AWS Services Flashcards
Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
A managed cluster platform for running big data frameworks, like Apache Spark and Hadoop.
AWS Cloud9
An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that is cloud-based.
Amazon API Gateway
A service for building, running, and securing HTTP, REST, and WebSocket APIs at all scales.
Amazon Athena
A service for running serverless SQL queries on S3 data for analysis
Amazon Aurora
Amazon’s fully managed, relational database operating at the enterprise level and is quicker than MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Amazon CloudFront
A content delivery network (CDN) that caches copies of data at locations around the world. These locations are near customers (edge locations) for high speed and low latency.
Amazon CloudWatch
A dashboard that lets you monitor your AWS infrastructure and resource metrics in real time
Amazon Cognito
A service that helps create user access control for Web applications and is scalable
Amazon Comprehend
A service for analyzing document content and providing insights using Natural Language Processing (NLP).
Amazon Connect
A service that provides a cloud contact center that is omnichannel and integrates with enterprise applications, like Salesforce.
Amazon Detective
A security investigation service for automatic security analysis of terabytes of data about IP traffic and AWS operations.
Amazon DynamoDB
A non-relational serverless database that is purpose built and fully managed. It has a very fast millisecond response time and is highly scalable.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
A service that provides computing capability using virtual servers.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
A service that provides persistent block storage across changing physical hosts. You use EBS with EC2 instances
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
A service that allows you to use Docker containers and
also utilize API calls for launching and stopping the containers
