services Flashcards

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Amazon VPC

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Amazon VPC enables you to provision an isolated section of the AWS Cloud. In this isolated section, you can launch resources in a virtual network that you define. Within a virtual private cloud (VPC), you can organize your resources into subnets. A subnet is a section of a VPC that can contain resources such as Amazon EC2 instances.

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Amazon DocumentDB

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a document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

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MongoDB

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a document database program

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Amazon Neptune

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a graph database service. Used to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets, such as social networking, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs.

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Amazon QLDB

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a ledger database service. Used to review a complete history of all the changes that have been made to your application data.

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Amazon QLDB

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Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

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Amazon Managed Blockchain

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a service that you can use to create and manage blockchain networks with open-source frameworks. a distributed ledger system that lets multiple parties run transactions and share data without a central authority.

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Amazon ElastiCache

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a service that adds caching layers on top of your databases to help improve the read times of common requests. supports two types of data stores: Redis and Memcached.

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supports two types of data stores: Redis and Memcached

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Amazon ElastiCache

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the two types of data stores supported by Amazon ElastiCache

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Redis and Memcached

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Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

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an in-memory cache for DynamoDB. It helps improve response times from single-digit milliseconds to microseconds.

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Amazon DAX

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Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator

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Amazon EBS

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Amazon Elastic Block Store

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Amazon S3

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Amazon Simple Storage Service

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Amazon EFS

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Amazon Elastic File System

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AWS DMS

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AWS Database Migration Services

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Amazon EC2

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

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provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud

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Amazon EC2

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provide a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources. You can use them for a variety of workloads, such as: application servers gaming servers backend servers for enterprise applications small and medium databases

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EC2 General purpose instances

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ideal for compute-bound applications that benefit from high-performance processors. You can use compute optimized instances for workloads such as web, application, and gaming servers. are ideal for high-performance web servers, compute-intensive applications servers, and dedicated gaming servers. You can also use for batch processing workloads that require processing many transactions in a single group.

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EC2 Compute optimized instances

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are designed to deliver fast performance for workloads that process large datasets in memory. a high-performance database or a workload that involves performing real-time processing of a large amount of unstructured data.

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EC2 Memory optimized instances

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use hardware accelerators, or coprocessors, to perform some functions more efficiently than is possible in software running on CPUs. Examples of these functions include floating-point number calculations, graphics processing, and data pattern matching. are ideal for workloads such as graphics applications, game streaming, and application streaming.

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EC2 Accelerated computing instances

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are designed for workloads that require high, sequential read and write access to large datasets on local storage. Examples include distributed file systems, data warehousing applications, and high-frequency online transaction processing (OLTP) systems. are designed to deliver tens of thousands of low-latency, random IOPS to applications.

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EC2 Storage optimized instances

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scaling option that responds to changing demand.

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dynamic scaling

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scaling option that automatically schedules the right number of Amazon EC2 instances based on anticipated demand.

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Predictive scaling

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3 configuration options for an EC2 auto scaling group

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minimum capacity desired capacity maximum capacity

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ELB

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Elastic Load Balancing

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service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances. acts as a single point of contact for all incoming web traffic to your Auto Scaling group.

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Elastic Load Balancing

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ELB geographical area

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regional

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SNS

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Simple Notification Service

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SQS

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Simple Queue Service

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a publish/subscribe service. Using topics, a publisher publishes messages to subscribers. This is similar to the coffee shop; the cashier provides coffee orders to the barista who makes the drinks. subscribers can be web servers, email addresses, AWS Lambda functions, or several other options.

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SNS

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send, store, and receive messages between software components, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available. an application sends messages into a queue. A user or service retrieves a message from the queue, processes it, and then deletes it from the queue.

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SQS

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a service that lets you run code without needing to provision or manage servers

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Lambda

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upload code to a function, configure trigger, when triggered, code is run in managed, serverless environment

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Lambda

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limit of processing time for lambda

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15 min

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amazon container services

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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a highly scalable, high-performance container management system that enables you to run and scale containerized applications on AWS.

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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ECS

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Amazon Elastic Container Service

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supports docker containers

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ECS

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EKS

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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a fully managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS

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EKS

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a serverless compute engine for containers. It works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS.

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AWS Fargate

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4 key factors to choosing a region

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Compliance proximity feature availability pricing.

45
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how many regions does a data center cover?

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1

46
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how many data centers does a region cover?

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multiple, redundant

47
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Caching copies of data closer to the customers all around the world

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content delivery networks (CDNs)

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Amazon’s concept of content delivery networks (CDNs)

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Amazon CloudFront

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service that helps deliver data, video, applications, and APIs to customers around the world with low latency and high transfer speeds

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Amazon CloudFront

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Amazon CloudFront uses _____________ to help accelerate communication with users, no matter where they are

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Edge locations

51
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what is the relationship between edge locations and regions?

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Edge locations are separate from Regions

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AWS Edge DNS

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Amazon Route 53

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AWS fully operational mini Region, right inside your own data center

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AWS Outposts

54
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invoke or call these mechanisms to provision, configure, and manage your AWS resources.

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application programming interfaces APIs

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