Analytics

AWS ATHENA AMAZON REDSHIFT

- Serverless query service to analyze - Based on PostgreSQL, but it’s not used for
data stored in Amazon S3 OLTP
- Uses standard SQL language to query the files - It’s OLAP – online analytical processing
- Use cases: Business intelligence, analytics etc. (analytics and data warehousing)
Exam tip : Analyzing data in S3 using serverless - Columnar storage of data (instead of row
SQL - Athena based)

AWS DATA EXCHANGE AMAZON QUICKSIGHT

- Serverless machine learning-powered

business intelligence service to create
A Service to help users discover, subscribe to,
interactive dashboards
and utilize third-party data easily on AWS Cloud
- Use cases: Business analytics, Building
visualizations, Get business insights using data
- Integrated with RDS, Aurora, Athena, Redshift

AMAZON EMR - ELASTIC MAPREDUCE AWS GLUE

- Serverless, Managed extract, transform, and

- Helps creating Hadoop clusters (Big Data) to load (ETL) service
analyze and process vast amount of data - Useful to prepare and transform data for
- Use cases: data processing, machine learning, analytics
web indexing, big data Glue Data Catalog: catalog of datasets & can be
used by Athena, Redshift, EMR

AMAZON KINESIS

- Managed service to collect, process, and

analyze real-time streaming data at any scale

Exam Tip : Kinesis = real-time big data streaming

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 Application Integration
AMAZON EVENTBRIDGE AWS STEP FUNCTIONS

- Serverless service that uses events to connect - Lets us orchestrate multiple AWS services into
application components together, making it serverless workflows so that we can build and
easier for you to build scalable event-driven update applications quickly
applications - Can integrate with EC2, ECS, On-premises
Exam Tip : Triggers Lambda functions to send servers
SNS messages Use cases: order fulfillment, data processing

AMAZON SIMPLE NOTIFICATION AMAZON SIMPLE QUEUE SERVICE

SERVICE (SNS) (SQS)
- Service that enables applications, end-users, - Serverless, used to decouple applications
and devices to instantly send and receive - Messages are deleted after they’re read by
notifications from the cloud consumers
Exam Tip : Think SNS is like the party popper - it Exam tip : A digital messenger that helps different
bursts with notifications, surprises everyone with computer programs talk to each other without
instant alerts getting all tangled up

Business Applications
AMAZON CONNECT AMAZON SIMPLE EMAIL SERVICE (SES)

- Basically a Cloud-based virtual contact center - A cost-effective email service built on the
- Uses Artificial Intelligence that teaches reliable and scalable infrastructure
computers to understand and respond to human - Simplifies and scales the sending of emails from
language applications
- Powerful tool for building chatbots

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Cloud Financial Management
AWS BUDGETS AWS COST AND USAGE REPORT

- Create budget and send alarms when costs - Provides detailed and granular data about your
exceeds the budget AWS usage
- 4 types of budgets: Usage, Cost, Reservation, - It can deliver report files to your Amazon S3
Savings Plans bucket
Caution : Do not confuse with AWS Cost - Users can customize report, set specific report
Explorer! intervals, and establish budget alerts

AWS COST EXPLORER AWS MARKETPLACE

- Visualize, understand, and manage your AWS - Digital catalog with thousands of software
costs and usage over time listings from 3rd party software vendors
- Analyze your data at a high level: total costs - If you buy through the AWS Marketplace, it
and usage across all accounts goes into your AWS bill
- Forecast usage up to 12 months based on - You can sell your own solutions on the AWS
previous usage Marketplace

Containers
AMAZON ELASTIC CONTAINER AMAZON ELASTIC CONTAINER
REGISTRY (AMAZON ECR) SERVICE (AMAZON ECS)

- This is where you store your Docker images so - Run Docker containers on EC2 instances
they can be run by ECS or Fargate - You must provision & maintain the
- You can use your preferred CLI to push, pull, infrastructure (the EC2 instances)
and manage Docker images

AMAZON ELASTIC KUBERNETES

SERVICE (AMAZON EKS)

- Managed Kubernetes service to run

Kubernetes in the AWS cloud and on-premises
data centers

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 Compute
AWS BATCH AMAZON EC2

Fully managed batch processing at any scale

Delivers secure, reliable, high-performance,
A “batch” job is a job with a start and an end
and cost-effective compute infrastructure to
Batch will dynamically launch EC2 instances or
meet demanding business needs
Spot Instances
Knowing EC2 is fundamental to understand
Batch jobs are defined as Docker images and run
how the Cloud works
on ECS

AWS ELASTIC BEANSTALK AMAZON LIGHTSAIL

Great for people with little cloud experience!

