AWS Cloud Practitioner Key Definitions 2

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AWS Compute Optimizer
Analyses the configuration and resource utilisation of your workload to identify dozens of defining characteristics, such as if it is CPU intensive, if it exhibits a daily pattern, or if a workload accesses local storage frequently
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AWS Quick Starts
Production architecture accelerators that help customers deploy AWS-native services and products from AWS Partners. These accelerators reduce hundreds of manual procedures into just a few steps, so AWS customers can build production enviornments quickly a
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Vertical scaling
Increasing the size and computing power of a single instance or node without increasing the number of nodes or instances
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Horizontal scaling
The act of changing the number of nodes within a computing system without changing the size of any individual node. We would add instances, not increase the size of an instance
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Durable
Durability is all about long-term data protection. This means your data will remain intact without corruption
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Highly available
Highly available systems are designed to operate continuously without failure for a long time. These systems avoid loss of service by reducing or managing failures
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Elasticity
With elasticity, the company doesn't have to plan ahead of time how much capacity they'll need - elasticity allows them to match the supply of resources with changing workload demands
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IAM credential report
The report includes the status of the users' credentials, including passwords, access keys, MFA devices, and signing certificates. This policy grants the permissions necessary to complete this action programmatically from the AWS API or AWS CLI
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Secrets Manager
Allows you to manage and retrieve secrets
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AWS Kinesis
Allows you to analyse data and video streams in real time
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Auto Scaling
Monitors your applications and automatically adjusts your capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. It will ensure you have the optimal number of EC2 instances to handle your application's load, based on the rules y
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AWS Artifact
Your go-to, central resources for compliance-related information that matters to you. It provides on-demand access to AWS' security and compliance reports and select online agreements
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Control tower
Helps you ensure your accounts conform to company-wide policies. It sits on top of Organisations.
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Bucket access policy
A bucket access policy can be directly attached to an S3 bucket to limit access to specific users
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IAM credential report
Lists all the users and the status of their various credentials, including passwords, access keys, server certificates and MFA devices
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What are the five pillars of the Well-Architected Framework?
Operational excellence; security; reliability; performance efficiency; cost optimisation
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What are the six strategies for data migration?
Rehosting; replatforming; refactoring; repurchasing; retaining; retiring
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AWS CLI
The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) 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 command line and automate them through scripts.
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AWS API
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
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Subnet
A section of a VPC in which you can group resources based on security or operational needs. They can be public or privates and in a VPC they can communicate with each other
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S3 Transfer Acceleration
S3 Transfer Acceleration uses AWS' network of edge locations to ingest data, and then uses the most optimal path within its own network to reach S3. It reduces the variability in Internet routing, congestion and speeds that can affect transfers, and logic
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Dedicated Hosts
Physical servers with Amazon EC2 instance capacity that is fully dedicated to your use
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On-Demand
Ideal for short-term, irregular workloads that cannot be interrupted. The instances run continuously until you stop them and you pay only for the compute time you use.n
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EC2 Saving Plans
Enable you to reduce your compute costs by committing to a consistent amount of compute usage for a 1-year or 3-year term
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Reserved Instances
A billing discount applied to the use of On-Demand Instances in your account that can be purchased for a 1-year or 3-year term
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Spot Instances
Ideal for workloads with flexible start and end times, or that can withstand interruptions
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Hybrid Deployment
Connect cloud-based resources to on-premises infrastructure
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Storage Gateway
A hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage. Storage Gateway provides a standard set of storage protocols such as iSCSI, SMB, and NFS, which allow you to use AWS storage without rewriting your exis
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Direct Connect
A service that enables you to establish a dedicated private connection between your data centre and a VPC
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Instance metadata
Data about your instance that you can use to configure or manage the running instance. Instance metadata is divided into categories, for example, host name, events, and security groups. You can also use instance metadata to access user data that you speci
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Geolocation routing policy
It will route traffic to the resources based upon user location. It is suitable when there are multiple resources deployed in different geographical locations and traffic needs to route to resources based upon user location
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AWS Global Accelerator
It simplifies global traffic management by providing 2 static anycast IP addresses that only need to be configured by users once. Behind these IP address you can add or remove AWS origins, opening up uses such as endpoint failover, scaling, or testing wit
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Weighted routing policy
It is suitable to route traffic to multiple resources based upon weights defined. This is useful when multiple resources are associated with a single domain name and traffic needs to be route based upon weighted proportions to each of the resources
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AWS License Manager
Provisions and tracks license usage across multiple AWS accounts and on-premises environment. It helps to send an alert to an Administrator when license usage exceeds the limit
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AWS Certificate Manager
It can be used to store and provision SSL/TLS certificates. It is integrated with AWS resources like ELB. SSL/TLS certificate can be directly imported from AWS certificate manager to Amazon ELB.
