AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 Flashcards

Flashcards covering key terms and concepts for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 exam.

Loose Coupling

A design principle where 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 personally identifiable information (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

Acts as a virtual firewall in AWS that controls the 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 of deployed applications on AWS using an anycast static IP address.

AWS Snowball

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

AWS CloudTrail

A service that allows you to continuously monitor and log account activities such as user actions made from the AWS Management Console and AWS SDKs.

AWS CodeCommit

A source control service that allows you to host Git-based repositories.

Dedicated Host

A type of an EC2 instance that allows you to use your existing server-bound software licenses.

Amazon Route 53

A highly available and scalable cloud DNS web service in AWS.

AWS Auto Scaling

Automatically scales the capacity of an AWS cloud resource based on the incoming traffic to improve availability and reduce failures.

S3 Lifecycle Policy

Automatically transfers your infrequently accessed data in your S3 bucket to a more cost-effective storage class.

Technical Account Manager (TAM)

A designated technical point of contact that maintains an operationally healthy AWS environment.

AWS Trusted Advisor

A tool that inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations that follow AWS best practices.

AWS Budgets

Sets coverage targets and receives alerts when your utilization drops.

Convertible RI

A type of Reserved Instance that allows you to change its instance family, instance type, platform, scope, or tenancy.

AWS Cost Explorer

Forecasts future costs and usage of your AWS resources based on past consumption.

Cost allocation tags

Categorize and track AWS costs on a detailed level.

All Upfront

The most cost-effective option when you purchase a Reserved Instance for a 1-year term.

Amazon ElastiCache

A service that simplifies setting up, managing, and scaling distributed in-memory cache setups in the AWS Cloud.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

A migration and replication service designed to help move database workloads securely and quickly to AWS.

AWS Direct Connect

Creates a secure link between your on-premises data center and the AWS environment through a fiber-optic connection.

Amazon Rekognition

A machine learning service that allows you to add image and video analysis features to your applications.

AWS X-Ray

Simplifies the analysis of distributed application behavior for developers.

Instance metadata

Data associated with an Amazon EC2 instance utilized by applications for configuration or management.

Amazon CloudFront

A web service that accelerates the delivery of your dynamic and static web content.

AWS CloudFormation

Allows you to define and deploy AWS resources using infrastructure-as-code (IaC).

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

Enables you to manage, create, and control cryptographic keys for AWS services.

Amazon DynamoDB

A fully managed NoSQL database for key-value data that handles high-performance applications.

AWS Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Helps estimate the overall expenses of operating applications in the AWS Cloud.

Spot Instance

A purchasing option that allows you to utilize unused EC2 capacity at a discount.

AWS Organizations

An account management service that consolidates multiple AWS accounts into an organization.

Amazon Glacier

A cost-effective solution for storing data over extended periods.

AWS Marketplace

A platform for selling your catalog of custom AMIs in AWS.

Multipart Upload

An S3 feature for uploading a single object as a set of parts.

Consolidated Billing

An AWS Organizations feature that combines payment for multiple accounts into a single method.

AWS Cost and Usage Reports

Provides detailed information about resource usage and estimated charges.

Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)

Distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets and automatically scales capacity.

AWS Regions

Physical locations where AWS data centers allow application deployment closer to end-users.

Availability Zones

Comprise one or more discrete data centers with redundant power and networking.

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

Tied to the region where their files are stored within S3.

Amazon Athena

An interactive query service that analyzes data directly in Amazon S3 using SQL.

Operational Excellence

Supports effective workload development and improvement processes.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

An object storage service that stores data as objects within buckets.

Amazon CloudWatch

Displays metrics and creates alarms to monitor resources.

Amazon EventBridge

Extends CloudWatch capabilities by connecting data from apps and SaaS applications.

Amazon Detective

Simplifies the investigation of security findings.

AWS Shield

A managed DDoS protection service for applications running on AWS.

AWS WAF

Service that creates rules to filter web traffic.

Active-Passive Failover

A failover configuration used to keep a primary resource available most of the time.

Amazon Redshift

A database service that facilitates data access and analysis without much configuration.

Amazon Aurora

A fully managed relational database engine compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

AWS Fargate

A technology to run containers without managing servers.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

A fully managed message queuing service for software components.

Aurora Replica

Connects to the same storage volume as the primary DB instance for read operations.

People perspective

An AWS Cloud Adoption Framework perspective for aligning technology with business.

Go global in minutes

A cloud computing advantage for deploying applications quickly across multiple regions.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

Provides serverless and elastic file storage for users.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Offers storage volumes for use with EC2 instances on a block level.

AWS Snowball

Provides devices for durable and safe data transfer to and from AWS.

AWS Storage Gateway

Links on-premises software to cloud storage, facilitating integration.

Decouple your components

A cloud best practice reinforcing Service-Oriented Architecture design.

IAM Policy Simulator

Allows users to evaluate newly created IAM policies.

AWS

Responsible for patching the host operating system of an EC2 instance.

AWS Snowmobile

Allows secure transfer of hundreds of petabytes of data into and out of AWS.

Use Multipart Upload API

Improves throughput for uploading a single object as a set of parts.

Developer Support Plan

The lowest support plan allowing unlimited technical support cases.

AWS Health Dashboard

Provides information about the availability and operations of AWS resources.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

An AWS service for sending notifications from the cloud.

Batch computing

Executes a series of programs, commonly known as jobs, automatically.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Simplifies deployment and management of applications in the AWS Cloud.

Amazon WorkSpaces

Simplifies desktop delivery strategy by eliminating management complexities.

Kubernetes

An open-source container orchestration system for managing containerized applications.

DynamoDB Standard-IA

Helps reduce DynamoDB expenses for tables with infrequently accessed data.

Predictive Scaling

Analyzes traffic patterns to adjust the number of EC2 instances as necessary.

AWS CloudHSM

A cryptographic service for creating and maintaining hardware security modules.

Attribute-based access control (ABAC)

An authorization strategy defining permissions based on attributes.

AWS Config

Performs ongoing assessments and evaluations of resource configurations.

Least-privilege permissions

Permitting users only the minimum necessary access to perform tasks.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

A container management service for running and managing Docker containers.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

A service that simplifies establishing and managing a cloud-based relational database.

RDS Storage Auto Scaling

Automatically scales storage capacity with zero downtime.

Amazon QuickSight

A fast, user-friendly analytics tool for creating visualizations and insights.

AWS Pricing Calculator

Estimates the cost of using AWS services based on specific parameters.

AWS Batch

Executes large volumes of batch computing jobs quickly and efficiently.

Amazon Lightsail

A user-friendly AWS service for launching and managing virtual private servers.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

A managed service for simplifying Kubernetes cluster management.

AWS CodeBuild

Compiles source code, runs tests, and produces deployable software packages.

Amazon Connect

A cloud-based contact center service for exceptional customer service delivery.