Developer centric view of deploying
Low & predictable pricing
an application on AWS
Use cases:
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Simple web applications
Just the application code is the responsibility
-Websites
of the developer
-Dev / Test environment

AWS LOCAL ZONES AWS OUTPOSTS

AWS Outposts are “server racks” that offers

Places AWS compute, storage, database,
the same AWS infrastructure, services, APIs
and other selected AWS services closer to
& tools to build your own applications on-
end users to run latency-sensitive
premises just as in the cloud
applications
AWS will setup and manage “Outposts
Racks”

AWS WAVELENGTH

-WaveLength Zones are infrastructure

deployments embedded within the
telecommunications providers’ datacenters at
the edge of the 5G networks
- Brings AWS services to the edge of the 5G
networks

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AMAZON AURORA AMAZON DYNAMODB

- MySQL and PostgreSQL-Compatible Relational - Serverless, NoSQL database - not a relational

Database database
- Costs more than RDS (20% more) but is more -Millions of requests per seconds, Fast and
efficient consistent in performance
Exam Tip : Aurora is a proprietary technology DynamoDB Accelerator is a Fully Managed
from AWS ( not open source) in-memory cache for DynamoDB

AMAZON NEPTUNE AMAZON RDS

- Looks just like Excel spreadsheets, with links

- Fully managed graph database service
between them
-A popular graph dataset would be a social
-Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle etc.
network Eg. Wikipedia
Ensures scalability and high availability via
-Highly Available and Secure so suitable for
automated backups, multi-AZ deployments, and
enterprise-level applications
read replicas to handle increased workloads

Customer Engagement
AWS IQ AWS MANAGED SERVICES (AMS)

- Provides infrastructure and application

- Professional help for your AWS projects
support on AWS
- Pay AWS Certified 3rd party experts for
-Offers a team of AWS experts who manage and
on-demand project work
operate your infrastructure for security,
Basically a lifesaver when you dont know what to
reliability, and availability
do or messed up what you are supposed to do
(Avengers? Maybe)

AWS SUPPORT

- A range of plans that provide access to tools

and expertise that support the success and
operational health of your AWS solutions

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 Developer Tools
AWS CLI AWS CLOUD9

- Is a Cloud IDE (Integrated

- Provides a unified tool to manage your AWS
Development Environment) for writing, running
services directly from the command line
and debugging code
- Direct access to the public APIs of AWS
-A cloud IDE can be used within a web browser,
services
so you can work on your projects from
your office, home, or anywhere with internet

AWS CLOUDSHELL AWS CODEARTIFACT

- CodeArtifact is a secure, scalable, and cost-

A browser-based shell, you can quickly run effective artifact management for software
scripts with the AWS Command Line Interface development
(CLI), experiment with service APIs using the -Developers and CodeBuild can then retrieve
AWS CLI, and use other tools to increase your dependencies straight from
productivity CodeArtifact

AWS CODEBUILD AWS CODECOMMIT

- Source-control service that hosts Git-based

- Code building service in the cloud (name is
repositories
obvious)
-Makes it easy to collaborate with others on
• Compiles source code, run tests, and produces
code
packages that are ready to
- The code changes are automatically
be deployed (by CodeDeploy for example)
versioned

AWS CODEDEPLOY AWS CODEPIPELINE

- CodeDeploy is a deployment service that - Orchestrate the different steps to have the
automates application deployments to Amazon code automatically pushed to production
EC2 instances, on-premises instances, - AWS CodePipeline automates the build, test,
serverless Lambda functions, or Amazon ECS and deploy phases of your release process
services. each time a code change occurs.

