Big Data

Question 1

Redshift

Answer 1

Redshift isn’t a replacement for RDS in traditional apps

Redshift only supports single AZ deployments

You can create multiple clusters in different AZs, but they’re technically different deployments. It’s high available by default

Question 2

EMR (elastic map reduce)

Answer 2

Is made up of EC2 instances

This means you can employ your standard EC2 instance cost-savings measures. RI’s - Spot Instances

Question 3

Kinesis

Answer 3

Kinesis is the only service w/ a real time response

If the question asks for a real-time solution to processing or moving data look for Kinesis

Question 4

Kinesis Firehose

Answer 4

Near real time & ease of use

Question 5

SQS and Kinesis Queues

Answer 5

Each has its own pros & cons

SQS is easier & simpler

Kinesis is faster & can store data up to a year

Question 6

Athena

Answer 6

Anytime serverless SQL or querying data that is stored in S3 comes up think Athena

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run

Question 7

Glue

Answer 7

Serverless ETL

It can help create a schema for your data when paired w/ Athena

Question 8

Quick Sight

Answer 8

Creating a dashboard? Quick Sight is a data visualization tool

Question 9

Elastic Search

Answer 9

Excels when combined w/ a log stash & kibana elk stack to query server logs

Search engine commonly used for log analytics, full-text search, security intelligence, business intelligence, and operations intelligence use cases.