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AWS Cost Explorer

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AWS Cost Explorer let’s you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time. You can use forecasting to get an idea of future costs.

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Budgets give you the ability to setup alerts if you exceed or are approaching your defined budget.

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TCO Calculator

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Total Cost of Ownership allows you to estimate how much you would save when moving to AWS from on-premise.

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AWS Landing Zone

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Helps enterprises quickly set-up a secure, AWS multi-account. It provides you with a baseline-environment to get stared with a multi-account architecture.

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AWS Account Vending Machine

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Automatically provisions and configures new accounts via Service Catalog Template

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Tags

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Tags are words or phrases that act as metadata for organizing your AWS resources.

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Resource Groups

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A collection of resources that share one or more tags.

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AWS Quick Starts

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Prebuilt templates by AWS and AWS partners to help you deploy popular stacks on AWS. Reduce hundreds of manual procedures into just a few steps.

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AWS Cost and Usage Report

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Generate a detailed spreadsheet, enabling to better analyze and understand your AWS costs. Places the reports into S3, uses Athena, query-able database, Uses Quicksight to visualize your billing data as graphs.

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Organizations

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Allow you to centrally manage billing, control access, compliance, security, and share resources across your AWS accounts.

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Root Account User

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a single sign-in identity that has complete access to all AWS services and resources in an account.

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Organization Units

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a group of AWS accounts within an organization which can also contain other organizational units, creating a hierarchy

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Region

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the geographical location of your network

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AZ

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the data center of your AWS Resources

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VPC

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a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources

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Internet Gateway

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Enables access to the internet

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Route Tables

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determine where network traffic from your subnets are directed.

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NACLS

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(network access control list)

Act as firewalls at the subnet level

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Security Groups

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Act as a firewall at the instance level

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Subnets

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A logical partition of an IP network into multiple, smaller network segments

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DynamoDB

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NoSQL key/value database. Multi-Availability Zones

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DocumentDB

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NoSQL Document database that is MongoDB compatible

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RDS

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Relational Database Service that supports multiple engines: MySQL, Postgres, Maria DB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Aurora

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Aurora

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RDS- MySQL (5x faster) and PSQL (3x faster) database fully managed

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Aurora Serverless

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RDS- only runs when you need it, like AWS Lambda

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Neptune

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Managed Graph Database

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Redshift

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Columnar database, petabyte warehouse 1000 TB = 1 PB

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ElastiCache

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Redis or Memcached database

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Provisioning

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The allocation or creation of resources and services to a customer

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Elastic Beanstalk

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PaaS. Service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .Net, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docket

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OpsWorks

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configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet

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CloudFormation

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infrastructure as code, JSON or YAML

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AWS Marketplace

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A digital catalog of thousands of software listing from independent software vendors you can use to find, buy, test, and deploy software.

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EC2

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Elastic compute cloud, highly configurable server

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ECS

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Elastic Container Service, Docker as a Service, highly scalable, high performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers

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Fargate

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Serverless compute engine for containers. Microservices where you don’t think about the infrastructure. Pay per task.

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EKS

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Kubernetes as a service, easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes

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Lambda

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Serverless functions run on code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.

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AWS Batch

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plans, schedules, and executes your batch computing workloads across the full range of AWS compute services and features, such as Amazon EC2 and Spot Instances

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S3

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Simple Storage Service - object storage

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S3 Glacier

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low cost storage for archiving and long-term backup

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Storage Gateway

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hybrid cloud storage with local caching: File Gateway, Volume Gateway, Tape Gateway

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EBS

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Elastic Block Storage - hard drive in the cloud you attach to EC2 instances (SSD IOPS, Throuhput HHD, Cold HHD). The primary storage service used by Amazon RDS database instances

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EFS

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Elastic File Storage - file storage mountable to multiple EC2 instances at the same time

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Snowball

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Physically migrate lots of data via a computer suitcase 50-80 TB

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Snowball Edge

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A better version of Snowball - 100 TB

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Snowmobile

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Shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck - 100PB

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Amazon Connect

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Call Center

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WorkSpaces

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Virtual Remote Desktop

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WorkDocs

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the AWS version of Sharepoint

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Chime

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online meetings, video conferencing

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Workmail

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business email

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Pinpoint

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use for sending targeted email

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SES

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Simple Email Service - send marketing, notification, and emails

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QuickSight

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Connect multiple data source and quickly visualize data in the form of graphs with little to no programming knowledge.

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Direct Connect

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Dedicated Gigabit network connection from your premises to AWS

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VPN

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establish a secure connection to your AWS network. Site-to-Site VPN, Client VPN

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Storage Gateway

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A hybrid storage that enables your on-premises applications to use AWS cloud storage

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Active Directory

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Enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.

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CloudTrail

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Logs all API calls (SDK, CLI) between AWS services (Who we can blame)

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CloudWatch

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A collection of multiple logging services (Logs, Metrics, events, alarms, dashboard)

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CloudWatch Logs

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Performance data about AWS services (CPU utilization, memory, network); Application Logs; Lambda Logs

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CloudWatch Metrics

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Represents a time-ordered set of data points

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CloudWatch Events

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Trigger an event based on a condition

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CloudWatch Alarm

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Triggers notification based on metrics

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CloudWatch Dashboard

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Create visualizations based on metrics

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Compliance Programs

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A set of internal policies and procedures of a company to comply with laws, rules, and regulations or to uphold business reputation.

