Services Flashcards
1
Q
IAM (Identity and Access Management)
A
- Global Service
- Manage accounts and groups
2
Q
Amazon EC2
A
- Elastic Compute Cloud
- Infrastructure as a Service
- Core functions
Rent VM
Store Data
Distribute load across machines
Scale services
3
Q
AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
A
- Customization (image) of an EC2 instance
- Faster boot time
- Region specific (Can be copied across regions)
4
Q
EFS (Elastic File System)
A
Network file system
* Connect to 100s of EC2
* Works with Linux instances across AZ
* Highly available, scalable,
* Pay by space used, no capacity planning
* Expensive (3x gp2)
5
Q
Amazon FSx
A
- Launch 3rd party high-performance files systems on AWS
- Fully managed service
6
Q
Amazon S3
A
Infinitely scaling storage
7
Q
IAM Access Analyzer for S3
A
- Monitoring service
- Ensure only intended people have access to S3 buckets
- Evaluate S3 Bucket Policies, ACLs, & Access Point Policies
- Identify which buckets are public
8
Q
Amazon RDS Overview (Relational Database Service)
A
- Manage DB service for SQL
- Postgres
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- Oracle
- Microsoft SQL Server
- IBM DB2
- Aurora (AWS proprietary db)
9
Q
Route 53
A
- Managed DNS
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10
Q
SNS (Simple Notification Service)
A
- Publisher sends message to SNS topic
- Subscribers listen to the SNS topic
- Subscribers get all messages from topic
- Topic can have 12 mil subs
- Account limited to 100k topics
11
Q
Amazon MQ
(Message Queue)
A
- SQS and SNS are cloud native service proprietary protocols from AWS
- When migrating to cloud instead of re-engineering the application to use SQS/SNS, you can use Amazon MQ
- Managed message broker service for
Rabit MQ
ActiveMQ
12
Q
EBS (Elastic Block Store) Volume
A
Network drive attached to instances while running
* persist data, even after termination
* mounted to one instance at a time (at the CCP level)
* Bound to an availability zone
* Like a network USB stick
13
Q
Gp2/gp3
A
General purpose ssd
