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Amazon EFS is a file storage service for use with Amazon EC2. Amazon EFS provides a file system interface, file system access semantics, and concurrently-accessible storage for up to _____________. Amazon EFS uses the Network File System protocol

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thousands of Amazon EC2 instances

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____________ is an easy to use, high-performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction-intensive workloads at any scale. _________ cannot be accessed simultaneously by multiple EC2 instances, so this option is incorrect.

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS),EBS volumes

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An _____________ provides temporary block-level storage for your instance. This storage is located on disks that are physically attached to the host computer. __________ volumes cannot be accessed simultaneously by multiple EC2 instances, so this option is incorrect.

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instance store

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______________ is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. _______ is object storage and it does not support file append operations, so this option is incorrect.

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

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_________ is an AWS service that enables you to makes it easy to centrally manage access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications and provide users with single sign-on access to all their assigned accounts and applications from one place.

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AWS SSO

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With_________, you can easily manage single sign on access and user permissions to all of your accounts in AWS Organizations centrally. AWS ______ allows you to create and manage user identities in AWS _______ identity store, or easily connect to your existing identity source including Microsoft Active Directory, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), and Okta Universal Directory.

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AWS SSO

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___________ lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. With Amazon ________, you also have the option to authenticate users through social identity providers such as Facebook, Twitter, or Amazon, with SAML identity solutions, or by using your own identity system. It is an identity management solution for customers/developers building B2C or B2B apps for their customers.

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Amazon Cognito

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_____________ enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users. Using ______, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources. It is not used to log in but to manage users and roles.

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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_____________ is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts. It is not a central user portal.

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The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

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__________ is Amazon S3’s lowest-cost storage class and supports long-term retention and digital preservation for data that may be accessed once or twice in a year. It is designed for customers — particularly those in highly-regulated industries, such as the Financial Services, Healthcare, and Public Sectors — that retain data sets for 7-10 years or longer to meet regulatory compliance requirements. S3 _____________ can also be used for backup and disaster recovery use cases. It has a retrieval time (first byte latency) of 12 to 48 hours.

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S3 Glacier Deep Archive

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____________ is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements. Glacier Deep Archive is a better fit as it is more cost-optimal than ________ for the given use-case

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Amazon S3 Glacier

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________________ is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage. All data transferred between the gateway and AWS storage is encrypted using SSL (for all three types of gateways - File, Volume and Tape Gateways).

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AWS Storage Gateway

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_____________ provides a simple, scalable, fully managed ___________ for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is built to scale on-demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

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___________ allow you to use select AWS services, like compute and storage services, closer to more end-users, providing them very low latency access to the applications running locally. ____________ are also connected to the parent region via Amazon’s redundant and very high bandwidth private network, giving applications running in AWS Local Zones fast, secure, and seamless access to the rest of AWS services.

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AWS Local Zones

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An ___________ is a site that CloudFront uses to cache copies of the content for faster delivery to users at any location.

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AWS Edge location

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___________ extends the AWS cloud to a global network of 5G edge locations to enable developers to innovate and build a whole new class of applications that require ultra-low latency. _________ Zones provide a high-bandwidth, secure connection to the parent AWS Region, allowing developers to seamlessly connect to the full range of services in the AWS Region through the same APIs and toolsets

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AWS Wavelength

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__________ is a cloud service that links your network directly to AWS, bypassing the internet to deliver more consistent, lower-latency performance. When creating a new connection, you can choose a hosted connection provided by an ____________ Delivery Partner, or choose a dedicated connection from AWS—and deploy at over 100 _________ locations around the world. ___________ provides consistently high bandwidth, low-latency access and it is generally used between on-premises data centers and AWS network. ____________ is overkill for the given requirement.

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AWS Direct Connect

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_________ are built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help you deploy popular technologies on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability. These accelerators reduce hundreds of manual procedures into just a few steps, so you can build your production environment quickly and start using it immediately.

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AWS Quick Starts references

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______________ is an AWS community platform where people can help each other. It is not used to deploy technologies on AWS.

