Core Services Flashcards
- Compute Services - Content and Network Delivery Services - File Storage and Data Transfer Services - App integration Services - Management and Governance Services - Database Services and Utilities
Amazon EC2
Service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers on AWS
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and services across a specific list of technologies
AWS Lambda
Service that enables you to use compute resources without having to launch or manage the underlying infrastructure - this is leveraged in serverless architectures
This service is commonly used in a serverless architecture
Amazon Route 53
Highly-available AWS Domain Name Service (DNS) service that can be leveraged in creating highly available and fault tolerant applications
This is a GLOBAL service, and it can be used in a hybrid cloud architecture
Amazon VPC
Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define
AWS Direct Connect
Cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your data centre to AWS. This connection does not go over the public Internet
Amazon API Gateway
Fully managed API management service that handles concepts like authentication, logging, and throttling for your API layer
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon’s global Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that enables your users to get content from a server that is closest to them.
This is a GLOBAL service
AWS Global Accelerator
AWS networking service that routes your traffic through the AWS global network, increasing the overall speed through optimizations by AWS
Elastic Load Balancing
Service that enables you to distribute traffic across multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, Lambda)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Service that provides object storage for objections up to 5 TB in size - with no limit on the total storage
S3 Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive
Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to access
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Persistent block storage designed for use with a single EC2 server. It can scale to support petabytes of data and supports different volume types
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Fully managed NFS file system designed for Linux workloads with support for petabytes of data.
This service can be used in a hybrid cloud architecture
AWS Snowball
Petabyte scale data transfer service where a physical device is delivered to your organization and returned by a local carrier then loaded into amazon S3.
This service can assist in data migration into the cloud from your data centre
