Storage
A service that provides object-level storage (i.e. stores data as objects in buckets).
What is...Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)?
This term means that you do not have to provision, patch, or manage servers.
What is...Serverless?
This model divides security into customer responsibilities (commonly referred to as “security in the cloud”) and AWS responsibilities (commonly referred to as “security of the cloud”).
Enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely.
What is...AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?
A service that provides on-demand access to AWS security and compliance reports and select online agreements.
What is...AWS Artifact?
A service that provides block-level storage volumes that you can use with Amazon EC2 instances.
What is...Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)?
A data warehousing service that you can use for big data analytics.
What is...Amazon Redshift.
Client-Side Data Encryption, Server-Side Encryption, and Network Traffic Protection
What is...the Bottom Layer of Customer Responsibility in the Shared Responsibility Model.
In IAM, this provides an extra layer of security for your AWS account by requiring multiple pieces of information to verify your identity.
What is...multi-factor authentication (MFA)?
A service that protects applications against DDoS attacks.
What is...AWS Shield?
This provides temporary block-level storage for an Amazon EC2 instance.
What is...an Instance Store?
This is an enterprise-class relational database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL relational databases. It is up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and up to three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases.
What is...Amazon Aurora?
This service helps to improve the security and compliance of applications by running automated security assessments.
What is...Amazon Inspector?
A JSON document that describes what API calls a user can or cannot make.
What is...an IAM Policy?
AWS Artifact consists of these two main sections.
What are...AWS Artifact Agreements and AWS Artifact Reports?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is...Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)?
A service that adds caching layers on top of your databases to help improve the read times of common requests.
What is...Amazon ElastiCache?
A service that provides intelligent threat detection for your AWS infrastructure and resources. It identifies threats by continuously monitoring the network activity and account behavior within your AWS environment.
What is...Amazon GuardDuty?
These are ideal for situations in which access to services or resources needs to be granted temporarily, instead of long-term.
What is...IAM roles?
In this type of attack, multiple sources are used to start an attack that aims to make a website or application unavailable.
What is...a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack?
This storage class supports long-term retention and digital preservation for data that might be accessed once or twice in a year. It is the lowest-cost storage in the AWS Cloud, with data retrieval from 12 to 48 hours.
What is...Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive?
This database service is a graph database service, which you can use to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets, such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, and knowledge graphs.
What is...Amazon Neptune?
A web application firewall that lets you monitor network requests that come into your web applications. This service works together with Amazon CloudFront and an Application Load Balancer.
What is...AWS WAF?
When granting permissions, you want to follow this principle.
What is...the Security Principle of Least Privilege?
A means of defending your system against Slowloris attacks.
What is...Elastic Load Balancer?