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CLF-C02 Flashcards
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- Cloud computing
- On-demand delivery of IT resources over the internet, pay-as-you-go.
- Region
- A geographic area with multiple Availability Zones.
- Availability Zone
- One or more isolated data centres in a Region.
- Edge location
- A site used by CloudFront to cache content near users.
- Shared responsibility model
- AWS secures the cloud; the customer secures what is in it.
- EC2
- Virtual servers in the cloud.
- S3
- Scalable object storage.
- RDS
- Managed relational databases.
- VPC
- Your isolated private network in AWS.
- IAM
- Identity and Access Management - users, roles, policies.
- Lambda
- Serverless functions that run code on demand.
- Elasticity
- Scaling resources up and down with demand.
- On-Demand
- Pay for compute by the second/hour with no commitment.
- Reserved Instance
- A capacity commitment for a lower price.
- Spot Instance
- Spare capacity at a deep discount, can be reclaimed.
- Free Tier
- Limited free usage for new AWS accounts.
- CloudWatch
- Monitoring and observability service.
- CloudTrail
- Records account activity and API calls.
- Trusted Advisor
- Recommends cost, security and performance improvements.
- Total Cost of Ownership
- The full cost of running workloads, on-prem vs cloud.