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AWS Resource Groups

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Allows you to organize resource groups such as EC instances, RDS, S3, etc. using tags

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Local Zone

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Extension of AWS region that can run latency sensitive apps

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Snowmobile

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Transfer petabytes to cloud (up to 100 PB)

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NLP service

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Comprehend

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Textract

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Extract printed text, handwriting, data from docs

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AWS Global Accelerator

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Improves available performance of application with local and global users

Networking service that sends your user’s traffic through Amazon Web Service’s global network infrastructure, improving your internet user performance by up to 60%.

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AWS Server Migration Service

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Automate, schedule, and track procedure

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AWS Outposts

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Supports hybrid (cloud and on-prem)

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AWS AppStream 2.0

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Fully managed application streaming service. You centrally manage your
Desktop applications on AppStream 2.0 and securely deliver them to any computer

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AWS Cloud Front

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Fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a developer-friendly environment.

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AWS Artifact

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Go-to, central resource for compliance-related information that matters to you. It provides on-demand access to AWS’ security and compliance reports and select online agreements

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Store rapidly changing data with low read and write latencies

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RDS and EBS (As 2 options) - S3 would not work

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Host a new Microsoft SQL Server database in AWS for an urgent project

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EC2 and RDS (Relational Database Service)

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Amazon Aurora

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Amazon Aurora is primarily used as a MySQL or PostgreSQL-compatible relational database.

Launch highly scalable MySQL Database

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AWS Budgets

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AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.

You can also use AWS Budgets to set reservation utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when your utilization drops below the threshold you define.

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Cost and Usage Report

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The Cost and Usage Report is your one-stop-shop for accessing the most granular data about your AWS costs and usage.

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Trusted Advisor

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Online tool that provides you real-time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices

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AWS Inspector

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Automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS

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Benefits of Consolidate Billing

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Volume pricing

Share the volume pricing and Reserved Instance discounts by combining the usage across all accounts in the organization

You get one bill for multiple accounts

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S3

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highly durable object storage infrastructure

storage service with virtually unlimited space

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Route 53

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Domain Name service

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6 advantages of cloud computing

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1) Increase speed and agility
2) Go global in seconds
3) Trade capital expense for variable expense
4) Stop guessing capacity
5) Benefit of massive econ of scale
6) Stop spending money running and maintaining data centers

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Access AWS through CLI

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Need access keys

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CloudFormation

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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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CloudWatch
Metric repository
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CloudTrail
Audit service that records all API calls made to your AWS account
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Load Balancers
1) Application LB: load balancing of HTTP and HTTPS traffic and provides advanced request routing targeted at the delivery of modern application architectures 2) . Network LB: load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) traffic where extreme performance is required 3) . Classic LB: This provides basic load balancing across multiple Amazon EC2 instances and operates at both the request level and connection level. For classic EC2.
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Benefit of using managed services
Simplifies all of your OS patching and backup activities to help keep your resources current and secure
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Dedicated Hosts
Can help you address compliance requirements and reduce costs by allowing you to use your existing server-bound software licenses.
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Developer Support Plan
limited access to 7 trusted advisor checks No access to AWS Support API
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Lowest-cost storage option for retaining database backups
S3 Glacier
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Trusted Advisor 5 checks
1) Cost optimization 2) Fault tolerance 3) Performance 4) Security 5) service Limits
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Regional Services
Batch (run across AZs in region) EFS (file storage - stores data across AZs in region)
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Elastic Beanstalk
easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services
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AWS Lambda
Serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers
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Snowball Edge
Moving terabytes to petabytes of data into and out of AWS using appliances Well suited for local storage and large scale data transfer
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AWS Support Center
Give you the ability to request service limit increase
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VPC
Lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.
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Network ACL
Network Access Control List Optional layer of security for your VPC that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of one or more subnets.
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IAM Policy Simulator
Evaluates the policies that you choose and determines the effective permissions for each of the actions that you specify.
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Amazon GuardDuty
Threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts and workloads
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AWS Shield
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service
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AWS X-Ray
Helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture
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Multipart upload API
allows you to upload a single object as a set of parts For larger data sets (e.g., image)
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AWS Rekognition
Automatically extracts metadata from your image and video files, capturing objects, faces, text and more Computer Vision platform
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Elastic IP address
Not required when launching an EC2 instance
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Well Architected Framework
1. Operational Excellence 2. Security 3. Reliability 4. Performance Efficiency 5. Cost Optimization
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Reserved Instance
Most substantial discount
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Internet Gateway
Horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available VPC component that allows communication between instances in your VPC and the internet.
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AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.
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Spot Instance
Spare resources Adjusts price based on supply and demand
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AWSCommit
Git for AWS
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EC2 Auto Scaling
Scale up and demand based on demand
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On-demand instances
best instance type to use when you need instances for short periods of time and for uninterruptible workloads
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Dedicated instance
type of Amazon EC2 instance that runs in a VPC on hardware that’s dedicated to a single customer
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AmazonMacie
ML-powered security service that discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property
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Amazon GuardDuty
threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts and workloads
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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
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Convertible Instances
Allows you to change of instance family, operating system, tenancy, and payment option
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Serverless Services
AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and AWS Fargate, Amazon API Gateway
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Amazon Cognito Identity Pool
provide temporary AWS credentials for users who are guests (unauthenticated) and for users who have been authenticated and received a token
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Network Access Control List (ACL)
used to secure your VPC subnets
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Kinesis
Streaming service
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DynamoDB
key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Can store JSON docs

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