CLF-02-Services & Concepts Flashcards
Memorize AWS Services
Provides block-level storage volumes for Amazon EC2 instances.
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
Provides Object-level storage.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Is a service that runs code w/o provisioning servers.
AWS Lambda
Is a service that adds chaching layers on top of databases to help improve the read times of common requests.
Amazon ElastiCache
Monitors object acces patterns within 30 days period. Uses Amazon S3 Standard-IA & Amazon S3 std.
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
Is a low-cost storage class that is ideal for flexible archiving. To retirieve objects within a few minutes to a few hours.
Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
Is ideal for data that is infrequently accesed but requires high availability when needed. Stores data in a min. of 3 AVZs. Is cheaper than Amazon S3 std.
Amazon S3 std-IA
Is ideal for infrequently accessed data that does not require high availability.
Amazon S3 One Zone-IA
A digital catalog that includes thousands of listings from independent SW vendors.
AWS Marketplace
Resource that can answer questions about best practices and assist with troubleshooting issues
AWS Support
Resource that provides guidance, architectural reviews, and ongoing communication with companies as they plan, deploy and optimize their applications
Technical Account Manager (TAM)
An online tool that inspects an AWS environment and provides REAL-TIME guidance in accordance with AWS best practices. It also has a service limit dashboard.
AWS Trusted Advisor
Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) that includes principles for operating in the cloud by using agile best practices and ensuring that cloud services are delivered at a level that is agreed upon with your business stakeholders.
Operations Perspective
Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) that helps moves a business from a model that separates business and IT strategies into a business model that integrates IT strategy.
Business Perspective
Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) that helps Human Resources (HR) employees prepare their teams for cloud adoption by updating organizational processes and staff skills to include cloud-based competencies.
People Perspective
Perspective of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) that provides the capability to update the staff skills and organizational processes that are necessary to ensure business governance in the cloud. Maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing transformation-related risks.
Governance Perspective
Service used for transferring (physically) up to 100 PB of data to AWS.
AWS Smowmobile
Graph DB service. Build and run applications with a highly connected datasets, such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs.
AWS Neptune
Content delivery service to customers through a global network of edge locations.
Amazon Cloudfront
Is an autonomous 1/18 scale race car that tests reinforcement learning models.
AWS DeepRacer
Ideal for temporary data that does not need to be kept long term.
Instance stores
Is a section of a virtual private cloud (VPC) in which you can group resources based on security or operational needs.
Subnet
Run infrastructure in a hybrid cloud approach.
AWS Outposts
Provision resources by using programmig languages or a text file (JSON/YAML).
AWS CloudFormation
Provision an isolated section of the AWS Cloud to launch resources in a virtual network that a person defines.
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Support Plans that provide full features of AWS Trusted Advisor service.
Enterprise & Business
Program that consists of 3 types of offers that allow customers to use AWS services w/o incurring costs: Always free, 12 months free and Trials.
AWS-Free Tier
Resource that atm handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaing, and application health-monitoring. NO Templates.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Device that transfers large amounts of data into and out of AWS.
AWS Snowball
Service that monitors apps and atm adds or removes capacity from resource groups in response to changing demand.
AWS Auto Scaling
Service that provides data for monitoring apps, optimize resource utilization, and respond to system-wide performance changes.
Amazon CloudWatch
Service that acts a single-point of contact for all incoming web traffic to an Auto Scaling Group.
Load Balancer
Reduces compute costs by committing to a consistent hourly spend for 1-year or 3-year term. Savings up to 72% over On-Demand Instance costs.
EC2 Instance Savings Plans
Billing descount that is applied to the use of On-Demand Instances in an AWS account. It can be Std Reserved and Convertible Reserved. 1-year or 3-year term, NO spend commitment.
Reserved Instances
Ideal for workload with flexible start and end times or that can withstand interruptions. Leverage unused EC2 computing capacity and offer cost savings up to 90% of On-Demand Instance prices.
Spot Instance
Physical servers with EC2 Instance capacity that is fully dedicated to a single customer. Is the most expensive option. A business can use per-socket, per-core, and per-VM SW licences.
Dedicated Hosts
Migration strategy that involves replacing an existing app with a cloud-based version, such as a SW found in AWS Marketplace.
Repurchasing
Migration strategy that involves moving an app to the cloud with LITTLE TO NO modifs. to the app itself. “Lift & Shift”
Rehosting
Migration strategy that involves selectively optimizing aspects of an app to achieve benefits in the cloud w/o changing the core architecture of the app. “Lift, Tinker, & Shift”
Replatforming
Data warehousing service for provideing big data analysis.
Amazon Redshift
Is a ledger db service. To review a complete history of all the changes that have been made to app data.
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB)
Virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic for an Amazon EC2 instance. By default, it DENIES all inbound traffic and allows all outbound traffic. Business can add custom rules.
Security group
Virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level (of one or more subnets). Is an optional layer of security.
Network Access Control List (NACL)
Connection between a VPC and the internet.
Internet Gateway
Fully managed service that runs Kubernetes in AWS.
Amazon EKS
Provide a std way to package an app’s code and dependencies into a single object
Container
Service that provides the capability to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models.
Amazon SageMaker
Identifies threats by continually monitoring the network activity and account behavior within an AWS environment. It analyzes multiple AWS data sources, such as AWS CloudTrail event logs, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, and DNS Logs.
AWS GuardDuty
Service that helps protect apps against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
AWS Shield
Service that checks apps for security vulnerabilities and deviations from security best practices.
Amazon Inspector
Service that monitors network requests for web apps
AWS WebApplication Firewall (WAF)
Business can quickly create CUSTOM REPORTS to analyze their AWS cost and usage data OVER TIME.
AWS Cost Explorer
Lets businesses set custom alerts that will notify individuals when service usage exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) the amount that has been budgeted.
AWS Budget
Creates an ESTIMATE for the cost of business’ use cases on AWS.
AWS Pricing Calculator
Service that provides access to AWS security and compliance reports and special online agreements
AWS Artifact
Message queuing service. An app developer can send, store, and receive messages between SW components at any volume size, w/o loosing messages or requiring other services to be available.
Amazon SQS
DNS web service.
Amazo Route 53
Businesses centrally control permissions for their accounts by using service control policies (SCP). Additionally, it helps to consolidate billing for multiple AWS accounts.
AWS Organizations.
Service that creates, manages, store, and uses cryptographic keys.
AWS Key Mgmt Service (AWS KMS)
Pillar that focuses on using computing resources efficiently to meet system and business requirements (removing bottlenecks), and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technology evolve.
Performance Efficiency
Pillar that includes the ability to run workloads effectively, gain insights, and continually improve supporting processes to deliver business value
Operational Excellence
Pillar that focuses on protecting data, systems, and assets. Also to improve the security of your workoads.
Security
Pillar that focuses on the ability of a workload to consistently and correctly perform its intended functions.
Reliability
Automate the deployment of workloads into an AWS environment.
AWS Quick Starts