AWS Terms Flashcards
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
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- provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud
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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
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- managed database instances
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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
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- object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
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Amazon Cloudfront
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- fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds
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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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- lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.
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Amazon Simple Notificaiton Service (SNS)
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- fully managed messaging service for both system-to-system and app-to-person (A2P) communication
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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- 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.
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AWS Lambda
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- a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, executes your code only when needed and scales automatically
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AWS Autoscaling
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- monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost
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Amazon Elastic Cache
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- a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a distributed cache in the cloud, supports memcache and redis
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AWS Shield
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- managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service
- Standard protects against Layer 3 and 4
- Advanced protects against Layer 7 attacks
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Amazon Macie
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- service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS.
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AWS PrivateLink
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- provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network
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Amazon EventBridge
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- serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications together using data from your own applications, integrated SaaS applications, and AWS services
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Amazon Inspector
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- automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices.
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Amazon CodeGuru
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- developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application’s most expensive lines of code
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
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- fully managed container orchestration service
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AWS CloudHSM
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- cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys on the AWS Cloud
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AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
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- makes it easy to create and manage cryptographic keys and control their use across a wide range of AWS services and in your application
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AWS VPN
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- 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
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
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- high performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale.