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Cloud Vocab M1-M5

Cloud Compute Vocab

TermDefinition
Availability Zone Lots of data centers that house many servers; level after Region in Global Infras.; each is isolated but in a Region are connected through low-lat. links
Edge Location Data can be stored for lower lat. on a site; lowest level on Global Infras.; located close to high-pop. areas that generate high traffic volumes
Amazon S3 key, value object-based storage system built to store and retrieve huge amt. of data from any source
Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute capacity in cloud; web service from which can launch "instances" which are essentially virtual machines running on AWS kernel-based virtual machine hypervisor
Amazon EBS persistent block-based storage volumes that can be attached to EC2 instances
Amazon RDS managed service that make easy to set up, operate, and cale a relational database in cloud
Amazon DynamoDB fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast + predictable performance w/ seamless scalability
AWS Lambda serverless computing tech. allows you to run code without provisioning or managing servers
Amazon VPC virtual network that provides networking layer of EC2; isolated network enviro. on AWS that is analog. to having private data center
AWS IAM web service that helps securely control access to resources
AWS CloudTrail monitors log ins and outs of account; monitors every action that is performed on your AWS account for security purposes.
Amazon CloudWatch monitors applications that are running; monitoring service to monitor your AWS resources and the applications that you run on AWS
Amazon Redshift fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple + cost-effective to analyze data using standard SQL + BI tools
Domain Name System naming system for computers, devices, and resources connected to a network
Cloud computing on-demand delivery of compute power, databases, storage, applications, and other IT resources using the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing
AWS platform that provides a wide range of cloud computing services
Cloud storage Saving data using cloud service provider instead of a physical machine
Amazon CloudFront CDN that allows u to store content at "edge locations"
AWS Direct Connect network service that provides an alt. to using internet to connect a customer's on-prem. sites to AWS
Content Delivery Network a system of distributed servers (network) that delivers pages and other web content to a user, based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage, and the content delivery server.
Region An area where data is stored
Snapshot Incremental backups; provide a simple and secure data protection solution that is designed to protect your block storage data
Auto Elasticity grow or shrink capacity for CPU, memory, and storage resources
Auto Scaling automates process of adding or removing EC2 instances based on traffic demand
Security Groups firewalls at instance level; controls inbound and outbound traffic
Cloud Formation provide common lang. to describe + provision all infras. resource in cloud
Scaling systems that are expected to grow over time need to be built on top of a scalable arch.
IaaS basic building blocks for cloud IT; virtual machines and servers are used for customers to host a wide range of applications and IT services are provided
Paas focus on deployment + management of app.; virtual platform for customers to create custom software
SaaS completed product that is run + managed by service provider; provides applications using the internet that are managed by a third party
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming app. traffic across multiple targets
Snowball transfer hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data between on-prem. data centers + S3
Hybrid connect infrastructure + app. between cloud based resources + existing resources not in cloud
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