AWS Solutions Architect: Associate Level

AWS Overview

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 What You’ll Learn

Brief Overview of AWS Key

Features

History of AWS

AWS’s Globally Distributed

Infrastructure

AWS as the Market Leader

AWS Products and Services

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 1.01: Description of AWS
Brief overview of AWS

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 Features of AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform.

Pay-as-you-go pricing Greater security is provided

Cloud-based infrastructure
allows you to pay only as through data encryption
helps business growth and
long as you use the capabilities and exceptional
scaling
resources hardware

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Hybrid capabilities help you

You can build sophisticated
run hybrid applications AWS has a global presence
applications with increased
across your existing in 190 countries through 18
flexibility, scalability, and
on-premises and cloud geographic regions
reliability
services

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 1.02: History and Evolution of AWS
How AWS developed into the company it is today

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 History of AWS

2003 2006 2010 2013

Chris Pinkham and AWS was Amazon.com retail web AWS started providing
Benjamin Black officially services were moved to certification courses for
presented their idea. launched. AWS. computer engineers.

1st Vision 180,000 + 2.1 Billion

2004 2007 2012 2015

AWS released its first Over 180,000 developers AWS held its first re:Invent AWS was declared
service called Simple signed up with AWS. conference. profitable with a revenue
Queue. of $2.1billion in Q3 2015.

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 Global Distribution

AWS offers a Cloud platform powering businesses in 190 countries.

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 Regions and Availability Zones

A region is a geographic area isolated from other Amazon regions to provide the greatest possible fault
tolerance. Availability Zones located within a region, with at least 2 per region, are connected via low-latency
links.

Amazon Web Service

Availability
Zone

Availability Availability
Zone Zone
Data Centers

Region

There is always a minimum of two availability zones per region.

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 Edge Locations
Edge locations are located in most of the major cities around the world to distribute content to end users with
reduced latency.

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 AWS Products
AWS offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services
that help organizations increase speed, lower IT costs, and scale applications.

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 Market Leader

• AWS is the Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for

“Cloud Infrastructure as a Service” for 6th
consecutive year.

• Number of competitors capable of competing is

falling

• It is constantly releasing new features (over 1000+

in 2017).

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Knowledge Check

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KNOWLEDGE
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What is the minimum number of Availability Zones within a Region?

a. 5

b. 33

c. 3

d. 2

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KNOWLEDGE
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What is the minimum number of Availability Zones within a Region?

a. 5

b. 33

c. 3

d. 2

The correct answer is d.

There are always at least two Availability Zones within a Region to provide fault tolerance.

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KNOWLEDGE
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Which AWS product uses Edge Locations to provide a CDN service?

a. Amazon EC2

b. Amazon Web Services

c. Amazon CloudFront

d. None of the above

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
Which AWS product uses Edge Locations to provide a CDN service?

a. Amazon EC2

b. Amazon Web Services

c. Amazon CloudFront

d. None of the above

The correct answer is c.

Amazon CloudFront is the Amazon Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that uses Edge Locations to
provide content to end users with reduced latency.

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 1.03 Overview of AWS Products and Services
Overview of every product and service on the AWS platform

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AWS Management Console
Let’s start with the Compute section.

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 Compute
The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) from Amazon provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud, which is
intended to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

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 Compute (Contd.)
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container management service that
supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.

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 Compute (Contd.)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with
Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.

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 Compute (Contd.)
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. Pay only for the compute
and execution time that you use.

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 Compute (Contd.)
Elastic Load Balancing is a networking service that automatically spreads out incoming application
traffic across several available EC2 instances.

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 Compute (Contd.)
Amazon Lightsail is a new service that allows you to quickly and easily create your own Virtual
Private Server, or VPS, for as little as $5 per month.

Amazon Lightsail

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 Compute (Contd.)

• AWS Batch is Amazon’s attempt to eliminate third-party commercials or open source batch
processing solutions.
• It enables you to easily and efficiently run huge quantities of batch computing jobs on AWS.
• It is a managed service, and it dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute
required to run your batch jobs.

AWS Batch

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 Compute (Contd.)

• EKS is an extension of ECS that runs Kubernetes.

• EKS is a managed server to handle the installation, deployment, and scaling of Kubernetes containers
and clusters.

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 Compute (Contd.)

AWS Fargate is a fully managed service to run ECS or EKS containers. It manages and scales on your behalf.

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 Compute

Vmware Cloud on AWS extends on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS Cloud.

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 Compute

AWS Outposts allows you to run native AWS services to your own data center.

