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AWS Solutions Architect — Quick Drills: Pick the Service flashcards

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One-line requirement, one-line answer: name the AWS service that fits across compute, storage, databases, networking, security, integration, analytics, migration and monitoring in the SAA-C03 scope.

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Drills deck · part of AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate · written against: Exam SAA-C03 guide. Updated 2026-10-10.

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  1. Resizable virtual servers with full operating-system control?
    Amazon EC2
    Compute
  2. Run code in response to events with no servers to manage?
    AWS Lambda
    Serverless & Containers
  3. Durable object storage for unlimited unstructured data?
    Amazon S3
    S3
  4. On-premises NFS or SMB share whose files live in S3?
    Amazon S3 File Gateway (Storage Gateway)
    Data Transfer & Migration
  5. Serverless key-value NoSQL with single-digit-millisecond latency at any scale?
    Amazon DynamoDB
    Caching & Purpose-Built Databases
  6. Private outbound IPv4 internet for instances in private subnets?
    NAT gateway
    Networking & Edge
  7. Block SQL injection and XSS at layer 7?
    AWS WAF
    Security Services
  8. Decouple producers and consumers with at-least-once delivery?
    Amazon SQS (standard queue)
    Messaging & Streaming
  9. Serverless SQL directly over files in S3?
    Amazon Athena
    Analytics
  10. Metrics, alarms and dashboards?
    Amazon CloudWatch
    Logging & Monitoring

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