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AWS Forums

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______________ is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including EC2 instances and instances running on-premises. It is not suited to rapidly deploy popular technologies on AWS ready to used immediately.

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AWS CodeDeploy

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___________ are technical content authored by AWS and the AWS community to expand your knowledge of the cloud. They include technical whitepapers, technical guides, reference material, and reference architectures diagrams. You can find useful content for your deployment, but it is not a service that will deploy technologies.

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AWS Whitepapers

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__________________ provides customers with concierge-like service where the main focus is on helping the customer achieve their outcomes and find success in the cloud. With _________, you get access to online training with self-paced labs, 24x7 technical support from high-quality engineers, tools and technology to automatically manage the health of your environment, consultative architectural guidance, a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) to coordinate access to proactive/preventative programs and AWS subject matter experts.

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AWS Enterprise Support

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AWS recommends ____________ if you are testing or doing early development on AWS and want the ability to get technical support during business hours as well as general architectural guidance as you build and test.

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Developer Support

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AWS recommends ____________ if you have production workloads on AWS and want 24x7 access to technical support and architectural guidance in the context of your specific use-cases.

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Business Support

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A ___________ is included for all AWS customers.

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basic support plan

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There is a _________ minimum charge for Linux based EC2 instances, so this is the correct option.

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one-minute

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_____________ is an easy to use, high-performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for both throughput and transaction-intensive workloads at any scale. A broad range of workloads, such as relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows are widely deployed on Amazon EBS.

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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An ___________ provides temporary block-level storage for your EC2 instance. This storage is located on disks that are physically attached to the host computer. ____________ is ideal for the temporary storage of information that changes frequently, such as buffers, caches, scratch data, and other temporary content, or for data that is replicated across a fleet of instances, such as a load-balanced pool of web servers. Instance storage is temporary, data is lost if instance experiences failure or is terminated. EC2 instance store cannot be used for file sharing between instances.

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instance store

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______________ provides a simple, scalable, fully managed, elastic NFS file system. It is built to scale on-demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth. _____________ is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, enabling your applications to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies.

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

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_____________ is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

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_____________ is a highly scalable, high-performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances. This is not a storage service and has been added as a distractor.

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

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___________ is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. _____________ automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices. ____________ cannot be used to prevent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. It cannot provide the status of your AWS resources.

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Amazon Inspector

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___________ is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. __________ provides data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. This is an excellent service for building Resilient systems. Think resource performance monitoring, events, and alerts; think ____________. It cannot provide the status of your AWS resources.

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Amazon CloudWatch

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_____________ publishes most up-to-the-minute information on the status and availability of all AWS services in tabular form for all Regions that AWS is present in. You can check on this page (https://status.aws.amazon.com/) any time to get current status information or subscribe to an RSS feed to be notified of interruptions to each service.

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AWS Service Health Dashboard

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The _____________ is the global partner program for technology and consulting businesses that leverage Amazon Web Services to build solutions and services for customers.

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AWS Partner Network (APN)

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____________ provide hardware, connectivity services, or software solutions that are either hosted on or integrated with, the AWS Cloud.

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APN Technology Partners

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____________ is an online tool that provides you real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices on cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, service limits, and performance improvement. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor regularly help keep your solutions provisioned optimally. All AWS customers get access to the seven core Trusted Advisor checks to help increase the security and performance of the AWS environment. Trusted Advisor cannot be used to migrate to AWS and manage applications on AWS Cloud.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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The _________ are AWS billing and account experts that specialize in working with enterprise accounts. They will quickly and efficiently assist you with your billing and account inquiries. The __________ is only available for the Enterprise Support plan.

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Concierge Support Team

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___________ helps you ensure that you have the correct number of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application. You create collections of EC2 instances, called Auto Scaling groups. You can specify the minimum number of instances in each Auto Scaling group, and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ensures that your group never goes below this size.

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Auto Scaling

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With Availability Zones, you can design and operate applications and databases that automatically failover between zones without interruption. ____________ of EC2 instances provided high availability, it does not help in scaling resources.

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Multi AZ deployment

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_____________ is best suited for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required. It distributes traffic, does not scale resources.