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 AWS Management Console
The next section is Storage and Content Delivery.

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 Storage and Content Delivery
Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object-based online storage service that offers unlimited data storage
space in the cloud.

Amazon S3

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 Storage and Content Delivery (Contd.)

CloudFront is a content delivery service (CDN) that integrates with other Amazon cloud services to
provide an easy way for businesses and developers to distribute data through high-speed transfers.

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 Storage and Content Delivery (Contd.)

The s3/Glacier Select service allows you to query your S3 or Glacier files with SQL queries and
retrieve only the required data.

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 Storage and Content Delivery (Contd.)

Elastic File System is a storage that can be attached to multiple EC2 instances.

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 Storage and Content Delivery (Contd.)

Amazon Glacier is the long-term backup/archiving service in the cloud.

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 Storage and Content Delivery (Contd.)

Storage gateway is used to increase the capacity to store files, such as Word documents.

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 Storage and Content Delivery (Contd.)

• Amazon Snowball is used to move large amounts of data quickly (petabytes) without a network.
• Snowball Edge is a new version of Snowball; it has compute capacity that can be used to create local storage
tiers.

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 Storage and Content Delivery (Contd.)

Amazon Snowmobile is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to
AWS.

AWS Snowmobile

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 Storage

Amazon FSx for Lustre is a file system optimized for compute-intensive workloads.

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 Storage

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides a fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system.

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 Storage

AWS Backup is a centralized, fully managed backup service.

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AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Database.

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 Database

The Relational Database Service (RDS) provides scalable relational databases in the cloud through a Web service.

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 Database (Contd.)

Replicate, migrate, or convert your existing onsite databases onto AWS.

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 Database (Contd.)

Amazon Neptune is a graph database service built specifically for highly connected datasets and
graph engines optimized for storing billions of relationships.

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 Database (Contd.)

DynamoDB is Amazon’s NoSQL offering.

Amazon DynamoDB = No SQL

Amazon DynamoDB

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 Database (Contd.)

If you have users running the same queries, then you can cache these results in Elasticache to reduce
the load on your database instances.

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 Database (Contd.)

RedShift is an Amazon Data Warehousing service.

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 Database (Contd.)

Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment provides an environment for

customers to test new PostgreSQL database features in conjunction with
Amazon.

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 Databases

Amazon Time Stream is a fast, scalable, fully managed time series database service.

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 Databases

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed
document database service.

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 Databases

AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days.

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Knowledge Check

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
Which AWS service is used to run Docker?

a. Elastic Beanstalk

b. EC2 Container Service

c. Lambda

d. Direct Connect

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
Which AWS service is used to run Docker?

a. Elastic Beanstalk

b. EC2 Container Service

c. Lambda

d. Direct Connect

The correct answer is b.

EC2 Container Service is a management service that supports Docker containers. Elastic Beanstalk is used to
deploy and scale web applications. Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, and
Direct Connect allows you to directly join your corporate site with AWS.

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What is an Amazon NoSQL product?

a. RDS

b. DMS

c. RedShift

d. DynamoDB

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
What is an Amazon NoSQL product?

a. RDS

b. DMS

c. RedShift

d. DynamoDB

The correct answer is d.

DynamoDB is the NoSQL offering from AWS. RDS is its relational database server; DMS is its database
migration server; and RedShift is its data warehousing service.

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KNOWLEDGE
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What service would you use to archive data for long-term storage?

a. Glacier

b. Snowball

c. S3

d. Storage Gateway

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
What service would you use to archive data for long-term storage?

a. Glacier

b. Snowball

c. S3

d. Storage Gateway

The correct answer is a.

Glacier is used to cost-effectively store data for long-term archival. Snowball is used to transfer large
amounts of data to AWS without using the Internet, S3 is the storage solution for files that you want to
access immediately, and Storage Gateway is a service that allows you to extend your onsite storage into the
cloud.
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AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Network.

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 Networking
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) works as a bridge between a user’s existing IT infrastructure and Amazon's cloud.

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 Networking (Contd.)
Route53 is Amazon DNS and Domains service.

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 Networking (Contd.)
Direct Connect is a way of connecting into the AWS environment without using an Internet connection.

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AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Analytics.

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 Analytics
Elasticsearch allows you to use the popular open source search and analytics engine as a managed service in AWS.

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 Analytics (Contd.)

Elastic MapReduce allows businesses and developers to process large amounts of data using a Hadoop
framework. It’s ideal for processes like data mining and scientific simulation.

