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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) …

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… provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud as Amazon EC2 instances.

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Amazon EC2 Savings Plans 

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… enable you to reduce your compute costs by committing to a consistent amount of compute usage for a 1-year or 3-year term.

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Reserved Instances 

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… are a billing discount applied to the use of On-Demand Instances in your account. You can purchase Standard Reserved and Convertible Reserved Instances for a 1-year or 3-year term, and Scheduled Reserved Instances for a 1-year term.

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Spot Instances

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…  are ideal for workloads with flexible start and end times, or that can withstand interruptions. Spot Instances use unused Amazon EC2 computing capacity and offer you cost savings at up to 90% off of On-Demand prices.

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

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… enables you to automatically add or remove Amazon EC2 instances in response to changing application demand.

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Elastic Load Balancin

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… is the AWS service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances. 

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

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… is a publish/subscribe service. Using Amazon SNS topics, a publisher publishes messages to subscribers. 

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Amazon SQS

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Using …, you can send, store, and receive messages between software components, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available. In Amazon SQS, an application sends messages into a queue.

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AWS Lambda

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…  is a service that lets you run code without needing to provision or manage servers. 

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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… is a highly scalable, high-performance container management system that enables you to run and scale containerized applications on AWS. 

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) 

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… is a fully managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS. 

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AWS Fargate

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… is a serverless compute engine for containers. It works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.

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Availability Zone

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An …  is a single data center or a group of data centers within a Region. Availability Zones are located tens of miles apart from each other.

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edge location

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An … is a site that Amazon CloudFront uses to store cached copies of your content closer to your customers for faster delivery.

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AWS Management Console

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The … is a web-based interface for accessing and managing AWS services. 

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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With …, you provide code and configuration settings, and Elastic Beanstalk deploys the resources necessary to perform the following tasks: Adjust capacity, Load balancing, Automatic scaling, Application health monitoring

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AWS CloudFormation

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With …, you can treat your infrastructure as code. This means that you can build an environment by writing lines of code instead of using the AWS Management Console

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

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A networking service that you can use to establish boundaries around your AWS resources is …. Amazon VPC enables you to provision an isolated section of the AWS Cloud.

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AWS Direct Connect

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… is a service that enables you to establish a dedicated private connection between your data center and a VPC.  

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subnet

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A … is a section of a VPC in which you can group resources based on security or operational needs. Subnets can be public or private. 

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A network access control list

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The VPC component that checks packet permissions for subnets is a network access control list (ACL). … is a virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level. Network ACLs perform stateless packet filtering. They remember nothing and check packets that cross the subnet border each way: inbound and outbound. 

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security group

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A … is a virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic for an Amazon EC2 instance. Security groups perform stateful packet filtering. They remember previous decisions made for incoming packets.

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Amazon Route 53

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…  is a DNS web service. It gives developers and businesses a reliable way to route end users to internet applications hosted in AWS. 

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 instance store 

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An … provides temporary block-level storage for an Amazon EC2 instance. An instance store is disk storage that is physically attached to the host computer for an EC2 instance

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Amazon Elastic Block Store

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is a service that provides block-level storage volumes that you can use with Amazon EC2 instances. If you stop or terminate an Amazon EC2 instance, all the data on the attached EBS volume remains available.

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EBS snapshot

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An EBS snapshot is an incremental backup. 

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Amazon S3)

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a service that provides object-level storage. Amazon S3 stores data as objects in buckets.

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S3 Standard

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S3 Standard provides high availability for objects.

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S3 Standard-IA

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S3 Standard-IA is ideal for data infrequently accessed but requires high availability when needed. 

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S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class

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In the S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class, Amazon S3 monitors objects’ access patterns.

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S3 Glacier

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S3 Glacier is a low-cost storage class that is ideal for data archiving.

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Amazon EFS

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a scalable file system used with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. As you add and remove files, Amazon EFS grows and shrinks automatically.

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Amazon RDS

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a service that enables you to run relational databases in the AWS Cloud.

