AWS Data Services

Question 1

What are four categories of analytics services?

Answer 1

1. Analytics
2. Data movement
3. Data lake
4. Predictive analytics and machine learning

Question 2

Examples of ‘Analytics’

Answer 2

1. Athena - Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that you can use to analyze data in Amazon S3 by using standard Structured Query Language (SQL).
2. EMR - A big data solution

Question 3

Examples of ‘Data Movement’

Answer 3

1. GLUE (serverless data integration)
2. Kinesis
3. DMS Migrate databases to AWS

Question 4

Examples of predictive analytics and machine learning

Answer 4

1. SageMaker (build, train and deploy ML models)
2. Rekognition (person, package, female, male, delivery, smiling)
3. Comprehend (connections in text)

Question 5

Examples of data lakes

Answer 5

1. S3
2. AWS Lake Formation (set up a lake in days)