M3: AWS global Infrastructure Flashcards
Module 3
AWS region
Physical geographical location with one or more availability zones. AZs contain data centres. Regions isolated from one another.
Data centres
Location carefully selected
Redundant design
Critical system components backed up across multiple AZs
Service usage monitored
Locations not disclosed
In case of failure, data traffic moves from area
Points of presence
Edge locations used by CloudFront and Route53
Lower latency
Regional edge caches
For content not accessed frequently enough to remain in edge location
Availability zone
Physically separate from other AZs
Has redundant power, networking and connectivity
AWS categories of service
Storage service category
Compute service category
Database service category
Networking and content delivery service category
Security, identity and compliance service category
AWS cost management service category
Management and governance service category
Storage service category
S3
Elastic Block store
Elastic file system
S3 Glacier
Compute service category
EC2 EC2 auto scaling Elastic Container service Elastic Container registry Elastic Beanstalk Lambda Elastic Kubernetes service Fargate
Database service category
Amazon Relational database service
Aurora
Redshift
DynamoDB
Networking and content delivery service category
VPC Elastic load balancing CloudFront Transit gateway Route 53 Direct connect VPN
Security, identity and compliance
Identity and access management AWS organizations Cognito Artifact Key management service Shield
Cost management service category
Cost and usage report
Budgets
Cost explorer
Management and governance
Management console AWS config CloudWatch Auto scaling Command line interface Trusted advisor Well architected tool CloudTrail