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Amazon Aurora 

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Amazon Aurora is an enterprise-class relational database. It is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL relational databases. 

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Amazon DynamoDB

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Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value database service. It delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.

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Amazon Redshift

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Amazon Redshift is a data warehousing service that you can use for big data analytics. It offers the ability to collect data from many sources and helps you to understand relationships and trends across your data.

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AWS Database Migration Service

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AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) enables you to migrate relational databases, nonrelational databases, and other types of data stores.

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Amazon DocumentDB

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Amazon DocumentDB is a document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. (MongoDB is a document database program.)

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Amazon Neptune

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Amazon Neptune is a graph database service. You can use Amazon Neptune to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets, such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs.

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Quantum Ledger Database

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Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) is a ledger database service. 

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ElastiCache

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Amazon ElastiCache is a service that adds caching layers on top of your databases to help improve the read times of common requests. 

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DynamoDB Accelerator

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Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is an in-memory cache for DynamoDB. 

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shared responsibility model

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The shared responsibility model divides into customer responsibilities (commonly referred to as “security in the cloud”) and AWS responsibilities (commonly referred to as “security of the cloud”).

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely.  

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IAM user

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An IAM user is an identity that you create in AWS. It represents the person or application that interacts with AWS services and resources. It consists of a name and credentials.

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AWS Organizations

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Suppose that your company has multiple AWS accounts. You can use AWS Organizations to consolidate and manage multiple AWS accounts within a central location.

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AWS Artifact Agreements

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Suppose that your company needs to sign an agreement with AWS regarding your use of certain types of information throughout AWS services. You can do this through AWS Artifact Agreements. 

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AWS Artifact Reports.

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Suppose that a member of your company’s development team is building an application and needs more information about their responsibility for complying with certain regulatory standards. You can advise them to access this information in AWS Artifact Reports.

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Customer Compliance Center

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The Customer Compliance Center contains resources to help you learn more about AWS compliance. 

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AWS Shield

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AWS Shield is a service that protects applications against DDoS attacks. AWS Shield provides two levels of protection: Standard and Advanced.

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AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) 

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AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) enables you to perform encryption operations through the use of cryptographic keys.

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AWS WAF (Web application Firewall)

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AWS WAF is a web application firewall that lets you monitor network requests that come into your web applications. AWS WAF works together with Amazon CloudFront and an Application Load Balancer.

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Amazon Inspector

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Amazon Inspector helps to improve the security and compliance of applications by running automated security assessments. 

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GuardDuty

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Amazon GuardDuty is a service that provides intelligent threat detection for your AWS infrastructure and resources. It identifies threats by continuously monitoring the network activity and account behavior within your AWS environment.

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CloudWatch 

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Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics. With CloudWatch, you can create alarms that automatically perform actions if the value of your metric has gone above or below a predefined threshold. 

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Cloud Watch Dashboard

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The CloudWatch dashboard feature enables you to access all the metrics for your resources from a single location. 

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CloudTrail records

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AWS CloudTrail records API calls for your account. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, and more. 

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CloudTrail Insights

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Within CloudTrail, you can also enable CloudTrail Insights. This optional feature allows CloudTrail to automatically detect unusual API activities in your AWS account. 

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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AWS Trusted Advisor is a web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations in accordance with AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor compares its findings to AWS best practices in five categories: cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits.

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 AWS Free Tier

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The AWS Free Tier enables you to begin using certain services without having to worry about incurring costs for the specified period. 

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AWS Pricing Calculator

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The AWS Pricing Calculator lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS. You can organize your AWS estimates by groups that you define. A group can reflect how your company is organized, such as providing estimates by cost center.

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AWS Billing & Cost Management

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Use the AWS Billing & Cost Management dashboard to pay your AWS bill, monitor your usage, and analyze and control your costs.

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AWS Budgets

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In AWS Budgets, you can create budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations. The information in AWS Budgets updates three times a day.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Cost Explorer is a tool that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.

