Compute
The service for managing virtual machines
What is EC2?
The service for managing users
What is IAM?
The service for object storage
What is S3?
The service for creating a virtual network
What is VPC?
The "device" for managing traffic across multiple instances
What is an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)?
The acronym for an image of an EC2 instance
What is AMI?
The term for determining whether a user has access to a specific resource
What is authorization?
The name for a block storage volume?
What is EBS?
A collection of security rules applied at the network (subnet).
What are network ACLs?
The service for automatically handling scaling up and down with demand?
What is AWS Auto Scaling?
A collection of security rules applied to an EC2 instance
What is a security group?
The three levels in AWS Security that authorizations can be applied to?
What are user, group, and role?
The name for the network storage service in AWS
What is EFS?
A device used to connect a public subnet to the Internet. It is required in order for a subnet to be public
What is an Internet Gateway?
The service that monitors EC2 instances and AWS Services. It allows alarms to be set for automated actions
What is CloudWatch
Where I put "scripts" to execute when instantiating a new EC2 instance
What is User Data?
The unique identifier for a resource in AWS. It is used in creating policies for a specific resource.
What is an ARN?
The number of EC2 instances that can connect to an EBS volume?
What is 1?
The device used to allow outgoing traffic from a private subnet to the public internet
What is a NAT Gateway?
If a want as new server to be available to my load balancer I add it here
What is a target group?
Where I install applications and data on an EC2 instance if I want them to persist after terminating an EC2 instance
What is an EBS volumne?
The two different methods for authenticating with an AWS service are
What are user/passwords and access keys?
The name of the AWS storage service for accessing old documents that are rarely retrieved?
What is S3 Glacier?
The information required to establish a rule in a network ACL
What are destination IP range (CIDR), Protocol,Port and whether it is allowed or denied
An auto scaling group uses these to "define" the EC2 instances it spins up
What are Launch Template or AMI?