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VPN (vitual private network)

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Extends on-premises network to the cloud and securly access them from anywhere

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Golbal Accelerator

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Improve global application availability and performance using the AWS global network

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Direct Connect

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links on-premise network to AWS network

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API Gateway

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regional service for serverless applications

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CloudFront

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origin data is cached at edge locations for faster user access

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FSx

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“launch and run file systems(works well with windows)

*lustre and windows”

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WorkSpace

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Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)

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WorkDocs

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cloud file sharing system in AWS

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EFS

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“elastic file system
NFS file system for multi EC2
*trouble with windows”

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SDK (software development kit)

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“Code and API for AWS integration in other languages

““Range”” header for concurrent GET”

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ASG (auto scaling groups)

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“manages a collection of EC2 instances

*target(metric)-simple(alarm)-step(betterSimple)”

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ECS (Elastic Container Service)

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“Manages containers

*IAM to each container instance”

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VPC (virtual private cloud)

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private cloud network in AWS

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S3 OAI (origin access identity)

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option to restrict bucket access to origin not bucket url

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VPC peering

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component to connect VPCs cross account and regional

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DynamoDB

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NoSQL DB

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VPC endpoint

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component to keep VPC AWS-AWS routes within the VPC

*VPC instance and VPC Gateway

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RDS Read Replica

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Cached replica of DB at edge locatoin can be promoted to standalone

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Organizations

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“central governance and management many accounts

*remove all members->delete old org->invite old master to be new member”

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Organization share resources

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option to share resources with other accounts in org

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DMS (data migration service)

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Schema conversion tool to S3 then upload to coorilated service

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DataSync

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from on-premesis to AWS service

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IAM (identity and access management)

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“define access to services and resources

*users-roles-groups”

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CodeBuild

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CI integration service

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CodeDeploy
CD integration service
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CloudFormation
"Ifrastructure as Code | *archive and automation"
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Beanstalk
Starter service bundle
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KMS key management service
create manage and use encryption keys
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Certificate manager
Generates SSL certificates for traffic in transit
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STS (simple token service)
Gain secure access to an EC2 instance
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IAM Access Key
Long term credientials for security level in IAM users
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EBS (elastic block storage)
persistant storage similar to harddrive
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EBS Snapshot
Versioning control for EBS
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S3 (simple storage solution)
Object based storage
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Snow Family Services
Large data transfer va physical device
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Cognito
Decentralized Managed Authentication
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Route53
DNS (Domain name service) with AWS synergies
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EC2 (Elastic compute cloud)
Rent virtual computers on which you can run applications
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ELB (Elastic load balancer)
balances traffic across multiple AZ
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Simple System Manager
Instead of SSH
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"Not AWS | RTMP(real-time messaging protocol)"
deprecated Adobe flash media server cant use cookies
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AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
Online environment and IDE for development
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Cloud9
temporary environment for development
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Amazon Machine Images (AMI)
information to launch EC2 instances
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Aurora
High end/low-cost version RDS for postgress and some other MySQL
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Amazon Redshift
"Fully managed Petabyte-size Data Warhouse * Analyze(run complex SQL) on massive amounts of data Columnar Store database * single AZ"
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CloudWatch
"A collection of monitoring services for logging reacting and visualizing log data *CloudWatch Logs is the basis for all other CloudWatch services"
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CloudTrail
"provides event history or your AWS account activity including action taken through the AWS infrastructure When you need to know who to blame, either user error or system error"
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Amazon Athena
A query service that makes it easier to analyze patabytes of data in S3 with no data warehouse or cluster to manage.
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AWS Lambda
"Run code without provisioning or managing servers. automatically start and stop when needed. Serverless Functions. Pay per invocation. *Triggered from SDK or other AWS service"
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Simple Queue Service (SQS)
"Fully managed queing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices distribute systems and serverless applications *ususally used for simple communications. not real-time. have to pull. Not reactive. usually for connecting applications together"
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Simple notification service (SNS)
"Subscribe and send notifications via text message email webhooks lambdas SQS and mobile notifications *Pub/Sub: publisher sends to event bus->subscriber get from bus"
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ElastiCache
Managed caching service which either runs Redis or Memchached
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Amazon Kinesis
"Scalable and durable real-time data streaming service to ingest and analyze data in rea-time from multiple sources. *Real-time sreams (data streams - data firehose - video stream - data analytics)"
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Storage Gateway
"on-premises software with cloud-based storage integration into AWS File gateway - NFS protocol to S3 Volume gateway - cached forfrequently accessed. Stored for entire Tape gateway"
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SES (simple email service)
AWS email
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VPC Link
create private integrations that connect your HTTP API routes to private resources in a VPC
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ARN
amazon resource name
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Fargate
"A serverless compute engine for containers that works with both: Elastic Container Service Elastic Kubernetes Service"
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EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service)
Fully managed Kubernetes service
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ECR(Elastic Container Registry)
Docker container regisrty that stores built docker images
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CodeCommit
Host private Git repos for code colaberations
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Config
Record and evaluate configurations of your AWS resources
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IoT
Internet of Things services and software
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Lex
Chatbot interface using voice and text
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Alexa
Cloud based voice service
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Step Functions
"A serverless function orchestrator using ASL (Amazon States Language) You build workflows called state machines each step is called a state each process performed in a state is called a Task"
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NAT(network address Translation)
a method of re-mapping one IP address space into another
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EIP(Elastic IP address)
a static IPv4 address connected with AWS services
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*HPC
High performance computing
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Flow Logs
"capture info about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC set up at VPC, subnet or network interface level. additionally logs all traffic in lower levels"
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Trusted Advisor
"Tool that provides real time guidance to help provision resources following best practices makes checks on your AWS services and offers recomendations for optimizing cost security and performance"
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VM Import
"Tools that help import/export images from your environment to an EC2 instance also tools to bring outisde images in compliance with AWS EC2"
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SageMaker
Managed service for quick Machine Learning building, training an deploying
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ParallelCluster
cluster managment tool for HPC clusters
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ParallelClusters EFA
"Elastic Fabric Adapter enableable feature of ParallelCluster that guarentees one of the fastest and most scalable settings for HPC Clusters provides OS-bypass capabilities (kernal-bypass networking) which is only in specific instance types and limited to a single ssubnet Can only attach to a new instance of an EC2 not a running one"
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*ML
Machine learning
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*Redis
"Remote Dictonary Server | NoSQL db or Key-Value store"
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*Memcached
"Very fast in-memory cache | Key-value Set get and delete"
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ALB
"Application load balancer | can route based on the content of the URL to non-homogeneous servers"
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Savings plans
"a flexable pricing model where you commit to a consistant amount of usage (exp $10/hr) recieve discounts up to 72% on that usage (flexable version of RI) any additional usage will be billed at the regual on-demand rates"
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Dedicated host
dedicated hardware to support existing software licenses and improve compliance on AWS
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*RDP
Remote desktop protocol
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*Latency
"In networking this is a combination of the time it takes to: - send a request - process that request - return a response"
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*What is IPsec?
"a group of networking protocols used for setting up secure encrypted connections, such as VPNs, across publicly shared networks Commonly from on premise data center to AWS"
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Data Pipeline
cloud-based data workflow and orchestration service
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*HSM
"hardware security module HSMs are devices that provide direct control of key generation and management separating key management from the application and database layers"
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AWS SMS
"Server Migration Service | agentless service for migrating thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS"
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*OIDC
"OpenID connect | auth identity provider supported by Cognito"

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