Products

Question 1

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Answer 1

• Computing in the cloud on Amazon Servers.
• Runs an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Can store data in EBS, S3, or in the instance itself.
• Instance storage ends when machine is stopped.

Question 2

Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)

Answer 2

• Provides the ability to run map-reduce jobs on an Amazon hosted cluster without having to configure individual machines.
• Jobs are Hadoop jobs with Hive job flows.

Question 3

Compute Auto-Scaling

Answer 3

• Launches or terminates EC2 instances based on user-defined policies, schedules, and health checks.

Question 4

Cloudfront

Answer 4

• Speeds up distribution of static and dynamic web content.
• Examples include html, css, js, and image files.
• Not designed for durable storage – use S3 for that instead.

Question 5

DynamoDB

Answer 5

• Fully managed NoSQL database service
• Cluster of boxes according to requested traffic
• Tables are collections of items
• High performance and cost efficient

Question 6

SimpleDB

Answer 6

• Non-relational data store
• Store and query through web service requests
• Originally much simpler than DynamoDB

Question 7

Relational Database Service (RDS)

Answer 7

• Relational databases in the cloud

* Supports MySQL, Oracle, or SQLServer

Question 8

ElastiCache

Answer 8

• In-memory cache environment

* Protocol-compliant with Memcached

Question 9

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 9

• Quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications.
• For Java, upload a war file and servers will automatically be deployed.

Question 10

CloudFormation

Answer 10

• Define a template in json of what servers you want to run.

Question 11

Data Pipeline

Answer 11

• Automate the movement and transformation of data.

Question 12

Fulfillment Web Service (FWS)

Answer 12

• Helps you automate the process of shipping your inventory to an Amazon fulfillment center
• If sold on places other than Amazon, automate shipping items from fulfillment center to seller.

Question 13

Identity and Access Management (IAS)

Answer 13

• Helps you securely controll access to Amazon Web Services and your account resources.
• Can also keep account credentials private
• Can assign credentials for users under the umbrella of your account.

Question 14

CloudSearch

Answer 14

• Add search to your website

* Index and search structured data and plain text.

Question 15

Elastic Transcoder

Answer 15

• Convert media files that are stored in S3 into media files in the formats required by consumer playback devices

Question 16

Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

Answer 16

• Help developers build asynchronous and distributed applications that process work asynchronously and distribute the processing across components that execute remotely.

Question 17

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Answer 17

• Reliable and Scalable hosted queues for storing messages as they travel between computers.
• No exactly-once guaranteed delivery semantics.
• Delivery may be delayed from 1s to 1m.

Question 18

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Answer 18

• Enables applications, end-users, and devices to instantly send and receive notifications from the cloud.

Question 19

Simple Email Service (SES)

Answer 19

• Outbound-only email-sending service that sends email

Question 20

CloudWatch

Answer 20

• Collect, view, and analyze metrics

* Retrieve individual stats or graph over time

Question 21

Route 53

Answer 21

• DNS for AWS Services

Question 22

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Answer 22

• Private virtual network in which you can launch your services
• Logically isolated from other networks in the AWS cloud.

Question 23

Direct Connect

Answer 23

• Links your internal network to a AWS VPC

Question 24

Elastic Load Balancing

Answer 24

• Automatically distribute your incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances.
• Detects unhealthy instances and removes them from the pool.