Cloud Concepts
This pricing model lets you pay only for the resources you consume, with no upfront costs.
What is Pay-as-You-Go?
This model outlines that AWS is responsible for security of the cloud, while customers handle security in the cloud.
What is the Shared Responsibility Model?
This foundational service provides resizable virtual servers in the cloud.
What is Amazon EC2?
This object storage service is ideal for unstructured data like images, videos, and backups.
What is Amazon S3?
This logical isolation of your AWS resources creates your own virtual network.
What is Amazon Virtual Private Cloud ( VPC )?
This tool helps create customized cost estimates for AWS services before launching.
What is the AWS Pricing Calculator?
The six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework include reliability, performance efficiency, and this one focused on minimizing expenses.
What is cost optimization?
This service provides fine-grained access control using users, groups, roles, and policies.
What is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?
This serverless compute service runs code in response to events without provisioning servers.
What is Amazon Lamda?
This block storage service acts like a raw disk attached to EC2 instances for persistent data.
What is Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)?
This DNS service routes end users to applications with low latency and health checks.
What is Amazon Route 53?
This pricing option for Reserved Instances requires full payment upfront for the maximum discount.
What is All Upfront?
This framework helps organizations migrate to AWS by addressing business, people, governance, and platform perspectives.
What is the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)?
This free service automatically protects all AWS customers from common Layer 3 and 4 DDoS attacks.
What is AWS Shield Standard?
This easy-to-use platform bundles virtual servers, storage, and databases for small-to-medium apps.
What is Amazon Lightsail?
This fully managed relational database service supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others.
What is Amazon RDS?
This global CDN securely delivers content like videos and APIs from edge locations.
What is Amazon CloudFront?
This free tool checks your account for cost optimization, security, and best practice recommendations.
What is AWS Trusted Advisor?
Moving from capital expenditure (CapEx) to operational expenditure (OpEx) is a key example of this cloud economic benefit.
What is improved cost efficiency (or trade CapEx for OpEx)?
This service uses hardware security modules to manage and protect cryptographic keys.
What is AWS Key Management Service (KMS)?
This serverless container service runs Docker containers without managing servers or clusters.
What is AWS Fargate?
This NoSQL database delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.
What is Amazon DynamoDB?
These isolated locations within a Region provide fault tolerance and high availability.
What are Availability Zones?
These flexible pricing options provide discounts based on consistent compute usage across regions and instances.
What are Savings Plans?
This concept refers to the ability to rapidly innovate and experiment with low risk and cost in the cloud.
What is Agility?
This tool helps evaluate workloads against best practices and identify high-risk issues across Well-Architected pillars.
What is the AWS Well-Architected Tool?
This PaaS service automates deployment, scaling, and management of applications using containers or code.
What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
This petabyte-scale data warehouse is optimized for analytics and complex queries.
What is Amazon Redshift?
This stateless firewall at the subnet level requires explicit rules for inbound and outbound traffic.
What are Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)?
This entry-level paid support plan includes 24/7 access to Cloud Support Engineers.
What is Developer Support?