Technology Tools and Services

Question 1

Amazon CloudFront

Answer 1

a CDN that delivers data and applications globally with low latency.
- Makes content available globally or restricts based on location
- Speeds up delivery of static and dynamic web content
- Uses edge locations to cache content

Question 2

Amazon Global Accelerator

Answer 2

sends your users through the AWS global network when accessing your content, speeding up delivery.
- improves latency and availability of single-region apps
- sends traffic through AWS global network infrastructure
- 60% performance boost
- Automatically re-routes traffic to healthy available regional endpoints

Question 3

Database Migration Service (DMS)

Answer 3

helps you migrate databases to or within AWS.
- migrate on-prem to AWS
- continuous data replication
- homogeneous and heterogeneous migrations
- virtually no downtime

Question 4

Server Migration Service (SMS)

Answer 4

allows you to migrate on-premises servers to AWS.
- migrate on-prem to AWS
- server saved as new Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
- use AMI to launch server as EC2 instance

Question 5

Snowcone

Answer 5

• smallest amount of data transport devices
• 8 TB of usable storage
• Offline shipping
• Online with datasync

Question 6

Snowball & Snowball Edge

Answer 6

• PB-scale data transport
• Transfer data in and out
• Cheaper than internet transfer
• Edge supports EC2 and lambda

Question 7

Snowmobile

Answer 7

• multi-petabyte or exabyte scale
• data loaded to S3
• securely transported

Question 8

Cloud9

Answer 8

allows you to write code within an integrated development environment (IDE) from within your web browser

Question 9

Code Commit

Answer 9

is a source control system for private Git repositories

Question 10

Code Build

Answer 10

allows you to build and test your application source code

Question 11

Code Deploy

Answer 11

manages the deployment of code to compute services in the cloud or on-premises

Question 12

Code Pipeline

Answer 12

automates the software release process
helps development teams implement DevOps practices that automate testing and the movement of code to production

Question 13

X-Ray

Answer 13

helps you debug production applications
- analyze and debug
- map app components
- view requests end to end

Question 14

CodeStar

Answer 14

helps developers collaboratively work on development projects
- contains issue tracking dashboard

Question 15

CloudFormation

Answer 15

allows you to provision AWS resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Question 16

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 16

allows you to deploy your web applications and web services to AWS

Question 17

OpsWorks

Answer 17

allows you to use Chef or Puppet to automate the configuration of your servers and deploy code
- on prem or AWS

Question 18

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Answer 18

is a message queuing service that allows you to build loosely coupled systems
- component to component communication using messages
- multiple components can add messages to the queue
- messages are processed asynchronously

Question 19

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Answer 19

allows you to send emails and text messages from your applications
- send email/text
- publish message to a topic
- subscribers receive messages

Question 20

Simple Email Services (SES)

Answer 20

is an email service that allows you to send richly formatted HTML emails from your applications

Question 21

Cloudwatch

Answer 21

is a collection of services that help you monitor and observe your cloud resources
- collect metrics, logs, and events
- set alarms
- visualize logs
- detect anomalies

Question 22

CloudTrail

Answer 22

tracks user activity and API calls within your account
- log and retain account activity
- track activity through console, SDK, CLI
- identify which user made changes
- detect unusual activity

Question 23

Amazon Workspaces

Answer 23

allows you to host virtual desktops in the cloud