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What is Systems Manager Session Manager?

Secure shell access to managed instances without opening inbound ports or managing SSH keys.

What is Systems Manager Parameter Store?

Central storage for configuration values and secrets; Secrets Manager is better when automatic rotation is required.

What is Amazon Route 53?

A highly available DNS service that registers domains, routes traffic, and performs health checks.

What is Route 53 failover routing?

An active-passive policy that sends traffic to a secondary resource when the primary fails a health check.

What is Amazon CloudFront?

A content delivery network that caches content at edge locations close to users.

What is AWS Global Accelerator?

It improves global application availability and performance using static anycast IPs and the AWS global network.

What is AWS Direct Connect?

A private, dedicated network connection from on-premises infrastructure to AWS.

What is AWS Site-to-Site VPN?

An encrypted connection over the public internet between an on-premises network and a VPC.

What is AWS Client VPN?

A managed encrypted VPN for individual users connecting to AWS or on-premises networks.

What is AWS Outposts?

AWS-managed infrastructure installed on-premises for workloads requiring local processing or residency.

What are AWS Local Zones?

They place selected AWS compute and storage services near major population centers for low latency.

What are AWS Wavelength Zones?

They run applications at the edge of 5G provider networks for ultra-low mobile latency.

What is Amazon SQS?

A managed message queue that stores messages and decouples application components.

What is an SQS FIFO queue?

A queue that preserves message order and supports exactly-once processing behavior.

What is Amazon SNS?

A publish-subscribe service that pushes one message to many subscribers.

What is Amazon Kinesis Data Streams?

A managed service for collecting and processing real-time streaming data.

What is Amazon Data Firehose?

It automatically delivers streaming data to destinations such as S3, Redshift, and OpenSearch.

What is Amazon MQ?

A managed ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ broker for applications using traditional messaging protocols.

What is Amazon EventBridge?

A serverless event bus that routes events from AWS services, applications, and SaaS sources to targets.

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

A monitoring service for metrics, logs, dashboards, and alarms.

What is AWS CloudTrail?

It records AWS API activity for auditing, governance, and security investigations.

What is AWS Config?

It records resource configurations, tracks changes, and evaluates compliance against rules.

What is AWS X-Ray?

It traces requests through distributed applications to find errors and performance bottlenecks.

What is Amazon CodeGuru?

It uses machine learning to recommend code improvements and identify expensive or slow application behavior.

What is AWS Health Dashboard?

It shows AWS service health and personalized events affecting your account or resources.

What is Amazon VPC?

A logically isolated virtual network in AWS where you control addressing, subnets, routing, and security.

What is an Internet Gateway?

A horizontally scaled gateway that connects a VPC to the internet when routing and public addressing permit it.

What is a NAT Gateway?

It gives private-subnet resources outbound internet access without allowing unsolicited inbound connections.

What is a Network ACL?

A stateless firewall operating at the subnet boundary with allow and deny rules.

What are VPC Flow Logs?

They record metadata about accepted and rejected IP traffic in a VPC.

What is VPC Peering?

A private connection between two VPCs; peering connections are not transitive.

What is a VPC Endpoint?

It provides private access from a VPC to supported services without using the public internet.

What is AWS PrivateLink?

It privately exposes services across VPCs through interface endpoints without public IPs or VPC peering.

What is AWS Transit Gateway?

A central hub that connects many VPCs and on-premises networks.

What is AWS Shield?

A managed DDoS protection service; Shield Standard is automatically included with AWS.

What is AWS WAF?

A Layer 7 web application firewall that filters HTTP requests using rules such as IP addresses and SQL injection patterns.

What is AWS Network Firewall?

A managed network firewall for filtering traffic entering, leaving, or moving through VPCs.

What is AWS Firewall Manager?

It centrally applies security policies across accounts and resources in AWS Organizations.

What is AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?

A managed service for creating and controlling encryption keys integrated with many AWS services.

What is AWS CloudHSM?

Dedicated hardware security modules in AWS where the customer controls the keys and cryptographic operations.

What is AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)?

It provisions, manages, and automatically renews TLS certificates for supported AWS services.

What is AWS Secrets Manager?

It securely stores secrets and can automatically rotate credentials such as database passwords.

What is AWS Artifact?

A self-service portal for downloading AWS compliance reports and managing certain agreements.

What is Amazon GuardDuty?

An intelligent threat-detection service that analyzes logs and signals for suspicious activity.

What is Amazon Inspector?

Automated vulnerability management for EC2 instances, container images, and Lambda functions.

What is Amazon Macie?

It uses machine learning to discover and protect sensitive data stored in S3.

What is AWS Security Hub?

It aggregates security findings and provides a central view of security posture across accounts.

What is Amazon Detective?

It analyzes relationships and activity to investigate the root cause of security findings.

