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A Cantrill - Serverless, Event driven architectures Flashcards

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What are the issues with Monolithic Architectures?

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Fails Together, Scales Together, Bills Together.

Higher likelihood of failure, More difficult to scale effectively AND its cost ineffective.

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What is the Lambda function timeout?

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15 minutes.

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What are the 2 networking modes for Lambda?

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Public and VPC based (private)

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What are Lambda execution roles?

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IAM roles attached to the lambda functions which control PERMISSIONS the Lambda function RECEIVES.

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What is a Lambda resource policy?

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Controls WHAT services and accounts can INVOKE a Lambda function.

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What does services does Lambda use for Logging and monitoring?

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CloudWatch, CW logs, and X-Ray (distributed tracing)

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What does CloudWatch Logs require for Lambda to work with it?

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CW Logs require permissions via Execution role for Lambda.

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What is Lambda Provisioned concurrency ?

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AWS will create and keep a # of contexts (runtime, configuration) warm and ready to use. Improves speed.

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What is the difference between cold and warm start in Lambda?

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Cold start builds the lambda environment from scratch (runtime, config).
Warm start occurs when a lambda reuses the environment from another previously run Lambda (saves time)

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What is the new version of CloudWatch Events?

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EventBridge is the new version of CloudWatch Events.

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EventBridge can have additional event busses that can support non AWS (3rd party, onprem) services? T or F

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True. EventBridge can incorporate 3rd party or onprem services in a bus.

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Under what service will you find “State Machines”?

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State Machines are located under Step Functions.

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What is 400 error?

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Bad Request, Generic

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What is 403 error?

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Access Denied, Authorizer denied.

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What is 429 error?

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Throttling error

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503?

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Service unavailable

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What is a 502 error

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bad gateway. Lambda returned bad output

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What is the largest size of message that SQS can handle?

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256kb is the largest message that SQS handles.

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What is needed for multiple queues for SQS fanout?

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SQS topic. One message goes to The topic then fans out to to multiple queues.

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what suffix must a message have for FIFO in sqs?

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.fifo suffix

18
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What is Dead letter queue?

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Dead letter queues allow for messages which are causing repeated processing errors to be moved into a dead letter queue

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What is Kinesis Data stream?

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Kinesis data streams are a streaming service within AWS designed to ingest large quantities of data and allow access to that data for consumers.

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What is KDS?

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Kinesis Data Firehose is a stream based delivery service capable of delivering high throughput streaming data to supported destinations in near realtime

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what is Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics?

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Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is the easiest way to analyze streaming data, gain actionable insights, and respond to your business and customer needs in real time.

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What does Cognito do?

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Authentication, Authorization, and user mgmt for web/mobile apps. User pools have sign-in and deliver JWT (JSON Web Token).

Also provide sign in for 3rd parties (Facebook, google)
Does NOT in itself allow AWS access. But with Identity pools, it does.

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What is AWS Glue?

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AWS Glue is a SERVERLESS, fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics

24
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What is a simple difference between SNS and SQS?

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SNS provides TOPICS.
SQS provided QUEUES.

25
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When should you use Amazon MQ?

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If you need to migrate from existing system with little to no change to application change.

If message API protocols are needed - AMQP, MQTT, Openwire, etc

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What is Appflow?

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Amazon AppFlow is a fully managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, SAP, Zendesk, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, in just a few clicks.

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Which configuration value controls how long something has to process and delete a queue message before it reappears?

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Visibility Timeout.

28
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If you are trying to decouple a super high volume application you should use what AWS product?

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SQS Standard Queue.

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Which architecture should be used when one event needs to initiate multiple workflow processes?

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SNS + SQS Fanout.

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What is a period of time during which the SQS queue prevents other consuming components from receiving and processing a message?

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Visibility Timeout.

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What is the default message retention policy for SQS?

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Amazon SQS automatically deletes messages that have been in a queue for more than the maximum message retention period.

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What is the default message retention period for SQS?

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The default message retention period is 4 days

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What is Amazon SWF?

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Amazon SWF is a web service that makes it easy to coordinate work across distributed application components.

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Is “polling” a SNS topic supported in SNS?

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polling is NOT supported in SNS. Topics (instead) subscribe

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What component of SNS or SQS will perform ‘polling’?

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The consumers of messages from a SQS queue will “poll” the queue

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What is amazon Kinesis?

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Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information.

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How do messages in SQS queue get deleted?

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The consumer must delete the message from the queue after receiving and processing it.

When a consumer receives and processes a message from a queue, the message remains in the queue. Amazon SQS doesn’t automatically delete the message.

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How does SQS prevent multiple consumers from processing a message?

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Amazon SQS sets a visibility timeout, a period of time during which Amazon SQS prevents other consumers from receiving and processing the message.

The default visibility timeout for a message is 30 seconds. The maximum is 12 hours.

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