Core AWS Services
A web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)?
Ability to expand or shrink on demand.
What is Elasticity?
A service that provides On-demand delivery of IT resources and applications via the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.
What is Amazon Web Services?
Groupings of availability zones and data centers that are located around the globe.
What is a Region?
This lets organizations provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where they can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that they define.
What is Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)?
Able to grow as needed.
What is Scalability?
A computer that is located somewhere else, that you are utilizing in some fashion — such as: Compute power, storage, web hosting, database management.
What is the Cloud?
A group of AWS data centers located in a geographical region.
What is an Availability Zone?
This allows Organizations to store any number of objects of any type, such as HTML pages, source code files, image files, and encrypted data, and access them using HTTP-based protocols.
What is Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)?
Accessible at all times from different devices.
What is High Availability?
This type of cloud computing provides you with a complete product that is run and managed by the service provider. In most cases, people referring to this are referring to end-user applications (such as web-based email).
What is Software as a Service (SaaS)
A zone that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services closer to end-users.
What is a Local Zone?
This provides a fully managed relational database with support for many popular open source and commercial database engines.
What is Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?
Ability to access backups in case of data or hardware failure.
What is Fault Tolerant/Tolerance?
This type of cloud computing typically provides access to networking features, computers (virtual or on dedicated hardware), and data storage space.
What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?
This brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-premises facility.
What is AWS Outposts?
This enables organizations to securely control access to AWS Cloud services and resources for their users.
What is AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)?
Ability to deploy technology services in a matter of minutes, and get from idea to implementation several orders of magnitude faster than before.
What is Agility?
This type of cloud computing removes the need for you to manage underlying infrastructure (usually hardware and operating systems), and allows you to focus on the deployment and management of your applications.
What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)
A zone that enables developers to build applications that deliver single-digit millisecond latencies to mobile devices and end-users.
What is AWS Wavelength?