Services Flashcards
How are Linux EC2 instances billed?
billed per second.
1 minute minimum
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances-and-ebs-volumes/
What is Amazon Macie?
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.
What is AWS Glue?
AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. AWS Glue job is meant to be used for batch ETL data processing.
What is Amazon Polly?
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech
What is AWS Secrets Manager?
AWS Secrets Manager helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications, services, and IT resources. The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.
What is the AWS Marketplace?
AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS. The AWS Marketplace enables qualified partners to market and sell their software to AWS Customers.
AWS Marketplace offers two ways for sellers to deliver software to customers: Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and Software as a Service (SaaS).
https://aws.amazon.com/partners/aws-marketplace/
AWS CloudFormation
…provides a common language to model and provision AWS and third-party application resources in your cloud environment.
…allows you to use programming languages or a simple text file to model and provision, in an automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for your applications across all Regions and accounts
AWS Database Migration Service
AWS DMS helps users 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. AWS DMS can migrate data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases.
Amazon VPC
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud lets users provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where users can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define.
Amazon CloudFront
To deliver content to users with lower latency, Amazon CloudFront uses a global network of points of
presence (edge locations and regional edge caches) worldwide
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudTrail helps users enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of their
AWS accounts. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events in CloudTrail. Events include actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs and APIs.
AWS OpsWorks
AWS OpsWorks is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including EC2 instances and instances running on premises
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides you real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices on cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, service limits, and performance improvement.
Storage Classes
S3 Standards S3 Intelligent-Tiering S3 Standard-IA S3 One Zone-IA S3 Glacier S3 Glacier Deep Archive S3 Outposts https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/
AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets gives the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount. You can also use AWS Budgets to set reservation utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define.
List AWS Support Plans
Developer
Business
Enterprise
What is available with the Developer Support Plan
- Trusted Advisor 7 core checks
- email Tech support during business hours
- response < 24 hrs or <12 hrs for system impaired
What is available with the Business Support Plan
Developer support plan plus,
+ Trusted Advisor full set of checks
+ email, phone, & chat 24x7 support
+ response general < 24hr, system impaired < 12 hrs, production system impaired < 4 hrs, production down < 1 hr
What is available with Enterprise Support Plan
Business support plan plus, \+ response Business-critical system down < 15 min \+ Technical Account Manager \+ online self-paced labs \+ Concierge Support team
Vertical Scaling
Vertical Scaling is adding more resources (like CPU, RAM) to a single node or machine. Example- Resizing an instance of EC2.
Horizontal Scaling
A “horizontally scalable” system is one that can increase capacity by adding more computers to the system.
Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. AWS Cost Explorer includes a default report that helps you visualize the costs and usage associated with your top five cost-accruing AWS services, and gives you a detailed breakdown of all services in the table view.
What are some advantages of Cloud Computing
+Trade capital expense for variable expense
+Benefit from massive economies of scale
+Stop guessing at capacity
+Increase speed and agility
+Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
+Go global in minutes
AWS Artifact
AWS Artifact is your central resource for compliance-related information
EFS
Elastic File System is a network storage that can be concurrently-accessible for up to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances across multiple Availability zones.
AWS CloudHSM
AWS CloudHSM is a cloud-based Hardware Security Module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your encryption keys on the AWS Cloud.
Network Load Balancer
distributes TCP/UDP & TLS traffic, does not scale resources.
Auto Scaling
Auto Scaling automatically adds or removes EC2 instances based on demand. It helps you ensure that you have the correct number of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application.
Amazon Inspector
inspects EC2 instances for security issues such as operating system patches, known vulnerabilities, and common issues.
https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/
AWS Systems Manager
Systems Manager allows you to group resources, like Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EKS clusters, Amazon S3 buckets, or Amazon RDS instances, by application, view operational data for monitoring and troubleshooting, implement pre-approved change work flows, and audit operational changes for your groups of resources
AWS X-Ray
You can use AWS X-Ray to analyze and debug serverless and distributed applications such as those built using a microservices architecture.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services
you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can access the underlying resources at any time.
There is no additional charge for Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that connects your existing on-premises environments with the AWS Cloud.
AWS Direct Connect
a physical dedicated private connection from a remote network to your VPC.
takes a month to establish
AWS Service Health Dashboard
AWS Service Health Dashboard publishes most up-to-the-minute information on the status and availability of all AWS services
EFS stands for
Elastic File System
Where can an EFS be used?
AWS Cloud Services
On premises
How large can EFS storage scale?
can easily scale to petabytes of data.
Where can an EFS be mounted?
EFS file system can be mounted on instances across multiple Availability Zones.
Where can an EBS be mounted?
EBS volume can be mounted to a single instance in the same Availability Zone.
Which AWS Support plans provide access to guidance, configuration, and troubleshooting of AWS interoperability with third-party software?
Business and Enterprise
Which service allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations.?
AWS Config
Which service continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations?
AWS Config
Which service enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account?
AWS CloudTrail
Which service can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure?
AWS CloudTrail
Which service provides event history of your AWS account activity, including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command-line tools, and other AWS services.
CloudTrail
Which service provides data and actionable insights to monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health.
CloudWatch
Which service provides real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices on cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, service limits, and performance improvement.
AWS Trusted Advisor
Which service monitors malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS account?
GuardDuty
Which service analyzes billions of events across your AWS accounts from AWS CloudTrail (AWS user and API activity in your accounts), Amazon VPC Flow Logs (network traffic data), and DNS Logs (name query patterns).
GuardDuty