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AWS Terms Flashcards

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What is AWS Management Console?

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AWS Management Console is a web-based interface provided by AWS that allows users to manage and monitor various AWS services and resources from a single unified console, providing an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI).

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What is an API?

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AWS API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of protocols and tools that allows developers to programmatically interact with AWS services and resources, enabling automation and integration of AWS services into custom applications and workflows.

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What is AWS Cost Explorer?

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AWS Cost Explorer is an AWS tool that provides users with insights into their AWS spending, allowing them to analyze and monitor their usage and costs over time to optimize spending. It offers customized cost reports and cost allocation tags, among other features, to help identify cost-saving opportunities.

Similar to Azure Cost Management and Billing.

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What is AWS Cost and Usage Report?

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AWS Cost and Usage Report is a detailed report that provides comprehensive data on your AWS usage and costs, including detailed billing information, which can be used to analyze and optimize your AWS spending. It provides a granular view of your AWS usage and cost patterns, including data on resource usage, pricing, and discounts, among other features.

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What is AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)?

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AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is a tool provided by AWS that allows users to interact with AWS services through a command-line interface, enabling automation and scripting of various tasks. It provides a unified interface across multiple AWS services and regions, and can be used to manage AWS resources, automate workflows, and perform administrative tasks.

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What is AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)?

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AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) is a service provided by AWS that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances, improving application availability, fault tolerance, and scalability. It provides three types of load balancers: Application Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, and Classic Load Balancer, each with different capabilities and features.

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What are AWS regions?

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AWS regions are geographically separate locations around the world where AWS provides its cloud computing services, each with multiple availability zones to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and low latency. Each region is isolated from other regions and comprises multiple data centers, offering various AWS services, features, and pricing, and allowing customers to choose the most optimal location for their workloads based on factors such as compliance, latency, and cost.

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What are AWS Availability Zones (AZs)?

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AWS Availability Zones (AZs) are physically separate data centers within an AWS region, each with independent power, cooling, and networking infrastructure, and connected with low-latency links. They are designed to provide high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery capabilities to AWS customers, enabling them to run their applications and services in different AZs to protect against downtime and data loss.

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What is AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

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AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an approach to managing and provisioning cloud infrastructure through machine-readable definition files, which enable automation, version control, and reproducibility of infrastructure configurations. AWS provides multiple IaC tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS Terraform, and AWS CDK, that allow customers to define and deploy infrastructure resources using code, reducing manual effort and increasing scalability, consistency, and reliability.

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What is the AWS Management Console?

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The AWS Management Console is a web-based interface for managing and administering AWS services through a user-friendly graphical interface.

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What is AWS Marketplace?

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AWS Marketplace is an online store for buying and deploying third-party software, services, and data in the AWS Cloud.

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What are AWS Professional Services?

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AWS Professional Services are AWS experts and consultants who provide specialized guidance and support to help customers design, migrate, and optimize their workloads on AWS.

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What is the AWS Personal Health Dashboard?

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The AWS Personal Health Dashboard is a service that provides personalized and proactive alerts and guidance for maintaining the health and availability of AWS resources and services.

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What are AWS Security Groups?

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AWS Security Groups are virtual firewalls that control the inbound and outbound traffic of EC2 instances and other resources in an Amazon VPC.

Similar to Azure Network Security Groups

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What is AWS Service Catalog?

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AWS Service Catalog is a service that allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that can be easily and centrally deployed on AWS.

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What is AWS Service Quotas?

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AWS Service Quotas is a service that enables customers to view and manage their usage limits (quotas) for AWS services, and request increases if necessary.

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What are AWS software development kits (SDKs)?

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AWS SDKs are software development kits provided by AWS that allow developers to access and integrate AWS services into their applications using programming languages such as Java, Python, .NET, and more.

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What is AWS Support Center?

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AWS Support Center is a service provided by AWS that allows customers to create, manage, and view support cases, and access AWS documentation, resources, and technical support.

