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The data center of your AWS resources

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AZ (Availability Zone)

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a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources

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VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

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3
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Enable access to the internet

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Internet Gateway

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Determine where network traffic from your subnets are directed

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Route Tables

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Acts as a firewall at the subnet level

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NACLs

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Act as firewalls at the instance level

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Security Groups

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A logical partition of an IP network into multiple, smaller network segments

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Subnet

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NoSQL key/value database

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DynamoDB

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NoSQL Document database

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Document DB

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10
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database service that supports multiple engines

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RDS Relational Database Service

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11
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a fully managed database

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Aurora

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12
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database that only runs when you need it

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Aurora serverless

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13
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Managed graph database

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Neptune

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14
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columnar database, petabyte warehouse

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Redshift

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Redis or Memcached database

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Elasticache

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service for deploying and scaling web apps and services

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Elastic Beanstalk

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configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet

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OpsWorks

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18
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infrastructure as code, JSON or YAML

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Cloud Formation

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19
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pre-made packages that can launch and configure your AWS compute, network, storage, and other services required to deploy a workload on AWS

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AWS Quickstart

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20
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a digital catalogue of thousands of software listings

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AWS Marketplace

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21
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highly configurable server, CPU, Memory, Network, or OS

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EC2 Elastic Cloud Compute

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Docker as a service, highly scalable high-performance container orchestration service

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ECS Elastic Container Services

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23
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Microservices where you don’t think about the infrastructure, pay per task

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Fargate

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easy to deploy, manage and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes

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serverless functions run code without provisioning or managing servers
Lambda
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orchestrates various AWS services, including EC2, S3, SNS, CloudWatch, autoscaling, and elastic load balancers
Elastic Beanstalk
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plans, schedules, and executes your batch computing workloads across the full range of AWS compute services and features
AWS Batch
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object storage
S3 Simple Storage Service
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low cost storage for archiving and long-term backup
S3 Glacier
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hybrid cloud storage with local caching
Storage Gateway
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hard drive in the cloud you attach to EC2 instances
EBS Elastic Block Storage
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file storage mountable to multiple EC2 instances at the same time
EFS Elastic File Storage
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Physically migrate lots of data via a computer suitcase 50-80 TB
Snowball
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100 TB of suitcase storage
Snowball Edge
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Shipping container, pulled by a semi trailer truck 100PB
Snowmobile
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cloud-based call center service
Amazon Connect
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Secure managed service for provisioning either Windows or Linux desktops as Virtual remote desktops
WorkSpaces
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A content creation and collaboration service
WorkDocs
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online meetings, video conferencing and business calling
Chime
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managed business email, contacts, and calendar service
Workmail
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Marketing campaign management system for sending target email, SMS, push notifications and voice messages
Pinpoint
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Cloud-based email sending service for marketers and app developers
SES Simple Email Service
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A BI service to connect multiple datasources and quickly visualize data in the form of graphs
QuickSight
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Dedicated gigabit network connection from your premises to AWS imagine
Direct Connect
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a secure connection to your AWS network
VPN
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A hybrid storage service to enable your on-prem appplications to use cloud storage (archiving, backup, etc.)
Storage Gateway
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The AWS Directory service for Microsoft Active Directory
Active Directory
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A management service that makes it easy to create and control encryption keys
Key Management Service (KMS)
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A fully managed service that monitors S3 data access activity for anomalies and generates detailed alerts when it detects risk
Macie
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Acts as a firewall at the instance level, implicitly denies all traffic
Security Groups
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Acts as a firewall at the subnet level, you create allow and deny rules
NACLs (Network Access Control Lists)
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Logs all api calls between AWS services (who)
Cloud Trail
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logs performance data
CloudWatch
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runs a network and/or host assessment on security benchmark against specific EC2 instances to detect security risks
Amazon Inspector
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protects web applications from common web exploits, you set rules to allow or deny traffic, attached to cloudfront or application load balancer
AWS WAF (web application firewall)
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a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS, automatically runs on all Route53 or CloudFront routes
AWS Shield
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Additional protection against larger and more sophisticated attacks, greater visibility into attacks
Shield Advanced
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Threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity using machine learning
Amazon Guard Duty

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