AWS Key Terms Flashcards

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What is AWS IoT?

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A managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices

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What is AWS Certificate Manager?

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Let’s you easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security

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What is Cloud Formation?

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Let’s you create and update a collection of related AWS resources in a predictable fashion

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What is CloudFront?

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Provides increased visibility into user activity by recording API calls made on your account

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What is CloudSearch?

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A fully managed search service for websites and apps

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What is Data Pipeline?

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A lightweight orchestration service for periodic, data-driven workflows

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What is DMS?

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Database Migration Service helps you mitigate databases to the cloud easily and securely while minimizing downtime

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What is DynamoDB?

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A scalable, NoSQL data store that manages distributed replicas of your data for high availability

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What is EC2?

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Elastic Compute Cloud provides resizable capacity in the cloud

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What is Elastic Container Service?

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Allows you to easily run and manage Docker containers across a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances

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What is Elastic Beanstalk?

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An application container for deploying and managing applications

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What is Elasticache?

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Improves application performance by allowing you to retrieve information from an in memory caching system

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What is Elastic File System?

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A file storage device for Elastic Compute Cloud

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What is Elasticsearch Service?

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A managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch, a popular open-source search and analytics engine

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What is Elastic Transcoder?

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Lets you convert your media files in the cloud easily, at low cost and at scale

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What is EMR?

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Lets you perform big data tasks such as web indexing, data indexing, data mining, and log file analysis

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What is Glacier?

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A low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving

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What is IAM?

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Identity Access and Management lets you securely control access to AWS services and resources

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What is Inspector?

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Enables you to analyze the behavior of applications you run in AWS and helps you identify potential security issues.

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What is AWS Lambda?

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A compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you

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What is AWS Machine Learning?

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A service that enables you to easily build smart applications

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What is OpsWorks?

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A DevOps platform for managing applications of any scale or complexity in the AWS cloud

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What is RDS?

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Relational Database Service makes it easy to set up, operate and scale familiar relational databases in the cloud

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What is RedShift?

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A fast, fully managed, petabyte scale data warehouse that makes it cost effective to analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools

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What is Route 53?
A scalable, and highly available Domain Name System and Domain Registration service
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What is SES?
Simple Email Service enables you to send and receive e-mail
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What is SNS?
Simple Notification Service lets you publish messages to subscribers or other applications
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What is Storage Gateway?
Securely integrates on premises environments with cloud storage for backup and disaster recovery
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What is SQS?
Simple Queue Service offers reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages
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What is SWF?
Simple Workflow coordinates all of the processing steps within an application
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What is S3?
Simple Storage Service can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data
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What is VPC?
Virtual Private Cloud lets you launch resources in a private, isolated cloud