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Appendix: Networking and Content Delivery Services - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide

Amazon API Gateway

  • Fully managed service that to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs
  • Create RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs
  • Supports containerized and serverless workloads, as well as web applications
  • Handles traffic management, CORS support, authorization and access control, throttling, monitoring, and API version management

Amazon CloudFront

  • Content delivery network (CDN) service built for high performance, security, and developer convenience
  • Delivers data through 310+ globally dispersed Points of Presence (PoPs) with automated network mapping and intelligent routing
  • Use AWS Shield Standard to defend against DDoS attacks at no additional charge

AWS Direct Connect

  • Create a dedicated network connection to AWS
  • Network traffic remains on the AWS global network and never touches the public internet
  • With AWS Direct Connect SiteLink, send data between AWS Direct Connect locations to create private network connections between offices and data centers in global network

Amazon Route 53

  • DNS service
  • Routes traffic based on multiple criteria, such as endpoint health, geographic location, and latency
  • Configure multiple traffic policies and decide which policies are active at any given time
  • Create and edit traffic policies using the visual editor in the Route 53 console, AWS SDKs, or the Route 53 API
  • Traffic Flow’s versioning feature maintains a history of changes to your traffic policies

Amazon VPC

  • Define and launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network
  • Full control over your virtual networking environment, including resource placement, connectivity, and security

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