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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam > Technology part 1 - Org, Networking, DB, Provisioning, Computing, Storage > Flashcards

Technology part 1 - Org, Networking, DB, Provisioning, Computing, Storage Flashcards

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Organizations

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Change a root account to Organization > add multiple accounts, manage billing, access, security, and share resources.

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Service Control Policies

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Within Organizations, they give control over allowed permissions for all accounts.

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AWS Networking

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Internet > VPC / Internet Gateway > Router > Route Table > NACL > AZ > Subnets > Security Groups > instance, db, etc.

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Networking - VPC

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Internet > VPC / Internet Gateway > Router > Route Table > NACL > AZ > Subnets > Security Groups > instance, db, etc.

Virtual Private Cloud - logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources

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Networking - Internet Gateway

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Internet > VPC / Internet Gateway > Router > Route Table > NACL > AZ > Subnets > Security Groups > instance, db, etc.

Enable access to the Internet

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Networking - Route Tables

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Internet > VPC / Internet Gateway > Router > Route Table > NACL > AZ > Subnets > Security Groups > instance, db, etc.

Determine where network traffic from your subnets or gateway are directed

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Networking - NACLs

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Internet > VPC / Internet Gateway > Router > Route Table > NACL > AZ > Subnets > Security Groups > instance, db, etc.

Network Access Control Lists - Act as firewall at the subnet level

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Networking - Subnets

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Internet > VPC / Internet Gateway > Router > Route Table > NACL > AZ > Subnets > Security Groups > instance, db, etc.

Logical partition of an IP network into smaller network segments ex: public - accessible to internet (EC2), private - not accessible to internet (db)

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DB Services - DynamoDB

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NoSQL key/value db
Flat / simple, scale to millions
Guarantee of read/writes per sec
ex. Cassandra

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DB Services - DocumentDB

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NoSQL Document db - MongoDB compatible

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DB Services - RDS

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Relational Database Service
Most popular
Supports multiple engines - MySQL, PostgreSQL, Maria DB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Aurora

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DB Services - Aurora

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MySQL (5x faster) and PostgreSQL (3x faster) fully managed

Will run 6 copies across 3 AZs - more $

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DB Services - Aurora Serverless

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Only runs when you need it, like AWS Lambda
Less features, less $
Good for dev workflows, rarely used apps, serverless architecture

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DB Services - Neptune

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Managed Graph db

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DB Services - Redshift

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Columnar db, petabyte warehouse

Reads via columns instead of rows, good for analytics on huge amounts of data

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DB Services - ElastiCache

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Caching solution

Redis or Memcached db

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Provisioning Services

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Provisioning is the allocation or creation of resources and services to a customer

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Provisioning Services - Elastic Beanstalk

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For deploying and scaling web apps and services.
You prep the code, upload to EB, choose container/language, and it deploys your app.
It is the Heroku of AWS.

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Provisioning Services - OpsWorks

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Configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.
Dev tools that help you programmatically set up a server

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Provisioning Services - CloudFormation

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Infrastructure as code, JSON or YAML.
You define the AWS resources you want to use and how you want them configured, upload that template, and this sets everything up.

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Provisioning Services - AWS Quickstart

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CloudFormation templates.

Pre-made packages that can launch and configure your AWS compute, network, storage, and other services.

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Provisioning Services - AWS Marketplace

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Digital catalogue of thousands of software listings from independent vendors.
Generally used to buy managed EC2 instances. Can pay monthly subscription.

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Computing - EC2

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Elastic Compute Cloud
Highly configurable server
All services use this under the hood.

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Computing - ECS

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Elastic Container Service
Docker as a Service
Use if you need to run microservices or a Dockerized app.
Pay for EC2 instances

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Computing - Fargate

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Microservices where you don’t have to think about the infrastructure - just define containers and they run.
Pay per task

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Computing - EKS

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Kubernetes as a Service
To deploy, manage, and scale containerized apps using Kubernetes.
Defacto service for microservices.

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Computing - Lambda

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Serverless functions

Run code w/o provisioning or managing servers. Pay only for compute time consumed.

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Computing - Elastic Beanstalk

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Service for deploying applications which orchestrates various AWS services, including EC2, S3, Simple Notification Service, CloudWatch, autoscaling, and Elastic Load Balancers

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Computing - AWS Batch

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Plans, schedules, and executes your batch computing workloads across AWS compute services and features.
Launches EC2 instances for you, using Spot Pricing to save $

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Storage - S3

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Simple Storage Service

Object storage - like a hard drive in the cloud w/unlimited space

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Storage - S3 Glacier

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Low-cost storage for archiving and long-term backup

Must wait to retrieve, pay retrieval fee

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Storage - Storage Gateway

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Hybrid cloud storage with local caching.
Extension of your on-prem storage into the cloud, can be backup solution for your local storage.
File Gateway, Volume Gateway, Tape Gateway

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Storage - EBS

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Elastic Block Storage
Hard drive in the cloud you can attach to EC2 instances - can choose what type of hard drive, can only attach to 1 EC2 instance

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Storage - EFS

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Elastic File Storage

file storage mountable to multiple EC2 instances at a time

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Storage - Snowball

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Physically migrate lots of data via a computer suitcase

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Storage - Snowball Edge

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Better version of Snowball - 100TB

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Storage - Snowmobile

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Shipping container pulled by a semi - 100PB

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