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
3 things ___ _____ is best used for:
Bulk data transfer, edge storage, and edge compute
AWS Snowball
Elaborate on the AWS advantage Increased Speed & Agility:
AWS Services allow you to innovate and deliver your applications faster.
Which AWS service provides everything you need in order to jumpstart your project i.e.
- virtual machine
- SSD-based storage
- DNS management
- Static IP address
AWS Lightsail
AWS VPN Site-to-Site VPN creates a secure connection
between your internal networks and your AWS VPCs. How is this different from AWS Direct Connect?
Similar to Direct Connect, but data travels over the public internet
_____ _____ _____ is a dedicated physical network connection from your on-premises data center to AWS.
AWS Direct Connect
Based on volume, a benefit of using Batch is
It dynamically provisions instances
This refers to systems that are durable and likely to operate continuously without failure for a long time
High Availability
_________________ removes the need for your organization to manage the underlying infrastructure and allows you to focus on deployment and management of your applications.
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Network Address Translation (NAT) is a service that helps you accomplish:
You need to enable your EC2 instances in the private subnet to connect to the public Internet.
___ _____ is a cloud-based virtual private server (VPS) solution.
AWS Lightsail
This is when a change or a failure in one component should not cascade to other components.
Loose coupling Application design
_____ allows you to run cloud services in your internal data center.
Outpost
_____ is a service that enables you to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models
Amazon SageMaker
When using ____ ____ Amazon will deliver and install servers in your internal data center.
AWS Outpost
When ____ ____ ____ features your data travels over a physical private network directly to AWS from your on-premises data center, not the public internet
AWS Direct Connect
Durability in the cloud is all about long-term data protection. This means
your data will remain intact without corruption.
The following a 4 Key Business factors to consider when ____________________________________.
- Proximity to Customers
- Available services within a Region
- Pricing of Services in that Region
- Compliance with data governance and legal requirements
It cost more to run AWS in some regions over others
Choosing a region to host your applications
___ ____ is integrated with AWS CloudTrail which provides you the ability to audit who used which keys, on which resources, and when.
AWS KMS
These are 3 features of ____ ____ _______:
- Data is automatically encrypted
- Connects your on-premises data center to AWS
- Supports hybrid cloud architectures
AWS VPN Site-to-Site
____ manages compute environements and job queses, allowing you to run thousands of jobs using EC2 and EC2 Spot.
Batch
