Services Flashcards
AWS Shield
a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS.
AWS WAF
Helps protect your web applications or APIs against common
web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. ** ** gives you control over how traffic reaches your applications by enabling you to create security rules that control bot traffic and block common attack patterns, such as SQL injection or cross-site
scripting.
Transit gateways
Acts as a central hub to route traffic between your VPCs, VPN connections, and AWS Direct Connect connections.
Virtual Private Gateway
the VPN endpoint on the Amazon side of your Site-to-Site VPN connection that can be attached to a single VPC.
Customer Gateway + CG Device
A physical device or software application on your side of the Site-to-Site VPN connection.
Control Tower
Offers a straightforward way to set up and govern an AWS multi-account environment, following prescriptive best practices.
Amazon GuardDuty
A continuous security monitoring service that analyzes and processes the following data sources: AWS CloudTrail management event logs, AWS CloudTrail data events for S3, DNS logs, EKS audit logs, and VPC flow logs. It uses threat intelligence feeds, such as lists of malicious IP addresses and domains, and machine learning to identify unexpected and potentially unauthorized and malicious activity within your AWS environment.
Amazon Inspector
Automatically discovers workloads, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and Lambda functions, and scans them for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.
Amazon AppFlow
A fully managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data
between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications such as Salesforce, Zendesk, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, in just a few clicks.
Amazon AppSync
A serverless back-end for mobile, web, and enterprise applications.
VMWare Cloud
A way to manage on prem VMware instances using AWS (VCenter)
Amazon Kendra
A highly accurate and intelligent search service that allows your users to search unstructured and structured data using natural language processing and advanced search algorithms. It returns specific answers to questions, giving users an experience that’s close to interacting with a human expert.
Amazon Textract
AI Service that Allows you to extract text from documents and images
Amazon Forecast
A managed service that uses machine learning to combine time series data with additional variables to build predictions.
Amazon Comprehend
A managed Machine Learning service that extracts context and sentiment from text.
Amazon Fraud Detector
A fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities such as online payment fraud and fake account creation.
Service Catalog
Lets you centrally manage your cloud resources to achieve governance at scale of your infrastructure as code (IaC) templates, written in CloudFormation or Terraform.
AWS Data Pipeline
A web service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources, at specified intervals.
Amazon EMR
A managed Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) cluster that is run on EC2 instances you provision
AWS PrivateLink
Provides private connectivity between virtual private clouds (VPCs), supported AWS services, and your on-premises networks without exposing your traffic to the public internet.
Amazon Keyspaces
A scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service.
Storage Gateway
AWS Security Hub
A cloud security posture management service that performs automated, continuous security best practice checks against your AWS resources. Security Hub aggregates your security alerts (i.e. findings) from various AWS services and partner products in a standardized format so that you can more easily take action on them
Aurora Global Services
Allows a single Aurora database to span multiple AWS Regions. It replicates your data with no impact on database performance, enables fast local reads with low latency in each Region, and provides disaster recovery from Region-wide outages.
