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Everything Flashcards

idk i just want flashcards

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IaaS

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Infrastructure as a Service - Most control, most setup

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PaaS

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Platform as a Service - Middle ground of IaaS and SaaS

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SaaS

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Software as a Service - Least control, least setup

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Regions

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Cluster of Data Centers

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Availability Zone

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Each region has between 3-6, completely isolated from each other.

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Shared Responsibility Model

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Customer is responsible for security IN the cloud, Amazon is responsible for security of the cloud

Customer Ex: Customer data, access management (IAM), firewall configs, encryption, etc.)
Amazon Ex: Software (compute, storage, db, networking), regions, edge locations, etc.)

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IAM

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Identity Access Management. How you control users in your AWS account

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Groups

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Collection of users. Users can belong to multiple groups.

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Policies

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Policies are applied to users/groups that dictates what they can/can’t do

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AWS Management Console

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Web interface to manage AWS services and resources

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AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

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Alternative to AWS Management Console

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AWS Software Dev Kit (SDK)

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Language specific API’s

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Access Key

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~= Username

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Secret Access Key

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~= Password

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IAM Best Practices

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One AWS user = one person
Assign perm’s to groups, not individuals
Strong pswd policy + MFA
Access keys for CLI/SDK. Don’t share them!

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EC2

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Resizable virtual serves in the cloud. Allows for customers to have serverless architecture

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Instance Types

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General Purpose
Compute Optimized
Memory Optimized
Storage Optimized

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Security Groups

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Control traffic in/out of EC2 instances (Like firewalls)

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Important Ports

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21 - FTP
22 - SSH, SFTP
80 - HTTP
443 - HTTPS
3389 - RDP

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Reserved Instances

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Bought for 1 or 3 years, long-term. Better discounts

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On-demand Instances

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Good for short work loads, predictable pricing

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Convertable Reserved Instances

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Like reserved, but can change instance type

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Spot Instances

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Cheap instances that can be taken over by others willing to pay more. Cheapest, but unreliable

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Dedicated Host Instances

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Booking an entire instance

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EBS (Elastic Block Store) Volume

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Block storage for EC2 Instances.

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EBS Snapshots

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Backup of an EBS Volume. Also how you ‘restore’ (move) EBS Volumes to other regions

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AMI (Amazon Machine Image)

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Customization of an EC2 instance. Add own software, config, OS, monitoring, etc.)

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EC2 Image Builder

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Automate creation of virtual machines or container images

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EC2 Instance Store

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Temporary storage for EC2, data lost on stop or terminate.

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EFS (Elastic File System)

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Scalable, shared file storage for EC2. Managed network file system, can be mounted to 100’s of EC2 instances ACROSS AZ’s

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FSX

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Windows native shared file system

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Vertical Scalability

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Increase size of an instance (non-distributed systems) Building tall in Civ

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Horizontal Scalability

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Increasing the amount of instances (distributed systems) Building wide in Civ

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Elasticity

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‘Auto-scaling’ to scale based on usage. Matching performance w/ needs

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ELB (Elastic Load Balancer)

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ELB directs traffic to available instances downstream to increase performance

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4 Types of load balancers

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  1. Applications (Layer 7)
  2. Network (Layer 4)
  3. Gateway (Layer 3)
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ASG (Auto Scale Groups)

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Automatically scales EC2 Instances

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ASG Scaling Strategies

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  1. Manual
  2. Target Tracking - ‘Want average ASG CPU @ 40%’
  3. Simple/Step - ‘If (x>7) add 2 units
  4. Scheduled - Increase capacity @ certain time
  5. Predictive - Uses machine learning to predict future traffic spikes/dips
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S3

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Scalable object storage for data.

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S3 Buckets

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Store objects (files) in buckets (directories/folders) on S3

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S3 Objects

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Files in S3

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S3 Security

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IAM Policies for users
Bucket policies or ACL (Access control lists) for resources

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Bucket Policies

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JSON Based
resource - what bucket to apply to
effect - allow/deny actions
principal - bucket to apply policy to

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S3 Versioning

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Save versions of files that are changed in S3

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CRR (Cross-Region Replication) and SSR (Same-Region Replication)

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Replicates object across/within region

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S3 Storage Classes

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6 Classes (Use cases listed for each)
1. General Purpose - Big data analytics, content distribution
2. Infrequent Access - Backups. Rapid access when needed
3. One Zone Infrequent - Secondary Backups
4. Glacier - Data accessed once per quarter
5. Glacier flexibile retrieval - idk
6. Glacier Deep Archive - Infrequent Access

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Server-Side Encryption

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Server encrypts file after receiving it (on by default)

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IAM Access Analyzer for S3

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Monitor bucket access

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Snow Family

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Portable devices to migrate data from on-premise locations to AWS.
Snowcone - Smaller
Snowball Edge - Bigger

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Relational DB’s

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SQL. Links between DB’s.

