AWS 10k Foot Overview Flashcards
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What is CloudFront?
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Amazon’s global content delivery network.
2
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A virtual network dedicated to your AWS account.
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VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
3
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A fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud.
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Redshift
4
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Lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certs for use with AWS services.
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Certificate Manager
5
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GuardDuty
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A managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior.
6
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RDS (Relational Database Service)
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A web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
7
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A fully managed ETL service that makes it easy to move data between your data stores.
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Glue
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A managed threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behavior.
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GuardDuty
9
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QuickSight
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Service that allow you to rapidly create beautiful visuals based on interactive analysis of your data.
10
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Amazon MQ
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A managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ.
11
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A hardware security module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys.
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CloudHSM
12
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A compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.
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Lambda
13
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Cognito
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Controls user authentication and access for mobile applications on internet-connected devices.
14
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Provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment.
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CloudFormation
15
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A fast and flexible NoSQL database service.
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DynamoDB
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Allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of ITservices that are approved for use on AWS.
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Service Catalog
17
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CloudFront
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Amazon’s content delivery network (CDN).
18
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Enables your AWS resources to use a managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.
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Directory Service
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SQS (Simple Queue Service)
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A distributed message queuing service.
20
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Certificate Manager
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Lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certs for use with AWS services.
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Protects web apps in the AWS public cloud from DDOS attacks.
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Shield
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A scalable cloud-based search service.
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CloudSearch
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EFS (Elastic File System)
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Simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances.
24
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A dedicated network connection to the AWS cloud.
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Direct Connect
25
Macie
A security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS.
26
Kinesis Video Streams
Captures, processes, and stores video streams for analytics and machine learning.
27
Enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.
CloudTrail
28
Config
Enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
29
Direct Connect
A dedicated network connection to the AWS cloud.
30
Run SQL queries on your S3 buckets.
Athena
31
One or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity, housed in separate facilities is an example of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
An availability zone.
32
Shield
Protects web apps in the AWS public cloud from DDOS attacks.
33
Allows you to automate operational actions to help make your teams more efficient.
Systems Manager
34
Batch
Allows batch computing workloads in the AWS cloud.
35
Elastic Beanstalk
An easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with popular languages on popular web servers.
36
Snowball
Accelerates transferring large amounts of data into and out of AWS using physical storage appliances, bypassing the Internet.
37
A monitoring service for AWS cloud resources
CloudWatch
38
Directory Service
Enables your AWS resources to use a managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.
39
DynamoDB
A fast and flexible NoSQL database service.
40
A fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
API Gateway
41
An automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.
Inspector
42
A web service that coordinates and manages the delivery or sending of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients.
SNS (Simple Notification Service)
43
What is a region?
A physical location in the world which consists of two or more availability zones.
44
Lambda
A compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.
45
Accelerates transferring large amounts of data into and out of AWS using physical storage appliances, bypassing the Internet.
Snowball
46
Simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances.
EFS (Elastic File System)
47
A web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory data store or cache in the cloud.
ElastiCache
48
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
A virtual network dedicated to your AWS account.
49
Redshift
A fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud.
50
SWF (Simple Workflow Service)
A cloud workflow management application that gives developers tools to coordinate applications across multiple machines.
51
Provides ongoing management of your AWS infrastructure inline with best practices.
Managed Services
52
Systems Manager
Allows you to automate operational actions to help make your teams more efficient.
53
Allows batch computing workloads in the AWS cloud.
Batch
54
What is an edge location?
Endpoints for AWS which are used for caching content (via CloudFront).
55
Athena
Run SQL queries on your S3 buckets.
56
Trusted Advisor
Provides real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.
57
A scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS).
Route 53
58
ElastiCache
A web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory data store or cache in the cloud.
59
A security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS.
Macie
60
Data Pipeline
Automates the movement and transformation of data.
61
Service for big data processing and analytics.
EMR (Elastic Map Reduce)
62
Gives you control over which traffic to allow or block to your web applications by defining customizable web security rules.
WAF (Web Application Firewall)
63
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
Virtual machines in the AWS cloud.
64
ElasticSearch Service
AWS's hosted Elasticsearch service.
65
AWS's hosted Elasticsearch service.
ElasticSearch Service
66
Automates the movement and transformation of data.
Data Pipeline
67
EMR (Elastic Map Reduce)
Service for big data processing and analytics.
68
Enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users.
IAM (Identity and Access Management)
69
Provides real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.
Trusted Advisor
70
CloudHSM
A hardware security module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys.
71
What are the endpoints AWS uses to cache content around the world called?
Edge locations.
72
IAM (Identity and Access Management)
Enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users.
73
Provides on-demand downloads of AWS security and compliance documents.
Artifact
74
A managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ.
Amazon MQ
75
Glue
A fully managed ETL service that makes it easy to move data between your data stores.
76
Managed Services
Provides ongoing management of your AWS infrastructure inline with best practices.
77
Step Functions
Enables you to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows.
78
A distributed message queuing service.
SQS (Simple Queue Service)
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Captures, processes, and stores video streams for analytics and machine learning.
Kinesis Video Streams
80
CloudWatch
A monitoring service for AWS cloud resources
81
Lightsail
Designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS
82
Service that makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time.
Kinesis
83
OpsWorks
Manages infrastructure deployment for cloud administrators.
84
Inspector
An automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.
85
A cloud workflow management application that gives developers tools to coordinate applications across multiple machines.
SWF (Simple Workflow Service)
86
Enables you to coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows.
Step Functions
87
Route 53
A scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS).
88
Manages infrastructure deployment for cloud administrators.
OpsWorks
89
A secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup.
Glacier
90
An easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with popular languages on popular web servers.
Elastic Beanstalk
91
What is an availability zone?
One or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity, housed in separate facilities.
92
Service that allow you to rapidly create beautiful visuals based on interactive analysis of your data.
QuickSight
93
Controls user authentication and access for mobile applications on internet-connected devices.
Cognito
94
Kinesis
Service that makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time.
95
Artifact
Provides on-demand downloads of AWS security and compliance documents.
96
A container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS.
Elastic Container Service
97
Glacier
A secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup.
98
Provides highly-scalable object storage.
S3 (Simple Storage Service)
99
A physical location in the world which consists of two or more availability zones is called a \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.
Region.
100
CloudFormation
Provides a common language for you to describe and provision all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment.
101
Enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources.
Config
102
A web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
RDS (Relational Database Service)
103
SNS (Simple Notification Service)
A web service that coordinates and manages the delivery or sending of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients.
104
S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Provides highly-scalable object storage.
105
Elastic Container Service
A container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS.
106
API Gateway
A fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
107
Service Catalog
Allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of ITservices that are approved for use on AWS.
108
CloudSearch
A scalable cloud-based search service.
109
CloudTrail
Enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.
110
Virtual machines in the AWS cloud.
EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
111
Designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS
Lightsail
112
WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Gives you control over which traffic to allow or block to your web applications by defining customizable web security rules.
113
Amazon's content delivery network (CDN).
CloudFront
