Cloud Practitioner Flashcards

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AWS Cloudfront

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content delivery service. It uses a network of edge locations to cache content and deliver content to customers all over the world.

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enables you to establish a virtual private network (VPN) connection between your VPC and a private network, such as an on-premises data center or internal corporate network. A virtual private gateway only allows traffic into the VPC only if it is coming from an approved network

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a connection between a VPC and the internet. It allows public traffic from the internet to access a VPC.

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focuses on recovering IT workloads to meet the requirements of your business stakeholders also includes principles for operating in the cloud by using agile best practices.

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helps you to move from a model that separates business and IT strategies into a business model that integrates IT strategy

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helps Human Resources (HR) employees prepare their teams for cloud adoption by updating organizational processes and staff skills to include cloud-based competencies.

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helps you understand how to update the staff skills and organizational processes that are necessary to ensure business governance in the cloud.

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block-level storage volumes that you can use with Amazon EC2 instances. If you stop or terminate an Amazon EC2 instance, all the data on the attached EBS volume remains available.

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a service that provides object-level storage. Amazon S3 stores data as objects within buckets offers high durability, availability, and performance object storage for frequently accessed data (cloud applications, dynamic websites, content distribution, mobile gaming applications, big data analytics) - Low latency and high throughput performance - Designed for durability of 99.999999999% of objects across multiple Availability Zones - Resilient against events that impact an entire Availability Zone - Designed for 99.99% availability over a given year - Backed with the Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement for availability - Supports SSL for data in transit and encryption of data at rest - S3 Lifecycle management for automatic migration of objects to other S3 Storage Classes

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a service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.

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a service that adds caching layers on top of your databases to help improve the read times of common requests

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quickly create custom reports to analyze your AWS cost and usage data enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time

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lets you set custom alerts that will notify you when your service usage exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) the amount that you have budgeted.

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lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS. In the AWS Pricing Calculator, you can enter details for your cloud computing requirements and then receive a detailed estimate that can be exported and shared.

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a service that enables you to access AWS security and compliance reports and special online agreements.

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view a complete history of user activity and API calls for your applications and resources. Events are typically updated in CloudTrail within 15 minutes after an API call was made. You can filter events by specifying the time and date that an API call occurred, the user who requested the action, the type of resource that was involved in the API call, and more

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a service that checks applications for security vulnerabilities and deviations from security best practices

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an online tool that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time guidance in accordance with AWS best practices.

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a service that is used for transferring up to 80 PB of data to AWS. Each Snowmobile is a 45-foot long shipping container that is pulled by a semi-trailer truck. It can transfer up to 80 PB of data.

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a graph database service. You can use Amazon Neptune to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets, such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs.

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autonomous 1/18 scale race car that you can use to test reinforcement learning models.

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centrally control permissions for the accounts in your organization by using service control policies (SCPs). Additionally, you can use the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations to combine usage and receive a single bill for multiple AWS accounts.

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a service that you can use to manage access to AWS services and resources.

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enables you to create, manage, and use cryptographic keys.

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A key-value database service. A key-value database might include data pairs such as “Name: John Doe,” “Address: 123 Any Street,” and “City: Anytown”. In a key-value database, you can add or remove attributes from items in the table at any time. Additionally, not every item in the table has to have the same attributes.

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document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

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Amazon EKS is a fully managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS. Kubernetes is open-source software that enables you to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale. Containers provide you with a standard way to package your application's code and dependencies into a single object. Containers are frequently used for processes and workflows in which there are essential requirements for security, reliability, and scalability.

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a service that enables you to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models.

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a data warehousing service that you can use for big data analytics.

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focuses on using computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.

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includes the ability to run workloads effectively, gain insights into their operations, and continuously improve supporting processes to deliver business value.

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focuses on protecting data, systems, and assets. It also focuses on using cloud technologies to improve the security of your workloads.

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focuses on the ability of a workload to consistently and correctly perform its intended functions.

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A digital catalog that includes thousands of listings from independent software vendors. Find, test, and buy software that runs on AWS.

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A resource that can answer questions about best practices and assist with troubleshooting issues

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A resource that provides guidance, architectural reviews, and ongoing communication with your company as you plan, deploy, and optimize your applications

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An online tool that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time guidance in accordance with AWS best practices

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A service used to quickly deploy and scale applications on AWS

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a service that enables you to run infrastructure in a hybrid cloud approach.

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Enables you to control multiple AWS services directly from the command line within one tool. For example, you can use commands to start an Amazon EC2 instance, connect an Amazon EC2 instance to a specific Auto Scaling group, and more. The AWS CLI is available for users on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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a data warehousing service that you can use for big data analytics. It offers the ability to collect data from many sources and help you to understand relationships and trends across your data.

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a ledger database service. You can use Amazon QLDB to review a complete history of all the changes that have been made to your application data

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checks for your service limits and overutilized instances take advantage of provisioned throughput, and monitoring for overutilized Amazon EC2 instances.

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recommending you to delete unused or idle resources, or use reserved capacity.

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Recommend you to enable AWS security features, and review your permissions.

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Increase the availability of your AWS application by recommending you to take advantage of auto scaling, health checks, multi-AZ Regions, and backup capabilities.

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maximum number of service resources or operations that apply to an account or a Region. Trusted Advisor can notify you if you use more than 80% of a service quota. You can then follow recommendations to delete resources or request a quota increase. Check results are based on a snapshot, so your current usage might vary.

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a virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic for an Amazon EC2 instance. By default, a security group denies all inbound traffic and allows all outbound traffic. You can add custom rules to configure which traffic should be allowed or denied.

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a virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level.

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a section of a VPC in which you can group resources based on security or operational needs.

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Fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high performance applications at any scale.

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Consists of: S3 Standard for general purpose storage of frequently accessed data S3 Intelligent Tiering for data with unknown or changing access patterns S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard-IA) and S3 One Zone IA) for long-lived but less frequently accessed data Amazon Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive for long-term archive and digital preservation allows user to manage storage in one place with easy-to-use application interface. Use policies to optimize storage costs, tier between different storage classes automatically.