Services Flashcards
Amazon GuardDuty
A threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and delivers detailed security findings for visibility and remediation
AWS Shield
A managed DDoS protection service, provides always on detection and automatic inline migrations that minimize application downtime and latency
AWS Launch Wizard
Offers a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying AWS resources for third party applications, without needing to manually identify and provision individual AWS resources
Amazon Cognito
Let’s you add user sign up, sign in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. Supports sign in with social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0
AWS CloudFormation
An infrastructure as code IaC tool which allows users to provision infrastructure services using either JSON or YAML. With AWS CloudFormation you can easily provision resources in a different Region easily
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudTrail tracks API calls that are made within a particular AWS account. It will track the API call made, the IP address it originated from and which IAM principal initiated the action.
Amazon SageMaker
A managed Machine Learning service. With Amazon SageMaker, you can package your own algorithms that can then be trained and deployed in the SageMaker environment.
Amazon Redshift
Uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at any scale.
Amazon RDS
A fully managed relational database service
Amazon ElastiCache
Provides in-memory caching which improves performance for read requests when the data is cached in ElastiCache.
Amazon EFS
Elastic file system is a fully managed service, uses the NFS protocol. Can concurrently connect to EC2 instances from multiple AZs
AWS Managed Services
A comprehensive suite of tools and expertise provided by AWS to simplify and automate the management of infrastructure, ensuring security, compliance, and operational efficiency for enterprises
AWS Direct Connect Gateway
Connects your AWS Direct Connect connection over a private virtual interface to one or more VPCs in your account that are located in the same or different regions
AWS Artifact
Central resource for compliance related information. Provides on demand access to AWS security and compliance reports and select online agreements.
Elastic Container Registry
A fully managed Docker container registry
AWS IoT Core
A managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices.
AWS Trusted Advisor
An online resource that helps to reduce cost, increase performance and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment.
AWS Lambda
A serverless service that runs code as functions. That means that your code is run when needed but there are no servers running.
AWS Health Dashboard
Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Enables businesses to recover applications quickly and reliably while utilizing economical storage and minimum compute resources. It is designed to minimize downtime and data loss.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Used ti quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud. Developers upload applications and Elastic Beanstalk handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring
AWS CodeDeploy
A fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of computer services such as Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and on-premise servers.
AWS CodeCommit
A fully managed source control service that host secure Git based repositories.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
A managed service for running Docker containers.
Amazon Workspaces
A managed desktop computing/virtualization service running in the AWS cloud.
Amazon FSx
Offers fully managed third party file systems
Amazon Inspector
Helps to find security vulnerabilities and deviations from best practices in your EC2 instances
Amazon SQS
Simple Queue Service is a message bus for temporarily storing data that is being passed between application components. Makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Provides the information required to launch an instance.
Amazon Aurora
Designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS regions. This is a way to have an SQL database across regions.
Amazon API Gateway
A service for creating, publishing, maintaining, monitoring, and securing REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs at any scale.
AWS Step Functions
A visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning pipelines
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM)
Designed to enable you to securely share your AWS resources with any AWS account or, if you are part of AWS Organizations, with Organizational Units or within your organization.
Amazon Rekognition
Offers pre trained and customizable computer vision capabilities to extract information and insights from your images and videos
Amazon Comprehend
A natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text.
Amazon MQ
A managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ.
AWS Quick Starts
Automated reference deployments built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help you deploy popular technologies on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability.
Amazon AppStream 2.0
Streaming or delivery of virtual desktops with selective persistence. Saved files and application settings remain persistent between use sessions, and a fresh virtual desktop is assigned to the user every time they log on.