GENERAL Flashcards

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AWS Core service areas

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compute, network, storage, databases

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Well-Architected Framework

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Only extremely Stupid People ever Shit Remarkably Cool otters (Operational excellence, Security, Performance efficiency, Sustainability, Reliability, Cost optimization)

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6 R’s of Migration

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Rehosting, Replatforming, Retaining, Repurchasing, Retiring, Refactoring

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Rehosting

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lift & shift

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Replatforming

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lift, tinker, & shift

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Retiring

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get rid of unneeded applications

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Retaining

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about to be deprecated, keep on-prem

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Repurchasing

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abandon legacy software vendors

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Refactoring

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reworking code & architecture changes

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Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

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Big People Generally Show Positive Outcomes (Business, People, Governance, Security, Platform, Operations)

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CAF - Business

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ensures that IT aligns with business needs and that IT investments link to key business results.

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CAF - People

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HR hire new staff for cloud adoption

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CAF - Governance

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focuses on the skills and processes to align IT strategy with business strategy. This ensures that you maximize the business value and minimize risks.

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CAF - Platform

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principles and patterns for implementing new solutions on the cloud, and migrating on-premises workloads to the cloud.

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CAF - Security

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ensure security

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CAF - Operations

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enable, run, use, operate, and recover IT workloads to the level agreed upon with your business stakeholders.

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WArchF - Operational excellence

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run & monitor systems, continually improve supporting processes

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WArchF - Security

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keep things secure

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WArchF - Reliability

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recovery, scalability, durability

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WArchF - Performance efficiency

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use compute resources efficiently

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WArchF - Compute optimization

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run systems at lowest price point

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WArchF - Sustainability

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minimize environmental impact & reduce energy consumption

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AWS Control Tower

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Create, orchestrate, andmonitor your multi-account environment

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Amazon Macie

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data security service that discovers sensitive data w/ machine learning. Provides visibility into data security risks & enables automated protection against those risks

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Amazon GuardDuty

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security monitoring service that analyzes & processes FOUNDATIONAL DATA SOURCES (e.g.CloudTrail, VPC flow logs, DNS logs, etc.)

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AWS Shield

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managed DDoS protection service

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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provides recommendations based on AWS best practices. Evaluates your account using checks

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AWS Storage Gateway

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set of HYBRID cloud storage services providing on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage

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AWS CloudHSM

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manage & access your keys on single-tenant HSM instances that run in your own VPC

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HSM

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Hardware Security Module: a physical computing device that safeguards and manages secrets, performs encryption & decryption

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AWS Professional Services

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AWS ppl who assist enterprise customers w/ cloud migration/adoption

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AWS Marketplace

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digital catalog to for 3rd-party software built with AWS

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AWS Inspector

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automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure

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Trusted Advisor vs Inspector

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Trusted Advisor == best practice recommendations using checks,
Inspector == scan for security vulnerabilities

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AWS Config

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assess, audit, & evaluate configuration of AWS resources

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6 Benefits of Cloud Computing

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trade capital expenses for variable expenses, economies of scale, stop guessing capacity, increased agility, stop spending money running & maintaining data centers, go global in minutes

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AWS Lightsail

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Managed virtual server service

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AWS Fargate

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serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine used with ECS or EKS

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AWS ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

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repo for container images

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What are the different support plans in AWS?

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Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise On-Ramp, Enterprise

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Basic support plan

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Free, whitepapers, docs, support forums, limited Trusted Advisor checks, AWS Personal Health Dashboard

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AWS Personal Health Dashboard

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provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may affect you

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Develop support plan

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Email AWS w/ 24 hr response time, < 12 hrs if systems are impaired

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Business support plan

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Full Trusted Advisor checks, direct phone access to support team, 4 hr if impaired, 1hr if down

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Enterprise On-Ramp

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30 min response time, rate-limited access to Technical Account Managers (TAM)

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Enterprise

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15 min response time, designated TAM, proactive reviews, workshops

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Technical Account Managers

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Your own AWS expert to help you with your cloud crap

