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| Access control list (ACL) |
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| A firewall/security layer on the subnet level |
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| Automates the process of adding or removing EC2 instances based on traffic demand for your application |
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| A Content Delivery Network (CDN) that allows you to store your content at "edge locations" located all around the world, allowing customers to access your content more quickly |
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| Allows you to monitor all actions taken by IAM users |
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| Service that allows you to monitor various elements of your AWS account |
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| Allows you to view, manage and pay bills for multiple AWS accounts in one user interface |
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"Domain Name Service"
A database of website domains and their corresponding IP address |
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| NoSQL database service that does not provide other NoSQL software options |
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| Elastic Block Store (EBS) |
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| Provides persistent block storage volumes for use of EC2 instances |
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| Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) |
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| A virtual computer, very similar to a desktop/laptop computer |
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| Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) |
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| Evenly distributes traffic between EC2 instances that are associated with it |
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| Data caching service used to help improve the speed/performance of web applications running on AWS |
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| The ability of a system to increase and decrease in size |
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| Property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of one or more components |
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| A type of software that either allows or blocks certain kinds of internet traffic to pass through it |
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| Any "subfolder" created in a bucket |
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| Refers to systems that are durable and likely to operate continuously without failure for a long time |
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| Individuals who have been granted access to an AWS account |
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| Identity and Access Management |
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| IAM - service where AWS user accounts and their access to various AWS services are managed |
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| Serverless computing that will replace EC2 instances, for the most part |
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| Percent over a one-year time period that a file stored in S3 will be accessible |
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| Percent over a one-year time period that a file stored in S3 will not be lost |
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| Set rules to automatically transfer objects between storage classes at defined time intervals |
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| ability to make any object publicly available via a URL link |
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| automatically keep multiple version of an object (when enabled) |
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| Allow you or your company access to manage billing and access to multiple AWS accounts in one user interface |
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| Principle of least privilege |
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| Giving a user only the rights/access to the AWS services and resources they need to do their job and nothing more |
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| Human/alarm/event that gives SNS the message that needs to be sent |
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| Relational Database Service (RDS) |
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| SQL database service that provides a wide range of SQL database options to select from |
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| Relational database used for structured data. |
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| A non-relational database used for unstructured data. It allows more flexible data modeling because it can take in various types of data structures (like graph databases, document stores, key-value stores) |
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| What is the difference between SQL server and SQL database? |
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In summary:
- SQL Server is the overarching relational database management system (RDBMS) product developed by Microsoft.
- A SQL database is a specific database instance managed by SQL Server. |
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| Data warehouse database service designed to handle petabytes of data for analysis |
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| How different AWS services are granted permission to communicate and share data |
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| Where you configure and manage web domains for website or applications you host on AWS |
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| The ability of a system to easily increase in size and capacity in a cost-effective way |
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| Firewall/security layer on the server/instance level |
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| Shared responsibility model |
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| Defines what you and AWS are responsible for when it comes to security and compliance |
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| Simple Notification Service (SNS) |
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| AWS service that allows you to automate the sending of email or text messaging notifications based on events that happen in your AWS account |
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| Simple Storage Service (S3) |
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| Online bulk storage service you can access from almost any device |
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| Represents "classification" assigned to each object in S3 (standard, RRS, S3-IA, Glacier) |
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| A subsection of a network and generally includes all the computers in a specific location |
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| Endpoints to which a topic sends messages |
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| How you label and group different endpoints to which you send messages |
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| Service that "advises" and helps you optimize aspects of your AWS account |
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| IAM user's username and password for logging in to AWS |
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| Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) |
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| A private subsection of AWS you control and in which you can place AWS resources. It is your own dedicated part of AWS. |
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| Capital expenditures - upfront purchases toward fixed assets (ie hardware) |
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| Operating expenses - used to run day-to-day operations (ie salaries, research & development) |
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