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AWS offers four different Support plans …

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AWS offers four different Support plans to help you troubleshoot issues, lower costs, and efficiently use AWS services.  Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise

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AWS Marketplace 

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AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors. You can use AWS Marketplace to find, test, and buy software that runs on AWS. 

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 AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

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At the highest level, the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) organizes guidance into six areas of focus, called Perspectives. Each Perspective addresses distinct responsibilities. In general, the Business, People, and Governance Perspectives focus on business capabilities, whereas the Platform, Security, and Operations Perspectives focus on technical capabilities.

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six of the most common migration strategies 

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When migrating applications to the cloud, six of the most common migration strategies that you can implement are: Rehosting, Replatforming, Refactoring/re-architecting, Repurchasing, Retaining, Retiring

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AWS Snow Family

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The … is a collection of physical devices that help to physically transport up to exabytes of data into and out of AWS. 

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AWS Snowcone

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… is a small, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device. It features 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, and 8 TB of usable storage.

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AWS Snowball 

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… offers two types of devices: Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices and Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices.

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AWS Snowmobile 

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… is an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100 petabytes of data per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi trailer truck.

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AWS Well-Architected Framework

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The  … helps you understand how to design and operate reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective systems in the AWS Cloud. It provides a way for you to consistently measure your architecture against best practices and design principles and identify areas for improvement.

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Operational excellence

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 … is the ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures.  Performance efficiency is the ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve. 

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What are the differences between
network access control lists and
security groups?

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• Network access control lists are
virtual firewalls for subnets. They
perform stateless packet filtering.
• Security groups are virtual
firewalls for Amazon EC2
instances. They perform stateful
packet filtering
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Which statement describes security

groups?

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They are stateful and deny all

inbound traffic by default

77
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What are the three storage types

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Block storage
Object Storage
File Storage

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What three parts belong to an object

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In object storage, each object consists

of data, metadata, and a key.

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Which option is TRUE about Amazon
EBS volumes and Amazon EFS file
systems?

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EBS volumes store data in a single Availability
Zone. Amazon EFS file systems store data
across multiple Availability Zones. (correct)

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Five examples for customer responsibilities

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Instance Operating System
Applications
Security Groups
Host-Based Firewalls
Account Management
81
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A customer is configuring service
control policies (SCPs) in AWS
Organizations. Which identities and
resources can SCPs be applied to?
(Select TWO.)
A 
A. IAM users
B. IAM groups
C. An individual member account
(correct)
D. IAM roles
E. An organizational unit (OU) (correct)
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Which categories are included in
the AWS Trusted Advisor
dashboard? (Select TWO.)

A 
A. Reliability
B. Performance (correct)
C. Scalability
D. Elasticity
E. Fault tolerance (correct)
83
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Which pricing tool is used to
visualize, understand, and manage
your AWS costs and usage over
time?

A

A. AWS Pricing Calculator
B. AWS Budgets
C. AWS Cost Explorer (correct)
D. AWS Free Tier

84
Q

Which pricing tool can a customer
use to receive alerts when their
service usage exceeds a customerdefined threshold?

A 
A. Billing dashboard in the AWS
Management Console
B. AWS Budgets (correct)
C. AWS Free Tier
D. AWS Cost Explorer
85
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What are the five pillars for Well-architected framework?

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  • Operational excellence
  • Security
  • Reliability
  • Performance efficiency
  • Cost optimization
86
Q

What is the storage capacity of

AWS Snowmobile?

A

A. 40 PB
B. 60 PB
C. 80 PB
D. 100 PB (correct)

87
Q

What is the storage capacity of

Snowball Edge Storage Optimized?

A

A. 40 TB
B. 60 TB
C. 80 TB (correct)
D. 100 TB

88
Q 
Which AWS Well-Architected
Framework pillar includes the
ability to recover from
infrastructure or service
disruptions?
A

A. Cost optimization
B. Operational excellence (correct)
C. Performance efficiency
D. Reliability

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