AWS Service Flashcards
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EC2
What is Amazon EC2?
EC2
Elastic Compute Cloud - Virtual servers in the cloud. Provides scalable compute capacity.
Lambda
What is AWS Lambda?
Lambda
Serverless compute service. Run code without provisioning servers. Pay only for compute time used.
S3
What is Amazon S3?
S3
Simple Storage Service - Object storage with 99.999999999% (11 9s) durability. Store and retrieve any amount of data.
EBS
What is Amazon EBS?
EBS
Elastic Block Store - Block storage for EC2 instances. Persistent storage that survives instance stops.
RDS
What is Amazon RDS?
RDS
Relational Database Service - Managed relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MariaDB, Aurora).
DynamoDB
What is Amazon DynamoDB?
DynamoDB
Fully managed NoSQL database. Fast and flexible with single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.
VPC
What is Amazon VPC?
VPC
Virtual Private Cloud - Isolated network in AWS. Control virtual networking environment including IP ranges, subnets, route tables.
Route 53
What is Amazon Route 53?
Route 53
Scalable DNS web service. Routes end users to applications with high availability and low latency.
IAM
What is AWS IAM?
IAM
Identity and Access Management - Manage users, groups, roles and policies. Control access to AWS resources securely.
GuardDuty
What is Amazon GuardDuty?
GuardDuty
Threat detection service. Monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior using ML.
CloudWatch
What is Amazon CloudWatch?
CloudWatch
Monitoring and observability service. Collect and track metrics, logs, and set alarms.
CloudTrail
What is AWS CloudTrail?
CloudTrail
Audit and compliance service. Tracks user activity and API calls across AWS infrastructure.