Definitions Flashcards
The data center of your AWS resources
AZ (Availability Zone)
a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
Enable access to the internet
Internet Gateway
Determine where network traffic from your subnets are directed
Route Tables
Acts as a firewall at the subnet level
NACLs
Act as firewalls at the instance level
Security Groups
A logical partition of an IP network into multiple, smaller network segments
Subnet
NoSQL key/value database
DynamoDB
NoSQL Document database
Document DB
database service that supports multiple engines
RDS Relational Database Service
a fully managed database
Aurora
database that only runs when you need it
Aurora serverless
Managed graph database
Neptune
columnar database, petabyte warehouse
Redshift
Redis or Memcached database
Elasticache
service for deploying and scaling web apps and services
Elastic Beanstalk
configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet
OpsWorks
infrastructure as code, JSON or YAML
Cloud Formation
pre-made packages that can launch and configure your AWS compute, network, storage, and other services required to deploy a workload on AWS
AWS Quickstart
a digital catalogue of thousands of software listings
AWS Marketplace
highly configurable server, CPU, Memory, Network, or OS
EC2 Elastic Cloud Compute
Docker as a service, highly scalable high-performance container orchestration service
ECS Elastic Container Services
Microservices where you don’t think about the infrastructure, pay per task
Fargate