Infrastructure Flashcards
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What is Amazon ElastiCache Redis?
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is a fully managed, in-memory data store service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It supports the popular open-source in-memory key-value store Redis. ElastiCache allows you to deploy and operate a Redis cluster without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is commonly used for use cases like caching, session storage, leaderboards, and real-time analytics where low-latency access to data is crucial. It is suitable for a wide range of applications, including web applications, gaming, and analytics platforms that require fast and scalable in-memory data storage.
Edge Location
An “edge location” in the context of Amazon Web Services (AWS) refers to a specific endpoint of the content delivery network (CDN) service known as Amazon CloudFront. CloudFront uses a network of globally distributed edge locations to deliver content with low latency and high data transfer speeds to end-users.
Wat is Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host?
An Amazon EC2 Dedicated Host is a physical server fully dedicated for your use, so you can help address corporate compliance requirements. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts allow you to use your eligible software licenses from vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle on Amazon EC2, so that you get the flexibility and cost effectiveness of using your own licenses, but with the resiliency, simplicity and elasticity of AWS
What is AWS CodeCommit?
AWS CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories. It makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem.
CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.
What is Amazon CloudFront?
Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment.
What is AWS Outposts?
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. With AWS Outposts you can extend your VPC into the on-premises data center.
Wat does Amazon Connect do?
Amazon Connect provides a seamless omnichannel experience through a single unified contact center for voice, chat, and task management.
What does Direct Connect do?
Direct Connect is used for creating a low-latency private connection to an on-premises data center but it cannot be used to extend the VPC.
An AWS Direct Connect connection is a private, dedicated link to AWS. As it does not use the internet, performance is consistent.
What does Amazon WorkSpaces do?
Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution.
For what purpose would a Cloud Practitioner access AWS Artifact?
Gain access to AWS security and compliance documents.
What are AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) access keys used for?
Access keys are long-term credentials for an IAM user or the AWS account root user. You can use access keys to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI or AWS API (directly or using the AWS SDK).
What is AWS Cost Explorer?
AWS Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. AWS Cost Explorer provides you with a set of default reports that you can use as the starting place for your analysis. From there, use the filtering and grouping capabilities to dive deeper into your cost and usage data and generate custom insights.
What does AWS Budgets do?
AWS Budgets allows you to set custom budgets to track your cost and usage from the simplest to the most complex use cases.
With AWS Budgets, you can choose to be alerted by email or SNS notification when actual or forecasted cost and usage exceed your budget threshold, or when your actual RI and Savings Plans’ utilization or coverage drops below your desired threshold.
What does Amazon Inspector do?
Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS
What does AWS Organizations do?
AWS Organizations allows you to organize accounts, create accounts programmatically, and leverage consolidated billing.
What does AWS Batch do?
AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS.
What does AWS Elastic Beanstalk do?
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS
What does AWS Macie do?
Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS. Amazon Macie automates the discovery of sensitive data at scale and lowers the cost of protecting your data.
Macie automatically provides an inventory of Amazon S3 buckets including a list of unencrypted buckets, publicly accessible buckets, and buckets shared with AWS accounts outside those you have defined in AWS Organizations.
Then, Macie applies machine learning and pattern matching techniques to the buckets you select to identify and alert you to sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII).
What is AWS Partner Solutions?
Partner Solutions are built by Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions architects and partners to help you deploy popular technologies on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability. These accelerators reduce hundreds of manual procedures into just a few steps, so you can build your production environment quickly and start using it immediately.
Each Quick Start includes AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployment and a guide that discusses the architecture and provides step-by-step deployment instructions.
What is the difference between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3?
The difference between Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 is easy to understand: Amazon EC2 is a cloud compute service, while Amazon S3 is a storage service.
Which AWS-managed service can be used to process vast amounts of data using a hosted Hadoop framework?
Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is the AWS-managed service that can be used to process vast amounts of data using a hosted Hadoop framework. EMR provides a cloud-based platform to run big data frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, and more. It simplifies the process of setting up, configuring, and managing clusters for processing and analyzing large amounts of data.
AWS Shield?
AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection.
On-Demand in AWS?
“On-Demand” refers to a pricing model for computing resources where you pay for the compute capacity you consume with no upfront costs or long-term commitments. With On-Demand pricing, you simply pay for the compute capacity on an hourly or per-second basis, depending on the instance type, with no minimum usage requirements.
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances?
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices.
The downside is that if capacity becomes temporarily unavailable, your instances may be terminated.
