Core Services

Question 1

Service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers on AWS

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Amazon EC2

Question 2

Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and services across a specific list of technologies

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Question 3

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.

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AWS Lambda

Question 4

Service that enables you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on AWS.

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Question 5

Service that enables you to run Kubernetes in the AWS cloud. You would utilize this if you had a specific need to run Kubernetes for your containerized applications.

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

Question 6

Compute engine that works with both ECS and EKS. It is serverless and has a pay-for-what-you-use pricing model.
This service is commonly used in a serverless architecture for container applications.

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AWS Fargate

Question 7

Service that enables you to build and run containerized web application without any prior container or infrastructure experience.

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AWS App Runner

Question 8

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.

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Amazon Route 53

Question 9

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

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Amazon VPC

Question 10

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.

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AWS Direct Connect

Question 11

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

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Amazon API Gateway

Question 12

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.

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Amazon CloudFront

Question 13

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

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AWS Global Accelerator

Question 14

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

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Elastic Load Balancing

Question 15

Service that provides object storage for objects up to 5 TB in size - with no limit on the total storage

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

Question 16

Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to access.
Instant Retrieval – archive storage for data you don’t plan to access but can be retrieved in milliseconds
Flexible Retrieval – archive storage for data you don’t plan to access but can be retrieved in minutes to hours
Deep Archive – lowest cost archive storage for rarely access data which can be retrieved within 12 hours

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S3 Glacier

Question 17

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

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

Question 18

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.

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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

Question 19

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.

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AWS Snowball

Question 20

Exabyte scale data transfer service where a ruggedized shipping container is sent to your office then loaded into Amazon S3

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AWS Snowmobile
This service can assist in data migration into the cloud from your data center.

Question 21

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.

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Question 22

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.

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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Question 23

Manages the orchestration of complex workflows which are defined using Amazon States Language. It can be leveraged in a serverless architecture.
This service is commonly used in a serverless architecture.

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AWS Step Functions

Question 24

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

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AWS CloudTrail

Question 25

Managed service for launching infrastructure based on templates. This approach is known as infrastructure as code. CloudFormation also provides drift detection to know when infrastructure has veered from what is defined in the template.

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AWS CloudFormation

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An infrastructure configuration management service that provides a managed service for Chef and Puppet.

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AWS OpsWorks

Question 27

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

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Amazon CloudWatch

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Provides continual analysis of AWS resources to ensure they are meeting rules defined in the service

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AWS Config

Question 29

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

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AWS Systems Manager

Question 30

System that launches a multi-account configuration based on AWS best practices

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AWS Control Tower

Question 31

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

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mazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

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MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database engine for RDS that was built for the cloud

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Amazon Aurora

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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.

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Amazon Aurora Serverless for RDS

Question 34

ully managed NoSQL database service that has extremely low latency and scaling based on configuration. This service is commonly used in a serverless architecture.

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Amazon DynamoDB

Question 35

Managed petabyte scale data warehousing solution on AWS

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Amazon Redshift

Question 36

Service for querying exabytes of data stored in Amazon S3

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Amazon Redshift Spectrum

Question 37

Fully-managed in-memory data store that supports memcached and Redis engines

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Amazon Elasticache

Question 38

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.

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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Question 39

Document database with MongoDB compatibility. You would leverage this if you needed to support a MongoDB database on AWS.

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Amazon DocumentDB

Question 40

In-memory database that is Redis-compatible and provides very low latency.

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Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

Question 41

Service that provides a graph database on AWS. Graph databases are ideal for storing connections between items, such as social network connections.

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Amazon Neptune

Question 42

Database service that enables you to store data that is time-based. A simple example of this type of data would be temperature data coming from a sensor that needs to be stored at the specific time when a reading took place. This service can be used in a serverless architecture.

Answer 42

Amazon Timestream