Core Services Flashcards
Service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers
on AWS
Amazon EC2
Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and
services across a specific list of technologies
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Service that enables you to use compute resources
without having to launch or manage the underlying
infrastructure - this is leveraged in serverless
architectures
AWS Lambda
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 Route 53
Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you
can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you
define
Amazon VPC
Cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a
dedicated network connection from your data center to
AWS. This connection does not go over the public
Internet.
AWS Direct Connect
Fully managed API management service that handles
concepts like authentication, logging, and throttling for
your API layer
Amazon API Gateway
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.
Amazon CloudFront
AWS networking service that routes your traffic through
the AWS global network, increasing the overall speed
through optimizations by AWS.
AWS Global Accelerator
Service that enables you to distribute traffic across multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, Lambda).
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Service that provides object storage for objects up to 5
TB in size - with no limit on the total storage
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are
designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to
access.
S3 Glacier and Glacier
Deep Archive
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 Block Store (EBS)
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.
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
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 center.
AWS Snowball
Exabyte scale data transfer service where a ruggedized
shipping container is sent to your office then loaded into
Amazon S3
This service can assist in data migration into the cloud
from your data center.
AWS Snowmobile
Managed pub/sub (publish / subscribe) messaging
service. This can enable fan-out architecture with one
message triggering multiple actions.
This service is commonly used in a serverless
architecture.
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Managed message queue service. This can enable fault tolerant and serverless applications. This supports
standard and FIFO (first-in first-out) queues.
This service is commonly used in a serverless
architecture.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Manages the orchestration of complex workflows which
are defined using Amazon States Language.
This service is commonly used in a serverless
architecture.
AWS Step Functions
Service that provides audit trail for all services used in an AWS account (across all interaction methods)
AWS CloudTrail
Managed service for launching infrastructure based on
templates. This approach is known as infrastructure as
code.
[This service] also provides drift detection to
know when infrastructure has veered from what is
defined in the template.
AWS CloudFormation
An infrastructure configuration management service
that provides a managed service for Chef and Puppet.
AWS OpsWorks
Monitoring and management service that integrates
with most AWS services. It provides both metrics and
alarms based on those metrics as well as logs
Amazon CloudWatch
Provides continual analysis of AWS resources to ensure
they are meeting rules defined in the service
AWS Config
Service that provides a collection of tools and insight
into operational data for central management of those
cloud or on-premise instances.
AWS Systems Manager
System that launches a multi-account configuration
based on AWS best practices
AWS Control Tower
Managed service for relational databases including
support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL
Server, and Amazon Aurora
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database engine for
RDS that was built for the cloud
Amazon Aurora
An on-demand and auto-scaling version of Amazon
Aurora that does not require managing the underlying
infrastructure.
This service is commonly used in a serverless
architecture.
Amazon Aurora Serverless for RDS
Fully managed NoSQL database service that has
extremely low latency and scaling based on
configuration.
This service is commonly used in a serverless
architecture.
Amazon DynamoDB
Managed petabyte scale data warehousing solution on
AWS
Amazon Redshift
Service for querying exabytes of data stored in Amazon
S3
Amazon Redshift Spectrum
Fully-managed in-memory data store that supports
memcached and Redis engines
Amazon Elasticache
Service that enables you to move your data (from
popular commercial and open source databases) easily
onto the cloud.
This service can assist in data migration into the cloud
from your data center.
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
