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What is Storage Gateway?

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Hybrid cloud storage that connects to existing on-premises storage.
3 Types - File, Tape, and Volume Gateway

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What are the types of Storage Gateway?

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File Gateway, Tape Gateway, Volume Gateway.

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What is WAF?

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Web app firewall that protects apps against common exploits.

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What does WAF do?

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Blocks requests except ones you allow and can check for presence of SQL code (SQL injections).

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What is AWS Direct Connect?

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Establishes a dedicated connection from on-prem to AWS.

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What is AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN)?

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Establishes a secure connection between on-premises networks, remote offices, client devices, and the AWS global network.

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What are the components of AWS VPN?

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Comprised of Site-to-Site and Client VPN.

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What is Site-to-Site VPN?

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A resource in a VPC can’t talk to your own network. Set up a Site-to-Site VPN to let stuff in your VPC talk to your existing network.

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What is AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?

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Logically isolated section of the cloud where you can launch resources in a virtual network you define.

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What are the components of a VPC?

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Subnet, Route Table, Internet Gateway, VPC Endpoint, VPC Peering.

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What is VPC Peering?

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Connects two VPCs privately.

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What is Transit Gateway?

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Connects VPC and on-prem network through a central Hub.

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What is an Internet Gateway?

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VPC component that allows internet connection between your VPC and the internet.

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What is a VPC Endpoint?

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Privately connects your VPC to AWS services without requiring an internet gateway.

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What are the types of VPC Endpoints?

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Interface Endpoint - Private IP address that lets you connect VPC to some services (including SQS)
Gateway Endpoint - (S3, DynamoDB)

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What is Virtual MFA?

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Like Authy - lets you use MFA without a physical device.

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What is a U2F Security Key?

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Device you plug into USB port - what AWS uses.

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What is the Well-Architected Framework?

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OSRPCS: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance efficiency, Cost optimization, Sustainability.

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What is AWS Systems Manager Session Manager?

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Fully managed service - interactive browser-based shell and CLI experience.

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What can AWS Organizations do?

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Centrally manage billing, share access across AWS accounts, automate account creation, govern access across services.

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What is AWS Systems Manager?

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View operational data from multiple services and manage resources. Can view ON-Prem & Cloud data in ONE PLACE

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What does AWS Compute Optimizer do?

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Recommends optimal AWS resources for workloads.

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What is AWS Global Accelerator?

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Improves availability and performance of apps with local or global users.

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What is AWS Shield Advanced?

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Provides real-time reports into attacks on the network layer, transport layer, and application layer.

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What is Elastic Beanstalk?
Easy to use service for deploying web apps and services associated with various programming languages.
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What does CloudWatch do?
Resource performance monitoring, events, alerts (billing Alerts).
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What is CloudTrail?
Account specific activity & Audit.
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What does AWS Config do?
Resource specific change history, audit, compliance.
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What is Guard Duty?
Threat detection that monitors malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect AWS account.
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What is Instance Store?
Temporary block-level storage for an instance, ideal for temporary storage of frequently changing info.
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What does Systems Manager do?
Manage and operate resources at scale, central place to view and manage AWS resources. Can view ON-Prem & Cloud data in ONE PLACE.
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What are Read Replicas?
Allow you to create read-only copies of RDS databases for better read performance.
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What does Compute Optimizer do?
Helps identify optimal resource configuration.
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What is the difference between Service Health and Account Health?
Service Health is general status; Account Health is a personalized view of your services.
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What is an AMI?
Provides info required to launch an instance.
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What is Cost Explorer?
Visualize and manage AWS costs and usage over time. Looks backward and also helps forecast!
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What is AWS Pricing Calculator?
Explore AWS services & create an estimate for cost of your use cases. No forecasting. This is the same as TCO
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What is Cost & Usage Report?
Most in-depth look at costs; cannot forecast.
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What is MQ?
Managed message broker service that lets you do on-prem messaging.
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What is DynamoDB?
Key-value, document database that is fully managed and multi-region. THis is the flagship AWS product. It is SCHEMALESS.
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What is EFS?
Regional service storing data across multiple AZs, accessible by EC2 instances.
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What is Trusted Advisor
Trusted Advisor * Real-time guidance to help provision resources following best practices * Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance, Service Limits * Optimal Provisioning * Cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, service limits * Can check EBS and find volumes that are under-utilized
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What is Kendra?
A document search service that extracts answers from a document and is good for an internal wiki.
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What does Personalize do?
Builds apps with real-time personalized recommendations.
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What is Texttract?
Extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents using AI/ML.
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What is SageMaker?
A fully managed service to build Machine Learning Models. Developers can create/build ML models using SageMaker.
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What is a model in the context of SageMaker?
A model predicts results based on inputs.
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What tasks can be done in SageMaker?
Building, labeling, fine-tuning, and training models.
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What does Rekognition do?
Finds objects, people, text, etc., in images and video, including facial analysis.
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What are some use cases of Rekognition?
Content moderation, celebrity recognition, and text grabbing.
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What is Artifact?
A service to create compliance reports.
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What does GuardDuty do?
Analyzes logs to find bad behavior (i.e., threats).
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What is Inspector?
An assessment service that helps improve security and compliance of apps deployed in AWS.
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What does Config do?
Tracks configuration changes.
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What is Macie?
Finds sensitive data (i.e., PII) in S3.
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What does CloudTrail do?
Tracks API calls.
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What is AWS Security Hub?
Gathers security findings.
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What does Detective do?
Finds the root cause of security issues.
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What is AWS Abuse?
Reports AWS resources used for abusive behavior.
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What is CodeBuild?
Compiles source code, runs tests, and produces packages ready to be deployed.
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What are the benefits of CodeBuild?
Fully managed, serverless, scalable, available, secure, and pay-as-you-go pricing.
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What is CodePipeline?
The basis for CI/CD and an orchestration layer to take code from CodeCommit, put it in CodeBuild, then CodeDeploy, and run it in Elastic Beanstalk.
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What is CodeArtifact?
An artifact management system for software development to store and retrieve software package dependencies.
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What does AWS X-Ray do?
Provides visual analysis of applications, showing all services, bottlenecks, and dependencies in a microservice architecture.
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What is Kinesis?
A service for real-time big data streaming to collect, process, and analyze real-time streaming data at any scale.
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What is S3 Transfer Acceleration?
Allows uploading/downloading to an edge location for S3 buckets, which then loads it into the right region.

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