overview of AWS Flashcards
what are the three major cloud providers
AWS (90%), Azure (5%) and Google
What’s a region?
geographical area - each area consist of 2 (or more) availability zones
What is a availability zone?
is simply a datacenter (or tight cluster of data centers). Separated to handle physical issues
What are edge locations?
CDN (content distribution nodes for cloud front
Are there more or less edge locations
Many more that regions/AZ
What is LAMP?
Linux, Apache HTTP server, MySQL and PHP programming language
What is a VPC
Virtual private cloud
How many VPCs can you have
Multiple per region
What is Route53? where did the name come from?
Route53 is AWS DNS service - 53 is the DNS port and route 66 is first interstate - play on this
What is CloudFront?
content delivery network
What is Direct Connect?
Allows you to directly connect to your office or datacenter (via internet)
What is EC2 and what is it used for?
Elastic compute cloud - simply virtual machines (Rhel, windows, ….)
What is EC2 container services?
service that supports Docker
What is Elastic Beanstalk?
service which allows you to upload your code, analysis it and will allocate the necessary resources
What is Lambda?
revolutionary service - serverless (no access to host) - upload code and it will respond to your events
What is light sail?
out of the box cloud wordpress site - deply automatically
What is S3?
Simple storage service - virtual disk in the cloud - can store objects or files - not used for executables or database
What is Glacier?
Archive service - allows yo to store your files for long period of time - 3 to 4 hours to restore
What is EFS?
Elastic File storage (block storage) - used for installing apps and ability to attach to multiple virtual servers
What is storage gateway?
A way to connect S3 storage to your datacenter - installed on prem via a virtual machine which communicates to S3 infrastructure
What is RDS?
Relational database service - includes following databases: MySQL, postgres, mariaDB, SQLServer, Oracle and Aurora
What is DynamoDB
Non relational database - very scalable and high performance
What is Redshift
Amazon data warehouse solution
What is Elasticache
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
What is Snowball?
Ability to move data from datacenter or office more effectively to AWS (physical transport vs over the wire)
What is DMS?
database migration service - move from datacenter to datacenter without down time. When migrating - has the ability to migrate to another DB technology
What is SMS?
Server migration services - same as DMS - just moves servers instead of databases - 50 at a time
What is Athena?
Allows you to run SQL queries again S3 (CSVs, JSON (javascript object notation), lightweight data interchange - easy for humans to read)
What is EMR?
elastic map reduce - allows you to examine large amounts of key pair data - used HaDoop framework
What is cloudsearch?
fully managed search service for website
What is Elasticserach?
same as cloud search just open source version
What is Kinesis?
needed in test - service to stream and analyze data with large amounts of data (social media stream, financial data, …)
What is Data Pipeline?
service that allows you to move data from one place to another (S3 to DynamoDB)
What is Quick sight?
not in exams - business analytics tool - build out dashboards.
What is IAM?
Identity access management?
What is inspector?
Agent installed on all virtual machines - used to report back on security data
what is certificate manager?
used to obtain SSL certificates for domain names
what is directory services?
Way to bridge AD to AWS - comes up in solutions architecture course
what is WAF?
Web application firewalls - application level protection to website - this is for application security.
What is Artifacts?
Obtain certifications/compliance documents (e.g. PCI, …)
What is cloudwatch?
used to monitor performance of EC2 environment
what is cloud formation?
used to turn infrastructure into code. Documents environment and turns it into deployed infrastructure in AWS.
what is cloud trail?
records key changes into the environment - auditing and logging.
what is opsworks?
automating deployment via chef
what is config?
automatically monitors environment and warns ifyour config might break.
what is service catalog?
designed for larger orgs - specific images for deployment to AWS - shows allowed services that can be deployed into the environment
what is trusted advisor?
gives tips and tricks to optimize configurations (created by amazon to speed adoption of their products)
what is step functions?
provides visualization of the way an application works - new service - shows which micro services are being used
what is SWF?
simple workflow service - used on amazon.com to coordinate human task and automated task
what is API gateway?
a door for APIs - create, publish, monitor and maintain and secure - allow apps to access backend services
what is appstream?
stream desktop apps to users
what is elastic transcoder?
used to transform video to various formats
what is CodeCommit?
github - place to store code
what is codebuild?
way to compile your code
what is codedeploy?
service to push your code to your EC2 instances
what is codepipeline?
service to track different versions of code
what is mobilehub?
add and configure design features for your mobile apps - own console for mobile apps
what is cognito?
used to sign into your app via social media logins
what is devicefarm?
give you ability to test your apps on physical devices
what is mobile analytics?
allows you to collect/analyze your mobile usage data
what is pinpoint?
understand and engage development on what your users are doing on your mobile app
what is workspaces?
VDI capabilities
what is appstream 2.0?
streaming apps to your users
what is polly?
text to voice service
what is rekognition?
services which returns tags about submitted pictures
what is SNS?
simple notification services - service that allows you to notify someone via text, email, …
what is SQS?
a way to decouple applications - queue based service (like mq)
what is SES?
simple email service - a way to send/receive email
