Core AWS service names and concepts tested on the Cloud Practitioner exam.
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- What is Amazon EC2?
- Elastic Compute Cloud - a web service that provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud
- What is Amazon S3?
- Simple Storage Service - object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance
- What is Amazon RDS?
- Relational Database Service - managed relational database service that supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server
- What is Amazon VPC?
- Virtual Private Cloud - lets you provision a logically isolated section of AWS where you can launch resources in a virtual network you define
- What is AWS IAM?
- Identity and Access Management - service for securely controlling access to AWS services and resources by managing users, roles, and permissions
- What is AWS Lambda?
- Serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, paying only for compute time used
- What is Amazon CloudFront?
- Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency
- What is Amazon Route 53?
- Highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service that routes end users to internet applications
- What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
- Service that automatically adjusts the number of EC2 instances in response to demand to maintain performance and optimize costs
- What is Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)?
- Service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets such as EC2 instances for high availability
- What is Amazon SQS?
- Simple Queue Service - fully managed message queuing service that decouples microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications
- What is Amazon SNS?
- Simple Notification Service - pub/sub messaging service for sending messages to multiple subscribers including email, SMS, and HTTP endpoints
- What is Amazon CloudWatch?
- Monitoring and observability service that collects metrics, logs, and events from AWS resources and on-premises servers
- What is Amazon DynamoDB?
- Fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
- What is Amazon EBS?
- Elastic Block Store - block-level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances that persist independently from the instance