Compute/Networking
The full name of EC2
What is Elastic Cloud Compute?
The full name of S3
What is Simple Storage Service?
The AWS Function as a Service (FaaS) offering
What is Lambda?
The term for programmable infrastructure
What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?
The full meaning of the A, the W and the S in AWS
What is Amazon Web Services?
This provides your network space within AWS
What is VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)?
The type of items S3 stores
What are objects?
The AWS serverless database that doesn't "Know SQL"
What is Dynamo DB?
The HashiCorp product to manage infrastructure
What is Terraform?
The year AWS was founded
What is 2006?
Stateful network resource to secure inbound and outbound traffic for instances
What are Security Groups?
Used by children to build sandcastles or by AWS as the container for items stored in S3.
What are buckets?
Need a REST?
This service provides a mechanism to call into AWS from an internal or external application
What is API Gateway?
The place that TFE (and the non-enterprise version) use to "know about infrastructure".
What is a state file?
Sam from Green Eggs and Ham and this service that secures resources and allowed actions
What is IAM (Identity and Access Management)?
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)?
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%)
Defines a state machine to coordinate actions needed across components
What is a Step Function?
This is done in TFE to create/update infrastructure
What is terraform apply?
Get introduced to machine learning using a race track with this service
What is DeepRacer?
Here boy... this kind of instance can save you money if you have workloads that can be interrupted
What is Spot?
It's not another ice age, it's how AWS offers long term S3 storage for cheap
What is Glacier?
This offers serverless compute for containers
What is Fargate?
This is done in TFE to completely remove the infrastructure it maintains.
What is terraform destroy?
This was the very first Amazon Web Service
What is SQS (Simple Queuing Service)?