Management & Governance Flashcards
AWS Control Tower
An account management service to set up and govern a secure multi-account AWS environment.
AWS Organizations
An account management service to centrally govern and manage your environments across multiple AWS accounts.
AWS Budgets
An account management service to help you improve your planning and cost control.
AWS CloudFormation
A provisioning service to model and provision all your resources via code (both JSON and YAML allowed). This allows you to define and provision IaC (Infrastructure as Code). CF provides templates to describe the architecture and resources needed for your app.
AWS Service Catalog
A provisioning service to create, organize, and govern your own curated catalogue of AWS products across your organization.
AWS OpsWorks
A provisioning service to assist in automating operations with Chef and Puppet.
AWS Marketplace
A provisioning service to find, test, buy,
and deploy software that runs on AWS.
Amazon CloudWatch
An operation service that allows you to observe your services via metrics and logging (via CloudWatch Logs).
AWS Config
An operation service that allows you to record and evaluate the configurations of your various AWS resources.
AWS CloudTrial
An operation service that will track all of the user activity across your AWS account,
extremely important for security investigations.
AWS Systems Manager
An operation service that will allow you to optimize performance and security while managing a large amount of systems.
Amazon X-ray
An operation service that will help you analyse and debug production applications.
Load Balancer
A service that automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers and IP addresses to avoid single resource being overwhelmed.
AWS Auto Scaling
A service that enables you to automatically adjust the capacity of your EC2 instances or other resources to maintain desired performance at low cost.