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AWS Artifact

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On-demand access to AWS’ security and compliance reports and select online agreements.

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Amazon Inspector

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Checks to see if EC2 instance is hardened (Security risks have been eliminated). Runs a security benchmark against specific EC2 instances.

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AWS WAF

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Web Application Firewall - Protect your web applications from common web exploits. Write your own rules to ALLOW or DENY traffic based on the contents of an HTTP or use a ruleset from a trusted AWS Security Partner. WAF can be attached to either CloudFront or an Application Load Balancer.

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AWS Shield

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A managed DDOS (distributed denial of service) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.

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DDOS

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a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic by flooding a website with a large amount of fake traffic.

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Shield Standard

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Protection against most common DDOS attacks (Free and automatically available)

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Shield Advanced

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Additional protection against larger and more sophisticated attacks, visibility into attacks, and 24x7 access to DDoS experts. ($3,000/year)

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Penetration Testing

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An authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, performed to calculate the security of the system.
May NOT be performed for flooding, DDoS, or DNS zone walking.

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Amazon Guard Duty

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A threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious, suspicious activity and unauthorized behavior. It analyzes CloudTrail Logs, VPC Flow Logs, DNS logs

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IDS/IPS

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Intrusion Detection System and Intrusion Protection System. A device or software application that monitors a network or systems for malicious activity or policy violations

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KMS

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Key Management Service- makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data. KMS uses Envelope Encryption.

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Envelope ecryption

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When you encrypt your data, your data is protected, but you have to encrypt your data key with a master key as an additional layer of security.

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Amazon Macie

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Managed service that continuously monitors S3 data access activity for anomalies, and generates detailed alerts when it detects risk of unauthorized access or inadvertent data leaks.

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MediaConvert

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Converts videos to streaming formats, overlays images, inserts video clips, extracts captions data, robust UI

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Elastic Transcoder

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Converts videos to streaming formats

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On-Demand Instances

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Least commitmnet, only pay per hour, short-term, spiky, unpredictable workloads, ideal when your workloads cannot be interrupted

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Reserved Instances

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Best long-term value; steady state or predicatable usage; payment terms 1yr-3yr; Payment Options: All Upfront, Partial Uprfront, No Uprfront

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Standard RI

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Up to 75% Reduced pricing compared to on-demand. Cannot change RI attributes

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Convertible RI

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Up to 54% reduced pricing compared to on-deman. Allows you yo change RI Attributes if greater or equal in value.

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Scheduled RI

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You reserve instances for specific time periods (one a week for a few hours).

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Spot Instances

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90% discount compared to on-deamnd pricing; designed for applications that have flexible start and end times or need very low compute cost. they can be terminated at any time.

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Basic Support Plan

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Billing and Account - Email Support for Billing and Account ($0 month)

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Developer Support Plan

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Tech Support Via email - 24hrs until reply, General Guidance, System impaired. ($20 month)

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Business Support Plan

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Tech Support Via email - 24hrs until reply; Tech Support via Chat, Phone 24/7. General Guidance, System Impared, Production System impared, Production system down. All trusted advisor check. ($100 month)

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Enterprise Support Plan

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Tech Support Via email - 24hrs until reply; Tech Support via Chat, Phone 24/7. General Guidance, System Impared, Production System impared, Production system down. All trusted advisor check. Business-Critical System Down, Personal Concierge, TAM ($15,000 month)

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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Advises you on security, saving money, performance, service limits and fault tolerance

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Edge Location

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datacenter owned by a trusted partner of AWS

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SaaS

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Software as a Service; A completed product that is run and managed by the service provider

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PaaS

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Platform as a Service; Focus on the deployment and management of your applications

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IaaS

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Infrastructure as a Service: The basic building blocks for Cloud IT. Provides access to networking features, computers, and data storage space. EC2 Instances

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Benefits of Cloud Computing (6)

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  1. Trade capital expense for variable expense
  2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
  3. Stop guessing capacity
  4. Increased speed and agility
  5. Stop spending money on running and maintaining data centers
  6. Go global in minutes
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Shared Controls

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Patch Management, Configuration Management, Awareness & Training

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Cloudfront

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Global content delivery network

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AWS Management Console

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Allows you to access and manage Amazon Web Services through a simple and intuitive web-based user interface.

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AWS SDK

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(Software Development Kit) allows you to interact with AWS services using your preferred programming language.

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Access Keys

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Access keys consist of an access key ID and secret access key, which are used to sign programmatic requests to AWS using the CLI or the SDK.

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AWS API

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API refers to the AWS application programming interface.

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Dedicated Hosts

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supports the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model for almost every BYOL scenario?

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AWS Config

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A change management tool that helps AWS customers audit and monitor all resource and configuration changes in their AWS environment

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Application Load Balancer

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Application Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic.

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One minute instance billing

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Per-second billing is available for instances launched in:

  • On-Demand, Reserved and Spot forms
  • All regions and Availability Zones
  • Amazon Linux and Ubuntu
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APN Consulting Partners

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are professional services firms that help customers design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads and applications on AWS.

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