Cloud Practioner Flashcards
(175 cards)
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What does Amazon EC2 stand for?
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Describe EC2 instance
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A virtual server that you can use to run applications in Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Allows users to run applications on the cloud
Provides scalable computing capacity
Simplifies managing storage and deploying virtual servers
Reduces the need for investing in hardware
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What is a hypervisor?
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is responsible for sharing the resources on an EC2 instance. Also known as a virtual machine monitor or VMM, is software that creates and runs virtual machines (VMs). A hypervisor allows one host computer to support multiple guest VMs by virtually sharing its resources, such as memory and processing
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What is vertical scaling?
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makes an instance shorter or longer
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Describe General Purpose (EC2 Instance Type)
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Provides a balance of compute, memory, and networking resoures.
Examples: gaming servers, small databases, personal projects, etc.
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Describe Compute Optimized (EC2 Instance Type)
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Ideal for compute-bound applications that benefit from high performance processors. Similar to general purpose. Examples: web servers, gaming servers
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Describe Memory Optimized (EC2 Instance Type)
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Designed to deliver fast performance for workloads that process LARGE datasets in memory. (Memory = temporary storage)
Example: pre-loading data before running an application
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Describe Storage Optimized (EC2 Instance Type)
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For workloads that require high, sequential read and write access to LARGE datasets on local storage.
Example: distributed file systems, data warehousing applications, and high-frequency online transaction processing (OLTP)
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Describe Accelerated Computing (EC2 Instance Type)
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Use additional hardware accelerators or co-processors to perform functions more efficiently than a CPU can
Examples: Floating-point numeric computations, graphics processing, and data pattern matching
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Amazon EC2 Auto-Scaling
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Helps you maintain application availability and lets you automatically add or remove EC2 instances using scaling policies that you define.
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What are the 2 scaling policies for Amazon EC2 Auto-Scaling
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Dynamic Scaling - responds to changing demand
Predictive Scaling - auto schedules the right # of EC2 instances based on predicted demand.
Can set min, max, desired capacity
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What is load balancing?
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Have load balancers which are processors that take in requests and route them to EC2 instances to be processed.
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Describe Elastic Load Balancing
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Amazon service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple resources (like an EC2 instance).
Acts as a single point of contact for all incoming web traffice to applicaltions
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What is a payload?
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the data that is transmitted over a network or communication system
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What is a topic in relation to messaging?
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A chanel for messages to be delivered
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Differences between monolithic application and mircroservices approach
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Monolithic Application: type of architecture w/ tighlty coupled components (so if a single component fails=others will fail if not all)
Mircroservices Approach: application components are loosely coupled
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Describe Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
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Using Amazon SNS topics, a publisher publishes messages to subscribers.
Subscribers can be web servers, email addreses, AWS Lamda functions
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Describe Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
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A messaging queue service where you can send, store, and receive messages between software components.
processing website user registration requests, handling image uploads to a cloud storage service, sending notifications when a new order is placed on an online store essentially, any scenario where one system needs to send a task to another system to process without needing an immediate response,
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What is serverless?
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Run code on servers, but YOU don’t have to provision or manage the servers. Can’t see or access the underlying infrastructure
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AWS Lambda
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a service that lets developers run code without managing servers.
Lambda runs code in response to events.
It automatically manages the computing resources needed for that code.
It performs server and operating system maintenance, capacity provisioning, and more.
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AWS Lambda process
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Upload code to Lambda function -> configure a trigger -> service waits for trigger -> when triggered, code runs in a managed environment
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What is a container?
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package for your code. Runs on top of EC2 instance and in isolation.
a software package that contains an application’s code and dependencies
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Describe Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
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Container management tool that is highly scalable that enables you to run and scale containerized applications on AWS.
makes it easier for teams to focus on building the applications, not the environment
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What is Docker?
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open sourced software platfrom that enable developers to build, test, and deploy code in containers.
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What are kubernetes?
Open sourced software that enables you to deploy and manage applications at scale
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
fully managed service used to run kubernetes
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Docker vs kubernetes
Docker: is a container runtime that packages applications into containers
Kubernetes is an orchestration tool that manages those containers
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Describe AWS Fargate
a technology that you can use with Amazon ECS to run/power containers without having to manage servers or clusters of Amazon EC2 instances. With AWS Fargate, you no longer have to provision, configure, or scale clusters of virtual machines to run containers.