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 Analytics (Contd.)

Kinesis can ingest lots of data very quickly from mobile apps, sensors, and other sources.

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 Analytics (Contd.)

QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy for all employees
to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from their data.

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 Analytics (Contd.)

Data pipeline is used to extract, transform, and load data from other locations in AWS.

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 Analytics (Contd.)

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that allows you to analyze data in
Amazon S3 using standard SQL.

Amazon Athena

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 Analytics (Contd.)

Amazon CloudSearch is a managed service that allows you to easily set up, manage,
and scale a search solution for your website or application.

Amazon CloudSearch

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 Analytics (Contd.)

AWS Glue is fully managed ETL (Extract, transform, load) service that simplifies and
automates the difficult and time consuming tasks of data discovery, conversion,
mapping, and job scheduling.

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 AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Enterprise Application.

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 Enterprise Applications
Amazon WorkDocs allows you to share Word Documents with your
colleagues.

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 Enterprise Applications (Contd.)
Through Amazon WorkMail, you can give everyone in your company the same email system and calendar.

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 Enterprise Applications (Contd.)
WorkSpaces is an enterprise application that gives you a standard Windows desktop that you can control remotely.

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 AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Artificial Intelligence.

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 Artificial Intelligence (Contd.)

Amazon Lex provides a conversational interface for your applications; it is powered by

the same deep learning technologies used in Amazon Echo.

Amazon Lex

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 Artificial Intelligence (Contd.)

Amazon Machine Learning can predict future behavior from existing data; for example,
people that bought x also bought y. It can also perform functions such as fraud
detection.

Amazon Machine
Learning

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 Artificial Intelligence (Contd.)

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech so you can create
applications that talk.

Amazon Polly

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 Artificial Intelligence (Contd.)

Amazon Rekognition is a service that makes it easy to add image analysis to your
applications.

Amazon Rekognition

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 Artificial Intelligence (Contd.)

Amazon Sumerian helps in creating Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and 3D applications.
It allows you to build apps for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, etc.

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 Artificial Intelligence (Contd.)

Amazon DeepLens is a fully programmable video camera with deep learning capabilities
that is pre-loaded with models to assist your deep learning skills

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 Artificial Intelligence (Contd.)

Amazon Rekognition Video is the video analysis service that tracks people and recognizes activities,
objects, celebrities, and inappropriate content.

It analyzes the videos stored in S3 and returns specific labels.

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 Artificial Intelligence (Contd.)

Amazon comprehend is an AI-based Natural Language Processing service that provides insights
and relationships regarding your text documents.

It helps to identify key extracts from the text, such as phrases, people, locations, and brands, and
provides an organized output of the results.

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 Artificial Intelligence (Contd.)

• Translate - Provides fast, high-quality language translation

• Transcribe - Speech recognition service that makes it easy to add speech-to-text functionality to
applications

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 Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Forecast is an accurate time series forecasting service, based on the same technology used at Amazon.com.

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 Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Personalize provides real-time personalization and recommendation.

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 Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Textract allows you to easily extract text and data virtually from any document.

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 Artificial Intelligence

AWS DeepRacer a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning.

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Knowledge Check

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KNOWLEDGE
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Where does Route53 get its name?

a. 53 is the port that DNS uses

b. From the 53 available AWS routes

c. It doesn’t have specific significance

d. On average, the ping latency between AWS resources is 53 ms

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KNOWLEDGE
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Where does Route53 get its name?

a. 53 is the port that DNS uses

b. From the 53 available AWS routes

c. It doesn’t have specific significance

d. On average, the ping latency between AWS resources is 53 ms

The correct answer is a.

53 is the DNS port, and it's a play on words of Route66.

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
Which service allows you to stream data to AWS?

a. Elastic MapReduce

b. QuickSight

c. Kinesis

d. Data Pipeline

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
Which service allows you to stream data to AWS?

a. Elastic MapReduce

b. QuickSight

c. Kinesis

d. Data Pipeline

The correct answer is c.

Kinesis allows you to stream large amounts of data to AWS from mobile apps or sensors. Elastic MapReduce
is used for data mining or scientific simulation with Hadoop frameworks running on EC2 instances.
QuickSight is a cloud powered BI service, and Data Pipeline is the AWS ETL tool.

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KNOWLEDGE
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Which of these is NOT an AWS Enterprise Application?

a. WorkDocs

b. WorkMail

c. WorkServer

d. WorkSpaces

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KNOWLEDGE
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Which of these is NOT an AWS Enterprise Application?

a. WorkDocs

b. WorkMail

c. WorkServer

d. WorkSpaces

The correct answer is c.

