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overview of AWS Flashcards

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what are the three major cloud providers

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AWS (90%), Azure (5%) and Google

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What’s a region?

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geographical area - each area consist of 2 (or more) availability zones

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What is a availability zone?

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is simply a datacenter (or tight cluster of data centers). Separated to handle physical issues

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What are edge locations?

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CDN (content distribution nodes for cloud front

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Are there more or less edge locations

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Many more that regions/AZ

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What is LAMP?

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Linux, Apache HTTP server, MySQL and PHP programming language

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What is a VPC

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Virtual private cloud

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How many VPCs can you have

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Multiple per region

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What is Route53? where did the name come from?

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Route53 is AWS DNS service - 53 is the DNS port and route 66 is first interstate - play on this

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What is CloudFront?

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content delivery network

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What is Direct Connect?

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Allows you to directly connect to your office or datacenter (via internet)

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What is EC2 and what is it used for?

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Elastic compute cloud - simply virtual machines (Rhel, windows, ….)

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What is EC2 container services?

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service that supports Docker

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What is Elastic Beanstalk?

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service which allows you to upload your code, analysis it and will allocate the necessary resources

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What is Lambda?

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revolutionary service - serverless (no access to host) - upload code and it will respond to your events

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What is light sail?

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out of the box cloud wordpress site - deply automatically

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What is S3?

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Simple storage service - virtual disk in the cloud - can store objects or files - not used for executables or database

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What is Glacier?

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Archive service - allows yo to store your files for long period of time - 3 to 4 hours to restore

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What is EFS?

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Elastic File storage (block storage) - used for installing apps and ability to attach to multiple virtual servers

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What is storage gateway?

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A way to connect S3 storage to your datacenter - installed on prem via a virtual machine which communicates to S3 infrastructure

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What is RDS?

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Relational database service - includes following databases: MySQL, postgres, mariaDB, SQLServer, Oracle and Aurora

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What is DynamoDB

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Non relational database - very scalable and high performance

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What is Redshift

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Amazon data warehouse solution

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What is Elasticache

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used to cache data in the cloud - e.g. top 10 selling items that doesn’t change price or image. Take load off the database by moving to the cache

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What is Snowball?

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Ability to move data from datacenter or office more effectively to AWS (physical transport vs over the wire)

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What is DMS?

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database migration service - move from datacenter to datacenter without down time. When migrating - has the ability to migrate to another DB technology

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What is SMS?

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Server migration services - same as DMS - just moves servers instead of databases - 50 at a time

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What is Athena?

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Allows you to run SQL queries again S3 (CSVs, JSON (javascript object notation), lightweight data interchange - easy for humans to read)

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What is EMR?

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elastic map reduce - allows you to examine large amounts of key pair data - used HaDoop framework

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What is cloudsearch?

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fully managed search service for website

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What is Elasticserach?

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same as cloud search just open source version

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What is Kinesis?

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needed in test - service to stream and analyze data with large amounts of data (social media stream, financial data, …)

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What is Data Pipeline?

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service that allows you to move data from one place to another (S3 to DynamoDB)

34
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What is Quick sight?

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not in exams - business analytics tool - build out dashboards.

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What is IAM?

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Identity access management?

36
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What is inspector?

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Agent installed on all virtual machines - used to report back on security data

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what is certificate manager?

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used to obtain SSL certificates for domain names

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what is directory services?

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Way to bridge AD to AWS - comes up in solutions architecture course

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what is WAF?

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Web application firewalls - application level protection to website - this is for application security.

40
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What is Artifacts?

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Obtain certifications/compliance documents (e.g. PCI, …)

41
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What is cloudwatch?

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used to monitor performance of EC2 environment

42
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what is cloud formation?

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used to turn infrastructure into code. Documents environment and turns it into deployed infrastructure in AWS.

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what is cloud trail?

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records key changes into the environment - auditing and logging.

44
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what is opsworks?

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automating deployment via chef

45
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what is config?

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automatically monitors environment and warns ifyour config might break.

46
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what is service catalog?

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designed for larger orgs - specific images for deployment to AWS - shows allowed services that can be deployed into the environment

47
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what is trusted advisor?

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gives tips and tricks to optimize configurations (created by amazon to speed adoption of their products)

48
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what is step functions?

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provides visualization of the way an application works - new service - shows which micro services are being used

49
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what is SWF?

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simple workflow service - used on amazon.com to coordinate human task and automated task

50
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what is API gateway?

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a door for APIs - create, publish, monitor and maintain and secure - allow apps to access backend services

51
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what is appstream?

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stream desktop apps to users

52
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what is elastic transcoder?

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used to transform video to various formats

53
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what is CodeCommit?

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github - place to store code

54
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what is codebuild?

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way to compile your code

55
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what is codedeploy?

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service to push your code to your EC2 instances

56
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what is codepipeline?

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service to track different versions of code

57
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what is mobilehub?

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add and configure design features for your mobile apps - own console for mobile apps

58
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what is cognito?

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used to sign into your app via social media logins

59
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what is devicefarm?

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give you ability to test your apps on physical devices

60
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what is mobile analytics?

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allows you to collect/analyze your mobile usage data

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what is pinpoint?

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understand and engage development on what your users are doing on your mobile app

62
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what is workspaces?

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VDI capabilities

63
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what is appstream 2.0?

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streaming apps to your users

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what is polly?

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text to voice service

65
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what is rekognition?

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services which returns tags about submitted pictures

66
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what is SNS?

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simple notification services - service that allows you to notify someone via text, email, …

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what is SQS?

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a way to decouple applications - queue based service (like mq)

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what is SES?

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simple email service - a way to send/receive email

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