quickly peak into businesses via charts — stock market charts.
G.O.B.S.P.P. (6 perspectives of AWS CAF)
(Gob’s pee pee)
G - governance
O - operations
B - business
S - security
P - people
P - Platform
Who are some AWS CAF stakeholders?
Business Managers
Finance Managers
Budget Owners
Strategy Stakeholders
Human Resources
Employee Managers
CIO (Chief Information Officer)
Enterprise Architects
Business Analysts
Portfolio Managers
CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
IT Managers
Solutions Architects
CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)
IT Security Analysts
IT Security Managers
IT Operations Managers
IT Support Managers
What are the 3 fundamental drivers of cost with AWS?
1) Compute
2) Storage
3) Data transfer
What does TCO stand for?
“Total cost of ownership”. TCO is the financial estimate to help identify direct and indirect costs of a system. Used to compare the costs of an on-premise infrastructure environment versus on AWS, and help build a case for adoption.
What is the Pricing Calculator
The AWS Pricing Calculator is a tool designed to estimate AWS costs for specific scenarios. It allows you to model a cloud use case before building it, explore specific price points, and determine which contract terms and instance types suit your use case.
This tool provides insights that can help you make informed decisions about AWS services, enabling you to plan AWS costs and usage for new scenarios or determine the cost of using new services and pricing models.
Additionally, it offers comparisons of various AWS usage patterns and configurations, provides automatic recommendations for EC2 instances based on your budget, and helps assess traffic needs to identify appropriate services.
What is AWS Organizations?
AWS Organizations is a free governance tool provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables users to create and manage multiple AWS accounts from a single location. It helps in centralizing and governing all AWS accounts, making it easier to manage resources, apply policies, and control access across multiple accounts within an organization. Users can organize their accounts into logical groups called organizational units (OUs) and set policies to regulate the use of AWS services across these accounts, down to the API level.
AWS Organizations also facilitates consolidated billing, allowing users to have a single billing statement for all accounts in their organization.
Additionally, it integrates with other AWS services to define central configurations, security mechanisms, audit requirements, and resource sharing across accounts.
What are OU’s?
Organizational units are the separate accounts in an AWS Organizations entity.
What are some key benefits of AWS Organizations?
Policy-based account management
Group based account management
API’s that automate account management
Consolidated billing
What are IAM policies?
IAM policies are JSON documents that specify permissions for AWS services. These policies can be reused with different services and assigned to various people and teams within an organization. There are two types of policies in AWS: AWS Managed Policies, which are provided by default and consist of commonly used services and their associated permissions, and Customer-Managed Policies, which are custom policies built to meet specific needs and use cases.
IAM policies are crucial for controlling access at a granular level, allowing organizations to manage permissions precisely. For instance, a policy can enforce SSL and prevent member accounts from leaving the organization for all principals in the organization, or it can restrict maximum permissions for roles created by a CI/CD pipeline.
Policies can also include conditions that determine how and when the bindings are applied, adding an additional layer of control over permissions.
What are the 4 steps to setting up AWS Organizations?
1) Create organization
2) Create OU’s
3) Create service control policies
4) Test Restrictions
What are the different ways to access AWS Organizations?
- AWS Management Console
- AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) tools
- Software Development Kits (SDK’s)
- HTTPS Query Application Programming Interface (API)
What is AWS Management Console?
The AWS Management Console is a web-based application that provides a user-friendly interface for managing all AWS cloud services. It allows users to launch virtual machines, manage resources, and handle data storage, such as S3 buckets, with just a few clicks.
This console is accessible from any browser or mobile app, making it easy to manage your infrastructure from anywhere.
It serves as a central hub for all AWS services, simplifying cloud resource management by providing easy configuration and monitoring options.
______ is a set of tools and services designed to help manage cloud spending and billing activities efficiently. It is divided into three major clusters: billing, cost management, and usage reports.
Billing includes features such as viewing and paying invoices, managing billing preferences, and understanding monthly charges.
Cost management tools help optimize resource allocation and minimize unnecessary expenses, while usage reports provide detailed insights into cloud resource consumption.
Billing and Cost Management
What are the 3 main tools utilized in Billing and Cost Management?
1) AWS Budgets
2) AWS Cost and Usage Report
3) AWS Cost Explorer
______ is a dedicated team that provides a primary point of contact for AWS Billing and AWS Support, offering personalized assistance with AWS service selection, architecture review, and optimization recommendations.
For AWS Enterprise customers, the ______ team is the resource to contact for billing and account questions.
This team offers technical support and guidance to AWS customers, helping them with their AWS infrastructure operations.
AWS Support Concierge
AWS ______ is a tool provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that acts as a personal cloud expert to help you follow AWS best practices. It inspects your AWS environment and provides recommendations to optimize costs, improve performance, enhance security, and increase reliability. ______ evaluates your AWS resources using predefined monitoring rules called “checks” across several categories, including cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. It offers real-time assistance to help you provision your resources optimally.
AWS Trusted Advisor
What does T.A.M. stand for?
Technical Account Manager
An AWS ______ provides consultative architectural and operational guidance tailored to your applications and use-cases to help you achieve the greatest value from AWS.
They work closely with your team to provide an ongoing series of engagements tailored to your needs, including strategic Business Reviews, Security Improvement Programs, guided Well-Architected reviews, Cost Optimization workshops, and a range of other services.
As a______, they act as your single point of contact for any technical concerns and are responsible for building and maintaining relationships with customers to ensure their success and satisfaction.
Technical Account Manager (TAM) (only available for Enterprise plan)
What are the 4 Support plans offered by AWS?
1) Basic
2) Developer
3) Business
4) Enterprise
For certain AWS services, like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), you can invest in reserved capacity. What options are available for Reserved Instances?
1) Auri (All Upfront Reserved Instance)
2) Puri (Partial Upfront Reserved Instance)
3) Nuri (No Upfront Reserved Instance)
Where can a customer go to get more details about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) billing activity that took place 3 months ago?
AWS Cost Explorer
True or false? To receive the discounted rate associated with Reserved Instances, you must make a full, upfront payment for the term of the agreement.
False.
True or False? Storage is usually billed per gigabyte
True.
For services using tiered pricing, the cost per gigabyte is less when you use more.
What AWS tool lets you explore AWS Services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS?
AWS Pricing Calculator
As AWS grows, the cost of doing business is reduced and savings are passed back to the customer with lower pricing. What is this optimization called?
Economies of scale
True or false? AWS offers some services at no charge, such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS Identity and Access Management, Consolidated Billing, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Automatic Scaling, AWS OpsWorks and AWS Cloud Formation. However, you might be charged for other AWS Services that you use in conjunction with these services.
True.
True or false? Unlimited services are available with the AWS free tier to new AWS customers for 12 months following their AWS signup date.
False.
AWS Free Tier only applies to certain services and options.
A global company with a large number of AWS accounts is seeking a way in which they can centrally manage billing and security policies across all accounts. Which AWS Service will assist them in meeting these goals?
A. AWS Organizations.
B. AWS Trusted Advisor.
C. IAM User Groups.
D. AWS Config.
A) AWS Organizations
Which service provides object-level storage in AWS?
A. Amazon EBS.
B. Amazon Instance Store.
C. Amazon EFS.
D. Amazon S3.
D) Amazon S3
A company is concerned that they are spending money on underutilized compute resources in AWS. Which AWS feature will help ensure that their applications are automatically adding/removing EC2 compute capacity to closely match the required demand?
A. AWS Elastic Load Balancer.
B. AWS Budgets.
C. AWS Auto Scaling.
D. AWS Cost Explorer.
C) AWS Auto Scaling
