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- 101. Amazon Machine Image (AMI)o Is a special type of virtual appliance that is used to create a virtual machine within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2").
- 202. Application Load Balancero A _ _serves as the single point of contact for clients. The _ _distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones. This increases the availability of your application. You add one or more listeners to your _ _.
- 303. Aurorao Is a fully managed, MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible, relational database engine. It combines the speed and reliability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases.
- 404. Auto Scalingo Monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. Using AWS _ _, you can setup scaling for multiple resources across multiple services in minutes. AWS _ _provides a simple, powerful user interface that lets you build scaling plans for Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and Amazon Aurora Replicas.
- 505. Availability Zones (AZ)o A collection of data centers within a region.
o An isolated location inside a region. Also, each _ is isolated, but the _ in a region are connected through low-latency links. - 606. CloudFronto Is a content delivery network (CDN) offered by Amazon Web Services. Content delivery networks provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers which cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, thus improving access speed for downloading the content.
- 707. Command Line Interface (CLI)o Is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the _ and automate them through scripts.
- 808. Dockero Is a software platform that allows you to build, test, and deploy applications quickly. _ packages software into standardized units called containers that have everything the software needs to run including libraries, system tools, code, and runtime.
- 909. DynamoDBo Is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. With _, you can create database tables that can store and retrieve any amount of data, and serve any level of request traffic.
- 1010. Edge Locationso Is where end users access services located at AWS. They are located in most of the major cities around the world and are specifically used by CloudFront – content delivery network (CDN) to distribute content to end user to reduce latency.
- 1111. Elastic Beanstalk (EB)o Is a cloud deployment and provisioning service that automates the process of getting applications set up on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.
- 1212. Elastic Block Store (EBS)o Provides persistent _ storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Each Amazon _ volume is automatically replicated within its Availability Zone to protect you from component failure, offering high availability and durability.
- 1313. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)o Is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale _ _ easier for developers. Amazon _ simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction.
o Forms a central part of Amazon.com's _ platform, Amazon Web Services, by allowing users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications - 1414. Elastic Container Service (ECS)o Allows you to run and maintain a specified number (the "desired count") of instances of a task definition simultaneously in an Amazon _ cluster. This is called a service. The load balancer distributes traffic across the tasks that are associated with the service.
- 1515. Elastic Load Balancero Distributes incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances, in multiple Availability Zones. This increases the fault tolerance of your applications.
- 1616. Glaciero Is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and online backup. You can reliably store large or small amounts of data for a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.
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o Retain for business or legal reasons - 1717. Lambdao A serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS _ to extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate at AWS scale, performance, and security
- 1818. Lightsailo Designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS. _ plans include everything you need to jumpstart your project - a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP – for a low, predictable price. A virtual service.
- 1919. Redshifto Is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Regardless of the size of the data set, Amazon _ offers fast query performance using the same SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications that you use today.
- 2020. Regionso Physical location in the world
o Contain multiple Availability Zones (AZ) - 2121. Relational Database Services (RDS)o Is a distributed relational database service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is a web service running "in the cloud" designed to simplify the setup, operation, and scaling of a relational database for use in applications.
- 2222. Route53o Is a scalable and highly available Domain Name System (DNS). It is part of Amazon.com's cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS). The name is a reference to TCP or UDP port 53, where DNS server requests are addressed.
- 2323. Security Groupso Provide virtual firewalls that control traffic for multiple instances.
- 2424. Simple Storage Service (S3)o It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon _ has a simple web services interface that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.
o Managed cloud storage service. - 2525. Snowballo Is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud. Transferring data with _ is simple, fast, secure, and can be as little as one-fifth the cost of high-speed Internet.
- 2626. Snowflakeo Is an analytic data warehouse provided as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). _ provides a data warehouse that is faster, easier to use, and far more flexible than traditional data warehouse offerings.
- 2727. Trusted Advisoro Is your customized cloud expert! It helps you to observe best practices for the use of AWS by inspecting your AWS environment with an eye toward saving money, improving system performance and reliability, and closing security gaps.
- 2828. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)o A private, _network in AWS Cloud
o _ lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a _ network that you define.
o _ are region based. - 2929. Web Application Firewall (WAF)o Lets you monitor the HTTP and HTTPS requests that are forwarded to Amazon CloudFront or an Application Load Balancer. _ also lets you control access to your content.
- 30Four Core Services of AWSo Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
o Simple Storage Service (S3)
o Relational Database Service (RDS)
o Route53
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