Can use with EKS and ECS
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What is a region?
An isolated geographical area that contains multiple data centers.
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Factors into picking a region?
1. Compliance requirements of a company
2. Proximity: where are the majority of your customers
3. Feature availability: some regions don't have all the AWS features
4. Pricing: some locations are more expensive than others
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What is latency?
the time it takes for data to be sent and recieved
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What is an Availabilty Zone?
area of one or more data data centers.
Should run across 2+ AZ in a region
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What is caching copy?
When customers are outside of region, you place a copy local to customers.
Uses concept of Content Delivery Networks
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What is Content Delivery Networks?
a geographically distributed network of servers that stores copies of website content (like images, videos, and HTML pages) closer to users
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What is Amazon CloudFront?
a content delivery network (CDN) that helps websites deliver content to users faster.
Service that helps deliver data, video, applications, APIs to customers w/ low latency and high transfer speeds and content delivery
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What is an edge location?
a data center that stores and delivers content to users close to their geographical location. Edge locations are used by content delivery networks (CDNs) to improve performance and speed.
Run CloudFront and Amazon Route 53
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What are AWS Outposts?
Full operational mini region inside your own data center with AWS.
For customers who have problems that can only be solved in their building
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What is AWS Management Console?
a web application that lets you manage AWS services and resources.
Allows a visual way to easily digest AWS resources
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What is AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
an open-source tool that lets you manage and monitor Amazon Web Services (AWS) using commands in your terminal
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What is Software Development Kits (SDK)
allow you to interact with AWS resrouces through various programming languages
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What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
You give Beanstalk your code and config settings -> it deploys the resources necesaary to perform the following tasks
1. adjust capacity 2. load balancing 3. automatic scaling 4. application health monitoring
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What are cloud formation templates?
a text file that describes how to configure and deploy AWS resources
JSON or YAML text based documents
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What is AWS CloudFormation?
Can build an environment by writing lines of code instead of using AWS Management Console to individually provision resources. Build through cloud formation templates.
Manual tool so NOT great for automation
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What are subnets?
public and private grouping of resources or chunks of IP addresses in your VPC
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Public Facing Resources vs Private Resources
Public facing: allow traffic from public internet into VPC through Internet Gateway
Private facing: only all people in from an approved network through Virutal Private Gateway
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What is Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)?
Your own private network in AWS. Can launch AWS resources in a virtual netowrk (public or private) that you define
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AWS DirectConnect
AWS Direct Connect is a service that establishes a dedicated private connection between an on-premises data center and VPC.
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What is a packet?
messages from the internet.
Every packet that crosses the subnet boundareis gets checked against a network access control list (ACL)
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Stateless vs Stateful
Stateless: remebers nothing
Stateful: has memory of what comes in and out
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What do security groups do?
checks traffic into an EC2 instance and traffic can leave by default without a check
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What is Amazon Route 53?
a Domain Name System (DNS) service that translates domain names into IP addresses
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What is block level storage?
place to store files (seires of bytes in blocks)
Behaves like a hardrive and efficient for DB, enterprise software, file systems
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What are instance store volumes?
local storage provided by EC2 instance.
Temporaty storage; lost when EC2 instance is stopped
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Describe Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
-in 1 Availability zone
-attached to a single EC2 instance for additional storage
-you define size, type, configuration needed for EBS volume
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What are EBS volumes?
virtual hardrives that attach to EC2 instances
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What are snapshots?
Incremental backups of data or EBS volume
After first initial backup, it will then backup data deltas
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Describe Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) (data storage, how it stores data)
allows you to store and retrieve an unlimited amount of data
stores data as objects in buckets (instead of file directory)
can contain papertrail of objects by versioning them
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Describe object storage
each object consists of data, metadata and a KEY
can set permissions to control visibility and access to it
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S3 Storage Class: Describe S3 Storage
-store data in < 3 availability zones
-designed for frequently accessed data
-99.9x11% durability(remain intact for 1 year)
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Describe Amazon S3 static website hosting
static website = collection of HTML files and each file is a kin to the acutal site
Process= upload HTML static web assests to a bucket > checking box to host as static website
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S3 Storage Class: Describe Amazon S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (IA)
-storage data in < 3 availabity zones
-used for less frequent data access but requires quick access
-perfect to store backups and recovery or long term storage
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S3 Storage Class: Describe Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
-1min to 12hours
-perfect for long term storage, but does NOT need quick retrieval (i.e. audit trail)
-store data in it or put into a vault
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What is S3 Glacier Vault?
