Cloud Guru Product Overview Flashcards
Lightsail
Quickly launch small projects like a test environment or preconfigured WordPress websites.
EC2 Instance Connect (EIC)
EIC Allows you to access EC2 without the use of SSH keys in your browser
Secure Shell (SSH)
A software package that enables secure system administration and file transfers over insecure networks.
Types of Load Balancers
- Application
- Network
- Classic
- Gateway
Application Load Balancer (ALB)
Best for HTTP and HTTPS traffic, with advanced request routing. ALBs are a good choice for applications that require complex routing based on HTTP/HTTPS headers or WebSocket support.
Network Load Balancer (NLB)
Ideal for handling millions of requests per second with low latency. NLBs are a good choice for applications that primarily use TCP or UDP.
Classic Load Balancer (CLB)
Suitable for simple load balancing of traffic across multiple EC2 instances. CLBs are only recommended for scenarios where you still have instances running on an EC2-Classic network.
Gateway Load Balancer (GLB)
Helps deploy, scale, and manage virtual appliances, such as firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems.
Wavelength
Allows users to reach applications without leaving the 5G mobile network.
AWS Backup
Automating and centralizing backups across AWS services
AWS Storage
As Service that seamlessly connects your on-premises environment to the cloud for safe, encrypted transfer and storage and Seamless integration.
Types of AWS Storage Gateways
- S3 File Gateway
- Volume Gateway
- Volume Gateway
- FSx Gateway
S3 File Gateway
Keep you date in cloud native formats
Volume Gateway
Provides block storage volumes in Stored and Cached volumes
Tape Gateway
Archiving data on virtual tapes
FSx Gateway
Extends on-premise file system
EBS Volume Types
- Solid state drive (SSD) volumes
- HDD-backed volumes
General Purpose SSD
They balance price and performance for a wide variety of transactional workloads
Solid state drive (SSD) volumes
Optimized for transactional workloads involving frequent read/write operations with small I/O size, where the dominant performance attribute is IOPS.
Types of Solid state drive (SSD) volumes
- General Purpose SSD
- Provisioned IOPS SSD
Provisioned IOPS SSD
Highest performance Amazon EBS storage volumes designed for critical, IOPS-intensive, and throughput-intensive workloads that require low latency.
Types of HDD-Backed Volumes
- Optimized HDD
- Cold HDD
Optimized HDD
Provide low-cost magnetic storage that defines performance in terms of throughput rather than IOPS.
Cold HDD
Similar to Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) volumes, are designed to support infrequently accessed data.
MemoryDB
Durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance. It is Redis OSS-compatible, enabling customers to quickly build applications using the same flexible and friendly Redis OSS data structures, APIs, and commands they already use today.
Redis
World’s fastest in-memory database. It provides cloud and on-prem solutions for caching, vector search, and NoSQL databases
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
A set of practices in software development that help teams deliver code changes more frequently and reliably
AWS CloudShell
Gets you started with the AWS CLI more quickly, so you can automate tasks, manage infrastructure, and interact with AWS services.
You can use CloudShell to clone repositories containing commonly used scripts, make edits to those scripts, and store them for future use.
AWS Cloud9
Cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.
Types Amazon Simple Que Services Standard (SNS) Queues
- Standard
- FIFO
Standard SNS Queue
These queues deliver messages at least once, but they may deliver duplicates and messages may arrive out of order.
Standard queues are best for batching messages or allocating tasks to multiple worker nodes
FIFO SNS Queue
These queues deliver messages exactly once, and they strictly preserve the order in which messages are sent and received. FIFO queues are best for systems that require strict message order preservation
SNS Polling Types
- Short
- Long
Short SNS Polling
Involves repeated separate requests
Long SNS Polling
Holds the open connection
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)
Lets you reach customers confidently without an on-premises Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) email server using the Amazon SES API or SMTP interface.
EventBridge
Route events from sources such as custom applications, AWS services and third-party SaaS applications to consumer applications across the organization. EventBridge provides a simple and consistent way to ingest, filter, transform, and deliver events.
AWS X-Ray
Helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors.
Step Functions:
Great way to visualize your serverless application. They automatically trigger and track each step in a process, and log the state of each step, so you can track what went wrong, and where.
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)
A service used to exchange structured XML data between two or more devices.
CodeCommit
Source control service enabling teams to collaborate on code, html pages, scripts, images, and binaries.
CodeBuild
Source control service enabling teams to collaborate on code, html pages, scripts, images, and binaries.
CodePipeline
Continuous delivery service that enables you to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software.
CodeDeploy
Service that automates code deployments to any instance, including Amazon EC2 instances and instances running on-premises.
AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications.
AWS Transfer Family
Cecurely scales your recurring business-to-business file transfers to AWS Storage services using SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and AS2 protocols.
Seamlessly migrate, automate, and monitor your file transfer workflows into and out of Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS using the SFTP, FTPS, and FTP protocols.
AWS Datasync
Online data movement and discovery service that simplifies and accelerates data migrations to AWS as well as moving data to and from on-premises storage, edge locations, other cloud providers, and AWS Storage services.
AWS Application Discovery Service
Helps you plan application migration projects. It automatically identifies servers, virtual machines (VMs), and network dependencies in your on-premises data centers.
AWS Migration Hub
Provides a single place to discover your existing servers, plan migrations, and track the status of each application migration.
The Migration Hub provides visibility into your application portfolio and streamlines planning and tracking.:
Kinesis
A family of services that enables you to collect, process and analyze streaming data in real time.
And it allows you to build custom applications for your own business needs and make decisions
Kinesis Data Firehose
Allows you to capture, transform, and load data streams into AWS data stores,
Athena
Enables you to run standard SQL queries on data that is stored in S3.
EC2 Instance Connect (EIC)
EIC Allows you to access EC2 without the use of SSH keys in your browser.
AWS Trust & Safety team
Assists you when your AWS resources are used to engage in abusive behaviors, such as spam, port scanning, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, or malware.
Polly
Converts text into lifelike speech.
Macie
Data security service that discovers sensitive data using machine learning and pattern matching, provides visibility into data security risks, and enables automated protection against those risks.
Rekognition
Makes it easy to add powerful visual analysis to your applications.
Rekognition Image lets you easily build powerful applications to search, verify, and organize millions of images.
Workspaces
A service that makes it easy for AWS customers to securely exchange file-based data sets in the AWS Cloud
AWS Glue
Fully managed ETL service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.
AWS Data Exchange
A service that makes it easy for AWS customers to securely exchange file-based data sets in the AWS Cloud.
As a provider, AWS Data Exchange eliminates the need to build and maintain any data delivery, entitlement, or billing technology.
Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
Managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark , on AWS to process and analyze vast amounts of data.
Amazon OpenSearch
Service easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search that focuses on ease of use and integration with other AWS services.
Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)
fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data.
Amazon QuickSight
Powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale.
Amazon Kendra
An intelligent search service that uses natural language processing and advanced machine learning algorithms to return specific answers to search questions from your data.
Amazon Comprehend
Provides Custom Entity Recognition, Custom Classification, Key phrase Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Entity Recognition, and more APIs so you can easily integrate natural language processing into your applications.
Security Hub
Cloud security posture management (CSPM) service that performs automated, continuous security best practice checks against your AWS resources to help you identify misconfigurations, and aggregates your security alerts (i.e. findings) in a standardized format
Secrets Manager
Allows you to programmatically access encrypted secrets as well as enables automatic secret rotation.
CloudHSM (Hardware Security Modules)
Used for single-tenant encryption key management, not secrets management.
AWS Control Tower
Helps you automate account creation and guardrail provisioning in multi-account environments. It does not provide compliance documentation.
AWS Managed Services
Provides ongoing management of your AWS infrastructure so you can focus on your applications.
Detective
Machine Learning used to investigate security events
AWS Professional Services
A global team of experts that can help you realize your desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with your team and your chosen member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute your enterprise cloud computing initiatives.
AWS Partner Network (APN)
It is a resource providing APN Partners with the tools and content they need to grow their businesses on AWS.
AWS IQ
A service that connects customers to hands-on help with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
S3 Storage Lens
Cloud-storage analytics feature that you can use to gain organization-wide visibility into object storage and activity.
AWS Activate
Provides startups with the resources they need to build, launch, and scale on AWS.
