AWS Services Study Notes

Vocabulary flashcards covering AWS services and concepts from the lecture notes.

What is Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)?

Elastic Compute Cloud; scalable virtual servers in the cloud providing resizable compute capacity.

What is AWS Wavelength?

Edge computing service to run applications closer to end users at edge locations to reduce latency.

What is AWS Lambda with API Gateway?

Serverless compute with API management for building highly available microservices.

What is AWS Batch?

Batch processing service for running large-scale batch jobs in the cloud.

What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

Platform as a Service to deploy and scale web applications automatically with managed infrastructure.

What is AWS Auto Scaling?

Automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances based on demand.

What is Amazon Lightsail?

Easy-to-use virtual private servers with a simple interface for quick deployments.

What is Amazon ECS (EC2 Launch Type)?

Container orchestration service to run Docker containers on a cluster of EC2 instances.

What is AWS Fargate?

Serverless compute for containers; run containers without managing servers or clusters.

What is AWS Lambda?

Run code without provisioning servers; event-driven compute service.

What compute capacity does Amazon EC2 provide?

Resizable compute capacity; virtual servers in the cloud.

What is Auto Scaling for EC2?

Automatically adjusts EC2 capacity in response to demand.

What is Amazon Rekognition?

Facial recognition and image analysis service.

What is Amazon EMR?

Managed Hadoop/Spark framework for big data on AWS.

What is AWS WAF?

Web Application Firewall that protects against web exploits such as SQL injection and can help mitigate DDoS.

What is Amazon SageMaker?

End-to-end platform for building, training, and deploying ML models.

What is AWS Glue?

ETL service for extracting, transforming, and loading data; serverless data integration.

What is Amazon SNS?

Simple Notification Service for messaging and notifications.

What is Amazon EFS?

Elastic File System; scalable file storage accessible by EC2 instances.

What is Amazon ElastiCache?

In-memory caching service to speed up data retrieval.

What is AWS CloudTrail?

Real-time monitoring, logging, and tracking of API calls across AWS.

What is Elastic Beanstalk deployment?

Easy deployment of applications with automated provisioning, load balancing, and scaling.

What is Amazon Athena?

Serverless SQL query service to analyze data in S3.

What is Amazon Redshift?

Fully managed data warehousing service.

What is Amazon Route 53?

DNS management and domain name registration service.

What is AWS DMS?

Database Migration Service; best for migrating databases to AWS.

What is Amazon RDS?

Managed relational database service supporting multiple engines.

What is AWS CloudFormation?

Infrastructure as Code service for provisioning AWS resources via templates.

What is Amazon ECS?

Fully managed container orchestration service for deploying and managing containers.

What is Amazon CloudFront?

Content Delivery Network (CDN) for fast content delivery worldwide.

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

Monitoring service for AWS resources and applications with logs and metrics.

What is the primary purpose of Amazon EC2?

Providing virtual servers for running applications in the cloud.

What is Amazon S3?

Scalable object storage service in the cloud.

What is the primary purpose of S3?

Scalable object storage used to store and retrieve data.

How does AWS Lambda (serverless compute) function?

Run code without provisioning or managing servers in response to events.