AWS Cloud Practitioner Key Definitions

CloudWatch

CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization. It collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events. Yo

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AWS Service Health Dashboard

The single place to learn about the availability and operations of AWS services. You can view the overall status of AWS services, and you can sign in to view personalized communications about your particular AWS account or organization

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What is AWS SNS and what does it stand for?

Simple Notification Service is used by CloudWatch to send emails, SMS or mobile push to send notifications directly to the customer

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AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Provides a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services you are using, as well as alerts that are automatically triggered by changes in the health of those services.

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OpsWork

A configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet. Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers

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AWS Managed Services

Helps you adopt AWS at scale and operate more efficiently and securely. It leverages standard AWS services and offer guidance and execution of operational best practices with specialized automations, skills, and experience that are contextual to your envi

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CloudTrail

Monitors and records account activity across your AWS infrastructure, giving you control over storage, analysis and remediation actions. Enables auditing, security monitoring, and operational troubleshooting by tracking user activity and API usage

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S3 One Zone-IA

Customers can store infrequently accessed data within a single Availability Zone at 20% lower cost than S3 Standard Infrequently Accessed

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S3 Bucket

A public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage offering. Amazon S3 buckets, store objects, which consist of data and its descriptive metadata.

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AWS Cost Explorer

Lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS cloud costs and usage over time

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AWS Trusted Advisor

Provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor evaluates your account by using checks. These checks identify ways to optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve security and performance, reduce costs, and monitor service q

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AWS Organisations

An account management service that lets you consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage which helps you quickly scale your environment. With Organisations, you can create member accounts and invite existing

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AWS Config

A service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desi

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CloudFormation

An infrastructure as code (IAC) service that allows you to easily model, provision and manage AWS and third-party resources. It gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, and provision and

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DynamoDB

A fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database designed to run high-performance applications at any scale. Offers built-in security, continuous backups, automated multi-Region replication, in-memory caching, and data export tools.

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AWS Beanstalk

Service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, . NET, PHP, Node. js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS

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Virtual Private Gateway

A logical, fully redundant distributed edge routing function that sits at the edge of your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). As it is capable of terminating VPN connections from your on-premises or customer environments, the VPG is the VPN concentrator on the

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VPC Peering

Creates a connection between 2 Virtual Private Clouds. It is a hybrid enviornment with 1 end being the AWS Cloud and the other end being on-premises (non-cloud) resources

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Service control policies

Used with AWS Organisations to allow you to create permissions guardrails that apply to all accounts within a given organisation

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AWS Inspector

Inspector works with EC2 instances to uncover and report vulnerabilities and spot deviations from security best practices.

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ElastiCache

Helps you alleviate database load for data that is accessed often. It is a great way to cache common queries

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Lets you provision a logically isolated section of the cloud. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including the selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gate

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Database Migration Service

Helps you migrate databases to or within AWS

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AWS X-Ray

AWS X-Ray provides an end to end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application's underlying components. You can use X-Ray to analyse from simple three-tier applications to complex microservices applications

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IAM Groups

Lets you create a list of pre-defined permissions that any user a part of that group will be granted

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IAM Policies

You manage permissions for IAM users, groups, and roles by creating a policy document in JSON format and attaching it

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IAM Role

Roles define access permissions and are temporarily assumed by an IAM user or service. Roles are primarily used to grant AWS resources permissions to other AWS resources and generally are not for end-users

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IAM policy simulator

Allows you to test and troubleshoot identity-based policies, IAM permissions boundaries, services control policies and resource-based policies

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GuardDuty

An intelligent threat detection system that uncovers unauthorised behaviour

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Access keys

Long-term credentials for an IAM user or the AWS account root user. You can use access keys to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI or AWS API (directly or using the AWS SDK).

