AWS Services Flashcards
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What is AWS Lambda?
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Serverless service that allows you to run code without provision/manage a service. Only pay for compute time you use.
Best for quick workloads.
Integrates directly with event notification & invokes code automatically
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What is EC2?
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Web service that provides a secure, scalable computing environment in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud
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What is Elastic Load Balancing?
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Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple resources.
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What is Amazon SNS?
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Amazon Simple Notification Service:
Publish/suscribe service. Using topics publisher publishes messages to suscribers.
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What is Amazon SQS?
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Amazon Simple Queue Service:
Service that enables you to send, store, & receive messages between software components through a queue.
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What is Amazon ECS?
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Amazon Elastic Container Service:
Highly scalable & high performance management system that enables you to run & scale containerized applications on AWS.
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What is Amazon EKS?
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service:
Fully managed service that allows you to run Kubernetes on AWS.
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What is Amazon Fargate?
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Serverless compute engine for containers that works with ECS & EKS.
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What is AWS Outposts?
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Service that lets you run AWS infrastructure, services, & tools in your own on-premises data center using hybrid approach.
HINT: Think of a mini-region within your on-premises data center.
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What is Amazon CloudFront?
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Content delivery service that uses network of Edge Locations to cache (store as a local copy) & deliver content to customers globally.
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What is Amazon Route53?
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Highly available & scalable cloud DNS service.
Enables to customize routing policies to reduce latency.
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What is the AWS Management Console?
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Web-based interface for accessing & managing AWS services.
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What is the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)?
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Allows you to control many AWS services directly from command line with one tool.
You can automate your application/service’s actions through scripts.
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What are Software Development Kits (SDKs)
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Set of platform-specific building tools like debuggers, compilers, and libraries for you to build your applications.
Take SDK take complexity out of coding by prociding language-specific APIs for AWS services.
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What is Elastic Beanstalk?
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Deploys resources necessary to peform:
- Adjusting capacity
- Load Balancing
- Automatic Scaling
- Application Health Monitoring
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What is AWS CloudFormation?
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Infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to model, provision, & manage AWS & 3rd Party resources using a template.
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What is Amazon VPC?
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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud:
Enables you to provision isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch resources in virtual network you define.
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What is AWS Direct Connect?
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Allows you to establish dedicated private connection b/w data center and VPC.
- Helps reduce network costs & increase bandwidth amount that can travel through your network.
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What is Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)?
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Managed service that lets you to run relational databases in AWS Cloud.
- Automates tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, & backups.
- Many RDS engines offer encryption at rest & encryption in transit.
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What is the AWS Personal Health Dashboard?
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Provides alerts & remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that can affect you.
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What is AWS Transcribe?
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Converts audio to text.
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What is Amazon Comprehend?
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Helps you discover patterns in text.
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What is Amazon Fraud Detector?
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Identities fraudulent activities.
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What is Amazon Lex?
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Builds voice & text chatbots.
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What is Amazon SageMaker?
Build, train, & deploy Machine Learning models quickly.
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What is AmazonDeep Racer?
1/18 scale race that you can use to test reinforcement learning models.
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What is Amazon Augmented AI?
Machine Learning service which makes it easy to build workflows needed for human review.
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What is Amazon ElastiCache?
Adds caching layers on top of database to improve read times of common requests.
Supports Redis & Memcached.
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What is AWS Marketplace?
Digital catalog that includes software listings from independent software vendors where you can find, test, & buy software that runs on AWS.
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What is AWS Trusted Advisor?
Online tool that inspects AWS environment & provides real-time guidance in accordance w/ AWS best practices.
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What is AWS Quick Starts?
Automate workload deployments into AWS environment
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What is AWS Artifact?
Access AWS security & compliance reports & special online agreements
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What is Amazon Athena?
Serverless interactive query service to analyze data in S3 using standard SQL. Only pay for queries that you run.
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What is Amazon CloudSearch?
AWS Cloud Service search solution for website or application.
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What is Amazon DataZone?
Data Management Service used to publish data & make it available to business data catalog through personalized web application.
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What is Amazon EMR?
Big data platform for processing big data using open source tools such as Apache tools which makes it easy for you set up, operate, & scale big data environments by automating time-consuming tasks.
