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AWS - Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLFC01) / Key Terms Already Passed Agility ✔✔The ability of AWS to foster innovation in organizations. API Gateway ✔✔A fully managed service that allows y... ou to create and publish secure APIs to scale in AWS. Artifact ✔✔A central resource for compliance-related information Auto Scaling ✔✔The automatic addition and subraction of resources based on various factors, often the demand for the resources. Automation ✔✔The automatic generation and/or performance of required IT tasks. Availability ✔✔Ensuring data is available when needed. Availability Zone ✔✔A division of geographic locations within regions; each Availability Zone contains at least one separate and distinct data center. AWS Auditor Learning Path ✔✔A Learning Path for AWS that focuses on those in auditor, compliance, and legal roles. AWS Global Infrastructure ✔✔The resources owned by AWS around the globe and used by customers. AWS Partner Network ✔✔The AWS global partner program that seeks to help partners build sucessful AWS solutions. AWS Professional Services ✔✔An organization that is made up of a global team of experts that can help you with your desired business outcomes for AWS. AWS Shared Responsibility model ✔✔The overall security model followed by AWS; this model divides the client responsibilities from those of Amazon. Basic support plan ✔✔The AWS support plan that is included free of charge for every account. CapEx ✔✔Capital expenditures ClassicLink ✔✔Allows the linking of EC2-Classic instances to a VPC in your account. CloudFormation ✔✔Gives developers and system administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. CloudFront ✔✔A global content delivery network (CDN) service that accelerates delivery of your websites, APIs, video content, or other web assets. CloudTrail ✔✔A seb service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you. CloudWatch ✔✔A monitoring service for AWS Cloud resources and applications you run on AWS. CodeDeploy ✔✔A fully managed code deployment service that helps you deploy software to things like EC2 instances. Community Cloud ✔✔A cloud provisioned for use by select group of companies or organizations. Compliance ✔✔Conformity in fulfilling specific requirements. Confidentiality ✔✔Keeping data secure (often through encryption) Developer Support Plan ✔✔The second possible tier of the four tiers of support; this is the first level of support plan that provides you with access to tech support. Direct Connect ✔✔An alternative to a shared Internet connection to AWS; Direct connect is completely private connection from your on-premises network to the AWS facilities. DynamoDB ✔✔A fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. EBS ✔✔Elastic Block Store offers persistent block storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. EC2 ✔✔Elastic Compute Cloud makes virtual machines available in AWS and provides a managed environment for your Docker containers. Edge Locations ✔✔Locations that deliver cached CloudFront content. EFS ✔✔The Elastic File System provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Elastic Beanstalk ✔✔A service that permits you to upload your code and have it hosted automatically by AWS. Elastic Load Balancing ✔✔The AWS tool for distributing requests for resource among various resources. ElastiCache ✔✔A web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. Elasticity ✔✔The ability of the cloud to grow or shrink resources dynamically based on demand or other factors. Enterprise Support Plan ✔✔The premier level of support available in AWS; this plan feature a response time of just 15 minutes to major issues you are experiencing. Federation ✔✔Permitting an account to use its access with another trusted service in order to access AWS. Free Tier ✔✔A trial account for AWS that is completely free, given certain constraints. FT ✔✔Fault tolerance. The property that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of some (one or more faults within) of its components. Glacier ✔✔A secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. Groups ✔✔A collection of user accounts; permission are assigned to groups. HA ✔✔High availability. A characteristic of a system that aims to ensure an agreed level of operational performance, usually uptime, for a higher than normal period. Hybrid Cloud ✔✔Companies that host some cloud technologies privately and rely on public cloud resources for other technologies. IaaS ✔✔Infrastructure as a Service IAM ✔✔Identity and Access Management enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users. Integrity ✔✔Ensuring data is not manipulated at rest or in transit. Lamda ✔✔The main serverless compute service of AWS. MFA ✔✔Multi-factor authentication Network ACLs ✔✔Used to control traffic moving between subnets in your VPC. Networking and Content Delivery ✔✔A service category that features low-latency delivery of cached content to specific geographic locations. On-demand instances ✔✔EC2 instances that are launched at a current price of compute time. OpEx ✔✔Operational expenditures. OpsWorks ✔✔A configuration management service that uses Chef or Puppet, an atomation platform that treats server configurations as code. Orchestration ✔✔The scheduling and coordination of automated tasks for an entire process or workflow. PaaS ✔✔Platform as a Service Private cloud ✔✔Cloud technology kept "in-house" and fully managed by the private organization Public cloud ✔✔Massive cloud providers that make various "as a Service" models available to the public RDS ✔✔Relational Database Services make it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud Redshift ✔✔A fast, fully managed, petebyte-scale data warehouse that make it simple and costeffective to analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. Region ✔✔A physical, geographic location in the world where AWS creates multiple Availability Zones. Reserved instances ✔✔Instances at a fixed price that you have contractually reserved for your purposes. Roles ✔✔Similar to user accounts but with no credentials; used to provide access from one AWS service to another. Route 53 ✔✔A highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. S3 ✔✔The Simple Storage Service of AWS is flexible, object-based storage for a wide variety of purposes. SaaS ✔✔Software as a Service Security groups ✔✔Built-in firewalls that are associated with EC2 instances and provide security at the protocol and port level. Security in the cloud ✔✔The reference to the client security responsibilities in the AWS Shared Responsibility model. Security of the cloud ✔✔The refernce to the Amazon security responsibilities in the AWS Shared Responsibility model. Service Catalog ✔✔Allows you to create and maintain a catalog of IT resources approved for use with AWS Simple Monthly Calculator ✔✔A free AWS tool that allows you to calculate your monthly AWS costs for various services. Spot instances ✔✔Instances where you bid on unused capacity in AWS. Systems Manager ✔✔A tool for grouping your resources for ease of monitoring and configuration changes. Total Cost of Ownership calculators ✔✔A set of free AWS tools that permit you to reduce TCO by estimating cost savings using AWS. Trusted Advisor ✔✔A management tool that checks your configurations and provides modification advice to help you adhere to best practices. Users ✔✔Entities created to represent individuals who need access to AWS. VPC ✔✔The Virtual Private Cloud that provides the virtual network components in AWS. VPC endpoint ✔✔Permits private connections from your VPC to supported AWS services. VPC peering ✔✔A connection between multiple VPCs in AWS. Whitepapers ✔✔Documents made available by Amazon that provide valuable best practices and architectures to follow. Fault tolerant ✔✔The ability for a cloud system to have automated workarounds for when a part of the systems fail. AWS Availability Zones ✔✔A group of AWS data centers located in a geographical region. Availability Zones provides redundancy within an AWS region. High Availability ✔✔Constant and always-available access to your data or services that are stored in the cloud. Scalability ✔✔The ability for a cloud system to quickly increase in size based on demand. Instance ✔✔A single iteration of an EC2 server. AWS regions ✔✔Grouping of Availability Zones and data centers that are located around the globe. Allows users to store data or use the AWS resources that re physically located close to them (reduces latency) Amazon Web Services (AWS) ✔✔A cloud service provider (IaaS) [Show More]

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