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week 5 lecture Flashcards

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what is AWS

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AWS is a secure cloud platform that offers a broad set of global cloud-based products.

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what does aws provide on-demand access to?

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-Compute resources
-Storage resources
-Network resources
-Database resources
-other IT resources
-and management tools

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what is an aws region?

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Geographic Location with Cluster of Data Centres

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what is an aws availability zone?

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Discrete Data Centre with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region

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what are 3 aws infrastructure features?

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Elasticity and scalability
Fault-tolerance
High availability

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what does Elasticity and scalability entail?

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-Elastic infrastructure; dynamic adaption of capacity
-Scalable infrastructure; adapts to accommodate growth

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what does fault tolerance entail?

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-Continues operating properly in the presence of a failure
-Built-in redundancy of components

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what does high availability entail?

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-High level of operational performance
-Minimized downtime
-No human intervention

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what are some aws storage services?

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-Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
-Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
-Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
-Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier

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what is amazon s3?

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Use it to store and protect any amount of data for websites, mobile apps, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and big data analytics.

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what is amazon EBS?

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is high-performance block storage that is designed for use with Amazon EC2 for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads. It is used for a broad range of workloads, such as relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows.

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what is amazon EFS?

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a scalable, fully managed elastic Network File System (NFS) file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files. It reduces the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.

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what is
Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier

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Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 11 9s of durability, and to provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities to meet stringent regulatory requirements.

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what are AWS compute services?

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-Amazon EC2
-Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
-Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
-Amazon EC2 Container Registry
-AWS Elastic Beanstalk
-AWS Lambda
-Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
-AWS Fargate

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what is amazon EC2?

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides resizable compute capacity as virtual machines in the cloud.

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what is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling ?

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Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enables you to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions that you define.

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what is Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) ?

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers.

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what is Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) ?

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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

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what is AWS Elastic Beanstalk ?

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a service for deploying and scaling web applications and services on familiar servers such as Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).

20
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what is AWS Lambda ?

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AWS Lambda enables you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time that you consume. There is no charge when your code is not running.

21
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what is
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications that use Kubernetes on AWS.

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what is AWS Fargate

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AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows you to run containers without having to manage servers or clusters.

23
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what are AWS database services?

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-Amazon Relational Database Service
-Amazon Aurora
-Amazon Redshift
-Amazon DynamoDB

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what is Amazon RDS?

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.

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what is amazon aurora?

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Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database. It is up to five times faster than standard MySQLdatabases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases.

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what is amazon Redshift?

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Amazon Redshift enables you to run analytic queries against petabytes of data that is stored locally in Amazon Redshift, and directly against exabytes of data that are stored in Amazon S3. It delivers fast performance at any scale.

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what is amazon DynamoDB

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Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching.

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what are AWS networking and content delivery services

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-Amazon VPC
-Elastic Load Balancing
-Amazon CloudFront
-AWS Transit
Gateway
-Amazon Route 53
-AWS Direct Connect
-AWS VPN

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what is
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to provision logically isolated sections of the AWS Cloud.

30
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what is Elastic Load Balancing

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Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions.

31
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what is Amazon CloudFront

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Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs) to customers globally, with low latency and high transfer speeds.

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what is AWS Transit Gateway

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AWS Transit Gateway is a service that enables customers to connect their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and their on-premises networks to a single gateway.

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what is Amazon Route 53?

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Amazon Route 53 is a scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service designed to give you a reliable way to route end users to internet applications. It translates names (like www.example.com) into the numeric IP addresses (like 192.0.2.1) that computers use to connect to each other.

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what is AWS Direct Connect?

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AWS Direct Connect provides a way to establish a dedicated private network connection from your data center or office to AWS, which can reduce network costs and increase bandwidth throughput.

35
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what is AWS VPN?

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AWS VPN provides a secure private tunnel from your network or device to the AWS global network.

36
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what is AWS Security?

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Security and Compliance are a shared responsibility between AWS and Customer

37
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what is a VPC peering connection?

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A VPC peering connection isa networking connection between two VPCs that enables you to route traffic between them using private IPv4 addresses or IPv6 addresses. Instances in either VPC can communicate with each other as if they are within the same network.

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what is a network access control list?

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A network access control list (ACL)allows or denies specific inbound or outbound traffic at the subnet level.

39
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what is a container?

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Containers are a method of operating system virtualization.

40
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what are the benefits of containers?

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-Repeatable.
-Self-contained environments.
-Software runs the same in different environments.
-Developer’s laptop,
test, production.
-Faster to launch and stop or terminate than virtual machines

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what is AWS Lambda?

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-Serverless, event driven service
-Run code for any type of Application without provisioning or managing servers

42
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What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

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An easy way to get web applications up and running

43
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what is a distributed file system?

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-A network allows you to share resources
-Sharing resources is more cost effective than installing resources on each computer

44
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what is a network file system?

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Network File System (NFS)
-A distributed file system protocol for allowing remote access to shared resources across networks
-Used in Unix and Unix-Like OS’s (Linux)
-You can mount shared file systems on remote machines

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