Kinesis

Question 1

Which AWS serverless streaming data service simplifies capturing, processing, and storing data streams at any scale?

Answer 1

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, a highly available, regional, and public service designed to ingest data from various sources, such as devices and applications

Question 2

What is the minimum and maximum retention period for data in Kinesis Data Streams?

Answer 2

By default, Kinesis Data Streams retains data for 24 hours, but this can be extended to up to 365 days for an additional cost

Question 3

When using Kinesis Data Streams, is it possible to configure more than one producer and consumer?

Answer 3

Yes, Kinesis Data Streams supports multiple producers for data ingestion and multiple consumers for data reading

Question 4

Which Kinesis component is responsible for scaling?

Answer 4

Shards

Each shard supports 1 MB/s of data ingestion and 2 MB/s of data consumption

Increasing the number of shards enhances stream performance

Question 5

Which Kinesis components can impact pricing?

Answer 5

The number of shards and the configured data retention window (24 hours to 365 days)

Question 6

Where is data stored in Kinesis Data Streams?

Answer 6

Data is stored in Kinesis Data Records, with each record up to 1 MB in size

Question 7

Which AWS service is ideal for large-scale data ingestion by numerous producers, with multiple consumers processing data at varying rates, for analytics and monitoring application clicks?

Answer 7

Amazon Kinesis

Question 7

Which AWS service is used to transfer data from Kinesis Data Streams to other AWS services?

Answer 7

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose