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  • Fully managed service that provides an AWS resource inventory, configuration history and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance.
  • Service that enables to assess, audit and evaluate the configurations of AWS resources.
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AWS Config

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  • Used to run and scale Apache Spark, Hadoop, Presto and other Big Data Frameworks.
  • Used to process vast amounts of data easily and securely.
  • Use cases: big data, log analysis, web indexing data transformations (ETL), machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, bioinformatics
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Amazon EMR

Elastic MapReduce

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  • Web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate and scale an in-memory data store or cache in the cloud.
  • Ultrafast (sub-millisecond latency) and inexpensive access to copies of data.
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Amazon ElasticCache

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Hybrid storage service that enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage

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AWS Storage Gateway

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  • Block level storage that provides storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS.
  • Durable, block-level storage device that can attach to a single EC2 instance.
  • Can use as primary storage for data that requires frequent updates.
  • Can also use for throughput-intensive applications that perform continuous disk scans
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Amazon EBS volume

Elastic Block Storage

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Configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet (automation platforms).

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AWS OpsWorks

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Outline the architectures for popular enterprise solutions (such as IBM MQ) on AWS and provide AWS CloudFormation templates to automate their deployment.

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AWS Quick Start reference deployments

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  • Monitoring service that gives complete visibility of cloud resources and applications.
  • Can set up a billing alarm that triggers if costs exceed a set threshold.
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Amazon CloudWatch

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Place to access most detailed information available about costs and usage.

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AWS Cost & Usage Report

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Web Service that is used to estimate the cost for AWS monthly bill based on expected usage.

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AWS Pricing Calculator

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  • Gives visibility and control of the infrastructure on AWS.
  • Provides a unified user interface to view operational data for multiple AWS services and allows to automate operational tasks across AWS resources.
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AWS Systems Manager

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Gives the ability to set custom budgets that alert when costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) the budgeted amount.

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AWS Budgets

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Structured program available to Enterprise Support customers (Business Support customers for an additional fee) that helps plan for large-scale events such as product or application launches, infrastructure migrations and marketing events.

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Infrastructure Event Management

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For Enterprise-level customers only, provides technical expertise for the full range of AWS services and obtains a detailed understanding of your use case and technology architecture.

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TAM

Technical Account Manager

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Entity that is created in AWS to represent the person or service that uses it to directly interact with AWS.

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AWS Identify and Access Management (IAM) User

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  • Professional services firms that help customers design, architect, build, migrate and manage workloads and applications on AWS.
  • Not part of AWS Support.
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AWS Consulting Partners

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  • Free tool used to view costs and usage.
  • Can view data up to the last 13 months, forecast how much that are likely to spend for the next three months and get recommendations for what Reserved Instances to purchase.
  • See patterns in how much is spent on AWS resources over time.
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AWS Cost Explorer

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Assist when AWS resources are being used to engage in the following:
Spam
Port scanning
Denial of Service attacks (DOS)
Intrusion attempts
Hosting
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AWS Abuse Team

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Responsible for security of services offered by AWS.

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AWS Security Team

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Assist with the issues that are related to billing and account managment.

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AWS Concierge Team

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  • Assists global list of customers that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications.
  • Helps AWS customers understand what Cloud Computing is all about, and whether it can be used for their business needs.
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AWS Customer Service Team

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22
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List 6 AWS-managed services

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1) Amazon RDS
2) Amazon DynamoDB
3) Amazon Redshift
4) Amazon Workspace
5) Amazon CloudFront
6) Amazon CloudSearch

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List 3 Customer-managed services

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1) Amazon EC2
2) Amazon VPC
3) AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Provides:

  • Personalized view of service health
  • Proactive notifications
  • Detailed troubleshooting guidance
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AWS Personal Health Dashboard

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Provides:

*Published information about the current status and availability of all AWS Services.

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AWS Service Health Dashboard

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  • Global service that provides highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS).
  • Domain name registration.
  • Health checking web services.
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Route 53

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  • Fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications and APIs
  • Gives businesses and web application developers an easy and cost effective way to distribute content globally with low latency and high data transfer speeds.
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Amazon CloudFront

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List the 3 Cloud Computing Models

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1) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
=> Networking as a Service (NaaS) is a subset
2) Platform as a Service (PaaS)
3) Software as a Service (SaaS)

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Low-cost storage that provides secure, durable and flexible storage for long-term data backup and archival.

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Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

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Object storage class that delivers automatic cost savings by moving data between two access tiers.

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Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering

1) Frequent Access
2) Infrequent Access

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Curated digital catalog that makes it easy for customers to find, buy, deploy and manage third-party software and services that customers need to build solutions and run their businesses.

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AWS Marketplace

Categories:
Security, Networking, Storage, Machine Learning, Business Intelligence, Database and DevOps

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Server-based compute service.

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Amazon EC2

Elastic Cloud Compute

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33
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Docker container registry that allows developers to store, manage and deploy Docker container images.

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Amazon ECR

Elastic Container Registry

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Interactive query service that is mainly used to analyze data in AmazonS3 using stand SQL.

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Amazon Athena

35
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Used by Amazon CloudFront to distribute content to global users with low latency.

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AWS Edge Locations

36
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Difference between horizontal and vertical scaling.

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Horizontal - add more EC2 instances

Vertical - add more memory

37
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An IAM user must provide to interact with AWS services using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

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Access keys

38
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Storage for data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed.

