AWS
Terms to Know
Elasticity The ability to acquire resources as you need them and release resources when you no longer need them.
Scale Up vs. Scale Down
Scale-Out vs. Scale In
Latency
Typically latency is a measurement of a round-trip between two systems, such as how long it takes data to make its way between two.
Root User
Owner of the AWS account.
IAM
Identity Access Management
ARN
Amazon Resource Name
For example
Policy
Rules
AWS Popular Services
Amazon EC2
Allows you to deploy virtual servers within your AWS environment.
Amazon VPC
An isolated segment of the AWS cloud accessible by your own AWS account.
Amazon S3
A fully managed, object-based storage service that is highly available, highly durable, cost-effective, and widely accessible.
Amazon Elastic Block Store
Provides storage to your EC2 instances as EBS volumes, which provide persistent and durable block-level storage.
AWS IAM (Identify and Access Mgt)
Used to manage permissions to your AWS resources
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)
AWS Management Services
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Automatically increases or decreases your EC2 resources to meet the demand based on custom-defined metrics and thresholds.
Amazon CloudWatch
A comprehensive monitoring tool allows you to monitor your services and applications in the cloud.
Elastic Load Balancing
Used to manage and control the flow of inbound requests to a group of targets by distributing these requests evenly across a targeted resource group.
Billing & Budgeting
Helps control the cost.
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