AWS (Amazon Web Services) Flashcards

Amazon EC2
Scalable virtual servers for running applications in the AWS cloud with full control over the OS and networking.

Amazon S3
Highly durable object storage used for backups, data lakes, static websites, and more.

Amazon RDS
Managed relational database service supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.

AWS Lambda
Run code without provisioning servers. Pay only for the compute time consumed. Ideal for microservices.

Amazon VPC
Virtual network in AWS for launching resources in an isolated and secure environment.

IAM (Identity & Access Management)
Manage user access and permissions securely using policies, roles, and groups.

Amazon CloudWatch
Monitoring and observability service for logs, metrics, dashboards, and alarms.

AWS CloudFormation
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service to define and provision AWS resources using templates.

Amazon DynamoDB
NoSQL database with single-digit millisecond latency, built for scale and performance.

AWS Glue
Serverless ETL service to prepare and transform data for analytics, ML, or warehousing.

AWS Route 53
Highly available and scalable DNS web service for domain registration and routing traffic.

Amazon SQS
Simple Queue Service for decoupling microservices, distributed systems, and serverless apps.