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CodeArtifact

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AWS Artifactory

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CodeBuild

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A fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy, on a dynamically created build server (Continuous Integration)

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CodeCommit

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AWS Github

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CodeDeploy

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service that automates code deployments to any instance, including EC2 instances and instances running on premises (Continuous Deploy)

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CodePipeline

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fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure update (Continuous Delivery)

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AWS Cognito

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Implement secure, frictionless customer identity and access management that scales

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5 categories of AWS Trusted Advisor

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Cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, service limits

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What are EC2 instance types

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General, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Storage Optimized, Accelerated Computing

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EC2 instance type - General

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Balance of everything

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EC2 instance type - Compute Optimized

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High CPU (batch processing workloads, media transcoding, high performance web servers, high performance computing (HPC), scientific modeling, dedicated gaming servers and ad server engines, machine learning inference and other compute intensive applications.)

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EC2 instance type - Memory Optimized

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High RAM (open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics)

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EC2 instance type - Storage Optimized

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High SSD. Deliver tens of thousands of low-latency, random I/O operations per second (IOPS). (transactional databases (Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL), Amazon OpenSearch Service, and real-time analytics such as Apache Spark)

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EC2 instance type - Accelerated Computing

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hardware accelerators, or co-processors, to perform functions, such as floating point number calculations, graphics processing, or data pattern matching, more efficiently than is possible in software running on CPUs.

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EC2 pricing plans

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On-Demand, Reserved, Spot, Dedicated Hosts, (EC2 savings plan)

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EC2 pricing - On-Demand

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pay for compute capacity by the hour or second with no long-term commitments (short-term workloads that cannot be interrupted, ppl who are scared of commitment, dating AWS before marriage)

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EC2 pricing - Spot

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Up to 90% off On-Demand pricing, like flying standby, take advantage of unused compute in AWS. Must have stateless flexible workloads that can be stopped & resumed (e.g. batch jobs)

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EC2 Reserved - 3 kinds

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Standard, Convertible, Scheduled

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AWS Savings Plans - 2 types

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Compute Savings Plan, EC2 Instance Savings Plans

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Compute Savings Plan

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flexible pricing for Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and AWS Fargate usage if you commit to amount of usage ($/hour) for a 1 or 3 yr term. Up to 66% cost reduction

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AWS Savings Plans

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flexible pricing for Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and AWS Fargate if you commit to consistent amount of usage ($/hour) for a 1 or 3 yr term. Instance family, size, AZ, Region, OS or tenancy don’t matter

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EC2 Instance Savings Plan

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up to 72% savings if commit individual instance families + region, 1 or 3 yrs

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EC2 Reserved - Scheduled

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If you need it on a periodic schedule

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EC2 Reserved - Standard

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up to 72% cost savings, 1 or 3 yrs, commit to instance family + region. Can get capacity reservations if commit to AZ

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EC2 Reserved - Convertible

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Up to 66% savings, 1 or 3 yrs, commit to region (instance families, operating systems, tenancies can change)

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EC2 Dedicated Host

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You get your own physical machine to run your single-tenant box. Good for compliance or server licenses

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AWS RDS - Aurora

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MySQL or Postgres. Built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services.

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S3 storage classes

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S3 Standard, S3 Standard IA, S3 Intelligent Tiering, S3 One-Zone IA, S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, S3 Glacier Deep Archive, S3 Outposts

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S3 Standard

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high durability, availability, and performance object storage for frequently accessed data. objects <= 5TB. Stored in 3 AZ’s minimum

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S3 Standard IA

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data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed

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S3 Intelligent Tiering

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30 days -> Infrequent Access Tier
90 days -> Archive Instant Access Tier
180 days -> Deep Archive Access

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S3 Standard IA (Infrequent Access)

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data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed

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S3 One-Zone IA

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data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed, only in one AZ, costs 20% less

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S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval

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data archive, fast access

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S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval

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data archive, access time minutes to hours

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S3 Glacier Deep Archive

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data archive, access within 12 hrs