AWS Cloud Practitioner 2

AWS Cloud Practitioner 2

1. AWS Technologies Cont.

   • AWS Snowball
     • Purpose: Tranfer large amounts of data in and out of AWS Cloud
     • Use Cases: Interacting with analytics data, videos, image repositories
   • Amazon Redshift
     • fully managed data warehouse service
     • Allows complex analytical SQL queries against petabytes of structured data
   • AWS OpsWorks
     • Configuration Management Services
     • Provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet
       • Chef and Puppet are automation platforms. Use code to configurate automation for EC2 Instances
   • Penetration Testing
     • Practice of testing a network or web application to find security vulnerabilites
     • AWS does not perform penetration tests automatically
   • Dedicated Instances
     • Instances that are physically isolated from instances that belong to other AWS Accounts
   • Amazon Athena
     • Interactive Query Service: used for analyzing data in S3 using SQL
   • AWS Direct Connect
     • Used for establishing a dedicated network connection between on-premises networks and AWS

2. AWS Cloud-Named Tools

   • AWS CloudWatch
     • Monitoring service. Gives user complete visibility of your cloud resources and application
     • Automate reactions to changes
     • Helps troubleshoot
     • Track Metrics
   • AWS CloudFront
     • Global Content Delivery Network (CDN)
     • Distribute content like videos, data, applications, and APIs
   • AWS CloudFormation
     • Use code to model and provision AWS Resources. Used for infrastructure as code
   • AWS CloudTrail
     • Log, monitor, and retain account activity across AWS Infrastructure
     • Provides event history

3. AWS Admin Tools

   • AWS Trusted Advisor
     • Guides you in using AWS resources. Offers best practice checks and recommendations
     • Guides cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service limits
   • AWS Config
     • provides AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications
   • AWS Personal Health Dashboard
     • Personalized view of the health of the services powering your applications
     • Notifies users when a service they use is affected. provides guidance on how to minimize impact
   • AWS Artifact
     • provides on-demand access to AWS' compliance documentation and agreements
   • AWS Systems Manager
     • Unified user interface for viewing operational data from multiple AWS services
   • AWS Organizations
     • Groups AWS accounts
       • billing
       • control access, compliance, security
       • Share resources
   • Amazon Inspector
     • Automated Security Assessment

4. AWS Enterprise Support Tools

   • Main PoC: Technical Account Manager (TAM)
   • Infrastructure Event Management (IEM)
     • helps plan for large-scale events like product or application launches or migrations
     • Real-time support during event
   • Support Concierge
     • Helps with billing and account inquiries

5. AWS Security Tools

   • AWS Shield
     • Automated DDoS protection
   • IAM
     • IAM Users
       • have names and passwords
       • utilize access keys to access API or CLI
     • IAM Roles
       • use to grant users or applications temporary permissions
     • IAM Groups
       • Specify permissions for multiple users