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What is Amazon WorkSpaces?

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Managed, secure cloud desktop service.

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What is Amazon ElastiCache?

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Fully managed, in-memory caching service supporting flexible, real-time use cases.

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What is Amazon CloudWatch?

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Monitoring and management service that provides data and actionable insights for AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources.

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What is AWS Config?

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Service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.

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What is Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?

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

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What is EC2-Other?

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Includes multiple service-related usage types, tracking costs associated Amazon EBS volumes and snapshots, elastic IP addresses, NAT gateways, data transfer, and more.

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What is a Spot instance?

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An instance that uses spare EC2 capacity that is available for less than the On-Demand price.

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What is an immersions day workshop?

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An initiative that emulates an on-premise environment which allows customers to execute a migration to AWS.

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Who is DXC Technology?

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A Global IT services company that is focused on helping clients with their mission-critical system and leading digital transformation.

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What is instance Scheduler?

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Configuration of start and stop schedules for Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS.

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What is Amazon ECS?

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A highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers on a managed cluster of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

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What is AWS Fargate?

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A technology on Amazon ECS to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters of Amazon EC2 instances.

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What is Amazon ECS Cloudwatch Container Insights?

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Service that collects, aggregates, and summarizes metrics and logs from your containerized applications and microservices.

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What is AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

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Amazon’s block-level storage solution used with the EC2 cloud service to store persistent data.

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What are EBS Snapshots?

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Point-in-time copy of your data

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What is Amortized cost?

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When you distribute one-time reservation costs across the billing period that is affected by that cost.

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What is Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka?

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A fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data.

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What is Apache Spark?

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An open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.

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Managed, secure cloud desktop service.

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What is Amazon WorkSpaces?

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Fully managed, in-memory caching service supporting flexible, real-time use cases.

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What is Amazon ElastiCache?

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Monitoring and management service that provides data and actionable insights for AWS, hybrid, and on-premises applications and infrastructure resources.

A

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

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Service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.

A

What is AWS Config?

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

A

What is Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?

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Includes multiple service-related usage types, tracking costs associated Amazon EBS volumes and snapshots, elastic IP addresses, NAT gateways, data transfer, and more.

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What is EC2-Other?

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An instance that uses spare EC2 capacity that is available for less than the On-Demand price.

A

What is a Spot instance?

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An initiative that emulates an on-premise environment which allows customers to execute a migration to AWS.

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What is an immersions day workshop?

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A Global IT services company that is focused on helping clients with their mission-critical system and leading digital transformation.

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Who is DXC Technology?

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Configuration of start and stop schedules for Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS.

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What is instance Scheduler?

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A highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers on a managed cluster of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

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What is Amazon ECS?

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A technology on Amazon ECS to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters of Amazon EC2 instances.

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What is AWS Fargate?

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Service that collects, aggregates, and summarizes metrics and logs from your containerized applications and microservices.

A

What is Amazon ECS Cloudwatch Container Insights?

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Amazon’s block-level storage solution used with the EC2 cloud service to store persistent data.

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What is AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)?

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Point-in-time copy of your data

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What are EBS Snapshots?

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When you distribute one-time reservation costs across the billing period that is affected by that cost.

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What is Amortized cost?

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A fully managed service that enables you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data.

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What is Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka?

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An open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.

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What is Apache Spark?

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What is AWS Lambda?

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A serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers.

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What is RI Utilization?

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The percentage of purchased RI hours consumed by instances during a period of time

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What is RI Coverage?

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The percentage of running instance hours that are covered by RIs.

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A serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers.

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What is AWS Lambda?

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The percentage of purchased RI hours consumed by instances during a period of time

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What is RI Utilization?

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The percentage of running instance hours that are covered by RIs.

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What is RI Coverage?

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What is AWS Eventbridge?

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A serverless event bus service that helps connect external SaaS providers with your own applications and AWS services.

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What is AWS Control Tower?

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Automates the setup of a new landing zone using best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access, and account structure.

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What is an Landing Zone?

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A well-architected, multi-account AWS environment based on security and compliance best practices.

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What is AWS Organizations?

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Helps you centrally manage and govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources

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What are Savings Plans?

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Flexible pricing model that offer low prices on AWS usage, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1- or 3-year term.