CCP Terminology

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Access Control List (ACL)

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A firewall/security layer on the subnet level

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Auto Scaling

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Automates the process of adding or removing EC2 instances based on traffic demand for your application

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CloudFront

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Content delivery network (CDN) that allows you to store your content at “edge locations” located all around the world, allowing customers to access your content more quickly

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CloudTrail

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Allows you to monitor all actions taken by IAM users

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CloudWatch

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Service that allows you to monitor various elements of your AWS account

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Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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Provides persistent block storage volumes for use of EC2 instances

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Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

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A virtual computer, very similar to a desktop/laptop computer

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Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

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Evenly distributes traffic between EC2 instances that are associated with it

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ElastiCache

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Data caching service used to help improve the speed/performance of web applications running on AWS

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Elasticity

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The ability of a system to increase and decrease in size

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Fault Tolerance

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Property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of one or more components

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Firewall

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A type of software that either allows or blocks certain kinds of internet traffic to pass through it

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IAM Users

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Individuals who have been granted access to an AWS account

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Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Service where AWS user accounts and their access to various AWS services are managed

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Throughput

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The measure of the amount of data transferred from/to a storage device in a second

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Object Durability

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Percent over a one-year time period that a file stored in S3 will not be lost

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Object Lifecycle

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Set rules to automatically transfer objects between storage classes at defined time intervals

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Object Sharing

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Ability to make any object publicly available via a URL link

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Object Versioning

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Automatically keep multiple versions of an object (when enabled)

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Organizations

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Allow you or your company access to manage billing and access to multiple AWS accounts in one user interface

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Relational Database Service (RDS)

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SQL database service that provides a wide range of SQL database options to select from

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Amazon RedShift

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Data warehouse database service designed to handle petabytes of data for analysis

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Roles

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How different AWS services are granted permission to communicate and share data

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Route 53

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Where you configure and manage web domains for websites or applications you host on AWS

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Scalability

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The ability of a system to easily increase in size and capacity in a cost-effective way

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Security Group (SG)

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Firewall/security layer on the server/instance level

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Simple Notification Service (SNS)

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AWS service that allows you to automate the sending of email or text messaging notifications based on events that happen in your AWS account

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Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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A private subsection of AWS you control and in which you can place AWS resources

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Security groups are stateful and deny

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all inbound traffic by default.
but you can add custom rules to fit your operational and security needs.

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A Network Access Control List: is an optional layer of security that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic

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in and out of one or more subnets

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A Network Access Control List by default perform

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stateless packet filtering when initially created

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By default, your account’s default network ACL

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allows all inbound and outbound traffic, but you can modify it by adding your own rules.

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EC2 Instance Type: General Purpose: provide a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources. You can use them for a variety of workloads such as

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application servers

gaming servers

backend servers for enterprise applications

small and medium databases

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S3 Standard Infrequent Access has a lower storage price but a

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higher retrieval price

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An EBS snapshot is

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an incremental backup.

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When you modify a file in block storage, only the pieces that are changed are updated. When a file in object storage is modified,

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the entire object is updated.

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Amazon EFS is a regional service that stores data

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across multiple Availability Zones.

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DynamoDB is serverless, which means that you do not have to

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provision, patch, or manage servers.

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DynamoDB is a “NoSQL databases” because they use structures like

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key and value pairs other than rows and columns to organize data

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Amazon Aurora is an

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enterprise-class relational database.

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ElastiCach is a Database accelerator service that adds

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caching layers on top of your databases to help improve the read times of common requests.

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Amazon Redshift is a

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data warehousing service that you can use for big data analytics

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In the Shared Responsibility Model AWS is responsible for

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• host operating system
• the virtualization layer
• physical security of the data centers