AWS CODESTAR AWS X-RAY

- Unified UI to easily manage software AWS X-Ray provides a complete view of

development activities in one place requests as they travel through your application
- AWS CodeStar is a cloud-based service for and filters visual data across payloads,
creating, managing, and working with software functions, traces, services, APIs, and more with
development projects on AWS no-code and low-code motions

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 End User Computing
AMAZON APPSTREAM 2.0 AMAZON WORKSPACES

Desktop Application Streaming Service Easily provision Windows or Linux desktops

The application is delivered to a computer Eliminate management of on-premise VDI
from within a web browser Pay-as-you-go service & integrates with
Works with any device (that has a web KMS
browser)

Frontend Web and Mobile

AWS AMPLIFY AWS APPSYNC

A set of tools and services that helps you

Store and sync data across mobile and web
develop and deploy scalable full stack web
apps in real-time
and mobile applications
Makes use of GraphQL (mobile technology
Set of purpose-built tools and features that
from Facebook)
enables frontend web and mobile developers
Integrations with DynamoDB / Lambda
to easily build full-stack applications

AWS DEVICE FARM

Fully-managed service that tests your web

and mobile apps against real devices i.e
desktop browsers, real mobile devices etc.
Test your app in parallel against a massive
collection of physical devices

Internet of Things (IoT)

AWS IOT CORE AWS IOT GREENGRASS

Allows you to easily connect IoT devices to

the AWS Cloud AWS IoT Greengrass is an open-source edge
Serverless, secure & scalable to billions of runtime and cloud service that helps you build,
devices and trillions of messages deploy, and manage intelligent device software
Secure two-way communication between
internet-connected devices and AWS
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 Machine Learning
AMAZON COMPREHEND AMAZON KENDRA

For Natural Language Processing – NLP Fully managed document search service
Fully managed and serverless service powered by Machine Learning
Uses machine learning to find insights and Extract answers from within a document
relationships in text Use natural language processing (NLP) to
get highly accurate answers

AMAZON LEX AMAZON POLLY

Build conversational bots – chatbots Text to Audio

Same technology that powers Alexa Uses deep learning technologies to
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to synthesize natural-sounding human speech,
convert speech to text so you can convert articles to speec

AMAZON REKOGNITION AMAZON SAGEMAKER

Face detection, labeling, celebrity recognition Fully managed service for developers / data
Find objects, people, text, scenes in images scientists to build ML models
and videos using ML Machine learning process (simplified),
Facial analysis and facial search to do user Eg. Predicting your exam score based on an ML
verification, people counting model

AMAZON TEXTRACT AMAZON TRANSCRIBE

Automatically convert speech to text
Automatically extracts text, handwriting, Uses Automatic speech recognition (ASR) to
and data from any scanned documents convert speech to text
using AI and ML Automatically removes Personally Identifiable
Textract can extract the data in minutes Information (PII) using Redaction
instead of hours or days. Supports Automatic Language Identification for
multi-lingual audio

AMAZON TRANSLATE

Natural and accurate language translation

Neural machine translation service, uses
deep learning to deliver more accurate and
natural translation

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Management and Governance
AWS AUTO SCALING AWS CLOUDTRAIL

AWS Auto Scaling monitors your applications Get an history of events / API calls made
and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain within your AWS Account
steady, predictable performance at the lowest Records important information about each
possible cost. action, including who made the request, the
services used, the actions performed

AWS CLOUDFORMATION AMAZON CLOUDWATCH

Infrastructure as code (IaC) service that Basically a metrics repository

allows you to easily model, provision, and Metric is a variable to monitor (CPU
manage AWS and third-party resources Utilization...etc.)
A single CloudFormation template can Monitoring service for AWS cloud resources
manage the deployment of individual and the applications you run on AWS
services or resources and multiple resources

AWS COMPUTE OPTIMIZER AWS CONFIG

Helps with auditing and recording
AWS Compute Optimizer recommends compliance of your AWS resources
more efficient AWS compute resources for Helps record configurations and changes
your workloads to reduce costs and over time
improve performance Possibility of storing the configuration data
Recommends optimal AWS resources into S3 (analyzed by Athena)

AWS CONTROL TOWER

Easy way to set up and govern a secure and

compliant multi-account AWS environment
based on best practices
AWS Control Tower runs on top of AWS
Organizations

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AWS HEALTH DASHBOARD AWS MANAGEMENT CONSOLE

A personalized view of the health Manage your AWS cloud resources easily
of AWS services, and alerts when your through a web-based interface using the
resources are impacted AWS Management Console.

