AWS Cloud Operations Fundamentals Flashcards
AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate SOA-C03 Flashcards

| Front | Back |
| Amazon CloudWatch | Service for monitoring and observability of AWS resources and applications |
| Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policy | Defines rules for data optimization and cost management in S3 |
| Auto Scaling | Ensures application availability by automatically adjusting EC2 instance capacity |
| AWS Backup | Centralized backup service for automated data protection across AWS services |
| AWS CLI | Command-line tool for managing AWS services programmatically |
| AWS CloudFormation | Service for modeling and provisioning AWS resources as code |
| AWS CloudTrail | Tracks and logs API requests for auditing and monitoring purposes |
| AWS Config | Tracks and audits resource configurations and compliance over time |
| AWS IAM | Manages access to AWS resources using policies and roles |
| AWS Lambda | Event-driven compute service that runs code without provisioning servers |
| AWS License Manager | Tracks licensing usage across AWS and on-premises environments |
| AWS Marketplace | Online store to find, buy, and deploy software solutions on AWS |
| AWS OpsWorks | Manages application configurations using Chef and Puppet |
| AWS Personal Health Dashboard | Provides alerts and remediation guidance tailored to your AWS environment |
| AWS Service Health Dashboard | Reports the current status and availability of AWS services |
| AWS Systems Manager | Provides operational insights and automation capabilities for AWS resources |
| AWS Trusted Advisor | Provides real-time guidance to improve security, reliability, cost optimization, and performance |
| CloudWatch Logs Insights | Analyzes and queries log data stored in CloudWatch Logs |
| EBS Snapshot | Stores point-in-time backups of Amazon EBS volumes |
| Elastic Beanstalk | Service for deploying and scaling web applications and services automatically |
| Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) | Distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets for high availability |
| Instance Metadata | Provides instance-specific information accessible from within an EC2 instance |
| RDS Multi-AZ Deployment | Provides high availability for Amazon RDS databases via backup in another Availability Zone |
| S3 Cross-Region Replication | Replicates data across different AWS Regions for durability and availability |
| VPC Flow Logs | Captures network flow data for troubleshooting and performance monitoring |
About the Flashcards
Flashcards for the AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer Associate exam build quick recall of AWS terminology, core services, and their primary use cases. The deck reviews identity and access management with IAM, auditing and logging via CloudTrail and VPC Flow Logs, monitoring and observability through CloudWatch and CloudWatch Logs Insights, and governance tools such as AWS Config and Trusted Advisor.
Cards cover provisioning and automation with CloudFormation, deployment and scaling via Elastic Beanstalk, Auto Scaling and ELB, and serverless compute with AWS Lambda. Storage and protection topics include S3 lifecycle policies, cross-region replication, EBS snapshots and AWS Backup, plus RDS Multi-AZ availability and operational tools for management.
Topics covered in this flashcard deck:
- Identity and access management
- Monitoring and observability
- Infrastructure as code
- Storage and backups
- Networking and load balancing
- Deployment and scaling