Foundations of Cloud Computing/AWS Services COPY 2 Flashcards
Volume discounts are passed on to you, which provides lower pay-as-you-go prices is an elaboration for AWS’s advantage of
“Benefit from massive economies of scale”
____ ____ is a web application firewall that protects against common exploits that could:
- Compromise Application Availability
- Security
- Or consume excessive resources
AWS Web Application Firewall
Which AWS service lets you create rules to filter web traffic based on the following:
- IP addresses
- HTTP headers and body
- Specific URL’s
AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Network Address Translation (NAT) service allows EC2 instances in a private subnet to connect to services outside your VPC but ___________ cannot initiate a connection with those instances
external services
What is the difference between Region, AZ, and data center?
Regions are geographically isolated locations around the globe that has 2 or more AZ’s within it
-An AZ has one or more data centers within it
3 common types of cloud computing model that come up in the exam:
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
Platform as a service (PaaS).
Software as a service (SaaS).
_____ _____ is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents
Amazon Textract
In the cloud, this allows you to innovate faster, giving you speed to market via all the services available
Agility
Athena and Redshift fall under the category:
Analytics
Outpost supports workloads that need to remain on-premises due to _________________.
latency or data sovereignty needs
____ ___ _______ _______ gives you centralized control over the encryption keys used to protect your data.
AWS Key Management Service
Using _____ _____ in the real world allows you to transfer business-critical data directly to AWS, bypassing your internet service provider
Direct Connect
___________ provides you with a completed product that is run and managed by the service provider.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
RDS, DynamoDB, Aurora, DocumentDB, ElastiCache, Neptune fall under the category:
Databases
___ ____ is a compute service that is used to process large workloads in smaller batches.
AWS Batch
What are the 6 Major Advantages of AWS?
- Benefit from massive economies of scale
- Trade Fixed Capital expense for Variable Expenses
- Increased Speed & Agility
- Global in minutes
- No need to maintain a data center
- Your capacity matches your growth.
4 cloud architectures design principles in AWS:
Design for failure.
Decouple your components
Implement elasticity
Think parallel
____ ___ ______ ______ is integrated with most other AWS services making it easy to encrypt the data you store in these services with encryption keys you control.
AWS Key Management Service
_______ is open-source software that enables you to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale.
Kubernetes
2 features of _____ __ include:
- Performs health checks on AWS resources
- Supports hybrid cloud architectures
Route 53
is a machine learning service that makes it easy to build workflows that require human review.
Amazon Augmented AI
Route 53 is a ________ that routes users to applications.
DNS Service
You can use this servive in order to run Kubernetes on AWS
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
CLOUD9, CLOUD COMMIT fall under the category:
Development