AWS ORGANIZATIONS AWS RESOURCE GROUPS AND TAG EDITOR

Allows to manage multiple AWS accounts,

Tags are used for organizing resources
Global service
Tags can be used to create Resource Groups
Consolidated Billing across all accounts -
Resource Groups allow you to easily create,
single payment method
maintain, and view a collection of resources
Restrict account privileges using Service
that share common tags
Control Policies (SCP)

AWS SERVICE CATALOG AWS SYSTEMS MANAGER

Self-service portal to launch a set of

authorized products pre-defined by admins Helps you manage your EC2 and On-
Helps you create and manage IaC templates Premises systems at scale, Hybrid Service
approved for use on AWS so anyone can Get operational insights about the state of
discover approved, self-service cloud your infrastructure
resources

AWS TRUSTED ADVISOR AWS WELL-ARCHITECTED TOOL

Provides you with real-time assistance to Review your architectures against the 6
help you provision your resources following pillars Well-Architected Framework and
AWS best practices adopt architectural best practices
Draws upon best practices learned from Describes key concepts, design principles,
AWS’ aggregated operational history of and architectural best practices for designing
serving thousands of AWS customers and running workloads in the cloud

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 Migration and Transfer
AWS APPLICATION DISCOVERY SERVICE AWS APPLICATION MIGRATION SERVICE

Helps you plan migrations to the cloud by

Highly automated lift-and-shift solution
collecting usage and configuration data about
Minimizes time-intensive, error-prone
your on-premises servers
manual processes by automating the
The Discovery Agent is AWS software that you
conversion of your source servers to run
install on your on-premises servers and VMs to
natively on AWS
capture system configuration

AWS DATABASE MIGRATION AWS SCHEMA CONVERSION TOOL

SERVICE (AWS DMS) (AWS SCT)

Quickly and securely migrate databases

You can use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool
to AWS, resilient, self healing
(AWS SCT) to convert your existing database
The source database remains available
schema from one database engine to another.
during the migration

AWS MIGRATION HUB AWS SNOW FAMILY

Central location to collect servers and

Service that helps customers who need to
applications inventory data for assessment,
run operations in austere, non-data
planning, and tracking of migrations to AWS
center environments, and in locations
A single place to discover your existing
where there's no consistent network
servers, plan migrations, and track the status
connectivity
of each application

AWS TRANSFER FAMILY

AWS Transfer Family enables fully managed

support for SFTP, FTPS and FTP to move large
amounts of data into AWS

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Networking and Content Delivery
AMAZON API GATEWAY AMAZON CLOUDFRONT

- Content Delivery Network (CDN)

- Fully managed service for developers to
-Improves read performance, content is cached
easily create, publish, maintain, monitor, and
at the edge
secure APIs
-DDoS protection (because
-Serverless and scalable
worldwide), integration with Shield, AWS Web
Application Firewall

AWS DIRECT CONNECT AWS GLOBAL ACCELERATOR

- Improve global application

-Establish a physical connection between availability and performance using
on-premises and AWS the AWS global network
• The connection is private, secure and fast -The Edge locations send the traffic to
your application

AMAZON ROUTE 53 AMAZON VPC

- Gives you full control over your virtual

- Route53 is a Managed DNS
networking environment, including resource
-Highly available and scalable cloud domain
placement, connectivity, and security
name system (DNS) service
-you can launch AWS resources in a logically
-Enables to customize DNS routing policies to
isolated virtual network that you've defined
reduce latency.

