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1. Amazon DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a no-sql database that scales with the amount of data coming in. What makes a no-sql database different from a SQL database is that it doesn’t use SQL and doesn’t have relational features.

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2. Bucket

An S3 bucket is where objects are stored, similar to files and folders on your local machine. Each object consists of:

Key - the name of the object
Value - the data in the file itself made of bytes
VersionID
Metadata

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3. CLI
The AWS CLI allows you to issue commands from the command line. It's useful for uploading files to S3 buckets and launching EC2 instances.

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4. DB Snapshot

Amazon RDS creates a storage volume snapshot of your entire instance. Creating this snapshot results in a brief I/O suspension that can last from a few seconds to a few minutes.

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5. Edge location

Amazon CloudFront is the AWS CDN. It caches information closest to the user to the next user can download a copy faster. CloudFront can distribute all website content including dynamic, static, streaming and interactive content from AWS services

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6. Firehose

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a reliable way to stream data in near real-time. Data can be streamed to S3, Amazon's data warehousing solution, Redshift or Elasticsearch.

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7. Hosted Zone

It is designed to give developers a cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like example.com into the numeric IP addresses like 192.0.2.1 that computers use to connect to each other.

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8. Instance Type

EC2 is a service that provides virtual machines in the cloud where you only pay for the capacity you use and choose from ‘families’ of instance types that are good for different use cases ex-

General Purpose
Compute Optimized
Memory-Optimized
Memory-Optimized

8. Persistant storage

Amazon EBS is a persistent storage device that can be attached to a single EC2 instance to be used as a file system for databases, application hosting, and storage.

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9. VPC

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a virtual data center which is a logically isolated section of AWS that can span availability zones. VPC’s are made of Internet Gateways/Virtual Private Gateways, route tables, network access control lists, subnets etc.

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10. Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

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11. Amazon Lightsail

Lightsail is an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers you everything needed to build an application or website, plus a cost-effective, monthly plan.

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12. Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly. Amazon SageMaker is a fully-managed service that covers the entire machine learning workflow.

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13. Amazon Lambda

AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.

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14. Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

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15. Alarm

AWS Alarm to make sure you don't run into any unexpected charges. It's easy to forget something is running and get landed with a bill.

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If you are preparing for Web Development Jobs, then AWS is something you should be aware of. All tech giants like, Netflix, Prime, Spotify use AWS.

This book on AWS by Daniel Vassallo is very effective in helping you learn AWS👇🏽

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