CCP Terminology 2 Flashcards
A firewall/security layer on the subnet
Access Control List (ACL)
Automates the process of adding or removing EC2 instances based on traffic demand for your application
Auto Scaling
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
CloudFront
Allows you to monitor all actions taken by IAM users
CloudTrail
Service that allows you to monitor various elements of your AWS account
CloudWatch
Provides persistent block storage volumes for use of EC2 instances
Elastic Block Store (EBS)
A virtual computer, very similar to a desktop/laptop computer
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Instance
Evenly distributes traffic between EC2 instances that are associated with it
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Data caching service used to help improve the speed/performance of web applications running on AWS
ElastiCache
The ability of a system to increase and decrease in size
Elasticity
Property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of one or more components
Fault Tolerance
A type of software that either allows or blocks certain kinds of internet traffic to pass through it
Firewall
Individuals who have been granted access to an AWS account
IAM Users
Service where AWS user accounts and their access to various AWS services are managed
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
The measure of the amount of data transferred from/to a storage device in a second
Throughput
Percent over a one-year time period that a file stored in S3 will not be lost
Object Durability
Set rules to automatically transfer objects between storage classes at defined time intervals
Object Lifecycle
Ability to make any object publicly available via a URL link
Object Sharing
Automatically keep multiple versions of an object (when enabled)
Object Versioning
Allow you or your company access to manage billing and access to multiple AWS accounts in one user interface
Organizations
SQL database service that provides a wide range of SQL database options to select from
Relational Database Service (RDS)
Data warehouse database service designed to handle petabytes of data for analysis
Amazon RedShift
How do AWS services or users elevate privileges in order to perform tasks across your account?
Assume Roles
Where you configure and manage web domains for websites or applications you host on AWS
Route 53
The ability of a system to easily increase in size and capacity in a cost-effective way
Scalability
Firewall/security layer on the server/instance level
Security Group (SG)
AWS service that allows you to automate the sending of email or text messaging notifications based on events that happen in your AWS account
Simple Notification Service (SNS)
A private subsection of AWS you control and in which you can place AWS resources
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
What groups are stateful and deny all inbound traffic by default but can add custom rules to fit your operational and security needs?
Security groups
This is an optional layer of security that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of one or more subnets
A Network Access Control List
_________ List by default perform stateless packet filtering when initially created
A Network Access Control List
By default, this allows all inbound and outbound traffic, but you can modify it by adding your own rules.
Your account’s default network ACL
What type of EC2 Instance is ideal for Application servers, gaming servers, backend servers for enterprise applications, and small and medium databases
General Purpose EC2 Instance Type
This has a lower storage price but a higher retrieval price
S3 Standard Infrequent Access
This is an incremental backup.
EBS snapshot
When you modify a file in block storage, only the pieces that are changed are updated. When a file in object storage is modified,
the entire object is updated.
This is a regional service that stores data across multiple Availability Zones.
Amazon EFS
This is a serverless database in which you do not have to provision, patch, or manage servers.
DynamoDB
This is a NoSQL database that uses structures like key and value pairsother than rows and columns to organize data
DynamoDB
This is an enterprise-class relational database.
Amazon Aurora
A database accelerator service that adds caching layers on top of your databases to help improve the read times of common requests.
ElastiCach
This is a data warehousing service that you can use for big data analytics
Amazon Redshift
In the AWS SharedResponsibility Model model, who is responsible for:
host operating system
the virtualization layer
physical security of the data centers
AWS
