If you're new to AWS (or cloud concepts in general), or if you are studying for an AWS certifications, there is always a chapter explaining the concept of services. This is really what cloud is all about. AWS Services AWS stands for Amazon WEB Services, and really these services are accessible through the web. Since …

About AWS Global Accelerator AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that improves the availability and performance of your applications by directing traffic through AWS's global network infrastructure. It provides fast, consistent network performance and automatically reroutes traffic to healthy endpoints in …

Parameter Store Parameter Store is a feature of the AWS Systems Manager service. It is a centralized store to manage your configuration data, whether plain-text data such as database strings or secrets such as passwords. This allows you to separate your secrets and configuration data from your code. Parameters can be …

AWS Shield/Shield Advanced AWS Shield is layer-4 protection, defending you from DDOS attacks like SYN flood , UDP floods or other reflection attacks . It does that by setting static thresholds and implementing Inline attack mitigation. AWS Shield Advanced adds more advanced detection and mitigation mechanisms, together …

What are Data Streams Data streams refer to continuous flows of data that are generated continuously over time Data streams are continuous and potentially infinite in nature. Data streams can originate from various sources such as: sensors social media feeds financial transactions website clickstreams etc. …

(this document is a work-in-progress, it is not complete, so you should visit this document from time to time to see if anything has changed) The AWS Solution Architect Associate exam content contains these sections: Domain 1: Design Secure Architectures (30%) 1.1: Design secure access to AWS resources. Cross account …