Name that AWS Service Flashcards

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“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”

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Application Load Balancer (ALB)

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“monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost”

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Auto Scaling Group (ASG)

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“serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL”

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Athena

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“simply point to your data in Amazon S3, define the schema, and start querying using standard SQL”

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Athena

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“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”

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Aurora

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“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)”

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Aurora

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“routes traffic to targets within Amazon VPC based on the content of the request”

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Application Load Balancer (ALB)

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“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”

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CloudFormation

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“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”

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CloudFormation

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“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”

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CloudFront

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“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”

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CloudFront

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“service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account”

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CloudTrail

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“log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure”

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CloudTrail

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“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”

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CloudTrail

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“a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers”

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CloudWatch

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“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”

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CloudWatch

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“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”

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CloudWatch

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“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.”

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CloudWatch

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“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”

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Cognito

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“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.”

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DynamoDB

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“designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads at any scale. A broad range of workloads, such as relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows are widely deployed on [this service]”

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Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

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“web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. [this service’s] simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment.”

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Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

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“fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, manage, share, and deploy your container images and artifacts anywhere”

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Elastic Container Registry (ECR)

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“a fully managed container orchestration service. it can natively integrate with other services such as Amazon Route 53, Secrets Manager, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Amazon CloudWatch providing you a familiar experience to deploy and scale your containers”

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Elastic Container Service (ECS)

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“provides a simple, scalable, fully managed elastic NFS file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.”

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Elastic File Storage (EFS)

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“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. You can simply upload your code and [this service] automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring”

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Elastic Beanstalk

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“allows you to seamlessly set up, run, and scale popular open-source compatible in-memory data stores in the cloud. Build data-intensive apps or boost the performance of your existing databases by retrieving data from high throughput and low latency in-memory data stores.”

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ElastiCache

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“serverless compute engine for containers. runs each task or pod in its own kernel providing the tasks and pods their own isolated compute environment. This enables your application to have workload isolation and improved security by design.”

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Fargate

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“enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely”

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Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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“Using [this service] you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources”

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Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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“serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications together using data from your own applications, integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and AWS services”

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EventBridge

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“the easiest way to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. It can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, generic HTTP endpoints, and service providers like Datadog, New Relic, MongoDB, and Splunk. It is a fully managed service that automatically scales to match the throughput of your data and requires no ongoing administration.”

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Kinesis Data Firehose

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“the easiest way to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink (SQL). Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams.”

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Kinesis Data Analytics

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“a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service. can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of sources such as website clickstreams, database event streams, financial transactions, social media feeds, IT logs, and location-tracking events. The data collected is available in milliseconds to enable real-time analytics use cases such as real-time dashboards, real-time anomaly detection, dynamic pricing, and more.”

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Kinesis Data Streams

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“makes it easy for you to create and manage cryptographic keys and control their use across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications”

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Key Management Service (KMS)

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“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. Just upload your code as a ZIP file or container image, and [this service] automatically and precisely allocates compute execution power and runs your code based on the incoming request or event, for any scale of traffic.”

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Lambda

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“best suited for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required. [this service] routes traffic to targets within Amazon VPC and is capable of handling millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latencies.”

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Network Load Balancer (NLB)

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“makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It frees you to focus on your applications so you can give them the fast performance, high availability, security and compatibility they need.”

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Relational Database Service (RDS)

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“highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other”

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Route53

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“object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics”

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Simple Storage Service (S3)

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“fully managed messaging service for both application-to-application (A2A) and application-to-person (A2P) communication. The A2A pub/sub functionality provides topics for high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications”

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Simple Notification Service (SNS)

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“fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Using [this service], you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available.”

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Simple Queue Service (SQS)

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“hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage”

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Storage Gateway

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“service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.”

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Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

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“helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture”

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X-Ray

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“provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components.”

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X-Ray

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“lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. SSL/TLS certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet as well as resources on private networks”

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AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

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“fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads”

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DocumentDB

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“helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database. [this service] can migrate your data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases.”

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Database Migration Service (DMS)

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“fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets”

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Neptune