AWS Cert Prep Cloud Essentials - Product Names

 

AWS Cert Prep 

Cloud Essentials - Product Names

Elastic Beanstalk = deploy, manage, scale web apps. Sets up infrastructure, load balancing + app health.

Lightsail = think Lightsail makes Small Businesses soar. Provides simple, pre-configured VPS hosting kit including compute, storage, DBs, and networking for a low, predictable price. No need for Mgmt console. Key features include easy instance setup, built-in firewalls, and load balancing.  virtual private servers, storage, DBs + networking for small biz. Blogs, etc.

Outpost = hybrid with hardware on premise, but cloud mgmt.
Ground Station = control satellites.
Device Farm - for testing web and mobile apps across browsers and mobile devices.

Route 53 is a DNS that does geographic control by routing over to edge and to Cloud Front. Stateless. Restartable.  Route 53 has alias records which could be used for root domain names. Does health monitoring of regions and will do failover routing if region is down.

Cloud Front = cached CDN on edge with fast loading times, cost savings, and reliability. Helps with lower latency. Create CloudFront distribution centers in multiple regions. Good for videos or uploads.

Global Accelerator = Routes HTTP, TCP, and UDP traffic over the AWS private backbone using static IPs for apps.

Lambda = serverless compute that responds to SQS or SNS events. We manage rights via IAM, our code, triggering event, and run times. 

     Athena = serverless SQL on S3 for ad-hoc queries and data lake analysis. cost-effective. Does SQL in parallel.

     Redshift - Think Oracle was "Big Red" and shifting away from Oracle data warehouses. Fully managed. Structured or semi-structured data. scalability and pay-as-you-go pricing model. SQL across data warehouses, data lakes, and operational DBs. Can run either with provisioning OR stateless unprovisioned and manage data warehouse clusters. 

    Aurora = Mnemonic: "Aurora Makes Perfect Database Relationships" (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB, Relational) (so DB replacement for MySQL or PostgreSQL). Auto grows storage. Auto detect hardware failures and redirects traffic. Auto backups. Multi-AZ. Low cost.  

Dynamo DB = Think Keys and KMaps (Key/Value (so No-SQL), Managed, Availability of Data and Auto-Scaling, Provisioned, Dynamic Schema).  Encrypted prior to storage. For unpredictable traffic.

Neptune.  Think Neptune, Roman god of sea. Sea of interconnected currents and fish so highly connected graph DB service.

Artifacts = Think museum artifacts. Portal to see 1) compliance reports 2) and agreements. No cost. 

AI

    Image

1) Rekognition is auto image and video analysis for your apps without ML experience. Think eyes. Outputs labels, text, and data.

    AI Language

1) Comprehend uses NL to get insights from docs.

2) Polly converts text into speech. Think mouth speaking of Polly Anna Parrot. Outputs audio.

3) Transcribe converts speech into text. Think hearing. Upwind of Lex. Outputs text.

4) Translate is a text translation.

    Vision/Search

1) Kendra uses NL to get answers from data. Kendra is Knowledge Engine, Natural-language Discoveries, Retrieval & Answers.

2) Textract extracts typed and written text.

    Conversation

1) Lex = conversational brain for speech and text to apps. Think Lexicon. Such as chatbot, voice controlled menu, powers Alexia, etc. Outputs intent.

2) Personalize recommends.

    Gen AI

SageMaker JumpStart—ML hub with FMs and pre-built MLs (vision, NLP, and tabular data) deployable with a few clicks.

Bedrock—Fully managed service for FMs such as Claude that is enterprise-grade, multimodal gen AI. Single API. Bedrock is Base of Enterprise Deep learning, Reasoning, Orchestration & Custom Knowledge.

MISC

ARCHITECTURE

Code Build = fully managed CI.

Cloud 9 = browser-based IDE, cloud based, Linux based.

X-Ray = visual dashboard of tracing, debugging, and performance analysis tool. Xray is eXamine Requests, Analyze path, Yield trace.

App Sync = fully managed GraphQL service. AppSync syncs apps to data via managed GraphQL with real-time.

Amplify streamlines the process of developing, deploying, and managing secure and scalable full-stack apps. App Making Platform, Low‑Infra, For You.