WorkDocs allows you to share documents with your colleagues. WorkMail is Amazon’s answer to Microsoft
Exchange, and WorkSpaces allows you to run Windows desktops in the cloud.

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 AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Mobile Services.

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 Mobile Services
Amazon Cognito saves mobile user data in the AWS cloud.

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 Mobile Services (Contd.)
Amazon Mobile Analytics tracks and measures in-app activity.

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 Mobile Services (Contd.)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) sends mobile notifications, emails, and/or SMS messages.

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 Mobile Services (Contd.)
AWS Device Farm tests your app on a bunch of different iOS and Android devices simultaneously.

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 Mobile Services (Contd.)
AWS Mobile Hub builds, tests, and monitors mobile apps.

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 Mobile Services (Contd.)

Amazon Pinpoint makes it easy to run targeted campaigns to drive user engagement
in mobile apps.

Amazon Pinpoint

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 Mobile Services (Contd.)

Amazon AppSync allows web and mobile application data to be updated in real time so that
offline users are updated as soon as they reconnect.

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 AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Internet of Things.

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 Internet of Things
AWS IoT is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices interact
with cloud applications and other devices easily and securely.

AWS
IoT
Connected Devices

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 Internet of Things (Contd.)

AWS Greengrass is a software that lets you securely run local compute, messaging, and
data caching for connected devices.

AWS Greengrass

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 Internet of Things (Contd.)

Amazon IoT analytics makes it easy to run sophisticated analytics on huge volumes of IoT data.

IoT Analytics is a BI tool for IoT data.

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 Internet of Things (Contd.)

Managing all your IoT devices in one central location makes it easy to onboard, organize, monitor,
and manage them.

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 AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Developer Tools.

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 Developer Tools
AWS CodeCommit creates AWS hosted version control for your code.

git-push

git-push
CodeCommit S3
AWS
CodeCommit
git-push

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 Developer Tools (Contd.)

Through AWS CodeDeploy, you can get your code from CodeCommit
repository and deploy it to your EC2 instances.

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 Developer Tools (Contd.)

AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application updates.

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 Developer Tools (Contd.)

AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production and distributed applications,
such as those built using micro services.

AWS X-Ray

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 Developer Tools (Contd.)

AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service that compiles source code, runs tests, and
produces software packages that are ready to be deployed.

AWS CodeBuild

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 Developer Tools (Contd.)

Amazon cloud9 is a cloud-based development environment that runs in a browser and can be
shared with the team to allow pair programming.

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Knowledge Check

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
Which service allows you to save mobile user data in the AWS cloud?

a. Cognito

b. SNS

c. Device Farm

d. Mobile Hub

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CHECK
Which service allows you to save mobile user data in the AWS cloud?

a. Cognito

b. SNS

c. Device Farm

d. Mobile Hub

The correct answer is a.

Cognito allows you to save mobile user data in the cloud. SNS (Simple Notification Service) allows you to
send mobile notifications, emails, and SMS; Mobile Hub is the tool to build, test, and monitor your mobile
apps.

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
Which AWS service is used as a code repository?

a. CodeDeploy

b. CodeCommit

c. CodePipeline

d. Lambda

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KNOWLEDGE
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Which AWS service is used as a code repository?

a. CodeDeploy

b. CodeCommit

c. CodePipeline

d. Lambda

The correct answer is b.

CodeCommit allows you to store code repositories in the cloud. CloudDeploy is used to get code from your
repository and deploy it to your EC2 instances; CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time
there is a code change; Lambda allows you to run code without having to provision or manage servers.

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 AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Management Tools.

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 Management Tools
CloudWatch enables monitoring of EC2 and other Amazon cloud services so you can
get alerts when an error occurs or when AWS services are disconnected.

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 Management Tools (Contd.)
CloudFormation allows you to set up a bunch of connected AWS services together.

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 Management Tools (Contd.)
CloudTrail audits user activity on your AWS resources.

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 Management Tools (Contd.)
AWS Config keeps track of configuration management changes.

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 Management Tools (Contd.)
OpsWorks helps configure and manage operations using Chef.

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 Management Tools (Contd.)
Service Catalog gives other AWS users in your group access to preset apps you've built.

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 Management Tools (Contd.)

Trusted Advisor is an automated service that identifies areas in your AWS setup where
you’re overpaying (for example, unused EC2 instances).

Service Limit

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 Management Tools (Contd.)

AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS
is experiencing events that may impact you.

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

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 Management Tools (Contd.)

Amazon Systems Manager is a unified UI that provides a view of all operational data from multiple AWS
services.

It allows automation of operation tasks.

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 Management

AWS Control Tower allows you to set up and govern a secure, compliant, and multi-account AWS
Environment.

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 AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Security and Identity.

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 Security and Identity
Identity and Access Management allows you to set up additional users, new AWS Keys, and policies.

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 Security and Identity (Contd.)
Amazon Inspector installs agents on your EC2 instances to scan AWS setup to determine its security.

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 Security and Identity (Contd.)

AWS CloudHSM service helps you meet corporate, contractual, and regulatory compliance requirements for
data security using dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud.

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 Security and Identity (Contd.)

AWS Directory Service makes it easy to set up and run Microsoft Active Directory (AD) in the AWS cloud or
connect your AWS resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory.

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 Security and Identity (Contd.)

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create
and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data and uses Hardware Security Modules
(HSMs) to protect the security of your keys.

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 Security and Identity (Contd.)

Web application firewall blocks bad requests to CloudFront protected sites.

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 Security and Identity (Contd.)

AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection

service that safeguards web applications running on AWS.

AWS Shield

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 Security and Identity (Contd.)

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) handles the complexity of provisioning,

deploying, and managing SSL/TLS certificates for your AWS-based websites
and applications.

AWS Certificate Manager

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 Security and Identity (Contd.)

The AWS Artifact portal provides on-demand access to AWS security and
compliance documents, also known as audit artifacts.

AWS Artifact

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 Security and Identity (Contd.)

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service. It protects your AWS accounts and workloads by
continuously monitoring for unusual API calls or signs of compromised accounts.

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 Management

AWS Security Hub allows you to centrally view and manage security alerts and automate compliance
checks.

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 AWS Management Console
The next section deals with Application Services.

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 Application Services

API Gateway creates a proxy of your app’s API so you can throttle bad client traffic, test new
versions, and present methods more cleanly.

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 Application Services (Contd.)

AppStream lets you deliver your Windows applications to any device.

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 Application Services (Contd.)

CloudSearch is Amazon’s full-text search.

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 Application Services (Contd.)

Elastic Transcoder is a way of transcoding media files.

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 Application Services (Contd.)

Simple Email Service or SES allows you to send one-off emails such as
transactional marketing emails, password resets, and notifications.

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 Application Services (Contd.)

Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a hosted queue that increases the workflow
between distributed components of applications that perform different tasks.

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 Application Services (Contd.)

Amazon uses Simple Workflow Service (SWF) in its warehouses.

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 Application Services (Contd.)

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ.

It makes configuring and operating cloud-based message brokers easier and provides industry-standard
APIs and protocols for messaging.

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 Blockchain

Amazon Managed Blockchain allows you to create and manage scalable blockchain networks.

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 Blockchain

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is a fully managed ledger database.

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 Migrations

AWS Migration Hub simplify and accelerate migrations to the AWS Cloud.

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 Migrations

AWS Transfer for SFTP is a fully managed SFTP service.

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 Migrations

AWS offers a suite of services to help you migrate servers, data and applications to the cloud.

Below are some of these suite services:

• Database Migration Service

• Server Migration Service
• Snowball

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Knowledge Check

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
Which service is designed to assist with workflow?

a. SQS

b. SES

c. SNS

d. SWF

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
Which service is designed to assist with workflow?

a. SQS

b. SES

c. SNS

d. SWF

The correct answer is d.

Simple Workflow Service (SWF) is a workflow control process that Amazon uses in its warehouses. Simple
Queue Service (SQS) is a hosted queue that increases the workflow between distributed components of
applications. Simple Notification Service (SNS) is used to send mobile notifications, emails, and/or SMS
messages. Simple Email Service (SES) is used to send one-off emails.
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Which AWS service is used to control Active Directory?

a. Directory Service

b. Direct Connect

c. IoT

d. KMS

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CHECK
Which AWS service is used to control Active Directory?

a. Directory Service

b. Direct Connect

c. IoT

d. KMS

The correct answer is a.

Directory Service allows you to create Microsoft AD services in the cloud or join them to your existing on-site
directories. Direct Connect joins your existing site with AWS directly. IoT is the AWS Internet of Things
service, and KMS is key management service.