Lock policy to imploy with Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval to lock vault for storing long term data for compliance
Can edit control of WORM (write one/read only) to lock from future edits
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What is Amazon S3 Lifeccyle Policy/Management?
process for moving data automatically between tiers (example: move data to S3 standard for 90 days then move to S3 Standard IA)
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S3 Storage Class: Describe S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access(IA)
-1 Availability zone
-cheaper option; need to be able to easily reproduce data if availabilty zone fails
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S3 Storage Class: Describe S3 Intelligent Tiering
-ideal for data with unknown or changing access patterns
-small monthly fee per object for monitoring and automation
no access to data (30 days) -> S3 Standard IA
access data -> S3 standard
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S3 Storage Class: Describe S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
-within milliseconds
-for archival data that need immediate access
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S3 Storage Class: Describe S3 Glacier Deep Archive
-CHEAPEST
-for archival data to retrieve objects within in 12 hours-48hours
-< 3 AZ
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S3 Storage Class: Describe S3 Outposts
delivers object storage to on-site premis AWS outposts environment
creates S3 buckest on Amazon S3 Outposts
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Describe Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
managd file system
ideal where large # of services and resources need to access the same data at the same time
regional resource (any EC2 instance can write to it)
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What is the lift and shift migration?
easily move data from personal database to cloud to run on EC2
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Describe Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
supports popular db management like oracle, mysql
comes with added bonuses: backups, failover, disaster recovery, automated patching, redundancy
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What is Amazon Aurora?
a relational database engine part of RDS
replicates 6x copies of data acorss 3 AZ and continuously backups to Amazon S3
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Describe Amazon Dynamic DB
serverless database (don't have to manage underlying instances or infrastructure powering it)
Can add/remove items in table at any time and every item doesn't need to have same attributes
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How is data organized in Amazon Dynamic DB
Create tables to store and query data
Data is organized into items and items have attributed (features of data)
Example: Item = coffee, attributes = hot, latte, almond milk
KEY-VALUE
Typically query on ONE table
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Describe Amazon Redshift
data warehousing service for BIG data analytics
collect from mulitple sources and helps you understand relationships and trends across data
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What is Amazon Database Migration Service (DMS)
enables you to migrate relational db, non-relational db and other types of data stores
move data between source db -> target db
combine many dbs -> one db without affect PRD users
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DB Service: Amazon Document DB
document db service that supports mongoDB workloads
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DB Service: Amazon Neptune
graph db service
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DB Service: Quantum Ledge DB
ledger db services;reviews complete history of all changes
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DB Service: Amazon Managed Blockchain
service to create/manage block chain networks with open source frameworks
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DB Service: Amazon Elastic Cache
service that adds caching layers on top of dbs to help improve read times of common requests
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DB Service: Amazon Dynamic DB Accelerator (DAX)
an in-memory cache for Dynamic DB; helps improve response times
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What is the AWS Shared Responsibility Mode?
YOU treat the environment as a collection of parts that build upon each other.
AWS is responsible for some parts and you are responsible for others
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Security in the cloud
customer responsibilities (everything that you create and put in AWS)
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Secuirty of the cloud
AWS responsible
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What is AWS Identity and Access Managment (IAM)
enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely
by default there is no accesss granted except root user
create IAM policy
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Root user in IAM
owner of account by default
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What is an IAM Policy?
like a security profile in VC
given to an IAM user which is a JSON file that describes what API calls a user can/cannot call or attach policy to IAM group and add users to group
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What are IAM roles?
temporary identities with no username or password
but still give it permissions like IAM user
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What are AWS Organizations?
consolidate and manage mulitple AWS accounts within a central location
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What is a root in AWS Organization
parent container for all accounts in org
Created when AWS Org is created
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How are permissions controlled in AWS Organizations?
