Service Definitions

Question 1

EC2

Answer 1

Allows you to rent and manage virtual servers in the cloud

Question 2

Lambda

Answer 2

Run code without managing servers

Question 3

Fargate

Answer 3

Serverless compute engine for containers

Question 4

Lightsail

Answer 4

Quickly launch all the resources you need for small projects

Question 5

Outposts

Answer 5

Run cloud services in your internal data center

Question 6

Batch

Answer 6

Process large workloads in smaller chunks

Question 7

Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 7

Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and
services across a specific list of technologies.
Manages web infrastructure

Question 8

S3

Answer 8

Simple Storage Service
Highly available object storage service

Question 9

EBS

Answer 9

Elastic Block Store
Persistent volume that can be attached/removed from your EC2 instance

Question 10

EFS

Answer 10

Elastic File Store
Serverless NFS network file system for Linux only

Question 11

Storage Gateway

Answer 11

Hybrid storage service
Use for backup and restore

Question 12

Backup

Answer 12

Manage data backups across multiple data services

Question 13

CloudFront

Answer 13

CDN that enables your users to get content from a
server that is closest to them. Global.

Question 14

Global Accelerator

Answer 14

Routes traffic through the AWS global network when accessing content, speeding up delivery

Question 15

S3 Transfer Acceleration

Answer 15

Improves content uploads and downloads from S3 buckts

Question 16

Elastic Load Balancing

Answer 16

Service that enables you to distribute traffic across
multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, Lambda).

Question 17

Route 53

Answer 17

DNS Service that routes users to apps. Global and can be hybrid

Question 18

VPC

Answer 18

Virtual Private Cloud
Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you
can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you
define

Question 19

Direct Connect

Answer 19

Dedicated physical network connection from your on-prem data center to AWS. Not over the public network.

Question 20

VPN

Answer 20

Virtual Private Network
Site-to-site VPN creates a secure connection between your internal networks and your AWS VPC’s.

Question 21

API Gateway

Answer 21

Build and manage APIs.

Question 22

RDS

Answer 22

Relational Database Service
Launch and manage relational databases.

Question 23

Aurora

Answer 23

Relational database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL

Question 24

DynamoDB

Answer 24

Fully managed NoSQL database service that has
extremely low latency and scaling based on
configuration.
Key-value and document db

Question 25

DocumentDB

Answer 25

Supports MongoDB

Question 26

ElastiCache

Answer 26

In-memory datastore compatible with Redis or Memcached

Question 27

Neptune

Answer 27

Graph database that supports highly connected databases (like social networking)

Question 28

DMS

Answer 28

Database Migration Service
Migrate (many commercial) databases to or within AWS

Question 29

SMS

Answer 29

Server Migration Service
Migrate on-prem to AWS; they become an EC2 image

Question 30

Snow Family

Answer 30

Transfer large amounts of on-prem data to AWS using a physical device

Question 31

DataSync

Answer 31

Online data transfer from on-prem to AWS-storage services like S3 or EFS