Service Definitions Flashcards
EC2
Allows you to rent and manage virtual servers in the cloud
Lambda
Run code without managing servers
Fargate
Serverless compute engine for containers
Lightsail
Quickly launch all the resources you need for small projects
Outposts
Run cloud services in your internal data center
Batch
Process large workloads in smaller chunks
Elastic Beanstalk
Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and
services across a specific list of technologies.
Manages web infrastructure
S3
Simple Storage Service
Highly available object storage service
EBS
Elastic Block Store
Persistent volume that can be attached/removed from your EC2 instance
EFS
Elastic File Store
Serverless NFS network file system for Linux only
Storage Gateway
Hybrid storage service
Use for backup and restore
Backup
Manage data backups across multiple data services
CloudFront
CDN that enables your users to get content from a
server that is closest to them. Global.
Global Accelerator
Routes traffic through the AWS global network when accessing content, speeding up delivery
S3 Transfer Acceleration
Improves content uploads and downloads from S3 buckts
Elastic Load Balancing
Service that enables you to distribute traffic across
multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, Lambda).
Route 53
DNS Service that routes users to apps. Global and can be hybrid
VPC
Virtual Private Cloud
Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you
can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you
define
Direct Connect
Dedicated physical network connection from your on-prem data center to AWS. Not over the public network.
VPN
Virtual Private Network
Site-to-site VPN creates a secure connection between your internal networks and your AWS VPC’s.
API Gateway
Build and manage APIs.
RDS
Relational Database Service
Launch and manage relational databases.
Aurora
Relational database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL
DynamoDB
Fully managed NoSQL database service that has
extremely low latency and scaling based on
configuration.
Key-value and document db
DocumentDB
Supports MongoDB
ElastiCache
In-memory datastore compatible with Redis or Memcached
Neptune
Graph database that supports highly connected databases (like social networking)
DMS
Database Migration Service
Migrate (many commercial) databases to or within AWS
SMS
Server Migration Service
Migrate on-prem to AWS; they become an EC2 image
Snow Family
Transfer large amounts of on-prem data to AWS using a physical device
DataSync
Online data transfer from on-prem to AWS-storage services like S3 or EFS