AWS VPN

- AWS Client VPN is used by your remote

workforce to securely access resources both on
AWS and within your on-premises
-is a managed client-based VPN service

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AWS IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT (IAM) AMAZON GUARDDUTY

- You can specify who or what can access - Intelligent Threat discovery to protect your
services and resources in AWS, centrally AWS Account
manage fine-grained permissions, and analyze -Uses Machine Learning algorithms, anomaly
access to refine permissions across AWS detection
-Can protect against CryptoCurrency attacks

AWS FIREWALL MANAGER AWS DIRECTORY SERVICE

AWS Firewall Manager simplifies your - Provides multiple ways to use Microsoft Active
administration and maintenance tasks across Directory (AD) with other AWS services
multiple accounts and resources for a variety of • AWS Managed Microsoft AD
protections, including AWS WAF, AWS Shield • AD Connector
Advanced, Amazon VPC security groups etc • Simple AD

AMAZON DETECTIVE AMAZON COGNITO

- Analyzes, investigates, and quickly identifies

- Identity for your Web and Mobile applications
the root cause of security issues or suspicious
users (potentially millions)
activities (using ML and graphs)
-Sign-in & Sign-up for web and mobile
-Automatically collects and processes events
applications
from VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty and
create a unified view

AWS CLOUDHSM AWS CERTIFICATE MANAGER (ACM)

- Let’s you easily provision, manage, and deploy

- AWS provisions encryption hardware
SSL/TLS Certificates
-You manage your own encryption
-Used to provide in-flight encryption for
keys entirely (not AWS)
websites (HTTPS)

AWS AUDIT MANAGER AWS ARTIFACT

- Portal that provides customers with on-demand
access to AWS compliance documentation and
- Helps you continuously audit your AWS usage AWS agreements
to simplify how you assess risk and compliance -Artifact Reports - Allows you to download AWS
with regulations and industry standards security and compliance documents
-Artifact Agreements - Allows you to review,
accept, and track the status of AWS agreements
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AWS SECRETS MANAGER AMAZON INSPECTOR
- Continuously scans your AWS workloads for
- Meant for storing secrets (obviously!!!)
software vulnerabilities
-Capability to force rotation of secrets every X
-Automatically discovers and scans running
days
Amazon EC2 , container images in Amazon
-Integration with Amazon RDS (mostly used for
Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), and
that)
AWS Lambda functions

AWS IAM IDENTITY CENTER AWS KEY MANAGEMENT

(AWS SINGLE SIGN-ON) SERVICE (AWS KMS)

- Anytime you hear “encryption” for an AWS

Centrally manage workforce access to multiple
service, it’s most likely KMS
AWS accounts and applications
-KMS = AWS manages the encryption keys for
us

AMAZON MACIE AWS NETWORK FIREWALL

- Fully managed data security and data privacy - Protect VPC against network attacks
service that uses machine learning and pattern -Any direction, you can inspect
matching to discover and • VPC to VPC traffic
protect your sensitive data in AWS • Outbound/Inbound to/from internet
-helps identify and alert you to sensitive data, • To / from Direct Connect & Site-
such as personally identifiable information (PII) to-Site VPN

AWS RESOURCE ACCESS MANAGER AWS WEB APPLICATION

(AWS RAM) FIREWALL (WAF)
- Share AWS resources that you own with other - Protects your web applications from common
AWS accounts web exploits (Layer 7)
-Share with any account or within your -Layer 7 is HTTP (vs Layer 4 is TCP)
Organization -Deploy on Application Load Balancer, API
- Avoid resource duplication Gateway, CloudFront

AWS SECURITY HUB AWS SHIELD

- Central security tool to manage security across

several AWS accounts and automate - Automatic DDoS Protection + 24/7 support for
security checks advanced
-Integrated dashboards showing current security -Free service that is activated for every AWS
and compliance status to quickly take customer
actions
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AWS STORAGE GATEWAY AMAZON S3 GLACIER

- Low-cost object storage meant for

- Hybrid storage service to allow
archiving / backup
on-premises to seamlessly use the AWS Cloud
-Types: •Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
-Use cases: disaster recovery, backup &
• Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
restore, tiered storage
• Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

