Vocab 4 Flashcards
_________ is a web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics.
Amazon CloudWatch
____________ records API calls for your account
AWS CloudTrail
____________ is a web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations in accordance with AWS best practices.
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor compares its findings to AWS best practices in five categories:. What are the five categories?
cost optimization
performance
security
fault tolerance
service limits
In _________, you can create budgets to plan your service usage, service costs, and instance reservations.
AWS Budgets
_____________ is a tool that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS offers four different Support plans to help you troubleshoot issues, lower costs, and efficiently use AWS services. What are the four Support plans?
- Basic
- Developer
- Business
- Enterprise (On-Ramp)
If your company subscribes to Enterprise Support or Enterprise On-Ramp, who educates, empowers, and evolves your cloud journey across the full range of AWS services?
The TAM (technical account manager)
____________ is a digital catalog that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors.
AWS Marketplace
At the highest level, the ______________ organizes guidance into six areas of focus, called Perspectives.
AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
Each Perspective addresses distinct responsibilities. The planning process helps the right people across the organization prepare for the changes ahead.
What are the six perspectives?
Business
People
Governance
Platform
Security
Operations
(BPGPSO)
____________ is a digital catalog that includes thousands of software listings from independent software vendors. You can use this to find, test, and buy software that runs on AWS.
AWS Marketplace
What are the 6 most common migration strategies when migrating applications to the cloud?
1- Rehosting
2- Replatforming
3- Refactoring (also known as re-architecting)
4- Repurchasing
5- Retaining
6- Retiring
__________ - also known as “lift-and-shift” involves moving applications without changes.
Rehosting
____________ - also known as “lift, tinker, and shift,” involves making a few cloud optimizations to realize a tangible benefit. Optimization is achieved without changing the core architecture of the application.
Replatforming
_____________ involves reimagining how an application is architected and developed by using cloud-native features. It is driven by a strong business need to add features, scale, or performance that would otherwise be difficult to achieve in the application’s existing environment
Refactoring
______________ involves moving from a traditional license to a software-as-a-service model.
Repurchasing
______________ consists of keeping applications that are critical for the business in the source environment. This might include applications that require major refactoring before they can be migrated, or, work that can be postponed until a later time.
Retaining
_________ is the process of removing applications that are no longer needed.
Retiring
___________ is a small, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device. It features 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, and up to 14 TB of usable storage.
AWS Snowcone
AWS Snowball offers two types of devices. What are they?
- Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
- Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
__________ devices are well suited for large-scale data migrations and recurring transfer workflows, in addition to local computing with higher capacity needs.
Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
___________ provides powerful computing resources for use cases such as machine learning, full motion video analysis, analytics, and local computing stacks.
Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
_________ is an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS.
AWS Snowmobile
AWS offers ____________ to remove the difficult work from the process and empower you to build, train, and deploy ML (machine learning) models quickly.
Amazon SageMaker
_____________ contains the most comprehensive set cost and usage data available, including additional metadata about AWS services, pricing, and reservations (e.g., Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RIs)).
AWS Cost & Usage Report
___________notifies you when you’re close to a service quota value threshold
AWS Service Quotas
What is support plan is this?
Customer Service & Communities - 24x7 access to customer service, documentation, whitepapers, and support forums.
AWS Trusted Advisor - Access to the 7 core Trusted Advisor checks and guidance to provision your resources following best practices to increase performance and improve security.
AWS Personal Health Dashboard - A personalized view of the health of AWS services, and alerts when your resources are impacted.
AWS Basic Support Plan
What is support plan is this?
All Basic Support Plan +
Business hours email access to Cloud Support Associates
Unlimited cases / 1 primary contact
Case severity / response times:
General guidance: < 24 business hours
System impaired: < 12 business hours
AWS Developer Support Plan
What support plan is this?
Intended to be used if you have production workloads
Trusted Advisor – Full set of checks + API access
24x7 phone, email, and chat access to Cloud Support Engineers
Unlimited cases / unlimited contacts
Access to Infrastructure Event Management for additional fee.
Case severity / response times:
General guidance: < 24 business hours
System impaired: < 12 business hours
Production system impaired: < 4 hours
Production system down: < 1 hour
AWS Business Support Plan (24/7)
What support plan is this?
Intended to be used if you have production or business critical workloads
All of Business Support Plan +
Access to a pool of Technical Account Managers (TAM)
Concierge Support Team (for billing and account best practices)
Infrastructure Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews
Case severity / response times:
Production system impaired: < 4 hours
Production system down: < 1 hour
Business-critical system down: < 30 minutes
AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support Plan (24/7)
What support plan is this?
Intended to be used if you have mission critical workloads
All of Business Support Plan +
Access to a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM)
Concierge Support Team (for billing and account best practices)
Infrastructure Event Management, Well-Architected & Operations Reviews
Case severity / response times:
Production system impaired: < 4 hours
Production system down: < 1 hour
Business-critical system down: < 15 minutes
AWS Enterprise Support Plan (24/7)
