Analytics / App Integration / Database / Storage Flashcards
Amazon Athena
Query service that analyzes semi-structured and structured data (CSV, JSON, etc) from S3 using standard SQL queries. Is a serverless service and pay only for the queries. Is integrated aout-of-the-box with Amazon Glue data catalog.
Amazon EMR stands for:
Elastic Map Reduce.
Amazon Kinesis 4 versions
Video Strams, Data Streams, Firehose and Data Analytics
Sources from Kinesis Video Streams are:
Smartphines, Security Cams, Webcams, Cars, Drones, and Industrial Sources.
Whats can be done with Kinesis Data Streams
Collect large and process streams of records in REAL TIME.
What is the DIFF between Data Streams and Firehose?
Firehose is ONLY used to deliver data to another AWS services such as S3, Redshift, OpenSearch, Splunk, etc. It can Also TRANSFORM data befor delivering it.
Which LANGUAGE does Kinesis Data Analitycs supports
SQL
What service Amazon OpenSearch Services replaces?
ElasticSearch
What is Amazon QuickSight?
Its a BI service. Can build dashboards, connect data and its a managed service. Something similar to PowerBI or Tableau
What is Amazon AppFlow used for?
Transfer data from SaaS into AWS. Sources can be Saleforce, Slack, Zendesk and many more.
Whats service does Amazon EventBridge replaces?
Amazon CloudWatch Events
What is the AWS event bus?
Amazon EventBridge (CloudWatch Events)
What is the EventBridge workflow?
Recieves an EVENT > applies a RULE > trigger and action to a TARGET.
Which engines does RDS supports?
MariaDB, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL
Top differences between Aurora and RDS
RDS have a 99.95 SLA, but AURORA hava 99.99
RDS supports up to 5 recplicas, while AURORA up to 15
RDS does NOT support automatically failover, while AURORA does
When is recommended to use AURORA Serverless
Variable workloads,
Multi-tenant apps,
New Apps,
Mixed-use Apps,
Capacity planning,
Development and testing
What service can you use to MIGRATE a NoSQL database?
AWS Database Migration Service
Whats is the AWS implementation of MongoDB?
DocumentDB
What is the caching service for DynamoDB
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX
Whats the diff between DocumentDB and DynamoDB
DocumentDB is the “middleground” between Mongo and Dynamo, both are Managed Services.
What engines does Amazon ElastiCache supports?
Redis and Memcached
Whats is MemoryDB used for?
Both in-memory performance and Multi-AZ durability, MemoryDB can be used as a high-performance primary database for your microservices applications, eliminating the need to separately manage both a cache and durable database.
What is AWS redshift used for?
Data warehouse
What service is used to centralize the backup management across AWS?
AWS Backups
What types of disk can yo have on EBS?
General Porpurse, Provisioned IOPS SSD, Throughtput Optimized Volumes, Cold HDD
________________________ minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS)
Which services you can use EFS with?
EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and other AWS compute instances, or with on-premises servers.
EFS 4 storage classes are:
EFS Standard,
EFS Standard-Infrequent Access,
EFS One Zone,
EFS One Zone-IA
What options FSx comes with?
FSx For Lustre,
FSx for NetAPP ONTAP,
FSx for OpenZFS,
FSx for Windows File Server,
Amazon File Cache
S3 storage classes are:
Standard,
Intelligent-Tiering,
Standard-IA,
One Zone-IA,
Glacier Intant Retrival,
Glacier Flexible Retrival (Formerly S3 Glacier),
Glacier Deep Archive (12 hours retrival),
S3 Outposts (S3 deployed in on-premises)
____________________________ is a service that connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between your on-premises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure in the AWS Cloud.
AWS Storage Gateway
The AWS Storage Gateway types are:
S3,
FSx,
Tape,
Volume
