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Organizations

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Organizations allow you to centrally manage billing, control access, compliance, security, and share resources across your accounts

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Root account User

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Single sign-in identity that has complete access to all AWS services and resources in an account. Each account has a Root account user

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Organization Units

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Group of AWS accounts within an organization which can also contain other organizational units - creates a hierarchy

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Service Control Policies

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Give central control over the allowed permissions for all accounts in your organization, helping to enture accounts stay within organization’s guidelines

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Region

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Geographical location of network

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AZ

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Data center of AWS Resources

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VPC

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Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources

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Internet Gateway

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Enable access to the internet

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Route Tables

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Determine where network traffic from your subnets are directed

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NACLs

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Act as firewalls at the subnet level

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Security groups

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Act as firewall at the instance level

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Subnets

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Logical partition of an IP network into multiple, smaller network segments

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DynamoDB

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NoSQL key/value database

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DocumentDB

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NoSQL Document database that is MongoDB compatible

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RDS

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Relational database Service. Supports MySQL, Postgres, Maria DB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Aurora

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Aurora

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MySQL and PSQL database

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Aurora Serverless

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Only runs when you need it

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Neptune

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Managed Graph Database

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Redshift

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Columnar database, petabyte warehouse

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Elasticache

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Redis or memcached

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Provisioning Services

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Allocation or creation of resources and services

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Elastic Beanstalk

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Service for deploying and scaling web applications and services

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OpsWorks

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Configuration mamanement that provides managed instances of chef and puppet

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CloudFormation

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Infrastructure as code, JSON, or YAML

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AWS QuickStart
pre-made packages that can launch and confiure your AWS compute, network, storage, and other services required to deploy a workload on AWS
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AWS Marketplace
Thousands of software listings from independent software vendors you can use to find, buy, test, and deploy software
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EC2
Elastic Compute Cloud, highly configurable server eg CPU, memory, OS
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ECS
Elastic Container Service, Docker as a Service, Highly scalable, high performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers, pay for EC2 instances
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Fargate
Microservices where you don't think about the infrastructure. Play per task
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EKS
Kubernetes as a service - easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using kubernetes
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Lambda
Serverless functions - Run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume
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Elastic Beanstalk
Orchestrates various AWS services, including EC2, S3, Simple Notification Service (SNS), CloudWatch
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AWS Batch
Plans, Schedules, and executes your batch computing workloads across the full range of AWS compute services and features, such as Amazon EC2 and Spot Instances
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S3 - Simple Storage Service
Object Storage
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S3 Glacier
Low cost storage for archiving and long-term backup
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Storage Gateway
Hybrid cloud storage with local caching
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EBS
Elastic Block Storage. Hard drive in the cloud you attach to EC2 instances
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EFS
Elastic File Storage - File storage mountable to multiple EC2 instances at the same time
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Snowball
Physically migrate lots of data via a computer suitcase - 50TB
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Snowball Edge
Better version of snowball - 100 TB
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Snowmobile
Shipping container, pulled by a semi trailer truck - 100 PB
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Amazon Connect
Call Center. Cloud-based call center you can set up quickly. Used by Amazon customer service
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WorkSpaces
Virtual Remote Desktop - Secure managed service for provisioning either Windows or Linux desktops in just a few minutes
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WorkDocs
A content creation and collaboration service - easily create, edit, and share content saved in AWS (AWS version of Sharepoint)
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Chime
AWS platform for online meetings and video conferencing
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WorkMail
Business e-mail, contacts, and calendar service
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Pinpoint
Marketing management system to use for sending targeted e-mail
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SES - Simple Email Service
A cloud-based email sending service designed for marketers and applciation developers
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Quicksight
Business Intelligence (BI) service. Quickly visualize data in the form of graphs with little to no programming knowledge.
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Direct Connect
Network connection - Direct fibre optic cable, but through the cloud
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VPN
Secure connection to the AWS network
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Storage Gateway
Hybrid storage services for on-premises applications using AWS cloud storage. Backup, archiving, disaster recovery, cloud processing, storage tiering, and migration
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Active Directory
Enables directory-aware workloads and AWS services to use managed Active Directory in AWS Cloud
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Cloud Trial
Logs all API calls between AWS services. Who created this bucket? Who spun up that expensive EC2 instance? Who launched this Sagemaker notebook?
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Cloud Watch
Logs, metrics, evens, alarms, and dashboards of AWS performance and activities, memory, etc
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IAM
Identity and Access Management
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SWF
Simple Workflow Service
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SNS
Simple notification Service
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SQS
Simple Queue Service
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SES
Simple Email Service
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SSM
Simple Systems Manager
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VPC
Virtual Private Cloud
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VPN
Virtual Private Network
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CFN
Cloud Formation
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WAF
Web Application Firewall
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MQ
Amazon Active MQ
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ASG
Auto Scaling Groups
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TAM
Technical Account Manager
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ELB
Elastic Load Balancer
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ALB
Application Load Balancer
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NLB
Network Load Balancer
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ECR
Elastic Container Repository
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EMR
Elastic MapReduce
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EB
Elastic Beanstalk
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ES
Elasticsearch
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EKS
Elastic Kubernetes Service
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MKS
Managed Kafka Service
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IoT
Internet of Things
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RI
Reserved Instances

AWS Cloud Practitioner (6 decks)

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