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Amazon Cognito User Pools
A managed service which can be used to manager user authentication to mobile applications. It can scale up to millions of users. It supports direct user sign-in as well as federates users using social and enterprise identity providers
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AWS Detective
A persistent machine learning-driven service that automatically collates log data from all AWS resources. This information allows the user to proactively visualise their AWS environment from a security standpoint, allowing them to quickly conduct security
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Amazon QuickSight
A fully-managed service that allows for insightful business intelligence reporting with creative data delivery methods, including graphical and interactive dashboards. It includes machine learning that allows users to discover inconspicuous trends and pat
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Amazon Cognito
A web identity federation service acts as a broker that allows authenticated users to access AWS resources. After successful authentication on platforms such as Facebook or Google Mail, users receieve temporary authentication code from Amazon Cognito, and
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AWS License Manager
Serves the purpose of differentiating and maintaining third-party software provisioning vendor licenses. It also decreases the risk of license expiration's and the penalties
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NoSQL database
Store data in documents rather than relational tables. Accordingly, we classify them as "not only SQL" and subdivide them by a variety of flexible data models. Types of NoSQL databases include pure document databases, key-value stores, wide-column databas
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EBS Snapshots
Snapshots are incremental backups, which means that only the blocks on the device that have changed after your most recent snapshot are saved
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Systems Manager
Allows users to control their AWS resources by unifying services into a user interface. They are able to view, automate and monitor operational tasks
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Latency based routing policy
Latency based routing always routes DNS queries to the best performing website irrespective of what happens in the Amazon infrastructure
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Global Accelerator
It uses the AWS global network to route traffic to the optimal regional endpoint based on health, client location and policies that you configure, which increases the availability of your applications
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AWS Budgets
Uses the cost visualisations provided by AWS Cost Explorer to show the status of preset budgets and to provide forecasts of estimated costs
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Amazon Connect
An omnichannel cloud contact centre which can be setup easily and with low cost. It provides telephone as a service, high quality audio, task management, web and mobile chat and contact centre automation
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AWS Lambda@Edge
A serverless service that makes it possible to run event-triggered functions on Edge Locations within the AWS Content Delivery Network. It improves the browsing experience
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AWS Cloud9
A cloud-based integrated development environment that lets you write, run and debug your code with just a browser
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Amazon Machine Image
Provides the information required to launch an instance
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Amazon WorkSpaces
Provides a secure managed service for virtual desktops for remote users. It supports both Windows and Linux based virtual desktops for a large number of users
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AWS Professional Services
A global team of experts which provides assistance for deploying high performance computing systems using various services in AWS cloud
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Read Replicas
Allow you to elastically scale out beyond the capacity constraints of a single DB instance for read-heavy database workloads
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Amazon FSx
Makes it easy to provide broadly-accessible and highly-performant file storage that enables a wide variety of use cases. The file systems support industry-standard protocols that offer connectivity to Linux, Windows and macOS users and applications. Deliv
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AWS Service Catalog
Can be used to create and deploy portfolio of products within AWS infrastructure. This helps to create consistent resources within AWS infrastructure with quick deployment
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Amazon SQS
Implements messaging that is a typical integration pattern to decouple application components
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Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
If you want a fully managed solution and you want to use SQL to process the data from your data stream, you should use Kinesis Data Analytics
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Amazon LightSail
A virtual private server which can be used to quickly launch business applications in AWS cloud at a low cost
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