AWS Services Flashcards by Daniel Segovia

Object file storage option, durable storage, lower overall CPU resources, URL per object, Cost = storage class and GB. HTTP code for successful upload is 200.

Simple Storage Service (S3)

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Fast, easy, secure data transfer over long distances

S3 Transfer Acceleration

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Not frequently accessed, data archive, most cost efficient, import data = API, console, S3 lifecycle policies. Expedited is 1-5 minutes, Standard is 3-5 hours, and Bulk is 5-12 hours.

Glacier

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Virtual hard disk in the cloud. Snapshots are stored on Amazon S3.

Elastic Block Store (EBS)

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Move tens of TB of data into the cloud

SnowBall

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Golden Image or Gold Load

Amazon Machine Images (AMI)

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Like S3 but for on-prem and AWS instances. Allows you to connect multiple EC2 instances concurrently using file-level protocols.

Elastic File System (EFS)

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Data Warehouse, ideally suited to analytics using SQL queries

Redshift

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Fully managed NoSQL. Scale at the push of a button without incurring any downtime.

DynamoDB

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Data redundancy across regions: read replicas, automated patches & backups, resize capacity, see the list of supported DBs in the AWS FAQ. No need to manage operating systems. Supports automated backups as a default configuration.

Relational Database Service (RDS)

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Migrate existing databases from your datacenter

Database Migration Service (DMS)

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A large number of data sets processed using Hadoop framework

EMR

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Fully managed MySQL

Aurora

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Decouple resources, store messages across distributed systems

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

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Send and receive notifications, can be used for building and integrating loosely-coupled, distributed applications.

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

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Send and receive emails

Simple Email Service (SES)

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Edge location, content delivery network CDN, DDOS protection

CloudFront

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Security testing performed by the customer on permit from AWS

Penetration Testing

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Host resources, virtual network dedicated to your account

Virtual Pricate Cloud (VPC)

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Infrastructure as Code

CloudFormation

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Deploy and manage apps

Elastic Beanstalk

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Cache web app data

ElastiCache

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Learn the overview from AWS FAQ

Support Plans

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Connect on-premise to AWS

AWS VPN

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Image and video analysis

Rekognition

Turns text into speech

Polly

Collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time

Kinesis

Connects on-premises software appliance with cloud storage

Storage Gateway

Provides authentication, authorization, and user mgmt for your web & mobile apps

Cognito

Config and operate apps using Puppet or Chef

OpsWorks

cloud-based contact center

Connect

Runs batch jobs efficiently

AWS Batch

media transcoding

Elastic Transcoder

Coordinate components of distributed applications as a series of steps in a visual workflow.

AWS Step Functions

Designed to be used for operational analytics.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Load data from Amazon S3, transform it, and move it to another destination.

AWS Glue

Create sophisticated, interactive graph applications

Amazon Neptune

Pay per use, virtual servers, how to secure: security groups, network access lists Cost factors (Instance type, AMI, Region)

Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

Flexible, spontaneously terminated, noncritical apps

Spot Instance

You pay for compute capacity by the second with no long-term commitments. You have full control over its lifecycle—you decide when to launch, stop, hibernate, start, reboot, or terminate it. short-term, irregular workloads that cannot be interrupted. dev and test environments

On Demand Instance

At least a year, continuous high usage +90-100% Models No upfront, partial upfront, full upfront. A billing discount applied to the use of On-Demand Instances in your account

Reserved Instances

Distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances, multi AZ not multi region

Elastic Load Balancer

Demand-based in and out scaling

Auto Scaling

Compute service running containerized applications

ECS

Publish serverless app to developers or customers

Serverless Application Repository

An easy way to create virtual private servers for developers

Lightsail

Acts as a hub that controls how traffic is routed among all the connected networks for VPCs and on-premise data centers.

AWS Transit Gateway

DDOS protection

AWS Shield

Cost optimization, security, infrastructure recommendations

Trusted Advisor

Security compliance, inspect EC2 against common threats

Inspector

Unauthorized access, service to activate IAM, extra layer of protection

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Metrics collection tracking, CPU utilization

CloudWatch

Governance, compliance and risk audits access to resources. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events

CloudTrail

Domain name service (DNS), register a domain. Healthcheck to web & app servers

Route 53

Self-service audit artifact retrieval portal that provides customers with on-demand access to AWS’ compliance documentation and AWS agreements

AWS Artifact

Helps customers centrally govern their environments as they grow and scale their workloads on AWS

AWS Organizations

Certificate Manager

Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM)

Encryption key management

CloudHSM

Threat intelligence based on VPC flow logs, cloudTrail event logs, and DNS logs

GuardDuty

Provides the ability to detect inadvertent data leaks of PII and user credential data.

Amazon Macie

Provides resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notificiations to enable security and regulatory compliance.

AWS Config

auto build, test, and deploy apps

Code Pipeline

analyses apps identifying issues & opportunities for optimization

X-Ray

Complete tasks across distributed application components

Simple Workflow Service (SWF)

specialized graph-based directory store that provides a foundational building block for developers

Cloud Directory

Hosts Git repositories, used for software version control.

CodeCommit

Serverless code service

Lambda

Enables developers and data scientists to quickly and easily build, train, and deploy machine learning models at any scale.

SageMaker

Service used to run Docker containers

Fargate

Review & forecast spending, manage costs

Cost Explorer

Number of servers migrated, from on-premise to AWS

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Estimate monthly bill

Simple Monthly Calculator

Web-based interface to manager AWS resources

AWS Management Console

Open source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in your command-line shell

AWS CLI

AWS Services Flashcards

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