AMAZON S3 AMAZON FSX

-“Infinitely scaling” storaged - Built on Windows File Server

- S3 Use cases -Fully managed, highly reliable, and
• Backup and storage scalable Windows native shared
• Disaster Recovery file system
• Archive -Launch 3rd party high-performance file
Very Important for Exam systems on AWS

AWS ELASTIC DISASTER RECOVERY AWS BACKUP

- Fully-managed service to centrally manage and

- Quickly and easily recover your physical,
automate backups across AWS services
virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS
-On-demand and scheduled backups
-Continuous block-level replication for your
• Supports PITR (Point-in-time Recovery)
servers
• Cross-Region and Cross-Account Backup
(using AWS Organizations)

AMAZON ELASTIC BLOCK STORE AMAZON ELASTIC FILE SYSTEM

(AMAZON EBS) (AMAZON EFS)
- Network drive you can attach
- Managed NFS (network file system) that can be
to your instances while they run
mounted on 100s of EC2
-They can only be mounted to one instance at a
-EFS works with Linux EC2 instances in multi-AZ
time
• Highly available, scalable, expensive
-bound to a specific availability zone

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AWS FARGATE AWS LAMBDA

- Serverless, Launch Docker containers on - Function as a Service

AWS - Virtual functions – no servers to manage!
-You do not provision the infrastructure (no EC2 • Limited by time - short executions
instances to manage) • Run on-demand
• Scaling is automated

Technologies and concepts that

might appear on the exam

API stands for Application Programming Interface. In the context of

APIs, the word Application refers to any software with a distinct
function.
API
Interface can be thought of as a contract of service between two
applications. This contract defines how the two communicate with
each other using requests and responses.

BENEFITS OF Migrating your workload to AWS comes with lots of benefits. AWS
MIGRATING TO has achieved years of experience to deliver technical, operational,
THE and organizational capabilities so you can achieve the desired results
AWS CLOUD faster.

The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS

AWS CLOUD experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and
ADOPTION accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS.
FRAMEWORK AWS CAF identifies specific organizational capabilities that underpin
(AWS CAF) successful cloud transformations. These capabilities provide best
practice guidance that helps you improve your cloud readiness

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 AWS Compliance empowers customers to understand the robust
controls in place at AWS to maintain security and data protection in
AWS
the AWS Cloud.
COMPLIANCE
When systems are built in the AWS Cloud, AWS and customers share
compliance responsibilities.

With AWS compute you pay only for the instance or resource you
COMPUTE need, for as long as you use it, without requiring long-term contracts
or complex licensing

The AWS Cost Management console has features that you can use for
budgeting and forecasting costs and methods for you to optimize
COST your pricing to reduce your overall AWS bill.
MANAGEMENT The AWS Cost Management console is integrated closely with the
Billing console. Using both together, you can manage your costs in a
holistic manner.

A database is an electronically stored, systematic collection of data. It

can contain any type of data, including words, numbers, images,
videos, and files.
DATABASES You can use software called a database management system (DBMS)
to store, retrieve, and edit data. In computer systems, the word
database can also refer to any DBMS, to the database system, or to
an application associated with the database.

Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of instance types optimized to

AMAZON EC2 fit different use cases.
INSTANCE Instance types comprise varying combinations of CPU, memory,
TYPES storage, and networking capacity and give you the flexibility to
choose the appropriate mix of resources for your applications.

The AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure is the most secure, extensive,

and reliable cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services
AWS GLOBAL
from data centers globally.
INFRASTRUCTURE Whether you need to deploy your application workloads across the
globe in a single click, or you want to build and deploy specific
applications closer to your end-users with single-digit millisecond
latency
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 The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global community of partners
that leverages programs, expertise, and resources to build, market,
AWS PARTNER and sell customer offerings.
This diverse network features 100,000 partners from more than 150
NETWORK
countries. As an AWS Partner, you are uniquely positioned to help
customers take full advantage of all that AWS has to offer and
accelerate their journey to the cloud.
Prescriptive Guidance provides time-tested strategies, guides, and
patterns to help accelerate your cloud migration, modernization, and
AWS optimization projects.
PRESCRIPTIVE These resources were developed by AWS technology experts and the
GUIDANCE global community of AWS Partners, based on their years of
experience helping customers realize their business objectives on
AWS.

