AWS Whitepaper Flashcards
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What are the cloud computing models?
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Model?
Customers are responsible for security in the cloud. - Data Configuration
AWS is responsible for security of the cloud. Hardware, Operation of Managed Services, Global Infrastructure.
What is SaaS?
End-user applications
Completed product that is run and managed by the service provider. Don’t worry about how the service is maintained
What is PaaS?
Removes the need for your organization to manage the underlying infrastructure usually hardware and operating systems.
Focus on deployment and management of your application. Don’t worry about provisioning, configuring or understanding the hardware or OS.
What is IaaS?
Contains the basic building blocks for cloud IT and typically provides access to networking features, computers (virtual or on dedicated hardware), and data storage space.
Similar to existing IT resources that many IT departments and developers are familiar with today.
How many countries and teritories does AWS have?
245
How many availability zones does AWS have?
81
How many regions does AWS have?
25
How many direct connect locations does AWS have?
108
How many local zones and wavelength zones does AWS have?
11 - local zones
17 - wavelength zones
How many points of presence does AWS have? How many of those are for edge locations and regional edge cache?
275
265 + for Edge Locations
13 + Regional Edge Cache
What are the Benefits of AWS Security?
- Keep Your Data Safe
- Meet Compliance Requirements
- Save Money
- Scale Quickly
A simple and intuitive user interface to manage the AWS services
AWS Management Console
With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts
AWS Command Line Interface
Simplify using AWS services in your applications with an Application Program Interface (API) tailored to your programming language or platform
Software Development Kits (SDKs)
An interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
Amazon Athena
What is Amazon Athena integrated with?
Athena is out-of-the-box integrated with AWS Glue Data Catalog,
A managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application
Amazon CloudSearch
How many languages does AWS CloudSearch support?
34 languages
What is Amazon Elasticsearch Service?
Deploy, secure, operate, and scale Elasticsearch to search, analyze, and visualize data in real-time.
USE CASE: log analytics, full-text search, application monitoring, and clickstream analytics, with enterprise-grade availability, scalability, and security.
Industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto.
Amazon EMR
Run petabyte-scale analysis at less than half of the cost of traditional on-premises solutions and over 3x faster than standard Apache Spark.
Amazon EMR
A data management and analytics service purpose-built for the financial services industry (FSI)
Amazon FinSpace
What is AWS Kinesis?
Makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information