Terminology

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AWS Security Token Service

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Enables you to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users or for users you authenticate (federated users)

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Amazon Route 53

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Domain Name System (DNS) web service. Gives developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0

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Amazon CloudFront

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Web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content. Improves access speed for downloading content

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AWS IAM

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With Identity and Access Management (IAM), you can specify who can access which services and resources, and under which conditions across all of AWS

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AWS WAF

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a Web Application Firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits and bots that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources

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Amazon S3

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Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service offered by AWS that provides object storage through a web service interface

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Amazon EFS

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Elastic File System (EFS) is a scalable storage solution that can be used for general purpose workloads. A simple, serverless, set-and-forget, elastic file system. No minimum fee or setup charge. You pay only for the storage you use, for read and write access to data stored in Infrequent Access storage classes

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AWS Batch

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AWS Batch is a set of batch management capabilities that enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS

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EC2 Key Pairs

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A set of security credentials that you use to prove your identity when connecting to an Amazon EC2 instance. Amazon EC2 stores the public key on your instance, and you store the private key

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Amazon Machine Image

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Amazon Machine Image (AMI) provides the information required to launch an instance. You must specify an AMI when you launch an instance

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AWS Lambda

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Performs all the operational and administrative activities on your behalf. Lets you run code w/o provisioning or managing servers, you pay only got the compute time you consume

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AWS CloudTrail

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an AWS service that helps you enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events in CloudTrail

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Amazon VPC

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A virtual private cloud (VPC) is a virtual network dedicated to your AWS account. It is logically isolated from other virtual networks in the AWS Cloud. You can launch your AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, into your VPC

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Amazon EC2

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud provides scalable computing capacity in the AWS Cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster

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Amazon EBS

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Amazon Elastic Block Store provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. EBS volumes behave like raw, unformatted block devices. You can mount these volumes as devices on your instances

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Amazon FSx

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Amazon FSx lets you optimize your price and performance to support a broad spectrum of use cases, from small user shares to the most demanding compute-intensive workloads

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Amazon ELB

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Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones

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Amazon EKS

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS and on-premises. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications

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Amazon ECS

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Amazon Elastic Container Service evaluates and monitors CPU and memory output to determine the optimal deployment for a container. AWS customers can also use the service to update containers or scale them up or down

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Amazon RDS

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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed SQL database service provided by AWS. Amazon RDS supports an array of database engines to store and organize data. It also helps with relational database management tasks, such as data migration, backup, recovery and patching