AWS Terms Flashcards
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- managed database instances
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
Amazon Cloudfront
- fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.
Amazon Simple Notificaiton Service (SNS)
- fully managed messaging service for both system-to-system and app-to-person (A2P) communication
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
AWS Lambda
- a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, executes your code only when needed and scales automatically
AWS Autoscaling
- monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost
Amazon Elastic Cache
- a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a distributed cache in the cloud, supports memcache and redis
AWS Shield
- managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service
- Standard protects against Layer 3 and 4
- Advanced protects against Layer 7 attacks
Amazon Macie
- service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS.
AWS PrivateLink
- provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network
Amazon EventBridge
- serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications together using data from your own applications, integrated SaaS applications, and AWS services
Amazon Inspector
- automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices.
Amazon CodeGuru
- developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application’s most expensive lines of code
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
- fully managed container orchestration service
AWS CloudHSM
- cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys on the AWS Cloud
AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
- makes it easy to create and manage cryptographic keys and control their use across a wide range of AWS services and in your application
AWS VPN
- establish secure connections between your on-premises networks, remote offices, client devices, and the AWS global network. AWS VPN is comprised of two services: AWS Site-to-Site VPN and AWS Client VPN
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
- high performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale.
AWS Control Tower
- provides the easiest way to set up and govern a new, secure, multi-account AWS environment based on best practices established through AWS
Amazon Cognito
- lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0.
Amazon Directory Service
- AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud
Amazon WorkSpaces
- managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution
AWS Systems Manager
- provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources.
AWS Resource Access Manager
- a service that enables you to easily and securely share AWS resources with any AWS account or within your AWS Organization
AWS CloudTrail
- a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.
AWS Config
- a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
Amazon GuardDuty
- a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3
AWS Security Hub
- gives you a comprehensive view of your high-priority security alerts and security posture across your AWS accounts.
Amazon CloudWatch
- a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.
AWS Transit Gateway
- connects VPCs and on-premises networks through a central hub
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources
AWS Firewall Manager
- a security management service which allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organization
AWS CloudFormation
- allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all regions and accounts.
Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM)
- a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources
AWS Trusted Advisor
- online tool that provides you real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor checks help optimize your AWS infrastructure, increase security and performance, reduce your overall costs, and monitor service limits
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- a fully managed Kubernetes service, can run on Fargate and integrates with AWS App Mesh
AWS Fargate
- serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
AWS App Mesh
- a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure
- provides consistent visibility and network traffic controls for services built across multiple types of compute infrastructure
AWS Outposts
- runs AWS infrastructure and services on premises for a consistent hybrid experience
Amazon Glacier
- secure, durable, and low-cost Storage for data archiving. Retrieval times are configurable from minutes to hours
Amazon Storage Gateway
- services that connects an on-premises software application with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization’s on-premises IT environment and AWS’s Storage Infrastructure.
AWS Backup
- fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services in the cloud and on premises.
Amazon Dynamo DB
- a fast and flexible NoSQL(or Non-Relational) database service
Amazon Redshift
- a fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service
Amazon Route53
- Amazon’s Domain Register and DNS Management Service
Amazon API Gateway
- a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to - create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale
AWS Direct Connect
- service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS
Amazon Analytics
- a service used to analyze streaming data, gain actionable insights, and respond to your business and customer’s need in real-time.
Amazon Elasticsearch
- a service that allows you to store, search, and analyze big volumes of data quickly and in real-time.
AWS Artifact
- self service portal for access to the AWS security and compliance reports and online agreements.