D282 Exam Guide: AWS In-Scope Technologies and Concepts

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering AWS services, infrastructures, and operational frameworks defined in the D282 Exam Guide.

API (Application Programming Interface)

A set of rules and protocols that allow different software applications to communicate with each other, defining how requests and responses should be structured.

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

A framework that leverages AWS experience and best practices to help organizations digitally transform, grouping capabilities into six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations.

Infrastructure as code (IaC)

A practice exemplified by AWS CloudFormation, which is a service for writing or changing templates that create and delete related AWS resources together as a unit.

AWS Global Infrastructure

A secure and extensive cloud infrastructure consisting of AWS Regions and Availability Zones (AZs) that utilizes more than $9+ million$ kilometers of fiber optic cabling.

Amazon SageMaker AI

A fully managed cloud service used to build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale with purpose-built tools for each step of the ML lifecycle.

AWS Shared Responsibility Model

A model where security and compliance are shared; AWS manages components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to physical security, while the customer manages the guest operating system, applications, and security group firewalls.

AWS Well-Architected Framework

A framework used to learn architectural best practices for designing secure, reliable, efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable workloads in the AWS Cloud.

Amazon Athena

An interactive query service that analyzes data in Amazon S3 using ANSI SQL in a serverless environment.

AWS Glue

A fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service used to catalog data and load it for analytics.

Amazon EventBridge

A serverless event bus service used to connect applications with data from various sources and route it to targets like AWS Lambda.

AWS Billing Conductor

A service that enables accurate and customizable billing by allowing users to customize billing rates, distribute credits, and share overhead costs.

AWS Outposts

A fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to on-premises data centers and edge locations.

AWS Wavelength

A service that embeds AWS compute and storage within 5G networks to provide mobile edge computing infrastructure for ultra-low-latency applications.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

A highly scalable, fast container management service used to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of EC2 instances.

Amazon Aurora

A fully managed MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of commercial databases with the simplicity of open-source databases.

Amazon DynamoDB

A fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.

AWS CLI (Command Line Interface)

A unified downloadable and configurable tool for managing multiple AWS services through the command line and automation scripts.

AWS Amplify

A complete solution used by frontend web and mobile developers to build and deploy secure, scalable full-stack applications through Amplify Hosting and Amplify Studio.

Amazon Rekognition

A machine learning service that identifies objects, people, text, scenes, and activities in image or video files.

AWS CloudTrail

A web service that records AWS API calls for an account and delivers log files including identity, time, source IP, and request parameters.

Amazon CloudWatch

A web service used to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on that data.

AWS Trusted Advisor

A web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides recommendations for cost-saving, performance improvement, and security gap closure.

AWS Snow Family

A collection of devices, such as Snowball Edge, used to access storage and compute locally or transfer hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data without internet.

Amazon CloudFront

An AWS content delivery service that improves the performance, reliability, and availability of websites and applications.

Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

A web service for provisioning a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud virtual network where users control IP ranges, subnets, and route tables.

AWS Artifact

A copy of the files or changes that are worked on by the pipeline within the security and compliance context.

Amazon GuardDuty

A continuous security monitoring service that identifies unexpected and potentially unauthorized or malicious activity in an AWS environment.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

A web service for securely controlling access to AWS services by centrally managing users, credentials, and permissions.

AWS Shield

A service that protects resources against DDoS attacks; the standard version is automatically included at no extra cost.

AWS Fargate

A serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine for building applications on AWS using Amazon ECS or Amazon EKS.

AWS Lambda

A service that allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers, automatically starting from other AWS services or direct calls.

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Storage for the internet used to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time from anywhere on the web.

Amazon S3 Glacier

A secure, durable, and low-cost storage service optimized for infrequently accessed data and long-term backup archiving.

AWS Storage Gateway

A hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.