Cloud practitioner Flashcards

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Amazon Cloudfront

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A low latency Content delivery network that offers high performance, security and developer convenience

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AWS Shield

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Service used to prevent DDOS attacks

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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

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Service that makes it easy to stream videos securely from connected devices to aws for analytics, machine learning

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Performance efficiency

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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.

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Operational Excellence

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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.

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Amazon EC2 On-Demand

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Pay for what you use without any commitments

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Amazon EC2 Spot

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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%).

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Amazon EC2 Reserved instances

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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.

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AWS Cost explorer

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Enables you to view the usage the costs of your server. Can use to forcast what will happen in the next 12months.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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Automated advisor that evaluates your resources against four pillars. 1. Cost Optimisation 2. Performance 3.Security 4. Fault tolerance 5.Service Limits.

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AWS system Manager

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allows you to safely automate common and repetitive IT operations and management tasks.

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AWS Organizations

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an account management service that lets you consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage.

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AWS Outposts

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a pool of AWS compute and storage capacity deployed at a customer site.

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AMI

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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

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Amazon Cloudwatch

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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.

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Amazon S3 Standard

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general purposes and offers high durability, availability, and performance object storage for frequently accessed data.

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Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

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It provides very cost-effective access based on frequency, without affecting other performances. It also manages tough operations

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Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access

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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.

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Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval

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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

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Amazon S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access

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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.

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Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

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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.

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Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

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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.

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Cost allocation tags

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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.

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AWS Consulting Partners

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help customers design, architect, build,
migrate, and manage workloads and applications on Amazon Web Services.

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Service Quotas

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se to centrally request and track service limit increases

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AWS Artifact

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provides ISO certifications

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Amazon SQS

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lets you send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring …

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VPC peering

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networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them using private IPv4 addresses or IPv6 addresses. I

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AWS CloudTrail

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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

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AWS Enterprise Support

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AWS technical account manager (TAM) AND Support of third-party software integration to AW

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Amazon Aurora

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relational database management system (RDBMS) built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibilit

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network access control list (ACL)

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allows or denies specific inbound or outbound traffic at the subnet level

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ACL rules

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They process rules in order, starting with the lowest numbered rule, when deciding whether to allow traffic.

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ACL state

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they are stateless

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Amazon Route 53

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highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service

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AWS PrivateLink

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provides private connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), supported AWS services, and your on-premises networks without exposing your traffic to the public internet.

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AWS Direct Connect

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Direct Connect connects users’ on-premises environments to AWS.

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AWS free tier

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provides customers the ability to explore and try out AWS services free of charge up to specified limits for each service.

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AWS Macie

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is a 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.

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Amazon Lightsail

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a virtual private server (VPS) provider and is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small businesses, students, and other users who need a solution to build and host their applications on cloud.

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AWS Global Accelerator

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helps you improve the availability, performance, and security of your public applications.

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AWS Storage gateway

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a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage

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AWS Transit Gateway

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to connect and centrally manage network connectivity between its VPCs

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Amazon Athena

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visual reports from AWS Cost and Usage Report data

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AWS Wavelength

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combines the high bandwidth and ultralow latency of 5G networks with AWS compute and storage services s

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AWS Appstream 2.0

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a fully managed application streaming service that provides users instant access to their desktop applications from anywhere

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AWS Guardduty

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a threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and delivers detailed security findings for visibility and remediation.

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AWS Fargate

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a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers. It is compatible with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

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Difference between ECS and AWS Fargate

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ECS : service to build and run Docker containers
Fargate : Serverless version for ECS/EKS. Running ECS or EKS without managing the infrastructure hosting your containers

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AWS Snow family

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a collection of physical devices that help migrate large amounts of data into and out of the cloud without depending on networks

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SCP(Service Control Policy)

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manage permissions for AWS Organisations

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AWS Elastic Tanscoder

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a media transcoding in the cloud

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Consolidated billing

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all AWS costs on a single invoice to simplify payment,also has the costs that each department

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Amazon Polly

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Turns text into life like speech

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VPC Flow Logs

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Captures inbound and outbound information in Amazon VPC

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Backup and restore

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Cheapest Disaster recovery options, works by replicating data across different regions. Takes hours to recover.

