AWS Services Flashcards

AWS Service Descriptions

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VPC

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets you launch AWS resources in a private, isolated cloud.

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Direct Connect

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AWS Direct Connect lets you establish a dedicated network connection from your network to AWS.

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Route 53

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Amazon Route 53 is a scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS) and Domain Name Registration service.

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EC2

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

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Elastic Beanstalk

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an application container for deploying and managing applications.

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Lambda

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AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you.

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EC2 Container Service

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Amazon ECS allows you to easily run and manage Docker containers across a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.

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Mobile Hub

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AWS Mobile Hub lets you quickly build, test, and monitor usage of your mobile apps.

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Device Farm

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AWS Device Farm helps you improve the quality of your Android, Fire OS, and iOS apps by testing them against real phones and tablets in the AWS Cloud.

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SNS

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) lets you publish messages to subscribers or other applications.

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Cognito

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Amazon Cognito is a simple user identity and data synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for your users across their mobile devices.

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Mobile Analytics

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Amazon Mobile Analytics is a service that lets you easily collect, visualize, and understand app usage data at scale.

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IAM

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) lets you securely control access to AWS services and resources.

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Inspector

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

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Certificate Manager

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AWS Certificate Manager lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services.

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Directory Service

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AWS Directory Service provides managed direct?ories in the cloud.

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WAF

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AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) protects web applic?ations from attack by providing web traffic filtering against common web exploits like SQL injection.

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GameLift

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Deploy and scale session based multiplayer games in the cloud in minutes, with no upfront costs.

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S3

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data.

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Elastic File System

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is a file storage service for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

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Import/Export Snowball

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AWS Import/Export Snowball accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using secure appliances for transport.

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CloudFront

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Amazon CloudFront provides a way to distribute content to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds.

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Glacier

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Amazon Glacier is a low cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup.

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Storage Gateway

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AWS Storage Gateway securely integrates on premises IT enviro?nments with cloud storage for backup and disaster recovery.

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CloudWatch

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Amazon CloudWatch provides monitoring for resources and applications.

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Config

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AWS Config gives you inventory of your AWS resources, lets you audit resource configuration history, and notifies you when resource configurations change.

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Service Catalog

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AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to manage approved catalogs of IT resources and make them available to employees via a personalized portal.

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CloudFormation

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AWS CloudFormation lets you create and update a collection of related AWS resources in a predictable fashion.

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OpsWorks

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AWS OpsWorks is a DevOps platform for managing applications of any scale or complexity on the AWS cloud.

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Trusted Advisor

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AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and finds opportunities to save money, improve system performance and reliability, or help close security gaps.

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CloudTrail

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AWS CloudTrail provides increased visibility into user activity by recording API calls made on your account.

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API Gateway

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Amazon API Gateway makes it easy to create, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.

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SQS

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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) offers a reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages.

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Elastic Transcoder

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Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert your media files in the cloud easily, at low cost, and at scale.

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AppStream

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Amazon AppStream lets you stream resource intensive applications and games from the cloud to multiple end user devices.

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SES

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Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) enables you to send and receive email.

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SWF

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Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) coordinates all of the processing steps within an application.

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CloudSearch

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AWS CloudSearch is a fully managed search service for websites and apps.

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RDS

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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale familiar relational databases in the cloud.

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ElastiCache

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Amazon ElastiCache improves application performance by allowing you to retrieve information from an in memory caching system.

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DMS

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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) helps you migrate databases to the cloud easily and securely while minimizing downtime.

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DynamoDB

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Amazon DynamoDB is a scalable NoSQL data store that manages distributed replicas of your data for high availability.

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Redshift

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Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabytescale data warehouse that makes it costeffective to analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools.

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CodeCommit

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AWS CodeCommit is a highly scalable, managed source control service that hosts private Git repositories.

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CodeDeploy

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AWS CodeDeploy lets you fully automate code deployments.

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CodePipeline

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AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service that enables you to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software.

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AWS IoT

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AWS IoT is a managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices.

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EMR

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Amazon Elastic MapReduce lets you perform big data tasks such as web indexing, data mining, and log file analysis.

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Elasticsearch Service

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Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch, a popular opensource search and analytics engine.

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Machine Learning

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Amazon Machine Learning is a service that enables you to easily build smart applications.

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Data Pipeline

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AWS Data Pipeline is a lightweight orches?tration service for periodic, data driven workflows.

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Kinesis

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Amazon Kinesis services make it easy to work with realtime streaming data in the AWS cloud

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WorkSpaces

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Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud.

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WorkDocs

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Amazon WorkDocs is a fully managed, secure enterprise storage and sharing service with strong administrative controls and feedback capabilities that improve user productivity.

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WorkMail

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Amazon WorkMail is a managed email and calend?aring service that offers strong security controls and support for existing desktop and mobile clients.