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Non-Relational

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No-SQL. Built for specific data models

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RDS

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Relational DB for SQL

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Aurora

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Cloud optimized for PostgreSQL and MySQL. More cost effective than RDS (proprietary)

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ElastiCache

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Managed in-memory caching service to make RDS databases run faster. Reduces load on main DB.

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DynamoDB

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NoSQL. Fully managed w/ replication across 3 AZ’s w/ extremely low latency

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Redshift

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SQL. Managed data WAREHOUSE for big data analytics.

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EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

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Uses HADOOP to utilize clusters of EC2 instances to analyze data

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Athena

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Serverless query service for S3 data using SQL.

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Quicksight

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Create dashboards on data for user insights

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DocumentDB

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Implementation for MongoDB (NoSQL)

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Neptune

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Used for graph db’s. (Ex: Wikipedia, social networking, etc.)

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Timestream

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Time series DB

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Amazon QLDB

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Ledger for recording financial transactions

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Managed Blockchain

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Hyperledger & Ethereum

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Glue

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ETL Service (prepare data for loading)

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DMS

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DB migration service, migrate DB’s to other DB’s.
Note: If you’re migrating a linux machine that has a DB on it, you wouldn’t use DMS. Instead, use application migration service. (You’re migrating the Linux machine that HAS a DB, but not a DB itself)

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Docker

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Software dev tool to package apps to run on any OS

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ECS (Elastic Container Service)

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Launch docker containers on AWS

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Fargate

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Launch docker containers w/o needing to provision

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ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

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Store docker images to be run by ECR/Fargate

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EKS

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Kubernetes service

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Lambda

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For executing individual functions. Pay per request & compute time.

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API Gateway

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For if you want to build a serverless HTTP API

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Batch

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Fully managed batch processing server (Batch = function has a start and an end, not continuous)

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Light sail

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Pretty much easy option for people who don’t wanna learn AWS. Servers, storage, DB’s, networking, all centralized. For quick projects

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Cloudformation

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Automatically creates AWS infrastructure from your own templates. Infrastructure as code

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CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

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Way to write cloud infrastructure in a familiar coding language

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Beanstalk

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Developer centric view for putting all components together (EC2, ASG, ELR, RDS)

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CodeDeploy

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Automated deployment of applications to EC2 instances

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CodeBuild

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Compile, test, run, and output code on cloud for artifacts.

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CodePipeline

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Orchestrates steps to have code automatically pushed to production

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CodeArtifact

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Storing and retrieving artifacts (dependancies)

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SSM (Systems Manager)

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Help manage EC2 and on-premise servers at scale

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Session Manager

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Start secure shell w/o needing SSH for Ec2/On-prem servers

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Route 53

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Scalable DNS and domain name registration servers. Good for reducing latency/routing connections

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Cloudfront

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CACHING. Improves read performance by caching content globally on edge locations

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S3 Transfer Acceleration

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Increase transfer speed. File –> Edge location –> S3 Bucket

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Global Accelerator

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No caching, all content is passed through. Makes requests faster

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Outposts

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AWS infrastructure extension to on-premise environments

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Local Zones

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Smaller ‘AZ’ like zones, lets you connect to niche areas. Ex: Boston in US-EAST-1

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Active-Passive v. Active-Active

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Active-Passive. 2 Regions. 1 active, 1 passive (no writes)

Active-Active. 2 Regions 2 Actives (both read and write)

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SQS (Simple Queue Service)

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DECOUPLE. Serverless app to decouple applications

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Kinesis

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Real-time big data streaming

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SNS

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Send message to one SMS topic (hub) that then auto routes to right service

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MQ

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Managed broker service to get traditional apps running on AWS. (Old weird stuff)

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Cloudwatch

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Metrics for monitoring stuff like Cost, CPU Utilization, Status Checks, etc.)

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CloudWatch logs

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Real-time monitoring of logs

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EventBridge

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Scheduling cron jobs (scheduled scripts)

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CloudTrail

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Logs and monitors AWS account activity for governance and security

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X-Ray

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Visual analysis/tracing of applications for debugging

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CodeGuru

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Automated code reviews and application performance recommendations

102
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Health Dashboard

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Shows:
Service History (general info)
Your account (events that impacts you directly)

Can also aggregate data

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VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

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Private network to deploy resources

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NACL (Network access control list)

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Filter traffic in/out of a SUBNET

105
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VPC Flow Log

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Captures network traffic data for VPC monitoring and analysis

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VPC Peering

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Connect two VPC’s to talk to eachother

107
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VPC Endpoints

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Private connection between VPC and AWS services w/o using internet

108
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Site-to-site

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Connect on premise VPN to AWS (less private, fast)

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Direct Connect (DX)

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Physical connection to AWS (private, slow)

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Client VPN

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Connecting personal computer to your private network

111
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Transit Gateway

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Way to make a star topology instead of peering

112
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AWS Shield Standard

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Managed DDoS protection for applications

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Other DDoS Protection

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Shield Advanced, CloudFront, Route 53, WAF

114
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AWS Network Firewall

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Protect entire VPC (layers 3-7)

115
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Firewall Manager

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Managing VPC Security groups across multiple accounts

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ACM (Certificate Manager)

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Provision/manage SSL/TLS certificates

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Secrets Manager

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Secret managing in RDS

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Artifact

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Support internal or external audits. Important for stuff like HIPPA

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Macie

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Find/Protect sensitive data (PII, HIPPA, etc.)

