Terminology Flashcards
High Availability
Concept of something being accessible when you attempt to access it (and/or the ability to access something via multiple platforms).
Fault Tolerant
The ability to withstand a certain amount of failure and still remain functional (and/or be self-healing and return to full capacity).
Scalable
The ability to easily grow in size, capacity, and/or scope when required (usually based on demand)
Elastic
The ability to not only grow (scale) when required, but also reduce in size when required.
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
To enable HTTPS connections to your website or application in AWS, you need an SSL/TLS server certificate. You can use a server certificate provided by AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) or one that you obtained from an external provider. You can use ACM or IAM to store and deploy server certificates. Use IAM as a certificate manager only when you must support HTTPS connections in a region that is not supported by ACM.
Amazon Managed Services (AMS)
Provides support to companies to migrate to the cloud faster.
Artifact
Provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports and AWS customer agreements. You can use AWS Artifact Agreements to review, accept, and track the status of AWS agreements such as the Business Associate Addendum (BAA).
Aurora
Relational database that can be configured as MySQL or PostgreSQL but much faster than either. Fully managed by RDS to automate provisioning, set ups, patching, backups. Includes serverless feature to allow on-demand usage and scaling.
AWS Shield
Managed DDOS protection.
Budgets
Will send alert when cost or usage exceeds or are forecasted to exceed a budget you set.
Cloud Formation
Model AWS resources and it will configure them for you. Free to use.
Cloud9
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for writing, running and debugging code.
CloudFront
Distribute content globally with low latency. Uses edge locations. Includes Content Delivery Network (CDN) and provides security through DDOS protection.
Pay per use. Integrates with several other AWS services.
CloudTrail
Enables governance, monitoring and auditing of actions taken in your AWS account. User activity and API usage.
CloudWatch
Monitoring service that gives view of cloud resources and applications. Set billing alarm triggers based on AWS usage. Can be configured to trigger an SNS notification.
Stores logs of IP traffic on VPC, subnet, etc.
Centralize logs from other AWS services such as: EC2, CloudTrail, Route 53
CodePipeline
AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates.
Cognito
Use to enable identity federation with Internet identity providers. Ex: allow temporary access via FB/Amazon/Google without creating an IAM user for the person.
Config
Evaluates your AWS set up. Fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance.
Amazon Connect
Self-service contact center service.
Cost Explorer
View past usage, forecast future usage, get recommendations.
Data Pipeline
AWS Data Pipeline is a web service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources.
DirectConnect
Establish a dedicated network connection from on-premise to AWS.
Directory Service
AWS Directory Service is a managed Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.
Data Migration Service (DMS)
Migrates data from one database to another.