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Cloud Vocab M6-M10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |