Cloud Practitioner Flashcards
a low-cost cloud storage service designed for data archiving and long-term backup. It is ideal for data that is rarely accessed and requires long retrieval times, ranging from minutes to hours.
Amazon S3 Glacier
a monitoring service that provides data and actionable insights on AWS infrastructure, applications, and services. It collects and tracks metrics, monitors log files, and sets alarms.
AWS CloudWatch
allow you to purchase unused EC2 capacity at a significant discount compared to On-Demand pricing. They are ideal for workloads that can handle interruptions, as they can be terminated when AWS needs the capacity back.
Spot Instances
storage service that provides persistent storage for EC2 instances. It is optimized for use cases that require fast, consistent, and low-latency storage, such as databases or high-performance applications.
Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)
establishes a dedicated, private connection between your on-premises network and AWS. It provides lower latency and more consistent network performance compared to public internet connections.
AWS Direct Connect
provides real-time guidance on best practices for your AWS environment, including cost optimization, performance improvement, security enhancement, and fault tolerance.
AWS Trusted Advisor
a managed relational database service that supports multiple database engines such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server. It automates common tasks like backups, patching, scaling, and replication.
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)
allows you to create a logically isolated network within AWS. You can define your own IP address ranges, subnets, route tables, and network gateways.
Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources. It allows you to manage users, roles, and permissions, ensuring the right people have the right access.
AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)
provides scalable virtual servers in the cloud. You can launch, manage, and scale compute capacity to meet the demands of your applications.
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
an object storage service that offers scalable, durable, and secure storage for any amount of data. It’s used for storing and retrieving data, backups, and static assets.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
a serverless compute service that allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. It automatically scales based on demand and charges only for the compute time used.
AWS Lambda
a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. It’s commonly used for real-time data and applications requiring low-latency access.
Amazon DynamoDB
records AWS API calls and actions, providing a history of AWS account activity for auditing, compliance, and troubleshooting.
AWS CloudTrail
continuously monitors and records configurations of AWS resources. It allows you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations for compliance and security.
AWS Config
a content delivery network (CDN) that delivers data, videos, and applications globally with low latency. It caches content at edge locations to improve delivery speed to users.
Amazon CloudFront
a fully managed in-memory caching service that supports Redis and Memcached. It’s used to improve the performance of web applications by reducing database load.
Amazon ElastiCache
an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services. It automatically handles provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and monitoring.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk