Key Services (Data) Flashcards

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Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

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Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, allowing you to launch virtual servers (instances) as needed.

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Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

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Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a managed service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes.

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Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service)

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Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Docker.

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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

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Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an object storage service offering scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)

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Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) provides block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. EBS volumes are highly available and reliable storage volumes that can be attached to any running instance in the same Availability Zone.

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Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

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Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) allows you to provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.

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AWS Direct Connect

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AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.

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AWS Transit Gateway

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AWS Transit Gateway acts as a network transit hub, enabling you to connect your VPCs and on-premises networks through a central point of management.

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AWS Lambda

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AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, creating workload-aware cluster scaling logic, maintaining event integrations, or managing runtimes.

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AWS Step Functions

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AWS Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service that lets you combine AWS Lambda functions and other AWS services to build business-critical applications through visual workflows.

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Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka)

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Amazon MSK (Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka) is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data.

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Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)

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Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) supports several database engines, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server.

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Amazon Aurora

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Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, providing the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases at a fraction of the cost.

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Amazon DynamoDB

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Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.

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Amazon Redshift

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Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud, allowing users to analyze data using standard SQL and existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools.

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AWS Data Pipeline

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AWS Data Pipeline is a web service for processing and moving data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources, at specified intervals.

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AWS Glue

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AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy to prepare and load data for analytics.

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Amazon Athena

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Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.

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Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

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Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is a cloud-native big data platform, allowing processing of vast amounts of data quickly and cost-effectively across resizable clusters of Amazon EC2 instances.

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Amazon Kinesis

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Amazon Kinesis is a platform for streaming data on AWS, offering powerful services to load and analyze streaming data, and also providing the ability to build custom streaming data applications.

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AWS Lake Formation

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AWS Lake Formation simplifies the process of setting up a secure and well-architected data lake. It automates the provisioning and configuration of the underlying resources needed for a data lake on AWS.

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Amazon QuickSight

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Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud.

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AWS CloudFormation

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AWS CloudFormation is a service that helps you model and set up your Amazon Web Services resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your applications.

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Amazon CloudWatch

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Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.

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Amazon AppFlow

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Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between AWS services and SaaS applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, and Google Analytics.

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Amazon MWAA (Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow)

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Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is a managed service that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud with Apache Airflow.

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AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps securely control access to AWS resources. It allows you to manage users, security credentials (like access keys), and permissions that control which AWS resources users and applications can access.

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AWS Secrets Manager

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AWS Secrets Manager is a service for managing, retrieving, and rotating database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.

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Amazon EventBridge

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Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that enables you to connect applications using events. It facilitates building event-driven architectures by routing events between AWS services, integrated SaaS applications, and custom applications.

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AWS CloudTrail

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AWS CloudTrail is a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in AWS, enabling governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.

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AWS DataSync

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AWS DataSync is a data transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates moving data between on-premises storage systems and AWS storage services, as well as between AWS storage services.

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AWS DMS (Database Migration Service)

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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a service that enables easy and secure migration of databases to AWS, between on-premises instances, or between different AWS cloud services.