aws certified solutions architect study guide

Amazon CloudFront

2023-08-30T13:08:07+00:00

Bookmarks How Cloudfront Delivers Content Cache Behavior Settings Price Class Performance and Availability Using HTTPS with Cloudfront Monitoring Security Pricing Amazon Cloudfront-related Cheat Sheets Validate Your Knowledge Amazon CloudFront Cheat Sheet A web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content to your users. A Content Delivery Network (CDN) service. It delivers your content through a worldwide network of data centers called edge locations. When a user requests content that you're serving with CloudFront, the user is routed to the edge location that [...]

Amazon CloudFront2023-08-30T13:08:07+00:00

AWS Snowmobile

2023-05-30T03:32:50+00:00

AWS Snowmobile Cheat Sheet An exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile. Snowmobile will be returned to your designated AWS region where your data will be uploaded into the AWS storage services you have selected, such as S3 or Glacier. Snowmobile uses multiple layers of security to help protect your data including dedicated security personnel: GPS tracking, alarm monitoring 24/7 video surveillance an optional escort security vehicle while in transit All data is encrypted with 256-bit encryption keys you manage through the AWS Key Management [...]

AWS Snowmobile2023-05-30T03:32:50+00:00

Amazon API Gateway

2023-07-25T09:56:22+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts API Endpoint Types Features Monitoring Security Pricing Related Cheat Sheets Validate Your Knowledge Amazon API Gateway Cheat Sheet Enables developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. This is a HIPAA eligible service. Allows creating, deploying, and managing a RESTful API to expose backend HTTP endpoints, Lambda functions, or other AWS services. Together with Lambda, API Gateway forms the app-facing part of the AWS serverless infrastructure.  Concepts API deployment - a point-in-time snapshot of your API Gateway API resources and methods. To be [...]

Amazon API Gateway2023-07-25T09:56:22+00:00

AWS Snowball Edge

2024-01-18T07:16:11+00:00

Bookmarks Features Snowball vs Snowball Edge Job Types Recommendations Security Pricing Limits AWS Snowball Edge Cheat Sheet A type of Snowball device with on-board storage and compute power for select AWS capabilities. It can undertake local processing and edge-computing workloads in addition to transferring data between your local environment and the AWS Cloud. Has on-board S3-compatible storage and compute to support running Lambda functions and EC2 instances. Options for device configurations Storage optimized - this option has the most storage capacity at up to 80 TB of useable storage space, [...]

AWS Snowball Edge2024-01-18T07:16:11+00:00

AWS Snowball

2020-08-18T08:36:55+00:00

AWS Snowball Accelerates transferring large amounts of data into and out of AWS using physical storage devices, bypassing the Internet. In the US regions, Snowballs come in two sizes: 50 TB and 80 TB. All other regions have 80 TB Snowballs only. You possess the machine for 10 days for free to perform your data transfer.  Features Import and export data between your on-premises data storage locations and S3. Snowball includes a 10GBaseT network connection. Encryption is enforced, protecting your data at rest and in physical transit. You can perform local data transfers between your on-premises data center and a [...]

AWS Snowball2020-08-18T08:36:55+00:00

Amazon Redshift

2023-10-03T06:19:30+00:00

Bookmarks Components Database Querying Options Enhanced VPC Routing Redshift Spectrum RedShift Streaming Ingestion Redshift ML Redshift Data Sharing Redshift Cross-Database Query Cluster Snaphots Monitoring Security Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Amazon Redshift Cheat Sheet A fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service. Redshift extends data warehouse queries to your data lake. You can run analytic queries against petabytes of data stored locally in Redshift, and directly against exabytes of data stored in S3. RedShift is an OLAP type of DB. Currently, Redshift only supports Single-AZ deployments. [...]

Amazon Redshift2023-10-03T06:19:30+00:00

Amazon ElastiCache

2023-07-26T08:44:44+00:00

Bookmarks Components ElastiCache Memchached Caching Strategies Scaling ElastiCache for Memcached Clusters Monitoring Redis vs Memcached Pricing Amazon ElastiCache-related Cheat Sheets Validate Your Knowledge Amazon ElastiCache Cheat Sheet ElastiCache is a distributed in-memory cache environment in the AWS Cloud. ElastiCache works with both the Redis and Memcached engines. Components ElastiCache Nodes A node is a fixed-size chunk of secure, network-attached RAM. A node can exist in isolation from or in some relationship to other nodes. Every node within a cluster is the same instance type and runs the same cache [...]

Amazon ElastiCache2023-07-26T08:44:44+00:00

Amazon Aurora

2024-02-17T04:01:25+00:00

Bookmarks DB Clusters Aurora Endpoints Storage and Reliability High Availability Fault Tolerance Aurora Global Database DB Cluster Configurations Tags Monitoring Security Pricing Deep Drive on Amazon Aurora Validate Your Knowledge Amazon Aurora Cheat Sheet A fully managed relational database engine that's compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. With some workloads, Aurora can deliver up to five times the throughput of MySQL and up to three times the throughput of PostgreSQL. Aurora includes a high-performance storage subsystem. The underlying storage grows automatically as needed, up to 128 [...]

Amazon Aurora2024-02-17T04:01:25+00:00

AWS Storage Gateway

2024-02-24T01:51:19+00:00

Bookmarks Storage Solutions Security Compliance Pricing Validate Your Knowledge AWS Storage Gateway Cheat Sheet The service enables hybrid storage between on-premises environments and the AWS Cloud. It integrates on-premises enterprise applications and workflows with Amazon’s block and object cloud storage services through industry standard storage protocols. The service stores files as native S3 objects, archives virtual tapes in Amazon Glacier, and stores EBS Snapshots generated by the Volume Gateway with Amazon EBS. Storage Solutions File Gateway - supports a file interface into S3 and combines a service and a virtual software appliance. [...]

AWS Storage Gateway2024-02-24T01:51:19+00:00

Amazon VPC

2024-01-18T07:28:00+00:00

Bookmarks Key Concepts EC2-VPC vs EC2-Classic Default vs Non-default VPC Accessing a Corporate or Home Network VPC Use Case Scenarios Subnets Subnet Routing Subnet Security VPC Networking Components VPN Connections VPC Traffic Mirroring Pricing Amazon VPC-related Cheat Sheets Validate Your Knowledge Amazon VPC Cheat Sheet Create a virtual network in the cloud dedicated to your AWS account where you can launch AWS resources Amazon VPC is the networking layer of Amazon EC2 A VPC spans all the Availability Zones in the region. After [...]

Amazon VPC2024-01-18T07:28:00+00:00

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