- General

Question 1

AWS IAM

Answer 1

AWS IAM lets you create user accounts, groups, and roles and assign them rights and permissions over specific services and resources within your AWS account.

Question 2

Directory Service

Answer 2

Directory Service allows you to integrate your resources with external users and resources through third‐party authentication services (e.g. AD).

Question 3

KMS

Answer 3

KMS is a tool for generating and managing encryption keys.

Question 4

SWF

Answer 4

SWF is a tool for coordinating application tasks.

Question 5

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 5

Beanstalk is a managed service that abstracts the provisioning of AWS compute and networking infrastructure. You are required to do nothing more than push your application code, and Beanstalk automatically launches and manages all the necessary services in the background.

Question 6

CloudFront

Answer 6

CloudFront maintains a network of endpoints where cached versions of your application data are stored to provide quicker responses to user requests.

Question 7

What are the three global AWS services?

Answer 7

• IAM
• Route53
• CloudFront