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AWS Cloud Practitioner Terms

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

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