Core AWS service names and concepts tested on the Cloud Practitioner exam.
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- What is Amazon RDS?
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Relational Database Service - managed relational database service that supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server- What is Amazon CloudFront?
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Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency- What is Amazon Route 53?
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Highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service that routes end users to internet applications- What is Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling?
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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)?
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Service that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets such as EC2 instances for high availability- What is Amazon SQS?
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Simple Queue Service - fully managed message queuing service that decouples microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications- What is Amazon EBS?
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Elastic Block Store - block-level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances that persist independently from the instance- What is Amazon Kinesis?
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Platform for streaming data on AWS, enabling real-time processing of massive, continuous data streams at scale- What is Amazon Athena?
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Interactive query service that lets you analyze data in S3 using standard SQL without loading data into a database- What is Amazon Redshift?
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Fast, fully managed data warehouse service that simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of analytics workloads- What is AWS Step Functions?
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Service for coordinating distributed applications and microservices by orchestrating workflows across multiple services- What is Amazon API Gateway?
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Managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale- What is Amazon Cognito?
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Service that adds user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to web and mobile applications quickly and easily- What is AWS WAF?
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Web Application Firewall that helps protect web applications from common web exploits and attacks- What is AWS Shield?
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DDoS protection service that safeguards applications against distributed denial-of-service attacks
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