SERVICES Flashcards
AWS’s managed graph database service, offered to give customers an option to easily build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets.
Neptune
helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture.
X-Ray
Connects your VPCs and on-premises networks through a central hub. This simplifies your network and puts an end to complex peering relationships.
It acts as a cloud router – Each new connection is only made once
Transit gateway
a network service that provides an alternative to using the Internet to utilize AWS cloud services. AWS It enables customers to have low latency, secure and private connections to AWS for workloads which require higher speed or lower latency than the internet. Connect to devices in more than one location
Direct connect
Service which uses Edge Locations to find an optimal pathway to the nearest regional endpoint.
Continuously monitors the health of all endpoints, and instantly begins directing traffic to another available endpoint when it determines that an active endpoint is unhealthy.
Global Accelerator (ELB within one Region, Global Accelerator across multiple Regions)
service that provide secure integration between an organization’s on-premises IT environment and AWS storage infrastructure. It is used to simplify storage management and reduce costs for key hybrid cloud storage use cases (moving backups to the cloud and providing low latency access to data in AWS for on-premises applications)
Storage gateway
A cloud service that allows you to grant your users access to AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, across multiple AWS accounts
SSO
A secure and resilient service that uses hardware security modules (validated under FIPS 140-2) to protect your keys. this service is integrated with AWS CloudTrail to provide you with logs of all key usage to help meet your regulatory and compliance needs
KMS
A continuous security monitoring and threat detection service that incorporates threat intelligence, anomaly detection, and machine learning to help protect your AWS resources, including your AWS accounts, S3, instance & container workloadsS
GuardDuty
An automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS (only EC2). This service automatically assesses applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices.
Inspector
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. (S3)
Macie
A fully-managed service that makes it easy to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services, in the cloud, and on premises. It allows you to automate and consolidate backup tasks and monitor activities in one place that were previously performed service-by-service, and removes the need to create custom scripts and manual processes.
Backup
A service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources
Config
Serverless event bus recommended when you want to build an application that reacts to events from SaaS applications and/or AWS services. Only event-based service that integrates directly with third-party SaaS partners
Similar to SNS with two newer capabilities (SaaS integration & schema registry)
EventBridge
An account management service that lets you consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. With this service, you can create member accounts and invite existing accounts to join your organization.
Organizations
Service helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database. (not only for DBs :can quickly move data from S3 to Kinesis data streams) (can create cross region read replicas)
DMS
A secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data between on premises and AWS storage services and also between AWS storage services (Can move data directly to Glacier or Glacier Deep Archive)
DataSync
Provides a single location to track the progress of application migrations across multiple AWS and partner solutions. Allows to choose tools that best fit your needs, while providing visibility into the status of migrations across your portfolio of applications. (available at no additional charge)
MigrationHub
Automates the migration of your on-premises virtual machines (VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V/SCVMM, and Azure) to the AWS Cloud. AWS SMS incrementally replicates your server VMs as cloud-hosted Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) ready for deployment on Amazon EC2
Server Migration Service
A cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to deliver easy-to-understand insights to the people who you work with, wherever they are. This service connects to your data in the cloud and combines data from many different sources.
QuickSight
Service used to store confidential secrets like database credentials, API keys, OAuth tokens
Secret Manager
Sevice used to store application settings, environmental config data, License codes, etc
Parameter store
Service which allow to deliver data streams to select destinations
Kinesis Firehose
Service which allows to ingest and store data streams
Kinesis data streams
Service which helps you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over a daily or monthly granularity
Cost explorer
Service which lets you set custom cost and usage budgets that alert you when your budget thresholds are exceeded (or forecasted to exceed). You can also create budgets to track your aggregate Reservation and Savings Plans utilization and coverage metrics.
AWS Budgets
Service used by developers and businesses to convert (or “transcode”) media files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs.
Elastic Transcoder
