10000 Foot Overview - Part 2

Question 1

S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Answer 1

Object based Storage

Virtual disk in the cloud where you can store objects (files: word doc, photos, powerpoint…etc).

Don’t use to store DBs, or games

Question 2

Glacier

Answer 2

Archive files from S3

Your data is not readily available (4-5 hours to retrieve)

Question 3

EFS

Answer 3

(Elastic File Service)

Block-based storage that you can share (can install DBs, apps, etc)

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) provides a simple, serverless, set-and-forget, elastic file system that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage. It can be used with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources, and is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications. With Amazon EFS, you can grow and shrink your file systems automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.

Question 4

Storage Gateway

Answer 4

A Virtual machine that connects S3 to your on-premises datacenter.

Question 5

RDS

Answer 5

relational database service- mysql, sql server, Oracle

Question 6

DynamoDB

Answer 6

Nonrelational database- Nosql database, high performance

Question 7

RedShift

Answer 7

data warehousing solution.

Stores big data, and allow you to run queries on it

Question 8

Elasticache

Answer 8

cache data in cloud (takes a load off of database)

Question 9

Snowball

Answer 9

Used to move terabytes of data into cloud

Question 10

DMS

Answer 10

Data Migration Services

migrate an on-premise database to the AWS cloud, migrate databases inside AWS to other regions or services (Like Redshift). no down time during the migration process (via Replication) can convert databases

Question 11

EMR

Answer 11

Elastic Map Reduce

Amazon EMR is a managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks, such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. You can process data for analytics purposes and business intelligence workloads.

Question 12

Kinesis

Answer 12

It a way of streaming and analyzing real-time data on a massive scale.

Capture and store terabytes of data per hour.

Question 13

Cloud Search/Elastic Search

Answer 13

if you need to create search capabilities for your website or applications.

Question 14

Data Pipeline

Answer 14

Easily automate the movement and transformation of data.

ex. move data from s3 to dynamoDB