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Core Services Flashcards

1
Q

Service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers

on AWS

A

Amazon EC2

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2
Q

Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and

services across a specific list of technologies

A

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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3
Q

Service that enables you to use compute resources
without having to launch or manage the underlying
infrastructure - this is leveraged in serverless
architectures

A

AWS Lambda

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4
Q

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.

A

Amazon Route 53

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5
Q

Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you
can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you
define

A

Amazon VPC

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6
Q

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.

A

AWS Direct Connect

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7
Q

Fully managed API management service that handles
concepts like authentication, logging, and throttling for
your API layer

A

Amazon API Gateway

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8
Q

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.

A

Amazon CloudFront

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9
Q

AWS networking service that routes your traffic through
the AWS global network, increasing the overall speed
through optimizations by AWS.

A

AWS Global Accelerator

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10
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Service that enables you to distribute traffic across
multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, Lambda).
A

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

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11
Q

Service that provides object storage for objects up to 5

TB in size - with no limit on the total storage

A 
Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3)
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12
Q

Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are
designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to
access.

A

S3 Glacier and Glacier

Deep Archive

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13
Q

Persistent block storage designed for use with a single
EC2 server. It can scale to support petabytes of data and
supports different volume types.

A

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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14
Q

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.

A

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

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15
Q

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.

A

AWS Snowball

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16
Q

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.

A

AWS Snowmobile

17
Q

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.

A

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

18
Q

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.

A

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

19
Q

Manages the orchestration of complex workflows which
are defined using Amazon States Language.

This service is commonly used in a serverless
architecture.

A

AWS Step Functions

20
Q 
Service that provides audit trail for all services used in an
AWS account (across all interaction methods)
A

AWS CloudTrail

21
Q

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.

A

AWS CloudFormation

22
Q

An infrastructure configuration management service

that provides a managed service for Chef and Puppet.

A

AWS OpsWorks

23
Q

Monitoring and management service that integrates
with most AWS services. It provides both metrics and
alarms based on those metrics as well as logs

A

Amazon CloudWatch

24
Q

Provides continual analysis of AWS resources to ensure

they are meeting rules defined in the service

A

AWS Config

25
Q

Service that provides a collection of tools and insight
into operational data for central management of those
cloud or on-premise instances.

A

AWS Systems Manager

26
Q

System that launches a multi-account configuration

based on AWS best practices

A

AWS Control Tower

27
Q

Managed service for relational databases including
support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL
Server, and Amazon Aurora

A

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

28
Q

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database engine for

RDS that was built for the cloud

A

Amazon Aurora

29
Q

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.

A

Amazon Aurora Serverless for RDS

30
Q

Fully managed NoSQL database service that has
extremely low latency and scaling based on
configuration.

This service is commonly used in a serverless
architecture.

A

Amazon DynamoDB

31
Q

Managed petabyte scale data warehousing solution on

AWS

A

Amazon Redshift

32
Q

Service for querying exabytes of data stored in Amazon

S3

A

Amazon Redshift Spectrum

33
Q

Fully-managed in-memory data store that supports

memcached and Redis engines

A

Amazon Elasticache

34
Q

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.

A

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

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