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This AI company created Claude, an AI assistant focused on safety and helpfulness.
What is Anthropic?
This AWS service is the foundational compute service that lets you run virtual servers in the cloud.
What is EC2?
This practice involves automatically building, testing, and deploying code every time a change is committed.
What is CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment)?
This security principle means giving users and systems only the minimum access they need to do their job.
What is least privilege (or principle of least privilege)?
This term, popularized in Silicon Valley, refers to quickly releasing a basic version of a product to gather user feedback.
What is an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)?
This term describes AI that can take multi-step actions autonomously to complete complex tasks.
What is agent AI?
The best way to elevate yourself in the world of AWS is get one or more of these.
What is a certification?
This popular open-source tool uses YAML files to define and run multi-container Docker applications.
What is Docker Compose?
This type of attack tricks users into revealing credentials by disguising a malicious message as a legitimate one.
What is phishing?
This famous two-word rule, attributed to Jeff Bezos, describes Amazon's philosophy on team size.
What is the Two-Pizza Rule?
This training technique, used by Anthropic, teaches AI to follow a set of principles rather than just human feedback alone.
What is Constitutional AI?
This AWS AI tool offers deep AWS expertise, code completion and generation, test generation, test execution and lives inside your IDE
What is Amazon Q?
This DevOps concept treats infrastructure configuration as code that can be versioned, reviewed, and deployed like software.
What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
This security model assumes no user or system is trusted by default, even inside the corporate network.
What is Zero Trust?
Movement describing more responsibilities moving to the developer (test, security, ops)
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This metric, commonly used to evaluate large language models, measures how much text a model can process in a single interaction.
What is a context window?
This AWS tool, announced in 2025, is an agentic AI-powered IDE designed for autonomous software development.
What is Kiro?
This branching strategy keeps a single main branch always deployable and uses short-lived feature branches merged frequently.
What is trunk-based development?
This OWASP vulnerability occurs when untrusted data is sent to an interpreter as part of a command or query.
What is injection (SQL injection)?
When a bug is in production it is typically this person/role's fault as being primarily responsible.
What is Me?
This open protocol, developed by Anthropic, allows AI models to connect to external tools, data sources, and services in a standardized way.
What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?
This is the bible for how AWS says you should build things in their cloud and has six core pillars.
What is the Well Architected Framework?
This metric measures the average time it takes to restore a service after a production failure, and is one of the four DORA metrics.
What is Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)?
This cryptographic concept allows one party to prove knowledge of a secret to another party without revealing the secret itself.
What is a zero-knowledge proof?
This post-incident practice, common in DevOps culture, focuses on systemic causes rather than blaming individuals.
What is a blameless post-mortem?