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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02) glossary

Terms selected for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02) based on common objective language and practice focus.

CloudWatch Alarm State

Current evaluation outcome of an alarm: OK, ALARM, or INSUFFICIENT_DATA based on metric thresholds.

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CloudWatch Logs Insights

Query feature for searching and analyzing CloudWatch logs with a purpose-built query language.

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CloudTrail Event History

Recent API activity view used to audit account actions and identify who changed what and when.

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Systems Manager Run Command

Capability to execute operational commands across managed instances without direct SSH/RDP access.

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Systems Manager Patch Manager

Service for automating OS patch baselines, maintenance windows, and compliance reporting.

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Systems Manager Automation

Workflow engine for running operational playbooks such as remediation, restart, and configuration tasks.

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AWS Config Rule

Compliance check that evaluates resource configurations against defined policies.

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AWS Config Conformance Pack

Collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions mapped to a governance standard.

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EC2 Auto Recovery

Feature that automatically recovers an impaired EC2 instance on new hardware when certain failures occur.

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Load Balancer Health Check

Periodic validation used by ELB to route traffic only to healthy targets.

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VPC Flow Logs

Network traffic metadata capture for VPC, subnet, or interface-level monitoring and troubleshooting.

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NAT Gateway High Availability

Best practice of deploying NAT Gateways per Availability Zone to avoid single-AZ egress failures.

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Trusted Advisor Check

Operational recommendation category that surfaces risk or optimization opportunities.

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Cost Anomaly Detection

AWS billing feature that uses machine learning to detect unusual spending patterns.

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EBS Snapshot Lifecycle

Automation process for creating, retaining, and expiring EBS snapshots based on policy.

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RDS Performance Insights

Database performance monitoring feature for analyzing load and identifying bottleneck SQL.

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Incident Runbook

Documented sequence of operational steps for diagnosing and resolving recurring incidents.

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Multi-Account Operations

Operational model that separates workloads across AWS accounts for isolation, governance, and blast-radius control.

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