Through Service Control Policies
which restrict AWS services, resources, invididual API actions that users and roles in each account can access
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What are organizational units (OU)?
group AWS accounts to make it easier to manage accounts with similar business or security requirements
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Describe AWS Artifact
service that provides on-demand access to AWS security and compliance reports and select online agreements
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What is AWS Artifact Agreements?
review, accept, manage agreements for your account or all your accounts in AWS Orgs
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What is AWS Artificat Reports?
provide compliance reports from 3rd party auditors
these auditors have verifed AWS is compliant with a variety of standards and regulations
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What is Distributed denial of service (DDoS)
attack of enterprise infrastructure by overwhelming system with requests that it can no longer operate
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What is AWS Shield Standard?
FREE automatically protects all AWS customers and protects most common DDoS attacks
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What is AWS Shield Advanced?
paid serice for sophisticated DDoS attacks and integrates with other AWS services
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What is AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
enables you to perform encryption operations through use of cryptographic key (random string of digits used for encrypting/decrypting)
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What is AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
monitors network requests that come in you web applcations and uses web access control list
works with CloudFront and Application Load Balancer
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What is Web access control list (ACL)
allow or block traffic
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What is Amazon Inspector?
perform automated security assessments
helps improve the security and complinace of applications by running auto-security assessments
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What is Amazon GuardDuty?
provides intelligent threat detection for AWS infrastruture and resources
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What is Amazon CloudWatch?
web services that monitors and manages various metrics and configure alarm actions based on data from the metrics
set thresholds for metrics if something is below or over
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What is AWS CloudTrail?
and CloudTrail Insights
records API calls for account
can enable cloud trail insights(detect unusual API activity)
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What is AWS Trusted Advisor?
web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time reccomendations with best practices
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Pricing breakdown for services
1. Free = a. always free or b. for 12 months or
c. Trial of a service
OR
2.
a. Usage of a service (pay for what you use) b. pay less when you reserve for a service or with c. volume-based discounts like how costco does it
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What is the AWS Pricing Calculator?
explore AWS services and create an estimate
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What is the Billing Dashboard?
shows breakdown of costs per service that you are using, shows use over time, and where you pay your bill
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What is consolidated-billing?
role up all AWS accounts to one owner of an AWS Org to pay
can share bulk discount pricing for accounts in org
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What is AWS Budgets?
get alerts for budget amounts if getting close to set thresholds
checks 3x a day
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What is AWS Cost Explorer?
visually see and analyze how you are spending money
online console on account to look at long time usage
can create reports on data
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AWS Support: Describe Basic Support
FREE for all AWS accounts and parts of AWS Trusted Advisor
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AWS Support: Describe Developer Support
basic + email access to customer support
great for experimenting w/ AWS or setting up test or POCs
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AWS Support: Describe Business Support
basic + developer + AWS Trusted Advisor full set and direct phone acess
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AWS Support: Describe AWS Enterprise On-Ramp Support
basic + developer + business + migrating production and critical workloads to AWS
30 min response time and access to Technical Account Managers
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AWS Support: Describe Entrprise Support
basic + developer + business + E On-Ramp + mission critical workloads
15 min response team and Technical account manager team
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What is Technical Account Manager (TAM)?
primary point of contact at AWS; educates, empowers, evolves your cloud journey
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What is AWS Marketplace?
curated digital catalog that has 1000+ of software listings from independant software vendors
can buy, test, find software that runs on AWS
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What is AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)?
organizes guidance and advice into 6 areas of focus, called perspectives for migrating to the cloud
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CAF Perspective: Describe Business
Ensures IT aligns with business needs and IT investments link to key businesss results (PPL: business managers)
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CAF Perspective: Describe People
supports development of an organization wide change management strategy for success
This includes training and certification programs, defining new roles and responsibilities, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
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CAF Perspective: Describe Governance
skills and processes to align IT strategy with business strategy
there are clear policies and processes in place to manage cloud operations effectively.
This involves setting up compliance frameworks, risk management protocols, and ensuring data security and privacy. It helps organizations maintain control and visibility over their cloud resources.
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CAF Perspective: Describe Platform
principles and patterns for implementing new solutions on the cloud and migrating on-premises workloads
focuses on the technical aspects, including selecting the right AWS services, designing scalable and resilient architectures, and implementing security best practices
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CAF Perspective: Describe Secuirty
organization meets security objectives
Key considerations include identity and access management, data encryption, network security, and threat monitoring.
