Services Flashcards
Service that enables you to continually monitor your resources for adherence to best practices.
AWS Config
Portal that provides self-service access to AWS compliance reports and agreements you may have with AWS.
AWS Artifact
Fully-managed service that continually monitors your AWS account and resources for potential malicious behavior and anomalies.
Amazon GuardDuty
Service that controls access to AWS resources. This is where you create IAM users, IAM groups, and roles. Policies are attached to identities for permission access resources.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
User directory service for custom applications that can also enable access to AWS resources for your custom applications. Cognito can allow users access to AWS resources using federation through third-party sources like Google, Facebook, etc.
Amazon Cognito
Hybrid-cloud storage service that enables companies to take advantage of cloud storage on their local networks.
AWS Storage Gateway
Automated data transfer service that efficiently transfer data from your local network into AWS.
AWS DataSync
Fully-managed serverless extract, transform, and load (ETL) service.
AWS Glue
Big-data cloud-based tool suite using popular open source tools including Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Presto, and many others.
Amazon EMR
Data workflow orchestration service that supports multiple AWS services providing extract, transform, and load (ETL) capabilities.
AWS Data Pipeline
Service that enables serverless querying of data stored within Amazon S3 using standard SQL queries.
Amazon Athena
Fully-managed Business Intelligence (BI) service enabling self-service data dashboards for data stored in the cloud.
Amazon Quicksight
Managed search service for custom applications.
Amazon CloudSearch
Computer vision service powered by Machine Learning that can detect objects in images and video.
Amazon Rekognition
Text translation service powered by Machine Learning that can translate text (either streaming or in batch) into many different languages. It also provides language detection.
Amazon Translate
Audio transcription service powered by Machine Learning that can transcribe audio (either streaming or in batch) in many different languages.
Amazon Transcribe
Managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service for apps running on AWS.
AWS Shield
Data classification, protection, and monitoring service powered by machine learning for Amazon S3 data.
Amazon Macie
Automated security assessment service for EC2 instances.
Amazon Inspector
EC2 capability that manages a group of EC2 instances that have rules for automated scaling and management which includes health checks for each member of the group.
Auto Scaling Group
Service that supports routing traffic across multiple targets including EC2 instances, Lambda functions, as well as other targets on AWS.
Elastic Load Balancing
Firewall-like controls for EC2 instances within a VPC that controls access for inbound and outbound traffic. Instances can have multiple security groups.
Security Groups
Control for inbound and outbound traffic within a
specific subnet in a VPC. Traffic can be allowed or
denied based on custom rules.
Network Access
Control Lists (ACL)
Service that supports an encrypted tunnel into a VPC. This can support either site-to-site (from your data center into the VPC) or client (from a single computer into the VPC).
AWS VPN
Service that manages secrets (such as passwords, keys, tokens, etc…) used in your custom applications on AWS. It also supports auto-rotation of credentials on
supported AWS services.
AWS Secrets Manager
Service for offering your organization’s pre-defined IT offerings to other members of your organization in a self-service portal on AWS.
AWS Service Catalog
Catalog of third-party software offerings that makes it easy to launch pre-defined solutions onto your AWS account from these vendors.
AWS Marketplace
Fully-managed source control service using Git.
AWS CodeCommit
Fully-managed build and continuous integration service on AWS.
AWS CodeBuild
Fully-managed deployment service for applications running on Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and on-premise servers.
AWS CodeDeploy