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AWS Cloud Practitioner Flashcards

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AWS Shield

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detect potential DDoS attacks and automatically mitigate them
AWS shield standard
-free
AWS Shield Advanced
-paid service
-provides detailed attack diagnostics
-integrates with CloudFront, Route 53, ELB

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AWS WAF

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-web application firewall,
-monitor requests that come into web applications
-uses web access control list (ACL) to protect AWS resources - you can configure ACL to restrict requests from select IP addresses)
-works with CloudFront and Application Load Balancer

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AWS Redshift

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AWS Support

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A resource that can answer questions about best practices and assist with troubleshooting issues

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Technical Account Manager (TAM)

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A resource that provides guidance, architectural reviews, and ongoing communication with companies as they plan, deploy, and optimize their applications

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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An online tool that inspects an AWS environment and provides real-time guidance in accordance with AWS best practices

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Amazon Textract

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A machine learning service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents.

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Amazon Lex

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service that builds conversational interfaces using voice and text

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Amazon Aurora

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enterprise-class relational database

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AWS Cost Explorer

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create custom reports to analyze their AWS cost and usage data.

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What types of databases are RDS and Aurora

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structured query language (SQL) to store and query data

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Amazon DocumentDB

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Amazon DocumentDB is a document database service that supports MongoDB workloads

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AWS Budgets

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set custom alerts that will notify individuals when a service usage exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) the amount that has been budgeted

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AWS Pricing Calculator

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estimate for the cost of a business’ use cases on AWS

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AWS Artifact

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service that provides access to AWS security and compliance reports and special online agreements

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CloudTrail

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view a complete history of user activity and API calls for their applications and resources. Events are typically updated in CloudTrail within 15 minutes after an API call was made

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Amazon CloudWatch

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service for monitoring applications, optimizing resource utilization, and responding to system-wide performance changes

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Amazon Inspector

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service that checks applications for security vulnerabilities and deviations from security best practices

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6 Core Perspectives of AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

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  1. Business
  2. People
  3. Governance
  4. Platform
  5. Security
  6. Operations
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: Operations

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principles for operating in the cloud by using agile best practices.

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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: Business

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business model that integrates IT strategy.

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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: People

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The People Perspective helps Human Resources (HR) employees prepare their teams for cloud adoption by updating organizational processes and staff skills to include cloud-based competencies.

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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: Governance

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The Governance Perspective provides the capability to update the staff skills and organizational processes that are necessary to ensure business governance in the cloud.

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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: Platform

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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: Security

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security group

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virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic for an Amazon EC2 instance

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subnet

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section of a VPC in which a person can group resources based on security or operational needs

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network access control list (ACL)

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-virtual firewall that controls inbound and outbound traffic at the subnet level
-used by WAF

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internet gateway

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connection between a VPC and the internet. It allows public traffic from the internet to access a VPC.

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6 Pillars of The Well-Architected Framework

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  1. performance efficiency
  2. Operational excellence
  3. security
  4. reliability
  5. cost optimization
  6. sustainability
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The Well-Architected Framework: performance efficiency

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focuses on using computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements, and to maintain that efficiency as demand changes and technologies evolve.

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The Well-Architected Framework: operational excellence

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includes the ability to run workloads effectively, gain insights into their operations, and continuously improve supporting processes to deliver business value

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The Well-Architected Framework: security

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focuses on protecting data, systems, and assets. It also focuses on using cloud technologies to improve the security of your workloads

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The Well-Architected Framework: reliability

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focuses on the ability of a workload to consistently and correctly perform its intended functions

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The Well-Architected Framework: cost optimization

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Ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value at lowest price
Adopting consumption model, analyzing and attributing expenditure, using managed services to reduce cost of ownership

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The Well-Architected Framework: Sustainability

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Understand impact, establish sustainability goals, maximize utilization, anticipate and adopt new more efficient hardware and software, use managed service, reduce downstream impact of cloud workloads

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Amazon ElastiCache

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provides the capability to create, manage, and scale a distributed in-memory or cache environment in the cloud. adds caching layers on top of databases to help improve the read times of common requests

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AWS Organizations

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centrally control permissions for accounts by using service control policies (SCPs).
consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations to combine usage and receive a single bill for multiple AWS accounts.

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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service that manages access to AWS services and resources.

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AWS Artifact

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service that provides the capability to access AWS security and compliance reports and special online agreements

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AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

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service that creates, manages, and uses cryptographic keys.

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Amazon Route 53

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DNS web service. It gives developers and businesses a reliable way to route end users to internet applications that are hosted in AWS. Additionally, businesses can transfer DNS records for existing domain names that are currently managed by other domain registrars, or register new domain names directly within Amazon Route 53.

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AWS Quick Starts

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Automate the deployment of workloads into an AWS environment

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

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provides object-level storage. Amazon S3 stores data as objects within buckets.

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AWS Lambda

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service that runs code without provisioning or managing servers.

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Amazon SageMaker

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service that provides the capability to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning models

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Amazon Aurora

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enterprise-class relational database

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Amazon Redshift

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data warehousing service for big data analytics

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AWS Direct Connect

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The private connection that AWS Direct Connect provides helps reduce network costs and increase the amount of bandwidth that can travel through a network.

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Amazon CloudFront

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Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery service. It uses a network of edge locations to cache content and deliver content to customers all over the world.

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A virtual private gateway

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establishes a virtual private network (VPN) connection between a VPC and a private network, such as an on-premises data center or internal corporate network. A virtual private gateway allows traffic into the VPC only if it is coming from an approved network.

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An internet gateway

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a connection between a VPC and the internet. It allows public traffic from the internet to access a VPC.

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6 Strategies for Migration

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  1. Rehosting
  2. Replatforming
  3. Refactoring/re-architecting
  4. Repurchasing
  5. Retaining
  6. Retiring
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6 Strategies for Migration: rehosting

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involves moving an application to the cloud with little to no modifications to the application itself. It is also known as “lift and shift.”

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6 Strategies for Migration: replatforming

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involves selectively optimizing aspects of an application to achieve benefits in the cloud without changing the core architecture of the application. It is also known as “lift, tinker, and shift.”

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6 Strategies for Migration: Refactoring/re-architecting

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involves changing how an application is architected and developed, typically by using cloud-native features

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6 Strategies for Migration: repurchasing

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involves replacing an existing application with a cloud-based version, such as software found in AWS Marketplace.

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6 Strategies for Migration: retaining

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6 Strategies for Migration: retiring

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6 Benefits of Cloud Computing

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  1. Trade upfront expense for variable expense
    Pay only when you consume computing resources
  2. Benefit from massive economies of scale
    Usage from hundreds of thousands of customers —> higher economies of scale (AWS buys hardware at lower price because of huge quantities)—> lower prices
  3. Stop guessing capacity
    Scale infrastructure capacity in and out to meet demand
  4. Increase speed and agility
    Easier to develop and deploy apps
    Provides dev team with more time to experiment and innovate
  5. Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers
  6. Focus less on managing infrastructure, more on applications and customers
    Go global in minutes
    Quickly deploy applications to customers around the world, while providing them with low latency
    See AWS CloudFormation
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