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CAF Perspective: Describe Operations
enable, run, use, operate and recover IT workloads on day to day, quarter to quarter, year to year basis
It emphasizes the need for automation, continuous monitoring, and optimization of cloud operations.
This perspective ensures that cloud resources are efficiently utilized, costs are managed, and performance is continually improved.
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Describe strategy of migration: Rehosting (lift+shift)
moving application without change; scale quickly
Without changing the core infrastructure, this approach allows organizations to transfer all application data and workflows to cloud services that match the workload’s existing storage, networking, and compute requirements
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Describe strategy of migration: Replatforming(lift, tinker, shift)
making few cloud optimizations to realize a benefit but without changing core architecture
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Describe strategy of migration: Refactoring (re-architecting)
reimagine application architecture and code using code-based features
it’s considered the most future-proof migration approach but it is time consuming and big effort
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Describe strategy of migration: Repurchasing
traditional license to a SaaS model (i.e. purchasing new CRM with Salesforce)
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Describe strategy of migration: Retaining
keeping applications that are critical in source environment or not needed in AWS
Post-ponning
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Describe strategy of migration: Retiring
removing applications that are no longer needed
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What is AWS Snow Family?
collection of physical devices that help to physically transport up to exabytes of data in and out of AWS
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AWS Snow Family: AWS Snowcone
small data transfer device up to 14TB
Order it > copy data to it > shipt it > AWS loads to account
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AWS Snow Family: AWS Snowball
80TB
composed of Snowball Edge Storage Optimized or Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
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What is Snowball Edge Storage Optimized?
device for large scale data migrations, larger storage
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What is Snowball Edge Compute Optimized?
provides powerful computing resources for machine learning, full video analysis,local computing stacks
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AWS Snow Family: AWS Snowmobile
Exabyte
scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS
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What is Amazon Q Developer?
machine learning powered code generator that provides code recommendations
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What is Well-Architected Framework?
helps you understand how to create best architecture
-operational excellence (drive business value)
-security
-reliability (recorver planning, OCM)
-performance efficiency (using right IT resources; meet system requirements)
-cost optimization
-sustainability(minimizing environment impacts)
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EC2 Pricing: On Demand
On-Demand Instances are ideal for short-term, irregular workloads that cannot be interrupted. No upfront costs or minimum contracts apply. The instances run continuously until you stop them, and you pay for only the compute time you use.
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EC2 Pricing: Reserved Instances
Reserved Instances are a billing discount applied to the use of On-Demand Instances in your account. There are two available types of Reserved Instances:
Standard Reserved Instances
Convertible Reserved Instances
You can purchase Standard Reserved and Convertible Reserved Instances for a 1-year or 3-year term.
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EC2 Pricing: EC2 Instance Savings Plan
reduce your EC2 instance costs when you make an hourly spend commitment to an instance family and Region for a 1-year or 3-year term.
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EC2 Pricing: Spot Instances
Spot Instances are ideal for workloads with flexible start and end times, or that can withstand interruptions. Spot Instances use unused Amazon EC2 computing capacity and offer you cost savings at up to 90% off of On-Demand prices.
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EC2 Pricing: Dedicated Hosts
Dedicated Hosts are physical servers with Amazon EC2 instance capacity that is fully dedicated to your use.
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What is AWS Security Hub
AWS Security Hub provides you with a comprehensive view of your security state in AWS and helps you assess your AWS environment against security industry standards and best practices.
Security Hub collects security data across AWS accounts, AWS services, and supported third-party products and helps you analyze your security trends and identify the highest priority security issues.
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What is AWS Audit Manager
helps you continually audit your AWS usage to simplify how you manage risk and compliance with regulations and industry standards.
Audit Manager automates evidence collection so you can more easily assess whether your policies, procedures, and activities—also known as controls—are operating effectively.
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What is AWS Config
a fully managed service that provides a detailed view of your AWS resources, their configurations, and how they change over time, enabling you to assess, audit, and evaluate configurations for security and compliance.