What is Amazon Rekognition?

Image and video analysis for objects, faces, text, content moderation, and other visual insights.

What is Amazon Transcribe?

Automatic speech-to-text conversion.

What is Amazon Polly?

It converts text into lifelike speech.

What is Amazon Translate?

Automatic, scalable text translation between languages.

What is Amazon Textract?

It extracts printed text, handwriting, forms, and tables from documents.

What is Amazon Comprehend?

Natural language processing for sentiment, entities, key phrases, and insights from text.

What is Amazon Lex?

A service for building conversational chatbots using voice and text.

What is Amazon Connect?

A cloud contact center for customer service.

What is Amazon SageMaker AI?

A managed platform for building, training, and deploying machine-learning models.

What is Amazon Kendra?

An intelligent, machine-learning-powered search service for enterprise content.

What is Amazon Personalize?

A managed service for creating real-time personalized recommendations.

What is AWS Organizations?

It centrally manages multiple AWS accounts, consolidated billing, and organizational policies.

What is a Service Control Policy (SCP)?

An organization-level permission boundary that limits what accounts can do; it does not grant permissions.

What is AWS Control Tower?

It sets up and governs a secure multi-account AWS environment using a landing zone and guardrails.

What is AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)?

It securely shares supported AWS resources with other accounts or within an organization.

What is AWS Service Catalog?

It provides approved, standardized cloud products that users can deploy.

What is AWS Pricing Calculator?

A tool for estimating the expected cost of planned AWS architectures before deployment.

What is AWS Billing Dashboard?

A central view of current charges, bills, and payment information.

What is AWS Cost Explorer?

It visualizes and analyzes historical costs and usage and can forecast future spending.

What is AWS Budgets?

It tracks cost or usage against custom thresholds and sends alerts.

What is AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR)?

The most detailed AWS billing dataset for analyzing costs and usage.

What is AWS Cost Anomaly Detection?

It uses machine learning to detect unusual spending and send alerts.

What is AWS Compute Optimizer?

It recommends right-sized compute resources based on utilization data.

What is AWS Service Quotas?

It displays service limits, monitors usage, and supports quota-increase requests.

What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

It checks an AWS environment and recommends improvements for cost, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits.

What is AWS Resource Groups?

It groups resources using shared tags so they can be viewed and managed together.

What is Amazon WorkSpaces?

A managed Desktop as a Service providing persistent virtual desktops.

What is Amazon AppStream 2.0?

A managed service that streams individual desktop applications to users through a browser.

What is AWS IoT Core?

It securely connects IoT devices to the cloud and routes their messages.

What is AWS AppSync?

A managed GraphQL API service with real-time and offline data synchronization.

What is AWS Amplify?

Tools and hosting for quickly building and deploying web and mobile applications.

What is AWS Device Farm?

It tests mobile and web applications on real devices and browsers.

What is AWS Backup?

It centrally schedules, automates, and monitors backups across supported AWS services.

What is AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery?

It continuously replicates servers and enables rapid recovery in AWS after a disruption.

What is AWS DataSync?

It accelerates and automates online data transfer between on-premises storage, AWS storage, and AWS services.

What is AWS Application Discovery Service?

It collects information about on-premises servers and dependencies for migration planning.

What is AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)?

It lifts and shifts physical, virtual, or cloud servers to AWS with minimal downtime.

What is AWS Migration Evaluator?

It builds a data-driven business case and cost estimate for migration to AWS.

What is AWS Migration Hub?

A central location for assessing, planning, and tracking migrations to AWS.

What is AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS)?

It runs controlled fault experiments to test workload resilience.

What is AWS Step Functions?

A serverless workflow service that coordinates AWS services using visual state machines.

What is AWS Ground Station?

A managed service for communicating with satellites and processing satellite data.

What is Amazon Pinpoint?

A service for targeted customer engagement through channels such as email, SMS, and push notifications.

What is AWS Well-Architected Tool?

It reviews workloads against AWS architectural best practices and the six Well-Architected pillars.

What is AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool?

It reports estimated carbon emissions associated with an organization's AWS usage.

What is AWS Marketplace?

A digital catalog for finding, purchasing, and deploying third-party software and services on AWS.

What is AWS IQ?

A marketplace where customers can hire AWS-certified experts for projects.

What is AWS re:Post?

An AWS-managed knowledge and question-and-answer community for technical AWS topics.

What is AWS Managed Services (AMS)?

It operates and optimizes customer AWS infrastructure using established operations, security, and governance processes.

What is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?

A global service for managing users, groups, roles, and permissions in AWS.

What is an IAM user?

A long-term identity for one person or application that needs access to AWS.

What is an IAM group?

A collection of IAM users that receive the same permissions; groups cannot contain other groups.