Amazon Certified Cloud Practitioner Vocabulary

Region

Region

A physical location in the world where we have multiple availability zones

Availability Zones

Consist of one or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity, housed in separate facilities

Fault Tolerance

Remain operational even if some of the components on that system fail

Elasticity

Is the power to scale computing resources up and down easily, while only paying for the actual resources used

Environmental systems

Designed to minimize the impact of disruptions to operations

Amazon CloudFront

Used to deliver content to deliver content to your customers

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Allow you to create a private network within the AWS cloud that uses many of the same concepts as an on-premises network

Security Groups

Gives you full control on how accessible your instances are

AWS Lambda

Lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.

AWS LightSail

AWS LightSail allows you to launch a virtual private server in just minutes and easily manage simple web and application servers.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

Highly scalable, high-performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster over Amazon EC2 instances

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

A web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Service for deploying and scaling web apps and services with popular program languages.

Elastic Load Balancer

a service that distributes incoming traffic or loads amongst your instances

Auto Scaling

Auto Scaling helps you ensure that you have the correct number of Amazon EC2 instances available to handle the load for your application by launching or terminating instances based on specified conditions

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Provides persistent block storage volumes for use with EC2 instances in the AWS cloud.

Amazon Glacier

low cost secure storage for data archiving and backup for cold data

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

Makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups

Amazon DynamoDB

A fully managed NoSQL database service. Amazon manages all of the underlying data infrastructure for this service and redundantly stores data across multiple facilities within a native US region as part of the fault tolerant architecture

Amazon Redshift

A fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse that makes it simple
and cost-effective to analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools.

Amazon Aurora

A MySQL relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases

AWS Trusted Advisor

acts as your cloud expert and helps you provision your resources by best practices

The AWS Shared Responsibility Model

AWS is responsible for security of the cloud, Customers are responsible for the security of everything they put in the cloud

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources for you and your users.

AWS Account Teams

provide a first point of contact, guiding you through your deployment and implementation, and points you toward the right resources to solve security issues you may encounter

AWS Enterprise Support

provides 15-minute response time and is available by phone, chat, or email along with a dedicated Technical Account Manager 24/7

AWS Professional Services & AWS Partner Network

help customers develop security policies and procedures based on well-proven designs

AWS Advisories and Bulletins

AWS provides advisories around current vulnerabilities and threats, and enables customers to work with AWS security experts to address concerns like reporting abuse, vulnerabilities, and penetration testing

Operational Excellence Pillar

Includes the ability to run and monitor systems to deliver business value and to continually improve supporting processes and procedures

Security Pillar

Includes the ability to protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value through risk assessments and mitigation strategies

Reliability Pillar

Includes the ability of a system to recover from infrastructure or service disruptions, dynamically acquire computing resources to meet demand, and mitigate disruptions such as misconfigurations or transient network issues

Performance Efficiency Pillar

Includes the ability to use computing resources efficiently to meet system requirements and to maintain that efficiency as demand changed and technologies evolve

Cost Optimization Pillar

Includes the ability to avoid or eliminate unneeded cost or suboptimal resources

Elastic IP addresses

Static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing, allows you to mask a failure of an instance or software by allowing your users to use the same IP addresses with replacement resources

Amazon Route S3

An authoritative DNS service from AWS used to translate domain names into IP addresses

Amazon CloudWatch

provides monitoring for cloud services like EC2
graphs, set alarms, troubleshoot, spot trends

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

a fully managed messaging queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

A simple web service that you can utilize and only pay for the storage that you use, stores all of your data redundantly on multiple different devices across multiple facilities in a region

Amazon SimpleDB

Fault-tolerant and durable structured data storage solution that gives you full advantage to a scalable service that can avoid single points of failure due to its natural design for high availability and fault tolerance

Amazon VPC

Lets you provision a logically isolated section of
the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.

AWS CloudFormation

Gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

Auto scaling

Automatically adds or removes Amazon EC2 instances according to conditions you define

AWS OpsWorks

An application management service that makes it easy to deploy and operate applications of all shapes and sizes

The TCO Calculator

The TCO Calculator is a tool that helps estimate cost savings when using AWS

Scaling Vertically

Increase of specifications of an individual resource

Scaling Horizontally

Increase in the number of resources

Stateless Applications

an application that does not need knowledge of previous interactions and does not store session information

push model

You can use ELB to distribute a workload

pull model

Data needs to be processed can be stored as messages in a queue using Amazon SQS or a streaming solution such as Amazon Kinesis

Six Advantages of Cloud Computing

Variable vs. Capital Expense, Economies of scale, Stop guessing capacity, Global in minutes, Increase speed and agility, stop spending money running and maintaining data centers

AWS Management Console

Access and manage Amazon Web Services through the simple and intuitive user interface.

AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

A unified tool to manage your AWS services, can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts

Amazon EC2 Container Service

highly scalable container management service to run apps on a managed cluster of EC2 instances
Basically simplifies cluster management

Amazon EC2 Container Registry

a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images

Amazon Lightsail

designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS

AWS Batch

enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud

AWS Storage Gateway

seamlessly enables hybrid storage between on-premises storage environments and the AWS Cloud

Amazon ElastiCache

service to deploy, operate and scale cache in the cloud

AWS Application Discovery Service

helps systems integrators quickly and reliably plan application migration projects by automatically identifying applications running in on-premises data centers, their associated dependencies, and their performance profiles

AWS Server Migration Service

an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS

AWS Snowball

is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to
transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS

AWS Snowball Edge

is a 100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute capabilities.

AWS Snowmobile

is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck

Amazon Route 53

highly available and scalable DNS web service
Queries for your domain are automatically routed to closest DNS server

AWS Direct Connect

Makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS

AWS CodeCommit

a fully managed source control service that makes it easy for companies
to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories.

AWS CodeBuild

a fully managed build service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy.

AWS CodeDeploy

is a service that automates code deployments to any instance, including EC2
instances and instances running on premises.

AWS CodePipeline

is a continuous integration and continuous delivery service for fast and
reliable application and infrastructure updates.

AWS X-Ray

helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications in production or
under development, such as those built using a microservices architecture.

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager

is a management service that helps you automatically collect software inventory, apply OS patches, create system images, and configure Windows and Linux operating systems

AWS CloudTrail

a web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you

AWS Config

a fully managed service that provides you with AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance

AWS Service Catalog

allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that might affect you

AWS Managed Services

provides ongoing management of your AWS infrastructure so you can
focus on your applications.

Amazon Cloud Directory

enables you to build flexible, cloud-native directories for organizing hierarchies of data along multiple dimensions.

Amazon Inspector

an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS

AWS Certificate Manager

a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services

AWS CloudHSM

helps meet corporate compliance requirements by using HSM (Hardware Security Module) appliances within the AWS cloud securely generate, store and manage crypto keys for data encryption yourself

AWS Directory Service

enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption used to encrypt your data

AWS Organizations

allows you to create groups of AWS accounts that you can use to more easily manage security and automation settings

AWS Shield

a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS

AWS WAF

a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources

Amazon Athena

a serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL, pay only for the queries you run

Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

provides a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process vast amounts of data across dynamically scalable EC2 instances.

Amazon CloudSearch

a managed service in the AWS Cloud that makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application

Amazon Elasticsearch Service

a fully managed service that delivers Elastcisearch's easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with the availability, scalability, and security required by production workloads.

Amazon Kinesis

a platform for streaming data on AWS, offering powerful services to make it easy to load and analyze streaming data, and also providing the ability for you to build custom streaming data applications for specialized needs

Amazon Kinesis Firehose

the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS. It can capture,transform, and load streaming data into Amazon Kinesis Analytics, Amazon S3, Amazon
Redshift, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service, enabling near real-time analytics with existing
business intelligence tools and dashboards you're already using today

Amazon Kinesis Analytics

the easiest way to process streaming data in real time with standard SQL without having to learn new programming languages or processing frameworks enables you to create and run SQL queries on streaming data so that you can gain actionable insights and respond to your business and customer needs promptly.

Amazon QuickSight

a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data

AWS Data Pipeline

a web service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, and also on-premises data sources, at specified intervals.

AWS Glue

a fully managed ETL service that makes it easy to move data between your data stores. AWS Glue simplifies and automates the difficult and time-consuming tasks of data discovery, conversion, mapping, and job scheduling.

Amazon Lex

a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text

Amazon Polly

a service that turns text into lifelike speech.

Amazon Rekognition

a service that makes it easy to add image analysis to your applications. With Rekognition, you can detect objects, scenes, and faces in images. You can also search and compare faces.

Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML)

a service that makes it easy for developers of all
skill levels to use machine learning technology