AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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| Redshift | Scalable data warehouse solution |
| On Demand Capacity Reservation | No fixed term capacity reserved for a specific AZ for disaster recovery, regulatory requirements, events |
| Athena | Query service for s3 |
| EC2 Instance | Virtual server in the cloud |
| EC2 Connectivity methods | AWS Management Console Secure Shell (SSH) EC2 Instance Connect AWS Systems Manager |
| EC2 Elastic Load Balancing | Distributes traffic across multiple EC2 instances monitors health of instances |
| EC2 Auto Scaling | Adds or replaces EC2 instances based on need |
| Amazon EC2 | Elastic Compute Cloud |
| EC2 Pricing Options | On-Demand Spot Reserved Instances Dedicated Hosts Savings Plans |
| EC2 On-Demand Pricing | Billed per second of use |
| EC2 Spot Pricing | Use unused EC2 capacity |
| EC2 Reserved Instances Pricing | Reserve a specific instance for 1 or 3 years |
| EC2 Savings Plans Pricing | Commit to compute usage over multiple services for 1 or 3 years |
| EC2 Types of load balancers | Classic Application Gateway Network |
| EC2 Real world usages | Host database Host web Application |
| AWS Lamda | Serverless compute service event driven |
| Lamda Pricing | Compute time Request count data transfer |
| Lambda user responsibilities | Application code |
| Lambda AWS responsibilities | Servers coding environment language support |
| Lambda Always free | After free-usage tier expires, you have 1 million free calls a month |
| AWS Fargate | Serverless compute engine for containers |
| Amazon Lightsail | Compute service Launch all resources for small projects |
| AWS Outposts | Hybrid Run cloud services in your internal data centre |
| AWS Batch | Process large workloads in smaller batches |
| AWS Fargate | Serverless compute engine for containers |
| AWS Lightsail | Launch resources for small projects for people with no cloud experience low predictable monthly fee |
| AWS Outposts | Run cloud services on premises hybrid |
| Types of Reserved Instances | Standard Convertible |
| Standard Reserved Instance | Can modify: AZ, size, scope Can't be exchanged Can't change region |
| Convertible Reserved Instance | Can modify: AZ, size, scope Can be exchanged for an instance with a different OS, instance family, tenancy Can't change region |
| Classic Load Balancer | Balances based on IP addresses and ports |
| Application Load Balancer | Balances by managing traffic at application level |
| EC2 On Demand Capacity Reservation | No fixed term capacity reserved for a specific AZ for disaster recovery, regulatory requirements, events |
| EC2 virtual firewall | Security group |
| Horizontal Scaling | Adds extra servers |
| AWS Route 53 | DNS Servie routes users to applications |
| AWS Route 53 | DNS Service routes users to applications |
| Vertical Scaling | Upgrading |
| Outposts Storage | Local data demanding performance |
| AWS Route 53 | DNS Servie routes users to applications |
| EMR | Process large amounts of data |
| Durability | Will my data be there tomorrow |
| NA | NA |
| NA | NA |
| NA | NA |
| Availability | Can I access my data when I need it |
| Virtual Private Gateway | VPN connector on AWS side |
| Customer Gateway | VPN connector on customer side |
| AMI | Amazon machine image |
| ETL | Extract Transfer Load |
| IaC | Infrastructure as Code |
| AWS Workspaces | Host virtual desktops virtual windows or linux |
| AWS Connect | Build contact centre help desk service |
| Region | Physical location contains availability zones |
| Availability zone | Contained in a region contains one ore more data centres more AZs than regions |
| Data Centre | Contained in an Availability zone |
| AWS Backup | Manage data backups across AWS services |
| Edge Location | Cache content low latency data closer to users used by CloudFront more edge locations than availability zones |
| Workload | EC2 Instance Lambda Container |
| HSM | Hardware security module |
| Authentication | Identify who is accessing the system |
| Authorization | Evaluating what permissions a user has |
| AWS SDK | Enables developers to build libraries and applications in various languages that use AWS services |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a service virtualised computing resources example: AWS EC2, S3 |
| PaaS | Platform as a service hardware and software infrastructure example: AWS Beanstalk, RDS |
| SaaS | Software as a service entire software application example: AWS connect |
| Faas | Function as a service build function without managing any infrastructure example: AWS Lambda |
| Daas | Desktop as a service cloud virtual desktop example AWS Workspaces |
| NAT Gateway | Network Address Translation belongs in your VPC private subnet can connect to the internet |
| Six advantages of cloud computing | Trade fixed expense for variable expense Benefit from economies of scale Stop guessing capacity Increase speed and agility Stop spending money running data centres Go global in minutes |
| Storage Gateway | Hybrid |
| Three cloud computing models | PaaS IaaS SaaS |
| Subnet | Segment of a VPCs IP address range where you can place groups of isolated resources |
| Amazon S3 | Simple Storage Service |
| S3 properties | Storage service Regional service global namespace fully managed |
| S3 Bucket | Contains objects |
| AWS Storage Gateway | Hybrid storage service that connects on premise and cloud data |
| AWS Backup | Backup stuff across multiple AWS services |
| S3 Storage classes | Standard Intelligent Tiering Standard Infrequent Access One Zone Infrequent Access Glacier Glacier Deep Archive Outposts |
| S3 Standard Storage | General Purpose Multiple AZs Low latency For: Frequently accessed data |
| S3 Intelligent Tiering Storage | Moves data to most cost effective storage class Multiple AZs For: data with unknown access pattern |
| S3 Standard Infrequent Access storage | Multiple AZs For: long lived data infrequently accessed but is quick when you need it |
| S3 One Zone Infrequent Access storage | Single AZ data can be lost For: Infrequently accessed |
| S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval Storage | Low cost millisecond retrieval rarely accessed data |
| S3 Glacier Deep Archive Storage | 12-48 hour retrieval lowest cost rarely accessed data |
| S3 Outposts Storage | Local data demanding performance |
| EC2 Elastic Block store | Storage service Persistent Can be attached to an EC2 instance one instance can have multiple EBS but an EBS can only be attached to one EC2 instance One AZ |
| EC2 Storage Types | Elastic Block Store Instant Store Elastic File System |
| EC2 Instance store | Ephemeral physically attached to machine fast |
| EC2 Elastic File System | Serverless, Linux across AZ in a region Like a shared drive that can be shared between instances |
| S3 Outposts Storage | Local data demanding performance |
| S3 Pricing | Storage class number and size of objects stored amount of data transferred out number of requests |
| S3 Lifecycle Policy | Can be configured to transition objects in s3 to another s3 storage class |
| S3 Glacier Flexible Retreival | Minutes to 12 hour retrieval lower cost rarely accessed data |
| AWS Relational Database Service | Service for managing databases Relational Oracle, SQL Server, MariaDb |
| AWS Aurora | Database Relational MySQL/PostgreSQL |
| AWS DynamoDB | No SQL key value serverless |
| AWS DocumentDB | Document MongoDB not serverless |
| AWS ElastiCache | In memory Redis not persistent not serverless |