Cloud practitioner Flashcards
Amazon Cloudfront
A low latency Content delivery network that offers high performance, security and developer convenience
AWS Shield
Service used to prevent DDOS attacks
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
Service that makes it easy to stream videos securely from connected devices to aws for analytics, machine learning
Performance efficiency
The performance efficiency pillar focuses on the efficient use of computing resources to meet requirements, and how to maintain efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.
Operational Excellence
The operational excellence pillar includes how your organization supports your business objectives, your ability to run workloads effectively, gain insight into their operations, and to continuously improve supporting processes and procedures to deliver business value.
Amazon EC2 On-Demand
Pay for what you use without any commitments
Amazon EC2 Spot
Amazon sells it’s leftover server, its the same on demand server but they can ask it back under 2min notice.so you should expect a lot of interruption. the price can reach a discount of up to 90%. In most cases, the chances of them asking for the servers back is very low (around 5%).
Amazon EC2 Reserved instances
In this scenrario you commit to amazon that you will use their service for a specific period of time and in return you get a discount.
AWS Cost explorer
Enables you to view the usage the costs of your server. Can use to forcast what will happen in the next 12months.
AWS Trusted Advisor
Automated advisor that evaluates your resources against four pillars. 1. Cost Optimisation 2. Performance 3.Security 4. Fault tolerance 5.Service Limits.
AWS system Manager
allows you to safely automate common and repetitive IT operations and management tasks.
AWS Organizations
an account management service that lets you consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage.
AWS Outposts
a pool of AWS compute and storage capacity deployed at a customer site.
AMI
can help us to launch another instance with the same configurations. It uses the snapshot of root volume of the instance and other EBS volumes to create machine image
Amazon Cloudwatch
metrics to represent the data points for your resources. AWS services send metrics to CloudWatch. CloudWatch then uses these metrics to create graphs automatically that show how performance has changed over time.
Amazon S3 Standard
general purposes and offers high durability, availability, and performance object storage for frequently accessed data.
Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering
It provides very cost-effective access based on frequency, without affecting other performances. It also manages tough operations
Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access
To access the less frequently used data,It requires rapid access when needed. We can achieve high strength, high output, and low bandwidth. Usually used for disaster recovery.
Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
It is an archive storage class that delivers the lowest-cost storage for data archiving and is organized to provide you with the highest performance and with more flexibility
Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access
Different from other S3 Storage Classes which store data in a minimum of three Availability Zones, it stores data in a single Availability Zone and costs 20% less than S3 Standard-IA. It’s a very good choice for storing secondary backup copies of on-premises data or easily re-creatable data. it provides you the same high durability, high throughput, and low latency as in S3 Standard.
Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
It provides low-cost storage compared to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval. It is a suitable solution for backing up the data so that it can be recovered easily a few times in a year. It just takes minutes to access the data.
Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive
It is designed to provide long-lasting and secure long-term storage for large amounts of data at a price that is competitive with off-premises tape archival services that is very cheap. You no longer need to deal with expensive services. Accessibility is very much efficient, that it can restore data within 12 hours.
Cost allocation tags
You can use tags to organize your resources, and cost allocation tags to track your AWS costs on a detailed level. After you activate cost allocation tags, AWS uses the cost allocation tags to organize your resource costs on your cost allocation report, to make it easier for you to categorize and track your AWS costs.
AWS Consulting Partners
help customers design, architect, build,
migrate, and manage workloads and applications on Amazon Web Services.
Service Quotas
se to centrally request and track service limit increases
AWS Artifact
provides ISO certifications
Amazon SQS
lets you send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring …
VPC peering
networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them using private IPv4 addresses or IPv6 addresses. I
AWS CloudTrail
records API calls for your account. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, and more. account. Stores logs in S3 buckets
AWS Enterprise Support
AWS technical account manager (TAM) AND Support of third-party software integration to AW