AWS pt 4 Flashcards
1
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AWS STS (Security Token Service)
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Temporary, limited privileges to access AWS resources
2
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AWS Cognito
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- Identity for your web and mobile application users
- Instead of an IAM user: create a user in cognito
3
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AWS IAM Identity center (v)
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- One login for all
- Identity provider: Built-in IAM or 3rd parties
- You can manage your business applications as well
3
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AWS Directory Services
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Active Directory or MS active Directory
4
Q
Amazon Workspaces
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- Managed desktop as a service
- VDI or WAM
- Multiple regions: as many workspace regions as center locations to minimize latency
5
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AppStream 2.0
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- Web Browser (Any computer without needing infrastructure)
6
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IoT Core
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- Connect IoT devices to the cloud
7
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App Sync
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- Offline data sync
- Built-in security
8
Q
AWS Amplify
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Develop and deploy scalable full stack web and mobile apps
9
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AWS App Composer
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VIsually design and build serverless apps on AWS with CloudFormation
10
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AWS Device Farm
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- Concurrently tests your web and mobile apps against desktop browsers, mobile devices etc
- Configure Device Settings (GPS, WiFi, Language, Bluetooth)
11
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AWS Backup
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- Auto-backup for AWS
- Cost-effective way to conduct it
12
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Disaster Recovery
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- Backup and restore: Cheap
- Pilot light: Core functions of the app are
- Warm Standby: Full version is in the cloud at a minimized scale
- Multi-site/hot-site: Full size
13
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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (v)
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- Recover physical and virtual servers into AWS
- Cts block replication for your servers
14
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AWS DataSync
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- Replication tests are incremental after first load
- Move large data on premises to AWS
- Tasks can be scheduled
15
Q
Cloud Migration Service (7 Rs)
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Retire, Retain, Relocate, Rehost, Replatform, Repurchase, Refactor/Re-architect
16
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Retain
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- Do nothing for now
- Unresolved dependencies
- No business value to migrate, mid-range
16
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Relocate
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- Move apps on premises to the cloud
- Move EC2 instances to a different VPC, AWS accounts or regions
16
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Retire
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- Turn off things you don’t need
- Reduce Attacks
- Save costs
17
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Rehost
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- Simple Migration services by re-hosting on AWS
- Migrate machines to the AWS cloud
- No cloud optimization, apps are just migrated as is
- -30% on cost
- Lift and shift
18
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Replatform
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- Not changing the core architecture but leverage some cloud optimization
- Save time and money by moving to a fully managed service or serverless
- Lift and reshape
19
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Refactor/Re-architect
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- Use cloud native features: Re-imagine how apps are architected
- Driven by need of the business to add features, increased scalability, performance, security and agility
- Move from monolithic apps: Micro-services
20
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Repurchase
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- Move to a different product (SaaS Platform)
- Expensive in the short term but quickly to deploy
- Drop and Stop
21
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AWS App Discovery Service
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- Plan migration projects: Gather information about on-premise data centers
- Server utilization data and dependencies are important
- Agentless Discovery
- Agent-based Discovery (AWS Application Discovery Agent): How your system is connected
- Resulting data can be viewed in AWS migration Hub
22
AWS App Migration Service
- Lift and shift solution: Simplify migrating Apps on AWS automatically
- Converts physical and virtual: Run natively on AWS
- Minimal down-time and reduces costs
23
AWS Migration Evaluator
- Helps you build a data-driven business case for migration to AWS
- Provides a clear baseline of what your organization is running today
- Install agentless collector to conduct broad-based discovery
- Take snapshot of on-premises footprint, server-dependencies
- Analyze current state then develop migration plan
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AWS Migration Evaluator
- Helps you build a data-driven business case for migration to AWS
- Provides a clear baseline of what your organization is running today
- Install Agentless collector to conduct broad-based discovery
- Take a snapshot of on-premises footprint, server-dependencies
- Analyze current state then develop migration plan
25
AWS Migration Hub
- Central location to collect server and applications inventory data
- Automates lift and shift
- AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator
- Pre-built templates to save time and effort migrating apps
- Supported updates from Application Migration Service, and Database Migration Service
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AWS Fault Injection Simulator
- A fully managed service for running FIS and AWS workloads
- Based on chaos engineering: Stressing applications on purpose
- Helps you uncover bugs and perform bottlenecks
- Use pre-built templates and generate desired disrupters