Get deeper insights from your data while lowering costs with AWS
MACHINE
machine learning (ML).
LEARNING
AWS helps you at every stage of your ML adoption journey with the
&
most comprehensive set of artificial intelligence (AI) and ML services,
AI infrastructure, and implementation resources.

Management and governance refer to the set of practices, tools, and

policies used to efficiently control, oversee, and optimize resources
MANAGEMENT
within the AWS environment.
AND
This encompasses various aspects, including:
GOVERNANCE - Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Resource Provisioning and Optimization etc.

MIGRATION
The central location to collect server and application inventory data
AND DATA
for the assessment, planning, and tracking of migrations to AWS.
TRANSFER

It is a cloud computing empire that leverages cloud-based services to

provide flexible virtual infrastructure for its customers.
NETWORK
AWS networking services offer a wide range of databases and
SERVICES
networking options which are scalable, on-demand, and available
with a few clicks of the mouse.

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 AWS Pricing Calculator is a free web-based planning tool that you can
use to create cost estimates for using AWS services. You can use
AWS Pricing Calculator for the following use cases:
AWS PRICING
Model your solutions before building them
CALCULATOR
Explore AWS service price points
Review the calculations behind your estimates
Plan your AWS spend

AWS The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of

PROFESSIONAL experts that can help you realize your desired business outcomes
SERVICES when using the AWS Cloud

AWS re:Post is a cloud knowledge service that helps builders remove

technical roadblocks, accelerate innovation, and operate efficiently.
AWS RE:POST
Knowledge Center content covers the most frequent questions and
requests from builders.

A software development kit (SDK) is a set of platform-specific

building tools for developers.
You require components like debuggers, compilers, and libraries to
AWS SDKS create code that runs on a specific platform, operating system, or
programming language.
SDKs put everything you need to develop and run software in one
place.

AWS customers benefit from data centers and network architectures

SECURITY that are built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive
organizations.

The AWS security blog is a great way to help keep you ahead of new
challenges, changes and developments relating to all things related
AWS
to AWS security.
SECURITY
It is updated regularly with new posts, promoting news, best
BLOG practices, service features and announcements, technical how-to’s,
events and much more.

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The AWS Security Center is a central location from which you can
SECURITY obtain the latest versions of AWS’ security whitepaper, receive
CENTER security updates and where you can report any security concerns.

AWS responsibility “Security of the Cloud” - AWS is responsible for

AWS protecting the infrastructure that runs all of the services offered in
SHARED the AWS Cloud. This infrastructure is composed of the hardware,
software, networking, and facilities that run AWS Cloud services.
RESPONSIBILITY
Customer responsibility “Security in the Cloud” – Customer
MODEL
responsibility is determined by the AWS Cloud services that a
customer selects.

AWS Support offers a range of plans that provide access to tools and
expertise that support the success and operational health of your
AWS
AWS solutions.
SUPPORT
All support plans provide 24/7 access to customer service, AWS
PLANS documentation, technical papers, and support forums.
Uou can choose a support plan for your AWS use case.

AWS Support is one-on-one, fast-response support from experienced

AWS technical support engineers.
SUPPORT The service helps customers use AWS's products and features.
CENTER With pay-by-the-month pricing and unlimited support cases,
customers are freed from long-term commitments.

To transform their business, increase agility, reduce costs, and

accelerate innovation.
STORAGE Choose from a broad portfolio of storage solutions with deep
functionality for storing, accessing, protecting, and analyzing your
data.

Helps you understand the pros and cons of decisions you make while
AWS building systems on AWS.
WELL-ARCHITECTED By using the Framework you will learn architectural best practices for
FRAMEWORK designing and operating reliable, secure, efficient, cost-effective, and
sustainable systems in the cloud.

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