Terms Flashcards

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AWS Storage Gateway

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a hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage.

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AWS Application Discovery Service

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helps systems integrators quickly and reliably plan application migration projects by automatically identifying applications running in on-premises data centers, their associated dependencies, and their performance profiles.

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Amazon EC2 Container Registry (ECR)

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a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

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AWS Snowmobile

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an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS

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AWS Snowball

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petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses devices designed to be secure to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud

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3 Benefits of DynamoDB

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1- Performance at scale
2- Serverless
3- Highly available

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Security features for the protection of data at rest

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1- Permissions
2- Versioning
3- Replication
4- Backup
5- Encryption – server side
6- Encryption – client side
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Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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provides the information required to launch an instance, which is a virtual server in the cloud

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Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

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is a web service that makes it easy to coordinate work across distributed application components.

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AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

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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.

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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

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to help organizations design and travel an accelerated path to successful cloud adoption

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AWS CLI

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Command line interface is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.

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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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enables fast, easy, and secure transfers of files over long distances between your client and an S3 bucket.

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5 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework

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1- Operational Excellence
2- Security
3- Reliability
4- Performance Efficiency
5- Cost Optimization
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AWS Data Pipeline

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enables movement and transformation of data

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QuickSight

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Visualization tool with various data stores

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Redshift

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a fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools.

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Athena

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service that enables a data analyst to perform interactive queries in the Amazon Web Services public cloud on data stored in S3. SQL, serverless

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Kinesis

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streaming service for data ingestion

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AWS Config

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Provides a detailed view of the resources in your AWS account

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API Gateway

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Gateway between the API consumers and the Data/services

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Eleastic Beanstalk

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Quickly provisions environments in AWS

Handles all aspects such as capacity, provisioning, load balancing, scaling and app health monitoring

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EC2 Autoscaling

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Will increase or decrease the number of instances based on load, to help control costs
Scaling out - Increasing the number of instances
Scaling in - Decreasing the number of instances

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Elastic Load balancer

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Move traffic from one EC2 instance to another balancing traffic.

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Cost Explorer

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view and analyze cost and usage, data from past 13 months

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Billing and cost monitoring dashboard

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spend in prior month, estimate of month to date, and forecast remainder

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Amazon Aurora

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Fully managed RDS

MySQL and Postgres compatible

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DynamoDB

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NoSQL DB
Faster data access
Schemaless
Fully managed
Scale on demand
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Relational Database Service (RDS)

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  • Managed platform
  • Specify the DBMS and hardware - Oracle MySQL, SQL Server, Postgres, MariaDB, AWS Aurora (AWS MySQL)
  • Everything provisioned and managed for you including patching and backups
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Simple Storage Service (S3)

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Object level storage
Files, videos etc
Each object bytes to 5 tb
Highly scalable - virtually limitless

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EBS Snapshots

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point in time copy of EBS volume

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EC2 Instance types

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○ Spot Instance - less cost than on demand and can fluctuate, based on spare capacity to fulfill the request, instance can be stopped with minimal notice. Can hibernate until spot returns. Use case - app that can be interrupted and resumed.
○ Reserved Instances - cheaper than on demand, 1 or 3 year agreement, upfront costs for big discount
○ Standard and convertible - fixed instance type versus changeable
○Dedicated