Concepts and Components Flashcards

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What is a region:

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A physical location which consists of 2 or more availability zones

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What is an availability zone:

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1 or more discrete data centres, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity, housed in separate facilities

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What is an edge location:

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An endpoint for AWS used for caching content, normally consisting of CloudFront, Amazon’s Content Delivery Network (CDN)

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What is Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2):

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Mostly virtual machines (can be physical) inside the AWS platform - Compute section

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What is Elastic Beanstalk:

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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

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What is Lambda:

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Code that you upload to the cloud that you can control when it executes in response to events - no management required - Compute section

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What is Lightsail:

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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

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What is S3:

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Upload files into buckets in the cloud - simple storage service - Storage section

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What is EFS:

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Elastic File System - network attached managed file storage - Storage section

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10
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What is Glacier:

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Data archival - cheap - Storage section

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What is Snowball:

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Used for large amounts of data (terabytes/petabytes) - to AWS data centre - write physically to a disk and send in manually - Storage/Migration section

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12
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What is Storage Gateway:

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Virtual appliances - replicates info to S3 - 4 kinds of gateway - Storage section

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What is RDS:

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Relational Database Service - MySequel, Aurora, Oracle, etc - Databases section

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14
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What is DynamoDB:

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Non-relational database service - Databases section

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15
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What is ElastiCache:

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Caching commonly queried things from your server - frees up database service for other queries - Databases section

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What is Red Shift:

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Data warehousing or business intelligence - complex queries e.g. profit and loss - Databases section

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17
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What is AWS Migration Hub:

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Tracking service- tracks applications - integrates with other services - Migration section

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What is Application Discovery Service:

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Automated set of tools that detects what apps you have and what their dependencies are - Migration section

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What is Database Migration Service:

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Migrates databases from on premise to AWS easily - tracks it - Migration section

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20
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What is Server Migration Service:

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Helps migrate physical and virtual servers to AWS - Migration section

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21
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What is VPC:

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Virtual Private Cloud - configure availability zones and firewalls etc. - Networking and Content Delivery section

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What is CloudFront:

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Amazon’s content delivery network - stores data closer to other user’s edge locations e.g. London to Sydney so you can access it from a nearer edge location - stores media assets - Networking and Content Delivery section

23
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What is Route 53:

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DNS service - domain name system - looks up AWS IPB4 and IPB6 addresses - Networking and Content Delivery section

24
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What is API Gateway:

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Create, deploy and manage your own APIs for your other services to connect to - Networking and Content Delivery section

25
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What is Direct Connect:

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Way of running a dedicated line from your head office/data centre to Amazon - directly connects to VPC as well - Networking and Content Delivery section

26
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What is CloudFormation:

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Scripting infrastructure to code - use code to deploy things anywhere - Management Tools section

27
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What is CloudTrail:

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Logs API calls/changes - default - Management Tools section

28
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What is Config:

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Monitors configuration of entire AWS environment - can use timer to look at previous times - Management Tools section

29
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What is OpsWorks:

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Automates environments in AWS - like Elastic Beanstalk but more robust - Management Tools section

30
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What is Trusted Advisor:

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Gives advice on may disciplines - warns of risks - tells you how to save money/time/etc. - Management Tools section

31
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What is Polly:

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Takes text and turns it to speech - Machine Learning section (won’t be in exam but will be used in this course)

32
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What is EMR:

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Elastic Map Reader - Processes large amounts of data - Analytics section

33
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What is Kinesis:

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Ingests large amounts of data to AWS - like a hashtag many people use - realtime data - Analytics section

34
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What is Data Pipeline:

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A way to move data between different AWS services - Analytics section

35
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What is IAM:

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Identity Access Management - does what is says on the tin - Security, Identity and Compliance section

36
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What is Cognito:

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Device authentication - also allows the app/other to access some aspects of AWS - Security, Identity and Compliance section

37
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What is Inspector:

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Run tests for vulnerabilities - can be scheduled - creates reports - Security, Identity and Compliance section

38
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What is Macie:

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Looks for personal info that is at risk - Security, Identity and Compliance section

39
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What is Certificate Manager:

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Get free SSL certificates and manages certificates - Security, Identity and Compliance section

40
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What is CloudHSM:

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Dedicated bits of hardware to store keys - Security, Identity and Compliance section

41
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What is Directory Service:

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Integrate Microsoft active directory service with AWS - Security, Identity and Compliance section

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What is WAF:

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Web Application Firewall - looks at application level - Security, Identity and Compliance section

43
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What is Shield:

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DDoS mitigation - can get advanced version - Security, Identity and Compliance section

44
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What is Artifact:

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Audit and compliance - portal for on demand access for reports and manage select agreements - download and inspect amazons document - Security, Identity and Compliance section

45
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What is SNS:

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Notification service - Application Integration section

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What is SQS:

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Decoupling infrastructure - holds info in a queue to be used - Application Integration section

47
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What is SWF:

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Super Work Flow service - can have humans in the process - Application Integration section

48
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What is SES:

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Simple Email Service - does what it says on the tin - Customer Engagement section

49
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What is Work Docs:

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Secure documents - Business Productivity section

50
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What is AppStream 2.0:

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Streaming applications from the cloud - Desktop and App Streaming section

51
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What is Workspaces:

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VDI solution - run operating system in the cloud - Desktop and App Streaming section