Architecture Flashcards
What are the differences between Kinesis Data Streams and Firehose
- Data Streams is a low latency streaming service in AWS Kinesis with the facility for ingesting at scale.
- Kinesis Firehose aims to serve as a data transfer service.
- Users must employ manual configuration for shards to ensure proper provisioning of KDS.
- Kinesis Data Firehose comes forward as a fully managed service.
- In the case of data streams, you can configure data storage for holding data from one to seven days.
- Firehose does not provide any facility for data storage.
- Kinesis Data Streams supports real-time processing.
- Kinesis Data Firehose features near real-time processing.
In which frequency does Trusted Advisor evaluate your AWS environment?
Trusted Advisor continuously evaluates your AWS environment
How does AWS Trusted Advisor help you?
- optimize costs,
- increase performance,
- improve security and resilience,
- operate at scale in the cloud.
How can you Identify Amazon EC2 instances with low-utilization, and reduce cost by stopping or rightsizing?
Use AWS Cost Explorer Resource Optimization to get a report of Amazon EC2 instances that are either idle or have low utilization.
How can AWS support your MQTT implementation?
AWS IoT Core is a fully managed service that lets you connect billions of IoT devices and route trillions of messages to AWS services.
Amazon MQ supports industry-standard messaging protocols like AMQP and MQTT.
What is Amazon MQ
Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ.
What are Amazon MQ use cases?
- Low-latency event messaging
- Migrate with flexible configurations
- Invoke AWS Lambda functions
What is the AWS service recommended when you want to build an application that reacts to events from SaaS applications and/or AWS services.
Amazon EventBridge is recommended when you want to build an application that reacts to events from SaaS applications and/or AWS services.
What is the main purpose of SNI?
The main purpose of SNI is to facilitate virtual hosting for secure connections (HTTPS). With SNI support AWS makes it easy to use more than one certificate with the same ALB.
What is SNI?
SNI stands for Server Name Indication (SNI)
The following are supported as CloudWatch alarm actions.
- Notify subscribers by using an Amazon Simple Notification Service topic.
- Invoke a Lambda function.
- EC2 actions, such as stopping, terminating, rebooting, or recovering an EC2 instance.
- Actions to scale an Auto Scaling group.
- Create OpsItems in Systems Manager Ops Center or create incidents in AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager.
Which performs best to migrate hundreds of terabytes AWS DataSync, File Gateway or S3TA?
- AWS DataSync: DataSync is a data transfer service specifically designed for efficient large-scale data transfers. It utilizes parallel data transfer streams and employs optimizations such as bandwidth throttling and automatic recovery from failures, making it highly performant for large data migrations.
- File Gateway is a part of the AWS Storage Gateway service, which enables on-premises applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage.
- S3TA is a feature of Amazon S3 that optimizes data transfers over long distances or poor network conditions.
By default, is cross-zone load balancing is enabled for Application Load Balancer and for Network Load Balancer?
By default, cross-zone load balancing is enabled for Application Load Balancer and
disabled for Network Load Balancer
Which storage services on the cloud can be directly loaded from AWS Snowball Edge ?
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
What Account management tasks that require root credentials?
- Change your account settings.
- Restore IAM user permissions.
- Close your AWS account.
