Definitions Flashcards
Services Selector
Navigation tool in Management Console where you can navigate between services provided by AWS. They are categorised by top-level categories (i.e. Compute)
AWS Management Console
Graphical user Interface (GUI) that allows you to AWS services on your account
Static widgets on AWS management console
- Welcome to AWS
- Explore AWS
- Build a solution
Widgets provide static links on how to build a solution or explore AWS.
Dynamic widgets on AWS Management console
- AWS health
- Cost & Usage
- Favorites
- Recently visited
- Trusted Advisor
AWS Health
information on events that might affect your AWS infrastructure and account
Cost and usage
An overview of the cost of your services, broken down by AWS service
Favorites
List of your favorite AWS services
Recently visited
List of your top recently visited AWS services
Trusted Advisor
Recommendations for AWS best practices
AWS Search
Extensive search engine that returns results in 8 categories:
1. Services
2. Features
3. Blogs
4. Documentation
5. Knowledge articles (premium support knowledge centre)
6. Tutorials (AWS Getting started resource centre)
7. Events
8. Marketplace (AWS marketplace offerings that you can deploy in the AWS account)
AWS account region?
Global
AWS global services
IAM
AWS route 53
DNS
Domain Name Service
globally distributed service that translates human readable names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.
regionality of services
Except when a global service (IAM; Route 53), you are able to launch regional services in multiple Regions at the same time. For example, you can have Amazon EC2 instance running in both us-west-1 and us-east-2
Dropdown menu from account
It deisplay AWS account ID & the current loggeed in user in to console & 5 navigation links:
1. Account
2. Organization
3. Service Quotas
4. Billing dashboard
5. Settings
Account - Account
Details about your account including your address, billing details & contact information
Account - Organization
AWS Organizations is an account management service that enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage.
Account - Service Quotas
Quotas, also referred to as limits in AWS services, are the maximum values for the:
resources
actions
items
in your AWS account. When a new account is created, there are default values, such as assigning five Elastic IP addresses. These limits can be increased by logging a support ticket. For more details, please see the quotas documentation.
Account - Billing dashboard
You can use the dashboard page of the AWS Billing console to gain a general view of your AWS spending.
Account - Settings
This link will take you to General Settings configuration page.