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What is Amazon FinSpace?
Data Management & Analytics service purpose for Financial Services Industry (FSI) which reduces time for finding & preparing petabytes of financial data for analysis to minutes.
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What is Data Firehose?
Fully managed service that automatically scales to match data throughput & doesn't need ongoing administration which makes it easy to load streaming data into data stores & analytics tools.
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What is Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink?
Fully managed service lets you use an Apache Flink application to process streaming data.
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What is AWS Client VPN?
Managed client-based VPN service that lets you access AWS & on-premises network resources where you can access them using an OpenVPN based VPN Client.
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What is Amazon Connect?
Omnichannel cloud contact center that provides customer support.
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What is Amazon Site-to-Site VPN?
Creates encrypted network path b/w on-premises network & AWS Cloud via your internet (connection not private & not consistent).
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What is Amazon Polly?
ML service that converts text to audio.
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What is Amazon Translate?
ML translation service.
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What is Amazon Textract?
ML service that extracts text from scanned documents.
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What is Amazon CloudWatch?
Monitors AWS resources & applications that you run in real time.
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What is AWS Config?
Assess, audit, & evaluate configurations of AWS resources.
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What is AWS IAM?
Manage access to AWS services & resources securely.
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What is Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?
Caching service used to reduce response times from DynamoDB table.
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What is AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)?
Migrate data from on-premises databases to database in AWS.
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What is Migration HUB?
Service that helps plan & track application migrations.
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What is AWS Application Migration Service?
Automated life-&-shift solution that migrates physical services & databases to EC2 instances.
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What is Application Discovery Service?
Collects info a/b usage & configuration of on-premises services to help plan migration to AWS.
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What is AWS Cloud Map?
Creates & maintains map of backend services.
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What is AWS Systems Manager OptsCenter?
Central location of IT Professionals to view, investigate, & resolve operational work items.
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What is AWS Global Accelerator?
Networking service that improves performance of users' network traffic & uses AWS global network infrastructure.
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What is AWS Global Infrastructure?
Global network of data centers & resources that provides cloud computing services.
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What is AWS Code Pipeline?
Manages code movement b/w individual services.
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What is Amazon Macie?
Automated Security Assessment service that helps improve security & compliance of AWS deployed applications.
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What is AWS Secrets Manager?
Helps you protects secrets needed to access applications, services, & IT resources.
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What is AWS Code Artifact
Managed artifact repo service that shares software ready for deployment.
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What is AWS CodeBuild?
Helps users to automatically compile source code, run unit tests, & produce software packages ready for deployment.
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What is AWS CodeCommit?
Source code version control service.
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What is AWS Transit Gateway?
Central Hub to connect Virtual Private Clouds (VPC's) & on-premises networks.
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What is AWS VPC?
Provisioning logically isolated section of AWS Cloud to launch AWS resources in virtual network.
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What is AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)?
Web service for securely controlling access to AWS services using policy of least privilege (granted only the permissions necessary to perform their required tasks).
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What is AWS Online Tech Talks?
Live, online presentations that cover range of topics at varying technical levels.
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What is AWS Classroom Training?
In-person/virtual courses led by accredited AWS instructors which offer hands-on labs, exercises, & best practices to help customers.
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What is AWS Blog?
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What is AWS Forums?
AWS resources that enable customers to interact w/ other AWS users & get feedback & support.
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What is AWS Storage Gateway?
Gives your on-premises & in-cloud access to unlimited cloud storage where you can deploy as VM, Hyper-v, or Linux KVM virtual environment, or EC2 instance w/in Amazon VPC.
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What is Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)?
Provides block-level storage volumes for Amazon EC2 instances.
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What is AWS Server Migration Service?
Enables users to migrate on-premises servers to AWS.
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What is Amazon Elastic Transcoder?
Converts media files from original source format into different formats that will play on various devices.
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What is Network Load Balancer?
Elastic Load Balancing that operates at OSI Model Layer 4 & routes requests to targets based on destination IP address & port & doesn't support path-based routing.
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What is Application Load Balancer?
Elastic Load Balancing that operates at OSI Model Layer 7 & routes requests to targets based on request content.
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What is AWS OpsWorks Load Balancer?
