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Cloud Vocab M6-M10

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EBS persistent block-based storage volumes that can be attached to EC2 instances
EC2 provides secure, resizable compute capacity in cloud; web service allow obtain + configure capacity w/ minimal friction
Hard Disk Drive mechanical drive w/ spinning platters + head floating above platters + moves into position to read/write data
Input/Output Operations Per Second # of IO transactions per second
Solid State Drive stores data on non-volatile microchips + no moving parts
IAM web service that helps securely control access to resources
Role "assumed" by trusted entities + define a set of permissions for making service requests
User individuals who have granted access to an account/entity that represents a person/service
Security Group firewalls at instance level; controls inbound and outbound traffic
Policy documents that define permissions + can be applied to users, groups, + roles
Inspector automated security assessment service that helps improve security + compliance of app deployed on AWS
Group collection of users + have policies attached to them
Root User single sign-in identity that has complete access to all resources + services on account
Crediential verify who you are and whether you have permission to access the resources that you are requesting.
Enable MFA approach to authentication requires two or more independent pieces of information to be authenticated.
JavaScript Object Notation key value pair that consists of an attribute + value (used for policies)
MFA authentication device that continually generates random, six-digit, single use authentication codes
Shield managed DDoS protection service that safeguards app running on AWS; offers always-on protection + provide detection + against DDoS attacks at network, transport + app layers
WAF (Web App Firewall) protects web applications from common web exploits that could affect app avail., compromise security, or consume excessive resources (control over which traffic allow or block to web app through rules)
Distributed Denial of Service A malicious attempt to make a targeted system unavailable to end users
Artifact central resource for compliance-related info that matters; provides on-demand access to security + reports + online agreements
CloudWatch monitoring service to monitor your AWS resources and the applications that you run on AWS (performance monitoring)
CloudTrail monitors every action that is performed on your AWS account for security purposes; record activity made on account + deliver log files to S3 bucket (auditing)
Config service that enable to assess, audit, + eval the config of resources
SNS make it easy to set up, operate, + send notifications from cloud; for building + integrating loosely-coupled, distributed app
Relational Database normalize data into well-defined tabular structures known as tables; powerful query lang, index cap, inte control+ ability to combine data from multiple tables
RDS managed service that make easy to set up, operate, and cale a relational database in cloud
DynamoDB fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast + predictable performance w/ seamless scalability
Nonrelational Database databases that trade some quer + transaction cap of rel database for more flex data model that scale hori (key-value pair in which each key is attached to values)
Redshift fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple + cost-effective to analyze data using standard SQL + BI tools
Online Transaction Processing A category of data processing that is focused on transaction-oriented tasks; (inserting, updating, or deleting small amounts of data in a database)
Online Analytic Processing A computing method that lets users efficiently and selectively extract and query data to analyze it from different points of view.
Aurora proprietary database; relational database engine built for the cloud
MySQL (Structured Query Language) An open-source relational database management system.
Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy to deploy + run Memcached or Redis protocol-compliant server nodes in the cloud
Cache technique that stores previously calculated data for future use
Data Caching Storing data in a cache lets you efficiently reuse previously retrieved or computed data.
Random Access Memory high speed storage for data stored on an integrated-circuit chip
Elastic Beanstalk fastest + easiest way to get web app up + running on AWS
Cloud Formation provide common lang. to describe + provision all infras. resource in cloud
Stack A collection of AWS resources that you can manage as a single unit.
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming app. traffic across multiple targets
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