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<summary>What is IAM? What are some of its features?</summary><br><b>
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IAM stands for Identity and Access Management, and is used for managing users, groups, access policies & roles
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Full explanation is [here](https://aws.amazon.com/iam)
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In short: it's used for managing users, groups, access policies & roles
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<summary>What is the shared responsibility model? What AWS is responsible for and what the user is responsible for based on the shared responsibility model?</summary><br><b>
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The shared responsibility model defines what the customer is responsible for and what AWS is responsible for.
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The shared responsibility model defines what the customer is responsible for and what AWS is responsible for. For example, AWS is responsible for security "of" the cloud, while the customer is responsible for security "in" the cloud.
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More on the shared responsibility model [here](https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/shared-responsibility-model)
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<summary>What is AWS Guarduty?</summary><br><b>
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Guarduty is a threat detection service that monitors your AWS accounts to help detect and mitigate malicious activity
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<summary>What is AWS WAF? Give an example of how it can used and describe what resources or services you can use it with</summary><br><b>
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An AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) can filter out unwanted web traffic (bots), and protect against attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. One service you could use it with would be Amazon CloudFront, a CDN service, to block attacks before they reach your origin servers
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<summary>What is AWS RDS?</summary><br><b>
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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a service for setting up and managing resizable, cost-efficient relational databases
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Learn more [here](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Welcome.html)
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<summary>What is AWS Redshift and how is it different than RDS?</summary><br><b>
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cloud data warehouse
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AWS Redshift is a cloud data warehousing service that is geared towards handling massive amounts of data (think petabytes) and being able to execute complex queries. In contrast, Amazon RDS is best suited for things like web applications requiring simple queries with more frequent transactions, and on a smaller scale.
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<summary>Which service would you use for building a website or web application?</summary><br><b>
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Lightsail or Elastic Beanstalk
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