AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 Flash Cards

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Loose coupling

A change or a failure in one component should not cascade to other components.

Internet Gateway

A gateway that enables your Amazon EC2 instances in the public subnet to connect to the public Internet.

NAT Gateway

A gateway that enables your EC2 instances in the private subnet to connect to the public Internet.

AWS Firewall Manager

A security management tool to configure your AWS WAF rules across your accounts.

AWS Artifact

Compliance-related documents in AWS such as Service Organization Controls (SOC) reports.

IAM User

An IAM identity that uses access keys to manage cloud resources via AWS CLI.

IAM Role

A role that grants temporary access to your AWS resources.

IAM Group

Manages the common access permissions to a large number of IAM users in AWS.

Bucket Policy

A resource-based policy that you can use to grant access permissions to your bucket and the objects in it.

Amazon Cognito Identity Pools

Provides AWS credentials to grant your users access to other AWS services.

Amazon Macie

A service that discovers classifies and protects sensitive data such as PII or intellectual property.

Amazon GuardDuty

A threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity to protect your AWS account.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

An authentication method that prevents unauthorized deletion of Amazon S3 objects.

Security Group

A virtual firewall in AWS that controls traffic at the EC2 instance level.

Amazon Inspector

An automated security assessment service to improve the security and compliance of your applications.

AWS Global Accelerator

An AWS global network that improves availability using an anycast static IP address.

AWS Snowball

A data transport service that securely moves petabyte-scale data into and out of AWS.

AWS CloudTrail

Continuously monitors and logs account activities and user actions.

AWS CodeCommit

A source control service that hosts Git-based repositories.

Dedicated Host

An EC2 instance type that allows use of existing server-bound software licenses.

Amazon Route 53

A highly available and scalable cloud DNS web service.

AWS Auto Scaling

Automatically scales capacity based on incoming traffic.

S3 Lifecycle Policy

Automatically transfers infrequently accessed S3 data to lower-cost storage.

Technical Account Manager (TAM)

A designated technical point of contact for maintaining a healthy AWS environment.

AWS Trusted Advisor

Inspects your AWS environment and provides best practice recommendations.

AWS Budgets

Sets coverage targets and sends alerts when utilization drops.

Convertible Reserved Instance

A Reserved Instance that allows instance family and type changes.

AWS Cost Explorer

Forecasts future AWS costs and usage based on past consumption.

Cost allocation tags

Categorize and track AWS costs at a detailed level.

All Upfront

Most cost-effective Reserved Instance payment option for a 1-year term.

Amazon ElastiCache

Managed in-memory cache service for high-performance applications.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

Migrates and replicates databases to AWS with minimal downtime.

AWS Direct Connect

Provides a dedicated private network connection to AWS.

Amazon Rekognition

Adds image and video analysis using machine learning.

AWS X-Ray

Analyzes and traces distributed application behavior.

Instance metadata

Data associated with an EC2 instance used during runtime.

Amazon CloudFront

Accelerates delivery of static and dynamic web content.

AWS CloudFormation

Defines and deploys AWS resources using infrastructure as code.

AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

Manages cryptographic keys for AWS services and applications.

Amazon DynamoDB

Serverless fully managed NoSQL key-value database.

AWS TCO Calculator

Estimates the total cost of ownership for AWS workloads.

Spot Instance

Uses unused EC2 capacity at up to 90 percent discount.

AWS Organizations

Centrally manages multiple AWS accounts.

Amazon Glacier

Low-cost archival storage with multiple retrieval options.

AWS Marketplace

Platform to sell custom Amazon Machine Images.

Multipart Upload

Uploads large S3 objects in parts.

Consolidated Billing

Combines billing across multiple AWS accounts.

AWS Cost and Usage Reports

Provides detailed AWS usage and cost information.

Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

Distributes traffic across targets and ensures high availability.

AWS Regions

Physical locations where AWS data centers are located.

Availability Zones

Isolated data centers with redundant power and networking.

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Region-specific template for launching EC2 instances.

Amazon Athena

Interactive SQL query service for S3 data.

Operational Excellence

Pillar focused on running and improving workloads.

Amazon S3

Object storage service that stores data in buckets.

Amazon CloudWatch

Monitors metrics and triggers alarms.

Amazon EventBridge

Connects applications using events from AWS and SaaS apps.

Amazon Detective

Investigates security findings and root causes.

AWS Shield

Managed DDoS protection service.

AWS WAF

Filters web traffic based on rules and conditions.

Active-Passive Failover

Uses a standby resource for failover scenarios.

Amazon Redshift

Scalable data warehouse for analytics workloads.

Amazon Aurora

Fully managed MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database.

AWS Fargate

Runs containers without managing servers.

Amazon SQS

Managed message queue service.

Aurora Replica

Read-only replica sharing the same storage as primary DB.

People Perspective

CAF perspective aligning technology and business.

Go global in minutes

Ability to deploy applications globally quickly.

Amazon EFS

Serverless elastic file storage service.

Amazon EBS

Block-level storage volumes for EC2.

AWS Storage Gateway

Connects on-premises environments to AWS storage.

Decouple your components

Cloud best practice based on SOA principles.

IAM Policy Simulator

Evaluates IAM policies.

AWS

Responsible for patching the EC2 host operating system.

AWS Snowmobile

Transfers exabyte-scale data to AWS.

Use Multipart Upload API

Improves throughput and recovery for large uploads.

Developer Support Plan

Lowest AWS support plan with unlimited cases.

AWS Health Dashboard

Shows AWS service health and operational status.

Amazon SNS

Managed notification and messaging service.

Batch computing

Executes jobs automatically without manual intervention.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Simplifies application deployment and management.

Amazon WorkSpaces

Managed virtual desktop service.

Kubernetes

Open-source container orchestration platform.

DynamoDB Standard-IA

Lower-cost storage class for infrequently accessed data.

Predictive Scaling

Auto Scaling feature that forecasts traffic patterns.

AWS CloudHSM

Managed hardware security module service.

Attribute-based access control (ABAC)

Authorization based on attributes.

AWS Config

Evaluates resource configurations and compliance.

Least-privilege permissions

Grants only minimum required access.

Amazon ECS

Manages Docker containers on clusters.

Amazon RDS

Managed relational database service.

RDS Storage Auto Scaling

Automatically increases database storage.

Amazon QuickSight

Cloud-powered business intelligence service.

AWS Pricing Calculator

Estimates AWS service costs.

AWS Batch

Runs large-scale batch computing workloads.

Amazon Lightsail

Simplified VPS service for small businesses.

Amazon EKS

Managed Kubernetes service.

AWS CodeBuild

Builds and tests source code.

Amazon Connect

Cloud-based contact center service.