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AWS pricing calculator

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Gives you an estimate before deployment

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AWS Batch

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allows a set of batch management capabilities that enables developers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of computing jobs

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Amazon EC2 instance connect

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Simple and secure way to connect to your EC2 instances using Secure shell

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Amazon Comprehend

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Custom Entity Recognition, Custom Classification, Key phrase Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Entity Recognition

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AWS X-Ray

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a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed application

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Amazon DynamoDB data

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Data stored is encrypted automatically

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Amazon SNS

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allows applications to send time-critical messages to multiple subscribers through a “push” mechanism, eliminating the need to periodically check or “poll” for updates

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Amazon SQS

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a message queue service used by distributed applications to exchange messages through a polling model, and can be used to decouple sending and receiving components. Amazon SQS provides flexibility for distributed components of applications to send and receive messages without requiring each component to be concurrently available.

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Amazon API Gateway

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a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. So its B

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Amazon Cognito

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lets you easily add user sign-up and authentication to your mobile and web apps

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AWS Support Basic

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Offers support for account and billing questions and service quota increases. All AWS customers have access to that by default

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AWS Developer support

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Get support with things like best practice guidance, client side diagnostic tools, building block architecture support and support an unlimited number of support cases that can be opened by one primary contact which is the AWS account root user.

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AWS Business support

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Get support with
- Use-case guidance – What AWS products, features, and services to use to best support your specific needs.
- AWS Trusted Advisor – A feature of AWS Support, which inspects customer environments and identifies opportunities to save money, close security gaps, and improve system reliability and performance. You can access all Trusted Advisor checks.
- The AWS Support API to interact with Support Center and Trusted Advisor. You can use the AWS Support API to automate support case management and Trusted Advisor operations.
- Third-party software support – Help with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance operating systems and configuration. Also, help with the performance of the most popular third-party software components on AWS. Third-party software support isn’t available for customers on Basic or Developer Support plans.
- Supports an unlimited number of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users who can open technical support cases.

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Amazon support enterprise

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Get support with
- Use-case guidance – What AWS products, features, and services to use to best support your specific needs.
- AWS Trusted Advisor – A feature of AWS Support, which inspects customer environments and identifies opportunities to save money, close security gaps, and improve system reliability and performance. You can access all Trusted Advisor checks.
- The AWS Support API to interact with Support Center and Trusted Advisor. You can use the AWS Support API to automate support case management and Trusted Advisor operations.
- Third-party software support – Help with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance operating systems and configuration. Also, help with the performance of the most popular third-party software components on AWS. Third-party software support isn’t available for customers on Basic or Developer Support plans.
- Supports an unlimited number of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users who can open technical support cases.
- Application architecture guidance – Consultative guidance on how services fit together to meet your specific use case, workload, or application.
-Infrastructure event management – Short-term engagement with AWS Support to get a deep understanding of your use case. After analysis, provide architectural and scaling guidance for an event.
-Technical account manager – Work with a technical account manager (TAM) for your specific use cases and applications.
-White-glove case routing.
-Management business reviews

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Amazon Inspector

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automatically discovers workloads, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and Lambda functions, and scans them for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.

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AWS DynamoDB global tables

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provide you with a fully managed, multi-region and multi-active database that delivers fast, local, read and write performance for massively scaled global applications. Global table replicate your db tables automatically across your choice of regions

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AWS Cost Anomaly Detection

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uses machine learning to continuously monitor cost and usage for unusual cloud spending

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AWS Datasync

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secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data between on premises and AWS Storage services.

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AWS Datasync

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secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data between on premises and AWS Storage services.

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AWS Glue

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ETL data