Key Services relating to AWS Certified Solutions Achitect Associate Exam
Compute, Storage Services as well as Security, Identity and Compliance are the biggest areas coverted by the Exam. All services covered by the exam are listed in order of precedence:
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Compute
- EC2 - Primary focus of the exam
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Lamda
- ECS
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Storage
- S3
- EFS
- Glacier -
- Storage Gateway
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Security, Identity, Compliance
- IAM
- Cognito
- Inspector
- AWS Organization
- CloudHSM
- Directory Service
- WAF & Shield
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Cost Management
Questions about the cheapest way to do something
- Cost Explorer
- AWS Budgets
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Application Integration
- SNS
- SQS
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Databases
- RDS
- DynamoDB
- ElasticCache
- Amazon Redshift
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Migration
- AWS Migration Hub
- Application Discovery Service
- Database Migration Service
- Server Migration service
- Snowball
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Network and Content Delivery
- VPC
- CloudFront
- Rout 53
- API Gateway Covered more in AWS Developer Associate
- Direct Connect
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Management Tools
- CloudWatch
- AWS Auto Scaling
- CloudFormation
- CloudTrail
- OpsWork Brief
- TrustedAdvisor
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Media Services
- Elastic Transcoder
- Kinesis Video Streams
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Machine Learning
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Analytics
- Kinesis Not indepth
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Mobile Services
- Mobile Hub
- AWS AppSync
- Device Farm
A note on Availability Zones
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Region. Physical location or boundary with multiple AWS data centers
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Availability Zones. Multiple AZs in a Region. - 1 - 6 data centres. Called AZ because there is redundant power and network.
Notes
- Difference Between EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk
Elastic Beanstalk automates what is done manually via EC2 i.e manual set up and configuration etc
- Glacier is not readily accessible.. Response time to access data is between
minutes and 12 hours. A request needs to be made to access.