IAM
This type of IAM entity represents a person or application that interacts with AWS.
What is a user?
The full name of EC2
What is Elastic Compute Cloud
The full name of S3
What is Simple Storage Service?
This is the name of AWS's virtual server service.
What is Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)?
The service for converting audio and video into text
AWS Transcribe
This type of IAM entity can assume permissions to perform specific actions.
What is a role?
Is determined at the creation of an EC2, used to define the computing power needed to run the virtual server. Some examples are t2 and m5
What is instance type?
The long term file storage service on AWS
What is Glacier
the payment model set up by AWS that allows you to pay for only what you use
What is pay as you go model?
This service is serverless and runs your code in response to events
What is AWS Lambda?
These are policies created and managed by AWS.
What are managed policies?
The virtual firewall for an EC2 instance
What is a Security Group
AWS NoSQL Database Service
What is DynamoDB
Name for multiple data centers within an AWS region
What is an Availability Zone
This AWS database service is fully managed and designed for SQL databases.
What is Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)?
Policies can be attached to these IAM entities.
What are users, groups, and roles?
This service provides block storage volumes for use with EC2 instances
What is EBS?
The place where you store all the objects in S3.
What is a Bucket
Acts like your network in the cloud
What is VPC
This service monitors and logs your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time.
What is AWS Cloudwatch
This IAM component defines what actions are allowed on which resources.
What is a policy?
acts as a template that contains the software configuration (for example, an operating system, an application server, and applications) for an EC2 instance. It is the brain of an EC2
What is Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
This S3 storage class is best for data that is infrequently accessed but needs to be retrieved quickly when needed.
What is S3 Standard-IA (Infrequent Access)?
Because of this feature, AWS is available from any where in the world.
What is Browser based or internet based
What is cloudformation