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What are the AWS Support tiers?

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The AWS Support tiers are Basic, Developer, Business, and Enterprise

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What is AWS Client VPN?

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AWS Client VPN is a fully-managed service that allows customers to securely connect remote users to AWS resources and applications, without the need for custom VPN solutions or hardware appliances.

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What is AWS Athena?

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AWS Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that allows customers to easily analyze and query data stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL, without the need for infrastructure management or setup.

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What is AWS Kinesis?

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AWS Kinesis is a suite of managed services that allows customers to collect, process, and analyze streaming data in real-time, with features such as Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Firehose, and Kinesis Data Analytics.

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What is AWS QuickSight?

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AWS QuickSight is a cloud-based business intelligence service that allows users to create and publish interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualizations from various data sources.

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What is AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS)?

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AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed messaging service that enables the sending and receiving of messages or notifications to and from various cloud services, mobile applications, and distributed systems.

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What is AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

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AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables the decoupling and scaling of distributed microservices, serverless applications, and other systems, by allowing them to communicate asynchronously and reliably.

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What is AWS Batch?

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AWS Batch is a cloud-based service that allows you to efficiently execute large-scale batch jobs on AWS, without having to provision, manage, or monitor the infrastructure yourself.

Batch is used for running batch computing workloads at scale

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What is AWS EC2?

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AWS EC2 is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, with customizable virtual servers that can run a variety of operating systems and be scaled up or down as needed, offering a wide range of instance types and purchasing options to optimize costs.

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What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a cloud service that automates the process of deploying and scaling web applications and services, by providing a platform for developers to upload their code and let AWS handle the rest, including capacity provisioning, load balancing, and application health monitoring, making it easier and faster to deploy and manage web applications on AWS.

Elastic Beanstalk is used for deploying and managing web applications and services

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What is AWS Lambda?

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Back side: AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that allows you to run your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying infrastructure required to run and scale your applications, making it easy to build and deploy applications and services without worrying about server management.

Lambda is used for running small pieces of code in response to events and triggers

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What is AWS Lightsail?

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AWS Lightsail is a simple and cost-effective cloud service that provides easy-to-use pre-configured virtual private servers, storage, databases, and networking for small-scale web applications and projects, with a flat monthly fee and a user-friendly interface, without requiring extensive AWS knowledge or experience.

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What is AWS Fargate?

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AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters, providing a fully-managed platform to deploy and scale containers on the AWS Cloud, with on-demand pricing and flexible scaling options.

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What is AWS Aurora?

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AWS Aurora is a high-performance, fully managed relational database service that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, providing up to five times better performance than standard MySQL databases, with automatic scaling, high availability, and data durability features.

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What is AWS DynamoDB?

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AWS DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and flexible performance, seamless scalability, and automatic data replication across multiple geographic regions, with pay-as-you-go pricing and a wide range of features for managing unstructured data at any scale.

DynamoDB is used for storing and retrieving large volumes of unstructured data.

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What is AWS ElastiCache?

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AWS ElastiCache is a fully managed in-memory data store and cache service that provides high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective caching and data storage solutions for your applications, with support for popular open-source engines such as Redis and Memcached.

ElastiCache is used for caching frequently accessed data

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What is AWS RDS?

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AWS RDS is a fully managed relational database service that is optimized for transactional workloads and supports popular relational database engines such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server. It’s used for applications that require standard relational databases.

RDS is for transactional workloads

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What is AWS Redshift?

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is a fully managed data warehouse service that is optimized for analytics workloads and can handle large volumes of structured and semi-structured data. It’s used for data warehousing, business intelligence, and data analytics applications.

Redshift is for analytical workloads.

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What is Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

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Amazon Elastic Block Store is a fully managed block storage service that provides persistent, high-performance storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances, offering a variety of volume types optimized for different workloads, with features such as encryption, snapshots, and replication to improve data durability and availability.

Similar to Azure Managed Disks

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What is AWS Snowball Edge?

