Vocabulary

Question 1

S3

Answer 1

Simple Storage Service, object based storage that uses buckets

Question 2

EC2

Answer 2

The virtual machine compute service of AWS

Question 3

Lambda

Answer 3

The “classic” serverless compute platform of AWS

Question 4

EBS

Answer 4

Elastic Block Store, this is the block storage that you can use with EC2 resources

Question 5

EFS

Answer 5

Elastic File System, this is the NFS-based file storage service of AWS

Question 6

FSx

Answer 6

The extensible storage platform in AWS; currently offers Windows (SMB) and Lustre file systems

Question 7

Glacier

Answer 7

A storage class of S3; it is designed for archiving data

Question 8

RDS

Answer 8

Relational Database service; supporting Oracle, SQL Server, and more

Question 9

Redshift

Answer 9

The Database warehouse service of AWS

Question 10

ECS

Answer 10

Elastic Container Service, the Amazon native container platform of AWS

Question 11

Aurora

Answer 11

The Amazon RDBMS that is part of RDS

Question 12

DynamoDB

Answer 12

A high performance NoSQL database invented by Amazon

Question 13

ElastiCache

Answer 13

Data caching service that supports the common redis and memcached engines

Question 14

Roles

Answer 14

An IAM component that you can use to permit one resource to access other resources and services

Question 15

Trusted Advisor

Answer 15

Built in advisor for improving aspects of your AWS solution