Application Services

Question 1

AppStream

Answer 1

• Allows you to stream your existing Windows applications from the cloud without any code modifications
• version of Zenapp
• Not on the exam

Question 2

CloudSearch

Answer 2

• allows you setup, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application
• Supports 34 languages
• supports highlighting, autocomplete, geo spacial search
• Not on the exam

Question 3

Elastic Transcoder

Answer 3

• Media transcoding service in the cloud
• Just need to know what it does
• Provides a way to transcode, convert media files from their source format that will play on devices like smartphones, tablets

Question 4

SES

Answer 4

Simple Email Service
• Allows you to send marketing emails, high quality content to customers
• use to receive emails
• integrates with Lambda, S3, SNS

Question 5

SQS

Answer 5

Simple Query Search 
• a way to decouple your infrastructure 
• First service launched on AWS
• Must know well for he exam
• Most important topic in this module.

Question 6

SWF

Answer 6

• Simple Workflow Service
• helps developers build, run, scale background jobs that have parallel or sequential steps
• Need to know the difference between SQS and SWF

Question 7

API Gateway

Answer 7

• give developers the ability to Create, publish, monitor, maintain APIs
• Not on the exam