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Which AWS tool is used to track, monitor, and log IAM user activity?

a. CloudFormation

b. Inspector

c. CloudWatch

d. CloudTrail

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KNOWLEDGE
CHECK
Which AWS tool is used to track, monitor, and log IAM user activity?

a. CloudFormation

b. Inspector

c. CloudWatch

d. CloudTrail

The correct answer is d.

CloudTrail is used to track user activity. CloudFormation allows you to manage resources with templates.
CloudWatch monitors application activity, and Inspector analyzes application security.

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 1.04: Key Takeaways

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 Key Takeaways

1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform that offers cloud-based infrastructure for
compute, database storage, content delivery, and other functionalities to help businesses scale and grow.
2. AWS is truly global; it is available all over the world through 16 geographic Regions.
3. A region is a geographic area isolated from other Amazon regions to provide the greatest possible fault
tolerance. Availability Zones are located within a region, with at least two per region, and are connected
via low-latency links.
4. Edge locations are CDNs and are located all over the world in major cities. They are used to provide
content to end users with low latency.
5. AWS has various cloud-based products to help your business grow.

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Quiz

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QUIZ
What is Amazon's NoSQL product?
1

a. RDS

b. DMS

c. RedShift

d. DynamoDB

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 QUIZ
What is Amazon's NoSQL product?
1

a. RDS

b. DMS

c. RedShift

d. DynamoDB

The correct answer is d

Explanations: DynamoDB is the NoSQL offering from AWS. RDS is their relational database server, DMS is their
database migration server, and RedShift is their data warehousing service.

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QUIZ
Which of these services would you use for Data Warehousing?
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a. DynamoDB

b. Aurora

c. RedShift

d. Elasticache

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 QUIZ
Which of these services would you use for Data Warehousing?
2

a. DynamoDB

b. Aurora

c. RedShift

d. Elasticache

The correct answer is c

Explanations: RedShift is the AWS Data Warehousing tool. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database, Aurora is Amazon's
version of MySQL, and Elasticache is used to cache database queries to reduce load on your database instances.

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QUIZ
Which AWS service can you use to create Chef recipes?
3

a. Elastic Map Reduce

b. EC2 Container Service

c. Lambda

d. OpsWorks

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Which AWS service can you use to create Chef recipes?
3

a. Elastic Map Reduce

b. EC2 Container Service

c. Lambda

d. OpsWorks

The correct answer is d

Explanations: OpsWorks helps configure and manage operations using chef. Elastic Map Reduce helps to process
large amounts of data using Hadoop, EC2 Container Service is used to run Docker containers, and Lambda lets you
run code without provisioning or managing servers.

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QUIZ
What is an AWS Region?
4

a. A distinct location within a geographic area designed to provide high availability to a

specific geography

b. An isolated data center

c. A collection of RDS instances

d. A service distributed all over the world to assist with content delivery

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What is an AWS Region?
4

a. A distinct location within a geographic area designed to provide high availability to a

specific geography

b. An isolated data center

c. A collection of RDS instances

d. A service distributed all over the world to assist with content delivery

The correct answer is a

Explanations: There are multiple AWS Regions around the world (for example, on the US east coast or in Germany),
and there are more coming online in different countries all the time.

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QUIZ
What is an Availability Zone?
5

a. A networking term used in Route53

b. A service configured in Elastic Load Balancing

c. A monitoring metric defined in CloudWatch

d. An isolated location inside a region

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What is an Availability Zone?
5

a. A networking term used in Route53

b. A service configured in Elastic Load Balancing

c. A monitoring metric defined in CloudWatch

d. An isolated location inside a region

The correct answer is d

Explanations: An Availability Zone is effectively a data center or collection or data centers that are located
inside a Region.

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What is the minimum number of Availability Zones in a Region?
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a. One

b. Two

c. Three

d. Five

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What is the minimum number of Availability Zones in a Region?
6

a. One

b. Two

c. Three

d. Five

The correct answer is b

Explanations: There are always at least two Availability Zones in a Region to provide fault tolerance.

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QUIZ
What is the main benefit of using an Edge Location?
7

a. Lower cost

b. Reduced complexity

c. Lower latency

d. Workflow control

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What is the main benefit of using an Edge Location?
7

a. Lower cost

b. Reduced complexity

c. Lower latency

d. Workflow control

The correct answer is c

Explanations: An edge location is where end users access services located at AWS. They are located in most of the
major cities around the world and are specifically used by CloudFront (CDN) to distribute content to end user to
reduce latency.

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 This concludes the lesson “AWS Overview.”
The next lesson is “Designing Highly available, Cost-efficient, Fault-tolerant,
Scalable systems.”

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