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Network Load Balancer

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An ___________ serves as the single point of contact for clients. The load balancer distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones. It distributes traffic, does not scale resources.

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Application Load Balancer

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Amazon ___________ is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health.

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CloudWatch

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AWS _________ lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume. The _________ has a maximum execution time of 15 minutes, so it can be used to run this log backup process.

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Lambda

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AWS ___________ gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS. ____________ provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources. With _____________, you can group resources, like Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3 buckets, or Amazon RDS instances, by application, view operational data for monitoring and troubleshooting, and take action on your groups of resources.

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Systems Manager

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AWS ___________ lets you coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows. You can design and run workflows that stitch together services such as AWS Lambda, AWS Glue and Amazon SageMaker.

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Step Function

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The ____________ pillar (in AWS Well-Architected Framework) includes the ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures. In the cloud, you can apply the same engineering discipline that you use for application code to your entire environment. You can define your entire workload (applications, infrastructure) as code and update it with code. You can implement your operations procedures as code and automate their execution by triggering them in response to events.

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Operational Excellence

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___________ pillar ((in AWS Well-Architected Framework) focuses on avoiding un-needed costs. Key topics include understanding and controlling where the money is being spent, selecting the most appropriate and right number of resource types, analyzing spend over time, and scaling to meet business needs without overspending.

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Cost Optimization

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The_____________ pillar (in AWS Well-Architected Framework) focuses on using IT and computing resources efficiently. Key topics include selecting the right resource types and sizes based on workload requirements, monitoring performance, and making informed decisions to maintain efficiency as business needs evolve.

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performance efficiency

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The ____________ pillar (in AWS Well-Architected Framework) focuses on protecting information & systems. Key topics include confidentiality and integrity of data, identifying and managing who can do what with privilege management, protecting systems, and establishing controls to detect security events.

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security pillar

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AWS ___________ gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

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CloudFormation

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AWS _____________ for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud. It is not used to deploy resources.

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Directory Service

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Amazon _________ is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS. It is not best suited when deploying more complex resources, while CloudFormation can.

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Lightsail

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AWS ____________ is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including EC2 instances and instances running on-premises. Unlike CloudFormation, it does not deal with infrastructure configuration and orchestration.

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CodeDeploy

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AWS ____________ is an online tool that provides real-time guidance to help provision your resources following AWS best practices. Whether establishing new workflows, developing applications, or as part of ongoing improvement, recommendations provided by Trusted Advisor regularly help keep your solutions provisioned optimally. AWS Trusted Advisor analyzes your AWS environment and provides best practice recommendations in five categories: Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance, Service Limits.

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Trusted Advisor

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AWS _____________ provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that might affect you. It is not used to get operational insights of AWS resources.

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Personal Health Dashboard

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  1. Trade capital expenses for variable expense
  2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
  3. Stop guessing capacity
  4. Increase speed and agility
  5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
  6. Go global in minutes
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What are the six advantages of cloud computing?

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The____________ describes prohibited uses of the web services offered by Amazon Web Services, Inc. and its affiliates (the “Services”) and the website located at http://aws.amazon.com (the “AWS Site”). This policy is present at https://aws.amazon.com/aup/ and is updated on a need basis by AWS.

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Acceptable Use Policy

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VPC, Trusted Advisor, Service Quotas

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Foundations are part of the Reliability pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. AWS states that before architecting any system, foundational requirements that influence reliability should be in place. The services that are part of foundations are: Amazon _____, AWS ___________, AWS _________ (formerly called AWS Service Limits).

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Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

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AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. The AWS Marketplace enables qualified partners to market and sell their software to AWS Customers. AWS Marketplace offers two ways for sellers to deliver software to customers, what are they?

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AWS ___________ can check Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume configurations and warns when volumes appear to be underused. Charges begin when a volume is created. If a volume remains unattached or has very low write activity (excluding boot volumes) for a period of time, the volume is probably not being used.

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Trusted Advisor

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AWS _______ publishes most up-to-the-minute information on the status and availability of all AWS services in tabular form for all Regions that AWS is present in.

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Service Health Dashboard

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