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Network ACL

An optional layer of security for your virtual private cloud that ensures the proper traffic is allowed into the subnet

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Storage Gateway

A hybrid storage service that allows you to connect on-premises and cloud data

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Network Access Control lists

An optional layer of security for your VPC that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of one or more subnets. By default your account's default network ACL allows all inbound and outbound traffic

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NAT gateway

A highly available AWS managed service that makes it easy to connect the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an Amazon VPC

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Security groups

Acts as a virtual firewall, controlling the traffic that is allowed to reach and leave the resources that is is associated with

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EC2 Classic Network

Instances run in a single, flat network that is shared with other customers

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Elastic Load Balancing

Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets and virtual applications in one or more Availability Zones

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Application Load Balancer

A feature of Elastic Load Balancing that allows a developer to configure and route incoming end-user traffic to applications based in the AWS public cloud. Best suited for load balancing of HTTP and HTTPs traffic and provides advanced request routing targ

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Gateway Load Balancer

Helps you easily deploy, scale and manage your third-party virtual applications. It gives you one gateway for distributing traffic across multiple virtual applications while scaling them up or down, based on demand

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Network Load Balancer

Distributes end user traffic across multiple cloud resources to ensure low latency and high throughput for applications. Best suited for load balancing of Transmission Control Protocol, User Datagram Protocol, and Transport Layer Security traffic where ex

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Classic Load Balancer

You register instances with the load balancer

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Loosely Coupled

The processing of a large number of smaller jobs

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Tightly Coupled

Parallel processes that are dependent on each other to carry out the calculation

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Rekognition

Pre-trained and customisable computer vision capabilities to extract information and insights from images and videos

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Macie

A fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS

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Route53

Connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS and can be used to route users to infrastructure outside of AWS. It is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extrem

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CloudFront

A web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content to your users. It delivers your content through a worldwide network of data centres called edge locations. It is a fast content delivery network service that securely deliver

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AWS Shield

A managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. It provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency

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CloudHSM

A cloud-based hardware security model (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys on the AWS Cloud

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Route tables

Contains a set of rules, called routes, that determine where network traffic from your subnet or gateway is directed

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LEX

An AWS service for building conversational interfaces for applications using voice and text. The same conversational engine that powers Alexa enables developers to build sophisticated, natural language chatbots into your new and existing applications

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Software Development Kit

An open-sources software development framework to define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages

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Amazon Glacier Flexible Retrieval

Low-cost storage, up to 10% lower cost than S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval for archive data that is accessed 1-2 times per year and it retrieved asynchronously.

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AWS Support

One-on-one fast response support from experienced technical support engineers. With pay-by-the-month pricing and unlimited support cases, customers are freed from long-term commitments.

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AWS Redshift

A data warehouse product that is used for large scale data storage and analysis, and is frequently used to perform large database migrations. Allows you to run complex analytic queries against petabytes of structured data, using sophisticated query optimi

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AWS Fargate

A serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers. It is compatible with both Amazon Elastic Container Service and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

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EBS

Virtual hard disks for your EC2 instance. It is storage that appears to be directly attached to your instance.

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Amazon Relational Database Service

A collection of managed services that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale databases in the cloud

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RDS management console

Enables you to choose an RDBMS, create a database, add tables and other objects to the database, and make the database accessible to an application. You can use it to perform administrative tasks, such as to configure security

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EMR

A service that makes it easy to process large amounts of data efficiently using big data frameworks like Hadoop

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CodePipeline

A fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. It automates software deployments from end to end

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CodeCommit

A secure, highly scalable, managed source control service that hosts private Git repositories. It makes it easy for teams to securely collaborate on code with contributions encrypted in transit and at rest

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CodeDeploy

A service that automates code deployments to any instance. It makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime during deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications

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CodeBuild

A fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. You don't need to provision, manage and scale your own build servers

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Athena

A service that enables data analysts to perform interactive queries in the web-based cloud storage service, S3. Athena is used with large-scale data sets

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Cost Allocation Tags

A tag is a label that you or AWS assign to an AWS resource. Each tag consists of a key and a value. Tagges resources can appear on the Cost Explorer or on a cost allocation report

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AWS Management Console

A web application for accessing and managing Amazon web services

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AWS Lambda

A service that lets you run code without needing to provision or manage servers

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