Feature of AWS OpsWorks that enables users to attach Elastic Load Balancing load balancer to layer of stack.
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What is Custom Load Balancer?
User-defined load balancer that runs on Amazon EC2 instance.
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What is AWS Ground Station?
Enables customers to communicate w/ satellites & download data from orbit.
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What is AWS Device Farm?
Enables customers to test mobile & web applications on real devices in AWS Cloud
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What is Amazon QuickSight?
Fully managed, scalable, & server-less business intelligence service that allows users to create & share interactive dashboards & charts.
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What is Amazon Personalize?
Managed machine learning service that customers can use to generate personalized recommendations for users.
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What is AWS Compute Optimizer?
Analyzes AWS resources' configuration & utilizes metrics to provide you w/ recommendations.
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What is AWS Directory Service?
Provide meny ways to use Microsoft Active Directory (AD) w/ other AWS services.
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What is Amazon Forecast?
Time-series forecasting service that uses same machine learning technology used at Amazon.com.
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What is AWS Managed Keys?
KMS keys in your account that are created, managed, & used on your behalf by AWS service integrated with AWS KMS.
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What are AWS Owned Keys?
Collection of KMS keys that AWS service owns & manages for use in multiple AWS accounts.
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What are CMKs (Customer Managed Keys)?
Customer managed keys KMS keys in AWS account that you create, own, and manage
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What are AWS KMS Key?
An AWS KMS key is logical representation of cryptographic key.
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What is AWS X-Ray?
Analyze & debug serverless & distributed applications such as those built using microservices architecture.
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What is Amazon Pinpoint?
Allows marketers & developers to deliver customer-centric engagement experiences by capturing customer usage data to draw real-time insights.
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What is the AWS Abuse team?
Assists you when AWS resources are used to engage in abusive behavior.
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What is AWS Glue?
Fully managed to extract, transform, & load (ETL) service that makes it easy for cutomers to prepare & load their data for analytics.
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What is AWS Professional Services?
Global team of experts that help achieve your desired business outcomes when using AWS Cloud.
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What is the AWS Partner Network (APN)?
Global partner program for tech & consulting business that use AWS to build solutions for customers.
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What is AWS Systems Manager?
Gives visibility & control of infrastructure on AWS.
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What is AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?
Create & manage cryptographic keys & control their use across AWS services & in your applications.
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What is Amazon Keyspaces?
Database service compatible w/ Apache Cassandra.
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What is Amazon Timestream?
Serverless database service that stores & analyzes time-stamped data.
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What is VPC Endpoint?
Virtual Network Component w/in AWS that allows resources inside VPC to privately connect to supported AWS Services w/out using public internet.
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What is AWS Cost & Usage Report (AWS CUR)?
Contains comprehensive set of AWS cost & usage data available.
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What is Compute Optimizer?
Helps customers find right AWS resources to meet application performance needs.
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What is AWS Cost Anomaly Detection?
Help reduce cost surprises with machine learning.
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What are AWS Cost & Usage reports (AWS CUR)?
Track AWS usage & provide estimated charges for account.
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What is AWS Cloud9?
Cloud-based IDE that lets you write, run, & debug code in browser.
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What is Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)?
Store, manage, & deploy Docker container images.
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What are AWS Local Zones?
AWS Infrastructure deployment that place compute, storage, database, database, & other services closer to large population industry & IT centers.
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What is AWS Wavelength?
AWS infrastructure designed for low latencies to mobile devices and endusers
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What is AWS Fargate?
Serverless compute engine for containers that works w/ both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) & Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (EKS).
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What is Amazon MQ?
Managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ & Rabbit MQ that makes it easy to set up & operate message brokers on AWS.
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What is AWS Systems Manager Session Manager?
Fully-managed service that provides interactive browser-based shell & CLI experience.
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What is Amazon FSx?
Fully managed file system service that allows users to launch, run, & scale file systems in cloud.
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What is Amazon Kendra?
ML powered search service that helps users find information across organization's content.
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What is AWS Compliance?
Has customers understand AWS controls to maintain security & data protection in AWS Cloud.
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What is AWS Cognito?
Helps developers add authentication, authorization, & user management to their web & mobile apps.
It's for mainly 3rd party & social media networks.
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What is AWS Identity Pool?
