Compute/Networking
S3
Serverless
Infrastructure
AWS Potpourri
100

The full name of EC2

What is Elastic Cloud Compute?

100

The full name of S3

What is Simple Storage Service?

100

The AWS Function as a Service (FaaS) offering

What is Lambda?

100

The term for programmable infrastructure

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

100

The full meaning of the A, the W and the S in AWS

What is Amazon Web Services?

200

This provides your network space within AWS

What is VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)?

200

The type of items S3 stores

What are objects?

200

The AWS serverless database that doesn't "Know SQL"

What is Dynamo DB?

200

The HashiCorp product to manage infrastructure

What is Terraform?

200

The year AWS was founded

What is 2006?

300

Stateful network resource to secure inbound and outbound traffic for instances

What are Security Groups?

300

Used by children to build sandcastles or by AWS as the container for items stored in S3.

What are buckets?

300

Need a REST?

This service provides a mechanism to call into AWS from an internal or external application

What is API Gateway?

300

The place that TFE (and the non-enterprise version) use to "know about infrastructure".

What is a state file?

300

Sam from Green Eggs and Ham and this service that secures resources and allowed actions

What is IAM (Identity and Access Management)?

400

A template that contains the software configuration (operating system, application server, and applications) required to launch your instance 

What is an AMI (Amazon Machine Image)?

400

This is the durability for S3 storage, which is why it is very unlikely to simply lose something stored in S3

What is 11 9's? (99.999999999%)

400

Defines a state machine to coordinate actions needed across components

What is a Step Function?

400

This is done in TFE to create/update infrastructure

What is terraform apply?

400

Get introduced to machine learning using a race track with this service

What is DeepRacer?

500

Here boy... this kind of instance can save you money if you have workloads that can be interrupted

What is Spot?

500

It's not another ice age, it's how AWS offers long term S3 storage for cheap

What is Glacier?

500

This offers serverless compute for containers

What is Fargate?

500

This is done in TFE to completely remove the infrastructure it maintains.

What is terraform destroy?

500

This was the very first Amazon Web Service

What is SQS (Simple Queuing Service)?

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