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Question 1

basic monitoring

Answer 1

Monitoring of AWS provided metrics derived at a 5-minute frequency.

Question 2

batch

Answer 2

See document batch.

Question 3

BGP ASN

Answer 3

Border Gateway Protocol Autonomous System Number. A unique identifier for a network, for use in BGP routing. Amazon EC2 supports all 2-byte ASN numbers in the range of 1 – 65335, with the exception of 7224, which is reserved.

Question 4

batch prediction

Answer 4

Amazon Machine Learning: An operation that processes multiple input data observations at one time (asynchronously). Unlike real-time predictions, batch predictions are not available until all predictions have been processed.

See Also real-time predictions.

Question 5

billing

Answer 5

See AWS Billing and Cost Management.

Question 6

binary attribute

Answer 6

Amazon Machine Learning: An attribute for which one of two possible values is possible. Valid positive values are 1, y, yes, t, and true answers. Valid negative values are 0, n, no, f, and false. Amazon Machine Learning outputs 1 for positive values and 0 for negative values.

See Also attribute.

Question 7

binary classification model

Answer 7

Amazon Machine Learning: A machine learning model that predicts the answer to questions where the answer can be expressed as a binary variable. For example, questions with answers of “1” or “0”, “yes” or “no”, “will click” or “will not click” are questions that have binary answers. The result for a binary classification model is always either a “1” (for a “true” or affirmative answers) or a “0” (for a “false” or negative answers).

Question 8

blacklist

Answer 8

A list of IP addresses, email addresses, or domains that an internet service provider suspects to be the source of spam. The ISP blocks incoming email from these addresses or domains.

Question 9

block

Answer 9

A data set. Amazon EMR breaks large amounts of data into subsets. Each subset is called a data block. Amazon EMR assigns an ID to each block and uses a hash table to keep track of block processing.

Question 10

block device

Answer 10

A storage device that supports reading and (optionally) writing data in fixed-size blocks, sectors, or clusters.

Question 11

block device mapping

Answer 11

A mapping structure for every AMI and instance that specifies the block devices attached to the instance.

Question 12

blue/green deployment

Answer 12

AWS CodeDeploy: A deployment method in which the instances in a deployment group (the original environment) are replaced by a different set of instances (the replacement environment).

Question 13

bootstrap action

Answer 13

A user-specified default or custom action that runs a script or an application on all nodes of a job flow before Hadoop starts.

Question 14

Border Gateway Protocol Autonomous System Number

Answer 14

See BGP ASN.

Question 15

bounce

Answer 15

A failed email delivery attempt.

Question 16

breach

Answer 16

Auto Scaling: The condition in which a user-set threshold (upper or lower boundary) is passed. If the duration of the breach is significant, as set by a breach duration parameter, it can possibly start a scaling activity.

Question 17

bucket

Answer 17

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): A container for stored objects. Every object is contained in a bucket. For example, if the object named photos/puppy.jpg is stored in the johnsmith bucket, then authorized users can access the object with the URL http://johnsmith.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/puppy.jpg.

Question 18

bucket owner

Answer 18

The person or organization that owns a bucket in Amazon S3. Just as Amazon is the only owner of the domain name Amazon.com, only one person or organization can own a bucket.

Question 19

bundling

Answer 19

A commonly used term for creating an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). It specifically refers to creating instance store-backed AMIs.