Directory that stores user identifiers & generates temporary AWS credentials for users of app.
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What is Amazon Kinesis?
Collect & process large streams of data records in real time.
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What is Amazon Glue?
Serverless data integration service to discover, prepare, move, & integrate data.
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What is Amazon OpenSearch?
Ingest, secure, search, aggregate, view, & analyze data for use cases s/a log analytics, application search, enterprise search, & more.
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What is Amazon EventBridge?
Serverless service that uses events to connect application components together making it easier to build scalable event-driven applications.
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What is AWS PrivateLink?
Networking service that allows secure connectivity b/w AWS virtual private clouds (VPC's), AWS Services, & on-premises networks.
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What is AWS Foundation?
Provides guided path to help customers deploy, configure, & secure workloads while ensuring they are ready for on-going operations in cloud.
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What is AWS Migration Evaluator?
Data-driven assessments & business cases for AWS cloud planning & migration.
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What is Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration (S3TA)?
Enables fast, easy, & secure transfer of files over long distances b/w client & Amazon S3 bucket. Leverages CloudFront's globally distributed AWS Edge Locations.
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What is AWS OpsWork
Configuration management service that proves managed instances of Chef & Puppet.
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What is a VPC Peering Connection?
Networking connection b/w two VPC's that enables you to route traffic b/w them privately & can communicate with each other in the same network.
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What is U2F (Universal 2nd Factor) security key?
Device you can plug into USB port on your computer.
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What are AWS Step Functions?
Workflow service that helps build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, & create data & ML pipelines.
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What is AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS)?
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What is the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)?
Open source software development framework to model & provision your cloud application resources using familiar languages.
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What is AWS DataSync?
Service that helps move & replicate data b/w AWS storage services & other systems.
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What is Amazon Inspector?
Automatically scans AWS resources for software vulnerabilities & unintended network exposure.
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What is S3 Lifecycle Configuration?
Set of rules that define actions that Amazon S3 applies to group of objects:
- Transaction Actions: move objects to another storage class
- Expiration Actions: Delete objects after a specified retention period.
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What is AWS CloudHSM?
Cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that allows users to generate & use their own encryption keys on AWS & provides secure storage for cryptographic keys & processes cryptographic operations.
Helps users:
- Meet data security compliance requirements
- Deploy workloads w/ high reliability & low latency
- Manage HSM capacity & control costs.
- Pay by hour
- Demonstrate compliance w/ security & privacy regulations.
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What is AWS IAM Identity Center?
Used to manage sign-in security & access across multiple AWS accounts.
Built on top of AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM) to simplify access management to multiple AWS accounts, AWS applications, & other SAML-enabled cloud applications.
Mainly for AWS Users.
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What is AWS Batch?
Run batch computing workloads on AWS Cloud.
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What is Amazon Timestream?
Database service that stores & analyzes time-series data.
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What is Amazon Neptune?
Fully managed graph database service that helps users build & run applications that work w/ large, connected datasets.
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What is Amazon IoT Core?
Managed cloud platform from AWS that allows connected devices to securely interact w/ other devices & cloud applications.
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What is AWS Control Tower?
Tool that helps users set up & manage secure, multi-account AWS management by creating a landing zone quickly.
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What is AWS Well-Architected Tool?
Service in cloud that provides consistent process for measuring your architecture using AWS best practices.
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What is AWS CodeArtifact?
Managed service that helps organizations store, publish, & share software packages for application development.
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What is AWS CodeStar?
Cloud-based service that helps users develop, build, & deploy applications on AWS.
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What is Amazon Workspaces?
Cloud-based virtual desktop service that allows users to access applications & data from web & variety of devices.
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What is Amazon Forecast?
Cloud-based service that uses machine learning to generate forecasts.
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What is CloudEndure Disaster Recovery?
Automated IT Resilience solution that lets you recover your environment from unexpected infrastructure or application outages, data corruption, ransomware, or other malicious attacks.
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What is Amazon EC2 Image Builder?
Simplifies building, testing, & deployment of VM & container images for use on AWS or on-premises.
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What are AWS Provisioned IOPS?
Volumes backed by SSDs that are highest performance volumes designed for critical, IOPS-intensive, & throughput-intensive workloads that require low latency.
