Practice 1 Flashcards
ASG Dynamic Scaling Plan
add/remove resources to maintain resource utilization at the specified target value
ASG Predictive Scaling Plan
> forecast future load demands by analyzing historical records for a metric (allows you to schedule accordingly)
only available for EC2 ASG
IAM DB Authentication
> you don’t need to use a password when you connect to a DB instance. Instead, you use an authentication token
- a unique string of characters thatAmazon RDSgenerates on request ;
- Each token has a lifetime of 15 minutes. You don’t need to store user credentials in the database, because authentication is managed externally using IAM.
AWS Security Token Service (STS)
> generate temporary tokens
web service that enables you to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users or for users that you authenticate (federated users)
AWS Budgets
gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount
When using ssh:
Error: Server refused our keyor
Error: No supported authentication methods
> appropriate user name for your AMI
> private key (.pem) file has been correctly converted to the format recognized by PuTTY (.ppk)
Amazon DynamoDB advantage over RDS
> schemaless
> low latency
Cloud watch Custom Metric
- Memory utilization
- Disk swap utilization
- Disk space utilization
- Page file utilization
5 Log collection
Default Cloudwatch metric
- Disk reads
- CPU utilization
- Network utilization
AWS Lambda encrypts environment variables using
the AWS Key Management Service
AWS CloudHSM
is a cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys on the AWS Cloud.
AWS CloudHSM vs AWS KMS
You should consider using AWS CloudHSM if you require:
• Keys stored in dedicated, third-party validated hardware security modules under your exclusive control.
• FIPS 140-2 compliance.
• Integration with applications using PKCS#11, Java JCE, or Microsoft CNG interfaces.
High-performance in-VPC cryptographic acceleration (bulk crypto).
To calculate the total number of IP addresses of a given CIDR Block
1. Subtract32with the mask number : (32 - 27) =5 2. Raisethe number2to the power of the answer in Step #1 : 2^5= (2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2) =32
Amazon Athena
is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
S3 Select is
an Amazon S3 feature that makes it easy to retrieve specific data from the contents of an object using simple SQL expressions without having to retrieve the entire object.
Amazon Redshift Spectrum
is a feature of Amazon Redshift that enables you to run queries against exabytes of unstructured data in Amazon S3 with no loading or ETL required.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES)
is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for use cases such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and clickstream analysis
Route Origin Authorization (ROA)
is a document that you can create through your Regional internet registry (RIR), such as the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) or Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE). It contains the address range, the ASNs that are allowed to advertise the address range, and an expiration date
IP match condition in CloudFront
primarily used in allowing or blocking the incoming web requests based on the IP addresses that the requests originate from
Elastic IP address
static IPv4 address designed for dynamic cloud computing. An Elastic IP address is associated with your AWS account. With an Elastic IP address, you can mask the failure of an instance or software by rapidly remapping the address to another instance in your account.
AWS WAF
web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. AWS WAF gives you control over which traffic to allow or block to your web applications by defining customizable web security rules.
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache that can reduce Amazon DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds, even at millions of requests per second.
AWS Device Farm
app testing service that lets you test and interact with your Android, iOS, and web apps on many devices at once, or reproduce issues on a device in real time
RAID 0
increase the write performance
RAID 1
provide mirroring, redundancy, and fault-tolerance
Linux Amazon Machine Images use one of two types of virtualization
- paravirtual (PV) - slower
2. hardware virtual machine (HVM) - faster boot
Public Data Set Volume Encryption
public data sets are designed to be publicly accessible
Cost for transferring data from an EC2 instance to Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SES, Amazon SQS, or Amazon SimpleDB in the same AWS Region
None
AWS Directory Service AD Connector
If the company is using a corporate Active Directory, it is best to useAWS Directory Service AD Connector for easier integration.
AWS Directory Service Simple AD
provides a subset of the features offered by AWS Managed Microsoft AD, including the ability to manage user accounts and group memberships, create and apply group policies, securely connect to Amazon EC2 instances, and provide Kerberos-based single sign-on (SSO)
Multi-AZ deployment
synchronous replication - highly durable
Read Replica
asynchronous replication - highly scalable
Enable Enhanced Monitoring in RDS
monitor how the different processes or threads on a DB instance use the CPU, including the percentage of the CPU bandwidth and total memory consumed by each process
Amazon EMR (Elastic Map Reduce)
> is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) tool for big data processing and analysis. Amazon EMR offers the expandable low-configuration service as an easier alternative to running in-house cluster computing.
not a fully managed Service (you can access your OS)
Amazon Neptune
fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets.
110.238.98.71/32 denotes
1 IP Address