Concepts and Components Flashcards
What is a region:
A physical location which consists of 2 or more availability zones
What is an availability zone:
1 or more discrete data centres, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity, housed in separate facilities
What is an edge location:
An endpoint for AWS used for caching content, normally consisting of CloudFront, Amazon’s Content Delivery Network (CDN)
What is Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2):
Mostly virtual machines (can be physical) inside the AWS platform - Compute section
What is Elastic Beanstalk:
Used for uploading code, mostly used by developers who don’t want to use/don’t understand AWS - not so relevant for this course - Compute section
What is Lambda:
Code that you upload to the cloud that you can control when it executes in response to events - no management required - Compute section
What is Lightsail:
Virtual private service for people who don’t want to understand AWS - gives you a server, an IP address and a management console - Compute section
What is S3:
Upload files into buckets in the cloud - simple storage service - Storage section
What is EFS:
Elastic File System - network attached managed file storage - Storage section
What is Glacier:
Data archival - cheap - Storage section
What is Snowball:
Used for large amounts of data (terabytes/petabytes) - to AWS data centre - write physically to a disk and send in manually - Storage/Migration section
What is Storage Gateway:
Virtual appliances - replicates info to S3 - 4 kinds of gateway - Storage section
What is RDS:
Relational Database Service - MySequel, Aurora, Oracle, etc - Databases section
What is DynamoDB:
Non-relational database service - Databases section
What is ElastiCache:
Caching commonly queried things from your server - frees up database service for other queries - Databases section
What is Red Shift:
Data warehousing or business intelligence - complex queries e.g. profit and loss - Databases section
What is AWS Migration Hub:
Tracking service- tracks applications - integrates with other services - Migration section
What is Application Discovery Service:
Automated set of tools that detects what apps you have and what their dependencies are - Migration section
What is Database Migration Service:
Migrates databases from on premise to AWS easily - tracks it - Migration section
What is Server Migration Service:
Helps migrate physical and virtual servers to AWS - Migration section