Networking

Question 1

VPC

Answer 1

Virtual Private Cloud - gives you full control over your virtual networking environment, including resource placement, connectivity, and security. Add in resources like EC2s, RDS, etc

Question 2

Transit Gateway

Answer 2

connects your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks through a central hub

Question 3

PrivateLink

Answer 3

provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and your on-premises networks, without exposing your traffic to the public internet

Question 4

API Gateway

Answer 4

developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale

Question 5

2 API types in API gateway

Answer 5

REST and Websocket

Question 6

Cloudfront

Answer 6

Content delivery network. Uses Edges to cache data

Question 7

Route53

Answer 7

Domain Name System (DNS) Service. 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.

Question 8

Global Accelerator

Answer 8

optimizes the path to your application to keep packet loss, jitter, and latency consistently low. automatically re-routes your traffic to your nearest healthy available endpoint to mitigate endpoint failure

Question 9

Direct Connect

Answer 9

While in transit, your network traffic remains on the AWS global network and never touches the public internet

Question 10

2 ways to deploy AWS Direct Connect

Answer 10

AWS Direct Connect Delivery Partner, or choose a dedicated connection from AWS

Question 11

Site to Site VPN

Answer 11

fully-managed service that creates a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels

Question 12

Client VPN

Answer 12

fully-managed remote access VPN solution used by your remote workforce to securely access resources within both AWS and your on-premises network

Question 13

WAN

Answer 13

provides a central dashboard for making connections between your branch offices, data centers, and Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in just a few clicks

Question 14

AWS Shield

Answer 14

managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. All AWS customers benefit from the automatic protections of AWS Shield Standard, at no additional charge

Question 15

WAF

Answer 15

web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
gives you control over how traffic reaches your applications by enabling you to create security rules that control bot traffic and block common attack patterns, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting

Question 16

Network Firewall

Answer 16

managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all of your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)

Question 17

Firewall Manager

Answer 17

Centralized place for firewall rules across AWS organizations