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Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access

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Storage that offers high durability, availability and performance object storage for frequently accessed data.

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Amazon S3 Standard

40
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Storage at a low-cost for data that is rarely accessed, such as archived data.

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Amazon S3 Glacier

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Self-service audit artifact retrieval portal that provides customers with on-demand access to AWS’ compliance documentation and AWS agreements.

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AWS Artifact

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Provides central governance and management across multiple AWS accounts.

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AWS Organizations

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Service that allows to easily provision, manage and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TSL) certificates for use with AWS services and internal connected resources.

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AWS Certificate Manager

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Managed DDoS protection service that provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations to safeguard web applications running on AWS.

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AWS Shield

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Allows to add user sign-up, sign-in and access control to web and mobile apps quickly and easily.

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Amazon Cognito

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Provides a highly available key storage, management and auditing solution to encrypt data within applications and control the encryption of stored data across AWS services.

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AWS KMS

Key Management Service

47
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  • MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud.
  • Available thru Amazon RDS - no provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, failure detection and repair.
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Amazon Aurora

48
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Fully managed NoSQL database service.

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Amazon DynamoDB

49
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Graph database service used to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets, such as social networking, recommendation engines and knowledge graphs.

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Amazon Neptune

50
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Provides access to some of the features of the AWS Support Center via an API.

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AWS Support API

51
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Online tool that provides customers with real time guidance to help them provision their resources following AWS best practices.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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  • Collection of IAM users - within the same AWS account - that are managed as a unit.
  • Specify permissions for multiple users.
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IAM Groups

53
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Allows to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision resources.

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AWS CloudFormation

54
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Enables to securely stream video from connected devices (IoT devises) to AWS for analytics, machine learning (ML), playback and other processing.

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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams

55
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Fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables to decouple microservices, distributed systems and serverless applications.
Push messages to subscribers.

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Amazon SNS

Simple Notification Service

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  • Easy to setup operate and scale a relational database in the cloud.
  • Cost-efficient resizable capacity while automating time-consuming admin tasks such as hardware provision, operating system maintenance, database setup, patching and backups.
  • Can host 6 databases
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Amazon RDS
Relational Database Service

1) Aurora
2) PostgreSQL
3) MySQL
4) MariaDB
5) Oracle
6) Microsoft SQL Server

57
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Fully managed data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all data using standard SQL and existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools.

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Amazon Redshift

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  • Object level storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere - web sites and mobile apps, corporate applications.
  • Designed to deliver 99.99 (11 9’s) durability
59
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File-level storage technology that provides massively parallel shared access to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances.

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Amazon EFS

Elastic File Store

60
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Provides temporary block-level storage for EC2 instances.

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Amazon Instance Store

61
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Service that can be used to monitor all user interactions with the AWS environment.

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AWS CloudTrail

62
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Serverless compute service.

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AWS Lambda

63
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Allow to exchange purchased reserved instance for another reserved instance with higher computing power when needed.

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Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance - Convertible RI

64
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Discount compared to On-Demand.

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Amazon EC2 Standard Reserved Instance

65
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Cloud-based mail sending service designed to help digital marketers and applications developers send marketing, notification and transactional emails.

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Amazon SES

Simple Email Service

66
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Self-service, cloud-based contact center service that makes it easy for any business to deliver better customer service at lower cost.

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Amazon Connect Service

67
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Fully managed message queuing service that enables to send, store and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available.

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Amazon SQS

Simple Queue Service

68
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Cloud service solution that is used to establish a dedicated network connection between your premises and AWS.

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AWS Direct Connect

69
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Allows to access and manage Amazon Web Services through a simple and intuitive web-based user interface.

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AWS Management Console

70
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  • Unified tool to manage AWS services.

* Automate through scripts

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AWS CLI

Command Line Interface

71
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Allows to interact with AWS services using a preferred programming language.

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AWS SDK

Software Development Kit

72
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Automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.

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Amazon Inspector

73
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Offers a set of best practice checks and recommendations.

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Amazon Trusted Advisor

1) Cost Optimization
2) Security
3) Fault Tolerance
4) Performance
5) Service Limits

74
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As part of Shared Responsibility model, are these AWS or Customer?
Data encryption
Patching Guest operating system and applications
Identify and Access Management
Network and firewall configurations

75
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As part of Shared Responsibility model, are these AWS or Customer?
Hardware
Infrastructure
Software

76
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  • Feature that automates the process of adding/removing server capacity (based on demand).
  • Allows to reduce costs by automatically turning off resources that aren’t in use.
  • Ensures that the application runs effectively by provisioning more server capacity if required.
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AWS Auto Scaling

77
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Give the ability to set custom budgets that alert when costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) budged amounts.

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AWS Budget

78
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Service that distributes the incoming application traffic to multiple targets that are defined.

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AWS ELB

Elastic Load Balancer

79
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Provides an easy-to-use interface that allows to visualize, understand and manage AWS costs and usage over time.

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AWS Cost Explorer

80
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List 6 Managed Services

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1) Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)
2) DynamoDB
3) AWS Lambda
4) Amazon RDS
Amazon Neptune
Amazon DocumentDB
5) Amazon Redshift
6) Amazon CloudFront

81
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Allows to provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where can launch AWS resources in a virtual netwrk.

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Amazon VPC

Virtual Private Cloud

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