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What is AWS Secrets Manager vs AWS System manager
a service that helps you securely store, manage, and retrieve secrets like database credentials, API keys, and other sensitive data, enabling you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve them throughout their lifecycle
a service that provides visibility and control of infrastructure on AWS, allowing you to manage and operate nodes at scale, both in AWS and on-premises, through a unified interface.
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What is Amazon SageMaker
a fully managed, end-to-end machine learning (ML) service that empowers data scientists and developers to quickly build, train, and deploy ML models at scale
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What is Amazon Lex
a service that allows developers to build conversational interfaces into applications using voice and text, powered by the same technology that powers Amazon Alexa. It enables creating chatbots and virtual assistants that can understand and respond to natural language input.
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What is Amazon Kendra
a highly accurate, intelligent search service powered by machine learning that helps organizations easily find relevant information across various data sources, enabling quick and accurate information retrieval for employees and customers
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What is Amazon Athena
a serverless, interactive query service that allows you to analyze data stored in Amazon S3 using standard SQL, without needing to load the data into a database or manage any infrastructure.
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What is Amazon Glue
It helps discover data schemas and formats, and provides tools to clean, transform, and enrich data for various use cases
a serverless, fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service that simplifies data integration by making it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data from various sources for analytics, machine learning, and application development
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What is Amazon Kinesis
a family of fully managed services provided by AWS for processing and analyzing real-time streaming data at scale
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What is Amazon Quicksight
a cloud-based, scalable business intelligence (BI) service within Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows users to create visualizations, dashboards, and reports to gain insights from data, enabling data-driven decision-making.
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What is AWS Opsworks
a configuration management service that simplifies application management and deployment on AWS by automating tasks like server configuration, application deployment, and monitoring using tools like Chef and Puppet
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What is AWS ElastiCache
a fully managed, in-memory data store service that makes it easier to deploy, manage, and scale distributed in-memory cache environments in the cloud, supporting both Redis and Memcached engines
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What is Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)
a managed big data platform that simplifies running big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark on AWS, enabling efficient processing and analysis of large datasets
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What is AWS Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
a template containing the software configuration (like operating system, applications, and settings) needed to launch an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance, allowing for quick and consistent deployment of virtual servers
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What is Amazon Storage Gateway?
a hybrid cloud storage service that enables on-premises applications to access virtually unlimited cloud storage (like Amazon S3) with low-latency access through local caching, using standard protocols like SMB, NFS, and iSCSI
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What is AWS Config
a fully managed service that helps you assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources, providing a detailed view of how they are configured, related, and how those configurations have changed over time.
COMPLIANCE
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What is AWS CodeDeploy
a fully managed service that automates application deployments to various compute services like EC2, ECS, Lambda, and on-premises servers, enabling developers to deploy and update software efficiently and reliably.
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What is AWS CodeCommit
a fully-managed, secure, and highly scalable source control service that hosts private Git repositories, allowing teams to collaborate on code and store assets like source code and binaries within the AWS cloud, eliminating the need to manage their own source control infrastructure.
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What is AWS CodeBuild
a fully managed, continuous integration (CI) service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment, eliminating the need to manage build servers.
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What is AWS Lightsail
a simplified, easy-to-use cloud platform offered by AWS, designed for developers, small businesses, and anyone needing a quick and cost-effective way to build and host websites or web applications, offering virtual servers, containers, databases, and other essential services.
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What is AWS X-Ray
a distributed tracing service that helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture, by providing an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application.
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What is Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)
a managed big data platform that simplifies running big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark on AWS, enabling you to process and analyze vast amounts of data efficiently.
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What is AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
a managed service that helps you migrate databases and data warehouses to AWS quickly and securely, with minimal downtime and zero data loss. It supports migrating data between various database engines, including relational, NoSQL, and data warehouses, both on-premises and in the cloud.
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What is AWS Control Tower
a service that simplifies the setup and governance of a secure, multi-account AWS environment, automating the process of creating a well-architected, compliant environment based on AWS best practices.
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What is AWS Macie
a data security service that helps you find and protect sensitive data in your Amazon S3 buckets.
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What is CloudHSM
a cloud-based service that provides secure key storage and cryptographic operations using dedicated, FIPS-validated hardware security modules (HSMs) within your own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), allowing you to manage and access your keys on hardened, tamper-resistant hardware
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