Name that AWS Service Flashcards
“best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern application architectures, including microservices and containers”
Application Load Balancer (ALB)
“monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost”
Auto Scaling Group (ASG)
“serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL”
Athena
“simply point to your data in Amazon S3, define the schema, and start querying using standard SQL”
Athena
“MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases”
Aurora
“features a distributed, fault-tolerant, self-healing storage system that auto-scales up to 128TB per database instance. It delivers high performance and availability with up to 15 low-latency read replicas, point-in-time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, and replication across three Availability Zones (AZs)”
Aurora
“routes traffic to targets within Amazon VPC based on the content of the request”
Application Load Balancer (ALB)
“gives you an easy way to model a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, provision them quickly and consistently, and manage them throughout their lifecycles, by treating infrastructure as code”
CloudFormation
“You can use a template to create, update, and delete an entire stack as a single unit, as often as you need to, instead of managing resources individually. You can manage and provision stacks across multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions”
CloudFormation
“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”
CloudFront
“offers the most advanced security capabilities, including field level encryption and HTTPS support, seamlessly integrated with AWS Shield, AWS Web Application Firewall and Route 53 to protect against multiple types of attacks including network and application layer DDoS attacks. These services co-reside at edge networking locations – globally scaled and connected via the AWS network backbone – providing a more secure, performant, and available experience for your users”
CloudFront
“service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account”
CloudTrail
“log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure”
CloudTrail
“provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services. This event history simplifies security analysis, resource change tracking, and troubleshooting”
CloudTrail
“a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers”
CloudWatch
“provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health”
CloudWatch
“collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on-premises servers”
CloudWatch
“You can use [this service] to detect anomalous behavior in your environments, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights to keep your applications running smoothly.”
CloudWatch
“lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0”
Cognito
“a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It’s a fully managed, multi-region, multi-active, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications. can handle more than 10 trillion requests per day and can support peaks of more than 20 million requests per second.”
DynamoDB