AWS study Guide. Latest update. 100% Comprehensive Masterpiece. Rated A
Amazon EC2 - ✔?Way to obtain virtual servers ("Instance") in the cloud (quickly and inexpensively)
designed to make web-scale computing easier
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AWS study Guide. Latest update. 100% Comprehensive Masterpiece. Rated A
Amazon EC2 - ✔?Way to obtain virtual servers ("Instance") in the cloud (quickly and inexpensively)
designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers and system admins
How it works
choose template (windows/linux) and quantity
Up within minutes
Once you are done using them you stop paying for them
"Instances" range in size (small to cluster compute for high performance)
Choose based on CPU, Memory, Storage customized to your needs
Security features
located in a virtual private cloud (VPC) which you control
connect securely to your on-prem hardware via VPN
Comes with temporary storage
Pricing - ✔?OnDemand
pay as you go (only for what you use)
Reserved instance
discount compared to ondemand for a 1 time payment
spot instance
you name what you want to pay
Amazon EC2 Container Service - ✔?highly scalable container management service to run apps on a managed cluster of EC2 instances
Basically simplifies cluster management
Amazon Lambda - ✔?Runs your code in response of an event (ie an image upload or website-click)
Scales automatically
Auto Scaling - ✔?scale up/down on conditions you define
best for apps that experience hourly, daily, or weekly variations in use
Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) - ✔?you provision a private, isolated section of the Amazon Cloud
you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define
meant so you can reflect a network in your own datacenter
Easily customizable
make a public facing subnet, for example
Elastic Load Balancing - ✔?automatically distributes incoming app traffic across multiple instances
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) - ✔?fully redundant storage (any size)
create a bucket in minutes
Amazon Glacier - ✔?low cost secure storage for data archiving and backup
can be used for offsite enterprise information archiving, media assets or scientific data
Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage) - ✔?provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances
Off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance
consistent and low-latency performance
Scale usage up/down in minutes
AWS Import/Export - ✔?accelerates moving large amounts of data in/out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport
AWS Storage Getaway - ✔?service to connect on-premise IT environment to AWS seamlessly
3 configs supported
Gateway-Cached Volumes
Gateway-Stored Volumes
Gateway-Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
Amazon CloudFront - ✔?content delivery service
gives developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users
low-latency, high data transfer speeds
Have locations around the world
chooses close proximity to end use for faster rates
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) - ✔?easy set up, operate, and scale MySQL, Oracle, SQL, or PostreSQL database in the cloud
provides resizable capacity
manages database admin tasks
offloads software installation, patching, and backups
Amazon DynamoDB - ✔?fast, flexible NoSQL database service
Basically lets your app/company grow as it needs to. Automatically determines the amount of data coming in/out and delivers it at a high speed
Uses SSDs.
Amazon Redshift - ✔?datawarehouse service
intergrates with popular "bi" tools
100GB ---> petabyte
automatically redistributes data for fastest speeds
automatically encrypted
Amazon ElastiCache - ✔?service to deploy, operate and scale cache in the cloud
Amazon VPC - ✔?provision a private, isolated section of AWS
AWS Direct Connect - ✔?establish private connectivity between AWS and your datacenter, office, or co-lo
reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, provide more consistent network experience than internet-based connections
(alternative to using internet for AWS)
Amazon Route 53 - ✔?highly available and scalable DNS (Domain Name System) web service
Queries for your domain are automatically routed to closest DNS server (around world)
Elastic Load Balancing - ✔?automatically distributes incoming app traffic across EC2 instances
AWS Directory Service - ✔?connect to AWS resources from on-prem MS Active directory
or set up a new, stand-alone directory in AWS cloud
Users can connect with existing corporate credentials
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - ✔?manage and control users' access to AWS resources
AWS Cloud Trail - ✔?web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you
AWS Config - ✔?provides you a detailed inventory
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