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GuardDuty

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Machine learning to analyze various logs to detect/protect (Continuous monitoring)INse

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Insepctor

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Run automated security assessments on EC2, Lambda functions, or containers

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Config

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Helps record configuration changes over time

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Security Hub

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Aggregate alerts into one central hub

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Detective

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Identify the ROOT of security incidents

125
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Access ANalyzer

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Find out what resources are shared externally

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Rekognition

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Detect people or objects in images/videos

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Polly

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Turn text into speech

128
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Translate

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Translate into different languagesLex

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Lex and Connect

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Lex helps build chatbots. Connect invokes lambda functions for chatbots to use

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Comprehend

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NLP (natural Language Proccessing)

131
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Sagemaker

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Service to build a Machine Learning model

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Forecast

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Uses machine earning to report future sales forecasts

133
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Kendra

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Document searching to extract data from

134
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Personalize

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build apps w/ personalized product recommendations

135
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Textract

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Extract text from documents to give as data file

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Organizations

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Allows management of multiple AWS accounts by linking them together into one Organization. Shared billing and pricing discounts

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Control Tower

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Setup and govern multiple accounts w/ best practices

138
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AWS RAM (Resource Access Manager)

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Share resources across accounts (ex: reserved instances not in use on one account are transferred to another)

139
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Service Catalog

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Premade products that users can purchase

140
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Pricing Models (4)

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  1. Pay as you go
  2. Save when you reserve
  3. Pay less by using more
  4. Pay less as AWS grows
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EC2 Pricing (Most to least expensive)

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Dedicated –> On-Demand –> Reserved –> Spot

142
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Lambda Pricing

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Pay per call & duration

143
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Compute Optimizer

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Makes recommendations to reduce cost and inc. performance

144
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Pricing Calc

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Estimate cost for desired architecture

145
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Billing Dashboard

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See your bills

146
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Cost allocation Tag

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Apply tags to resources to see cost by category

147
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Cost & Usage Report

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Most comprehensive billing report

148
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Trusted Advisor

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High level AWS account assessment for cost saving

149
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Support Plans (4)

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Basic –> Business (24/7 support) –> Enterprise On-Ramp –> Enterprise (business critical support)

150
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STS (Security Token Service)

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Create temporary, limited privilege credentials to access resourcesC

151
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Cognito

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Way to manage users for a mobile/web app

152
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Identity Center

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SSO (Single Sign On) for all AWS accounts in your organization

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Workspaces

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Provision Windows or Linux desktops

154
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App Stream 2.0

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Deliver applications through web-browswer

155
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AWS IoT Core

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Connect IoT devices into AWS CloudE

156
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lastic Transcoder

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Convert media files into other formats in S3

157
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AppSync

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GraphQL

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Amplify

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Develop and deploy fullstack web/mobile apps

159
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Application Composer

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Visually design and build serverless apps

160
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Device Farm

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Test mobile/desktop apps across multitude of devices

161
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Backup

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Manage and automate backupsD

162
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Disaster Recovery

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Backup and Restore

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Elastic Disaster Recovery

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Recover DB’s, apps, etc.)

164
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DataSync

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Incremental to move on premise to AWS

165
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Application Discovery

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Plan migration to AWS

166
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Migration Evaluator

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Data-driven business case to migrate to AWS

167
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Migration hub

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Central location to collect data

168
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Fault Injection

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Purposely try to fuck shit up to see if it still works

169
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Step functions

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Build serverless visual workflow

170
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Ground Station

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Control sattelites

171
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Pinpoint

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Marking and communication service (SMS)

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Operational Excellence

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Ability to run and monitor continusouyl

173
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Security

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Ability to protect information

174
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Reliability

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Ability to recover information

175
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Performance Efficency

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Ability to meet desired requirements

176
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Cost Optimization

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Ability to deliver at the lowest possible price

177
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Sustainability

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Ability to minimize environmental impacts and optimize over-time

178
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Well-Architectured Tool

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Way to check your architecture against the 6 pillars

179
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AWS CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework)

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How to leverage AWS

180
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Business Perspective

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Ensure cloud investments help company goals

181
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People Perspective

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Bridge between technhology and business

182
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Governance Perspective

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Orchestrate cloud strategies

183
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Platform Perspective

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Build enterprise, scalable platforms

184
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Security Perspective

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Achieve CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability)

185
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Right Sizing

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Start small b/c scaling up is easier than down. Making sure your systems match what performance you need

186
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IQ

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Quickly find a professional to help with your AWS projects (Like freelancing)

187
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Re:Post

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Forms, like stackoverflow

188
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AMS (Managed Services)

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Infrastructure and Application support by Amazon.

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