Service Definitions 1 Flashcards
a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet. Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers._________ lets you use Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments.
AWS OpsWorks
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.
AWS CloudFormation
service that automates code deployments to any instance, including EC2 instances and instances running on premises.
AWS CodeDeploy
enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS.
AWS Batch
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.
AWS Systems Manager
use ________ to analyze and debug serverless and distributed applications such as those built using a microservices architecture. With _____, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors.
AWS X-Ray
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 ___________ regularly help keep your solutions provisioned optimally. _________ cannot be used to debug performance issues for this serverless application built using a microservices architecture.
AWS Trusted Advisor
allows marketers and developers to deliver customer-centric engagement experiences by capturing customer usage data to draw real-time insights.
Amazon Pinpoint
allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all Regions and accounts. Think infrastructure as code; think __________. ____________ cannot be used to debug performance issues for this serverless application built using a microservices architecture.
AWS CloudFormation
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 AWS _________ Delivery Partner, or choose a dedicated connection from AWS—and deploy at over 100 AWS ___________ locations around the world. AWS ________ provides consistently high bandwidth, low-latency access and it is generally used between on-premises data centers and AWS network.
AWS Direct Connect
has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. _________ includes a default report that helps you visualize the costs and usage associated with your top five cost-accruing AWS services, and gives you a detailed breakdown of all services in the table view. The reports let you adjust the time range to view historical data going back up to twelve months to gain an understanding of your cost trends. _________ cannot be used to compare the cost of running the IT infrastructure on-premises vs AWS Cloud.
AWS Cost Explorer
gives the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your expected amount. You can also use ____________ to set reservation utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define. ____________ can be created at the monthly, quarterly, or yearly level, and you can customize the start and end dates. You can further refine to track costs associated with multiple dimensions, such as AWS service, linked account, tag, and others. __________cannot be used to compare the cost of running the IT infrastructure on-premises vs AWS Cloud.
AWS Budgets
is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. ______ continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations.
AWS Config
is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS. ______automatically provides an inventory of Amazon S3 buckets including a list of unencrypted buckets, publicly accessible buckets, and buckets shared with AWS accounts outside those you have defined in AWS Organizations. Then, ______applies machine learning and pattern matching techniques to the buckets you select to identify and alert you to sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII).
Amazon Macie
fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. AWS _______ job is meant to be used for batch ETL data processing.
AWS Glue
a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. _______Text-to-Speech (TTS) service uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize natural sounding human speech.
Amazon Polly
helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. Users and applications retrieve secrets with a call to _______ APIs, eliminating the need to hardcode sensitive information in plain text.
AWS Secrets manager
(PaaS) an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services. You simply upload your code and _________ automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring. __________provisions servers so it is not a serverless service.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Partners provide hardware, connectivity services, or software solutions that are either hosted on or integrated with, the AWS Cloud. _________ Partners cannot help in migrating to AWS and managing applications on AWS Cloud.
APN Technology Partners
___________ are professional services firms that help customers of all types and sizes design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on AWS, accelerating their migration to AWS cloud.
APN Consulting Partners
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.
AWS Service Health Dashboard
While the Service Health Dashboard displays the general status of AWS services, Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view of the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources.
provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you. With ___________, alerts are triggered by changes in the health of your AWS resources, giving you event visibility, and guidance to help quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
While the Service Health Dashboard displays the general status of AWS services, Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view of the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources.
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.
Amazon Inspector
contains the most comprehensive set of cost and usage data available. You can use __________ to publish your AWS billing reports to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket that you own. You can receive reports that break down your costs by the hour or month, by product or product resource, or by tags that you define yourself. AWS updates the report in your bucket once a day in a comma-separated value (CSV) format. AWS _________cannot forecast your AWS account cost and usage.
AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR)
lets you explore AWS services and create an estimate for the cost of your use cases on AWS. You can model your solutions before building them, explore the price points and calculations behind your estimate, and find the available instance types and contract terms that meet your needs. This enables you to make informed decisions about using AWS. You can plan your AWS costs and usage or price out setting up a new set of instances and services. You cannot use this service to forecast your AWS account cost and usage.
AWS Pricing Calculator
A fully-managed service that provides you with an interactive browser-based shell and CLI experience. It helps provide secure and auditable instance management without the need to open inbound ports, maintain bastion hosts, and manage SSH keys.__________ helps to enable compliance with corporate policies that require controlled access to instances, increase security and auditability of access to the instances while providing simplicity and cross-platform instance access to end-users.
AWS Systems Manager Session Manager
highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other. ________ cannot provide secure shell access to EC2 instances.
Amazon Route 53
is a continuous delivery service that enables you to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software. With AWS __________, you model the full release process for building your code, deploying to pre-production environments, testing your application and releasing it to production.
AWS ___________ integrates with AWS services such as AWS CodeCommit, Amazon S3, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CloudFormation, AWS OpsWorks, Amazon ECS, and AWS Lambda. To further elucidate, _______________ cannot by itself deploy the code, it can integrate with CodeDeploy for the actual deployment.
AWS CodePipeline
________ allows you to centralize operational data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across your AWS resources. You can create logical groups of resources such as applications, different layers of an application stack, or production versus development environments.
With _________, you can select a resource group and view its recent API activity, resource configuration changes, related notifications, operational alerts, software inventory, and patch compliance status. You can also take action on each resource group depending on your operational needs. ____________ provides a central place to view and manage your AWS resources, so you can have complete visibility and control over your operations.
AWS Systems Manager
Which AWS service can help you analyze your infrastructure to identify unattached or underutilized EBS volumes? AWS Trusted Advisor Amazon Inspector Amazon CloudWatch AWS Config
AWS Trusted Advisor 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.
AWS Trusted Advisor 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.
creates a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS cloud resources. This connection goes over the public internet.
Site to Site VPN
creates a dedicated private connection from a remote network to your VPC. This is a private connection and does not use the public internet. Takes at least a month to establish this connection.
AWS Direct Connect
enables you to privately connect your VPC to supported AWS services and _________services powered by AWS PrivateLink without requiring an internet gateway, NAT device, VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect connection. You cannot connect two VPCs using a _______.
VPC endpoint
fully-managed petabyte-scale cloud-based data warehouse product designed for large scale data set storage and analysis. ___________ requires a well-defined schema.
Amazon Redshift
