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DVA-C02 Flashcards
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- Lambda
- Runs your code in response to events without managing servers.
- API Gateway
- Creates and manages REST and HTTP APIs.
- DynamoDB
- Managed NoSQL key-value and document database.
- Partition key
- The attribute DynamoDB uses to distribute data.
- Sort key
- Orders items sharing a partition key.
- GSI
- Global Secondary Index - an alternative query pattern.
- SDK
- Software Development Kit for calling AWS from code.
- IAM role
- Temporary, least-privilege credentials assumed by code.
- Cognito
- Handles user authentication and identity.
- KMS
- Key Management Service for encryption keys.
- Secrets Manager
- Stores and rotates secrets such as DB passwords.
- Parameter Store
- Stores configuration and secrets (Systems Manager).
- SQS
- Message queue for decoupling components.
- SNS
- Publish/subscribe messaging.
- Dead-letter queue
- Captures messages that repeatedly fail processing.
- Idempotency
- Safely retrying an operation without duplicate effects.
- Exponential backoff
- Retrying with increasing delays to handle throttling.
- CodePipeline
- Orchestrates build, test and deploy stages.
- SAM
- Serverless Application Model for defining serverless apps.
- CloudFormation
- Infrastructure as code using templates.
- X-Ray
- Traces and debugs distributed application requests.
- CloudWatch
- Metrics, logs and alarms for observability.