Technology Flashcards
What features or services does Elasticache provide
(Amazon ElastiCache allows you to seamlessly set up, run, and scale popular open-Source compatible in-memory data stores in the cloud). (Build data-intensive apps or boost the performance of your existing databases by retrieving data from high throughput and low latency in-memory data stores.)Amazon ElastiCache is a popular choice for real-time use cases like Caching, Session Stores, Gaming, Geospatial Services, Real-Time Analytics, and Queuing.
What is AWS Codebuild
Summary answer: AWS CodeBuild - produces software packages that are ready to deploy. Compiles source code runs tests,
AWS CodeBuild - AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy
How does Aws Codedeploy work
AWS CodeDeploy is a (service that automates application deployments
AWS CodeDeploy is a (service that automates application deployments to a variety of compute services including Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and on-premises instances.) (CodeDeploy fully automates your application deployments eliminating the need for manual operations.) CodeDeploy protects your application from downtime during deployments through rolling updates and deployment health tracking.
What is an application load balancer good for
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones.
What is a network load balancer best suited for
Network Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required.
what is the primary function of Auto scaling
AWS Auto Scaling - AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications and automatically adjusts the capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost.
What is Aws Config used for
AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess and evaluate configurations in your aws resources
AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. You cannot use Config for running commands or managing patches on servers.
How does Aws Systems manager work
AWS. Systems Manager provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services
AWS. Systems Manager provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows you to automate operational tasks such as collecting software inventory, running commands, managing patches, and configuring servers across AWS Cloud as well as on-premises infrastructure.
What is AWS Device Farm used for
AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that lets you improve the quality of your web and mobile apps by testing them across an extensive range of desktop browsers and real mobile devices; without having to provision and manage any testing infrastructure.
What type of service is Aws Cognito and what does it provide
Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily.
What type of services is AWS Quick start references
Summary def - Quick start references are used to deploy popular technologies on aws rapidly or quickly
Quick Starts are 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. These accelerators reduce hundreds of manual procedures into just a few steps, so you can build your production environment quickly and start using it immediately.
What service does amazon Cloudwatch provide
You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS
You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, collect and monitor log files, and set alarms. Amazon CloudWatch can monitor AWS resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and Amazon RDS DB instances.
What kind of tool is Codeguru and what does it provide
Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool that provides intelligent recommendations to improve code quality
Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool that provides intelligent recommendations to improve code quality and identify an application’s most expensive lines of code.
What is Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Comprehend is a natural-language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to uncover information in unstructured data. Instead of combing through documents, the process is simplified and unseen information is easier to understand.)
How is the Amazon Personalize service used
Amazon Personalize enables developers to build applications with the same machine learning (ML) technology used by Amazon.com for real-time personalized recommendations. Amazon Personalize can be used to personalize the end-user experience over any digital channel. mazon Personalize supports the following key use cases:
Personalized recommendations
Similar items
Personalized reranking i.e. rerank a list of items for a user
Personalized promotions/notifications
What use case are best for using Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS.
Amazon Lightsail is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS. Lightsail plans include everything you need to jumpstart your project – a virtual machine, SSD- based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP address – for a low, predictable price. It is not used to run batch jobs.
It is great for people with little cloud experience to launch quickly a popular IT solution ready to use immediately.
What is Amazon Sagemaker
Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed platform that enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale. Amazon SageMaker removes all the barriers that typically slow down developers who want to use machine learning.
What is Amazon Compute Optimizer
AWS Compute Optimizer - AWS Compute Optimizer recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics.
What is Aws Codestar
AWS CodeStar enables you to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS.
What does Cloudendure service provides
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery minimizes downtime and data loss by providing fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS Cloud, including public regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and AWS Outposts.
How does CodeCommit work
AWS CodeCommit -
hosts private Git repositories
make it easy for teams to collaborate on code
AWS CodeCommit is a secure, highly scalable, managed source control service that hosts private Git repositories. It makes it easy for teams to securely collaborate on code with contributions encrypted in transit and at rest
What does Cloud 9 service provide
AWS Cloud9 Lets you write run and debug code from any machine with just a broswer
AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you to write, run, and debug code from any machine with just a browser.
How does Codepipeline work
CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process
AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process every time there is a code change, based on the release model you define.
How do Amazon Workspaces operate
Summary answer: Amazon workspaces allows users to access data applications and resources from anywhere on any supported device. can provision windows or Linux desktops
Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed, persistent desktop virtualization service that enables your users to access the data, applications, and resources they need, anywhere, anytime, from any supported device. You can use Amazon WorkSpaces to provision either Windows or Linux desktops
What are aws outposts
Summary answer: Aws Outpost is a managed service that can offer aws infrastructure to any data center or off-premise facility
AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience. AWS Outposts is ideal for workloads that require low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, and migration of applications with local system interdependencies.
What is Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Elastic Transcoder is media transcoding, allows developers to convert media files from source format into mobile and pc compatible formats
Amazon Elastic Transcoder is media transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable, easy to use and a cost effective way for developers and businesses to convert (or “transcode”) media files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs.
What is AWS Code Artifact and what type of service does it provide
AWS CodeArtifact is a fully managed artifact repository service that makes it easy for organizations of any size to securely store, publish, and share software packages used in their software development process.
What is AWS OpsHub
AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage your AWS Snowball devices, enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud.
What is AWS IOT Core
AWS IoT Core - AWS IoT Core lets you connect IoT devices to the AWS cloud without the need to provision or manage servers.
What is Aws X-RAY
AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production
AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors.
How does Amazon EC2 Image builder work
Amazon EC2 Image Builder - EC2 Image Builder simplifies the building, testing, and deployment of Virtual Machine and container images for use on AWS or on-premises. (Keeps Virtual machine and container images up to date)
Keeping Virtual Machine and container images up-to-date can be time-consuming, resource-intensive, and error-prone. Currently, customers either manually update and snapshot VMs or have teams that build automation scripts to maintain images.
what is the AWS SSM(Amazon Simple Systems Manager)
AWS service that you can use to view and control your infrastructure on AWS
AWS Systems Manager (Amazon Simple Systems Manager (SSM)) - AWS Systems Manager (formerly known as SSM) is an AWS service that you can use to view and control your infrastructure on AWS. Using the Systems Manager console, you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and automate operational tasks across your AWS resources.
What is Amazon Transcribe
Use Amazon Transcribe to convert speech to text for downstream analysis.
What is Amazon Polly
Use Amazon Polly to convey the text results via speech
What is AWS Single Sign-On (SSO)
AWS SSO - provide users with single sign-on access to all their assigned accounts and applications from one place.
AWS SSO is an AWS service that enables you to makes it easy to centrally manage access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications and provide users with single sign-on access to all their assigned accounts and applications from one place.
What is Amazon Sumerian
Amazon Sumerian is a managed service that lets you create and run 3D, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications.
What is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS)
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) is a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service.
What is Aws Cloudtrail insights
AWS CloudTrail Insights helps AWS users identify and respond to unusual activity associated with write API calls by continuously analyzing CloudTrail management events.
CloudTrail Insights can help you detect unusual API activity in your AWS account by raising Insights events. CloudTrail Insights measures your normal patterns of API call volume, also called the baseline, and generates Insights events when the volume is outside normal patterns.