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AWS Snowball Edge is a petabyte-scale data transfer and edge computing device that provides a physical way to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS, with built-in compute power for running custom applications at the edge. It is a ruggedized device that can operate in harsh environments and is designed for use cases such as data migration, content distribution, and IoT processing.

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What is AWS Storage Gateway?

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AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid storage service that provides seamless and secure integration between on-premises IT environments and AWS cloud storage, allowing you to store data locally while leveraging the benefits of the cloud such as scalability, cost-effectiveness, and disaster recovery. It supports a variety of storage protocols such as iSCSI, NFS, SMB, and S3, and offers features such as caching, compression, encryption, and tiering to optimize storage and data transfer between on-premises and cloud environments

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What is AWS CloudFormation?

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AWS CloudFormation is a fully managed service that allows you to create and manage AWS resources and infrastructure as code using templates, making it easy to provision and manage resources in a repeatable and scalable way. It supports a wide range of AWS services and allows you to create, update, and delete resources in a safe and automated manner, with features such as rollback, stack updates, and drift detection to ensure consistent and reliable infrastructure.

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What is AWS CloudTrail?

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AWS CloudTrail is a fully managed service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or AWS service in your AWS account, capturing API calls made to AWS services and delivering the resulting log files to an S3 bucket for storage and analysis. It provides visibility into user activity and resource changes, and helps you identify security and compliance issues by auditing your AWS resources and services.

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Front side: What is AWS CloudWatch?

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AWS CloudWatch is a fully managed service that provides monitoring and observability for your AWS resources and applications, collecting and tracking metrics, logs, and events in a central location, and allowing you to set alarms, create dashboards, and analyze performance and operational data. It supports a wide range of AWS services and enables you to troubleshoot issues, optimize resource utilization, and improve the overall health and availability of your applications and systems.

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What is AWS EventBridge?

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AWS EventBridge is a fully managed event bus service that makes it easy to build event-driven applications at scale, allowing you to route events from AWS services, SaaS applications, and custom applications to targets such as AWS Lambda functions, Amazon SNS topics, and Amazon SQS queues. It provides a flexible and scalable way to integrate and automate workflows across multiple systems, using a publish/subscribe model and supporting various protocols and data formats.

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What is AWS Route 53?

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AWS Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) service that translates domain names to IP addresses, enabling users to access applications and services through easy-to-remember domain names. It provides features such as traffic routing, health checking, domain registration, and global DNS resolution to improve the performance, availability, and security of your applications and websites. AWS Route 53 is widely used by businesses of all sizes and across various industries, including e-commerce, media, and healthcare.

Similar to Azure DNS

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What is AWS CloudFront?

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AWS CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers worldwide with low latency and high transfer speeds. It provides a secure and scalable way to distribute content from AWS services and public origins, with features such as edge caching, dynamic content generation, and SSL/TLS encryption to improve the performance, reliability, and security of your applications. AWS CloudFront is widely used by businesses of all sizes and across various industries, including media, gaming, and e-commerce.

Similar to Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN).

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What is AWS Macie?

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AWS Macie is a fully managed data security and privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS, such as personal information, credit card numbers, and intellectual property. It provides a comprehensive and automated way to identify and secure data across multiple AWS services and accounts, with features such as data discovery, classification, and protection, as well as policy management and alerts to help you comply with various data protection regulations and standards.

Similar to Azure Information Protection.

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What is AWS VPC?

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AWS VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) is a fully isolated and customizable virtual network that allows you to launch AWS resources in a secure and scalable manner, with full control over IP address ranges, subnets, routing tables, network gateways, and security settings. It provides a flexible and cost-effective way to set up and manage your network infrastructure in the cloud, and allows you to connect your VPC to your on-premises data center using a VPN or AWS Direct Connect. AWS VPC is widely used by businesses of all sizes and across various industries for building and deploying cloud-based applications and services.

Similar to Azure Virtual Network (VNet)

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