Other Services Flashcards
Amazon WorkSpaces
Secure, reliable, and scalable access to persistent desktops from any location
• Provision Windows or Linux desktops
• Great to eliminate management of on-premise VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)
• Fast and quickly scalable to thousands of users
• Deploy closer to Users for low-latency
Amazon AppStream 2.0
Desktop Application Streaming Service
• Deliver to any computer, without acquiring, provisioning infrastructure
• The application is delivered from within a web browser
Amazon AppStream 2.0 vs WorkSpaces
Workspaces
• Fully managed VDI and desktop available
• The users connect to the VDI and open native or WAM applications
• Workspaces are on-demand or always on
AppStream 2.0
• Stream a desktop application to web browsers (no need to connect to a VDI)
• Works with any device (that has a web browser)
• Allow to configure an instance type per application type (CPU, RAM, GPU)
Amazon Sumerian
Create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications
• Can be used to quickly create 3D models with animations
• Accessible via a web-browser URLs
AWS IoT Core
AWS IoT Core allows you to easily connect IoT devices to the AWS Cloud
• Serverless, secure & scalable to billions of devices and trillions of messages
• Your applications can communicate with your
devices even when they aren’t connected
• Build IoT applications that gather, process,
analyze, and act on data
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Elastic Transcoder is used to convert media files stored in S3 into media files in the formats required by consumer playback devices (phones etc..)
Benefits:
• Easy to use
• Highly scalable – can handle large volumes of media files and large file sizes
• Cost effective – duration-based pricing model
• Fully managed & secure, pay for what you use
AWS AppSync
Is a serverless GraphQL and Pub/Sub API service that simplifies building modern web and mobile applications.
• Store and sync data across mobile and web apps in real-time
• Client Code can be generated automatically
• Offline data synchronization
AWS Amplify
A set of tools and services that helps you develop and deploy scalable full stack web and mobile applications
• The Elastic Beanstalk for web or mobile applications
AWS Device Farm
Fully-managed service that tests your web and mobile apps against desktop browsers, real mobile devices, and tablets
• Run tests concurrently on multiple devices (speed up execution)
• Ability to configure device settings (GPS, language, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, …)
AWS Backup
Fully-managed service to centrally manage and automate backups across AWS services
• On-demand and scheduled backups
• Supports PITR (Point-in-time Recovery)
• Retention Periods, Lifecycle Management, Backup Policies, …
• Cross-Region Backup
• Cross-Account Backup (using AWS Organizations)
Disaster Recovery Strategies
• Backup and Restore: When your data is backed up into the cloud. And then in case of a disaster, you’re going to restore it somewhere else. (CHEAPEST)
• Pilot Lights: When the minimal critical functions of the app are up in the cloud, at a minimal setup.
• Warm Standby: We have the full version of the app ready in the cloud, but at minimum size. And so if we need to do a disaster recovery strategy, we just need to increase the size of the app
• Multi-Site / Hot-Sites: When we have the full version of the app at full size, ready to be used no matter what.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
Quickly and easily recover your physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS
• Example: protect your most critical databases
• Continuous block-level replication for your servers
AWS DataSync
Is a secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data between on premises and AWS Storage services.
• Move large amount of data from on-premises to AWS
• Replication tasks can be scheduled hourly, daily, weekly
• The replication tasks are INCREMENTAL after the first full load
AWS Application Discovery Service
Plan migration projects by gathering information about on-premises data centers
• Server utilization data and dependency mapping are important for migrations
Agentless Discovery (AWS Agentless Discovery Connector)
• VM inventory, configuration, and performance history such as CPU, memory, and disk usage
Agent-based Discovery (AWS Application Discovery Agent)
• System configuration, system performance, running processes, and details of the network
connections between systems
AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
Lift-and-shift (rehost) solution which simplify migrating applications to AWS
• Converts your physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers to run natively on AWS
• Minimal downtime, reduced costs
