Good to memorize

Question 1

AWS managed database benefits

Answer 1

High availability
Horizontal and vertical scaling
automated backup and restore
automated operations and upgrades
os patching handled by aws
Monitoring, alerting

Question 2

what types of db does rds handle

Answer 2

MySQL
Postgres
MariaDB
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
IBM DB2
Aurora

Question 3

Benefits of DynamoDB

Answer 3

Scale to massive workloads
Distributed Serverless
Fast and consistent performance
Low latency

Question 4

EMR

Answer 4

Elastic map reduce for big data, analyze and process vast amounts of data (hadoop clusters)

Question 5

Athena

Answer 5

Serverless SQL query service to analyze data stored in S3

Question 6

DMS

Answer 6

Database Migration Service
Quickly and securely migrate databases to AWS

Question 7

AWS Batch

Answer 7

Fully managed batch processing at any scale. Will dynamically launch instances and provisions the right amount of computer/memory. Focus less on infrastructure and just run a lot of these jobs!

Question 8

CloudFormation

Answer 8

Templates (JSON/YAML) to declare an outline of AWS infrastructure which it will then create it for you

Question 9

AWS CDK

Answer 9

Cloud Development Kit. Define your cloud infrastructure using programming language. Code is compiled to CloudFormation template

Question 10

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Answer 10

PaaS. Managed service where the developer only has to provide the application code. Developer centric view of deploying an application on AWS

Question 11

Elastic Beanstalk Health Monitoring

Answer 11

Health agent checks for app health, publishes health events and pushed metrics to CloudWatch

Question 12

AWS CodeArtifact

Answer 12

Secure, scalable, and cost effective Artifact management (storing and retrieving software dependencies) for software development

Question 13

AWS Systems Manage (SSM)

Answer 13

Helps you manage your EC2 and On-Premises systems.
Hybrid
Patching automation for compliance, Run commands across fleet of servers, Store parameter configuration with the SSM Parameter Store
Patch, configue, run commands at scale.

Question 14

Amazon CloudFront

Answer 14

Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Improves read performance, content is cached at the edge

Question 15

AWS Global Accelerator

Answer 15

Improve global application availability and performance using the AWS global network
No caching
Proxying Packets

Question 16

AWS Local Zones

Answer 16

Places AWS compute, storage, database, and other selected AWS Services closer to end users to run latency-sensitive applications

Question 17

active-passive

Answer 17

one is read write, one is read only

Question 18

Amazon CloudWatch

Answer 18

provides metrics for every service in AWS

Question 19

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms

Answer 19

Used to trigger notifications for any metrics

Question 20

Amazon CloudWatch Logs

Answer 20

Enables realtime monitoring of ligs

Question 21

AWS CloudTrail

Answer 21

Provides governance, compliance, and audit for your AWS account
Enabled by default
Get a history of events/api calls made within your AWS account

Question 22

AWS Health Dashboard

Answer 22

Shows all regions, all services health
General status of AWS services

Question 23

AWS Health Dashboard your account

Answer 23

Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.
Personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resource
Global

Question 24

AWS Event Bridge

Answer 24

React to events in AWS, or trigger a rule on a schedule

Question 25

VPC

Answer 25

Virtual Private Cloud: Private network to deploy your resources

Question 26

Subnet

Answer 26

Allow you to partition your network inside your VPC

Question 27

Internet Gateway

Answer 27

Helps our VPCs connect to the internet

Question 28

NAT Gateway/Instance

Answer 28

AWS Managed/Self-managed. Allow your instances in your private subnets to access the internet while remaining private

Question 29

NACL

Answer 29

Network Access List A firewall which controls traffic from and to subnet ALLOW and DENY rules attached to subnets stateless

Question 30

Security Groups

Answer 30

A firewall that controls traffic to and rom an EC2 instance ALLOW only Stateful

Question 31

VPC Peering

Answer 31

Connect two VPC privately using AWS network Make them behave as if they were in the same network Not transitive

Question 32

VPC endpoints

Answer 32

Allow you to connect to AWS services using a private network instead of a public network

Question 33

AWS PrivateLink

Answer 33

Most secure and scalable way to expose a service to 1000s of VPCs

Question 34

Site to Site VPN

Answer 34

On premise --> Customer Gateway AWS --> Virtual Gateway Connect an on premises VPN to AWS over public internet, encrypted.

Question 35

Direct Connect (DX)

Answer 35

Establish a physical connection between on premises and AWS Private, secure, fast Goes over private network Takes at least a month

Question 36

AWS Client VPN

Answer 36

Connect from your computer using OpenVPN to your private network in AWS and on-premises. Goes over public internet

Question 37

Transit Gateway

Answer 37

Connect thousands of VPC and on premises networks together

Question 38

AWS Artifact

Answer 38

Portal that provides customers with on-demand access to AWS compliance documentation and AWS agreements Can be used to support internal audit or compliance

Question 39

Amazon Inspector

Answer 39

Automated security assessments for EC2 instances, Container images, Lambda functions Continuous scanning of infrastructure, checks package vulnerabilities, network reachability