AWS and Cloud Computing Concepts

These flashcards cover key vocabulary and definitions related to AWS and cloud computing concepts.

High Availability

The ability of a system to remain operational and accessible even in case of a disaster.

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Service that distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances.

Horizontal Scaling

Increasing the number of instances or systems to handle application load.

Vertical Scaling

Increasing the size or capacity of a single instance or system.

Fault Tolerance

The capability of a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of some of its components.

Application Load Balancer (ALB)

A type of load balancer that supports HTTP/HTTPS traffic and static URLs.

Network Load Balancer (NLB)

A load balancer that uses static IP addresses and can handle millions of requests with low latency.

Auto Scaling Group

Automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances in response to demand, ensuring optimal capacity.

Amazon S3

A scalable storage service that allows users to store and retrieve objects in buckets.

IAM Policy

A set of permissions that specify what actions are allowed or denied on AWS resources.

Key Management Service (KMS)

A service for creating and controlling encryption keys used to encrypt data.

DynamoDB

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

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

Amazon Aurora

A relational database service designed for the cloud that is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL.

AWS Lambda

A serverless computing service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources.

Amazon CloudWatch

A monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and applications, providing data and insights for performance monitoring.

Amazon Route 53

A scalable domain name system (DNS) web service designed to route end users to Internet applications.

AWS Global Accelerator

A service that improves the performance and availability of your applications with a global network.

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)

A managed database service for relational databases like SQL, allowing easy setup, operation, and scaling.

CloudFormation

A service that enables the modeling and provisioning of AWS resources using code.

AWS Organizations

A service that allows management of multiple AWS accounts and centralizes governance.