Machine Learning, Advanced Identity and Other Services Flashcards
What is AWS Rekognition used for?
Hint: Think of it as a visual recognition tool.
Used to find objects, people, text, and scenes in images and videos using machine learning (face detection, analysis, labeling, celebrity recognition).
What does AWS Transcribe do?
Hint: It converts spoken words into written text.
Automatically converts audio speech to text (e.g., subtitles) and can remove personally identifiable information using redaction.
What is the purpose of AWS Polly?
Hint: It transforms written content into spoken words.
Converts text to audio using deep learning technology.
What does AWS Translate provide?
Hint: Think of it as a language translator.
Offers language translation services using machine learning.
What is AWS Lex used for?
Hint: It powers conversational interfaces.
Builds conversational bots and chatbots using the same technology as Alexa.
What is AWS Connect?
Hint: It’s about customer interactions.
A cloud contact center service for managing customer communications.
What does AWS Comprehend do?
Hint: It analyzes text for insights.
Uses natural language processing (NLP) to find insights and relationships in text.
What is AWS SageMaker?
Hint: A development platform for machine learning.
A fully managed service for developers and data scientists to build, train, and deploy machine learning models.
What is AWS Forecast used for?
Hint: Think of it as predicting future outcomes.
A fully managed service that uses machine learning to build highly accurate forecasts.
What does AWS Kendra do?
Hint: It helps with document searches.
A fully managed document search engine used to extract answers from within documents.
What is AWS Personalize?
Hint: It customizes user experiences.
Builds applications with real-time personalized recommendations for users.
What does AWS Textract accomplish?
Hint: It digitizes printed text.
Automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents using AI and ML.
What is the AWS Security Token Service (STS)?
Hint: Think of it as a provider of temporary access.
Creates temporary, limited-privileges credentials to access AWS resources (short-term credentials like access keys).
What does AWS Cognito provide?
Hint: It simplifies user access management.
Adds user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to web and mobile apps quickly and easily.
What is the purpose of AWS Directory Services?
Hint: It connects to Microsoft systems.
Integrates Microsoft Active Directory in AWS environments.
What is IAM Identity Center used for?
Hint: Think centralized user management.
Manages single sign-on login for multiple AWS accounts and applications.
What is IAM (Identity and Access Management)?
Hint: It’s about controlling user access in AWS.
Manages users and permissions within your AWS account for trusted individuals belonging to your organization.
What is AWS Workspaces?
Hint: Think of it as virtual desktops.
A managed Desktop as a Service solution to provision Windows or Linux desktops.
What does AWS AppStream 2.0 do?
Hint: It streams applications to users.
A desktop application streaming service that delivers applications from within a web browser.
What is AWS IoT Core?
Hint: It connects devices to the cloud.
Allows you to easily connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the AWS Cloud.
What is the function of AWS Elastic Transcoder?
Hint: It converts media formats.
Converts media files stored in S3 into formats required by consumer playback devices.
What is AWS Amplify?
Hint: It aids in app development.
A set of tools and services that help you develop and deploy scalable full-stack web and mobile applications.
What does AWS Application Composer allow you to do?
Hint: It helps design serverless applications visually.
Visually design and build serverless applications on AWS.
What is AWS Device Farm?
Hint: It tests applications on real devices.
Lets you test web and mobile apps against desktop browsers and real mobile devices and tablets.
What is AWS Backup used for?
Hint: It manages backups across services.
Centrally manages and automates backups across AWS services.
What is AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)?
Hint: It helps with server recovery.
Quickly and easily recovers physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS.
What does AWS DataSync do?
Hint: It moves data to AWS.
Moves large amounts of data from on-premises to AWS, with incremental replication tasks scheduled after the initial full load.
What is the purpose of AWS Application Discovery Service?
Hint: It aids migration planning.
Gathers information about on-premises data centers to help plan migration projects.
What does AWS Migration Evaluator help with?
Hint: It builds a business case for migration.
Helps build a data-driven business case for migrating to AWS.
What is the AWS Migration Hub?
Hint: It tracks migration progress.
A central location to collect servers and applications inventory data for assessment, planning, and tracking of migrations to AWS.
What is AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS)?
Hint: It tests system resilience.
A fully managed service for running fault injection experiments on AWS workloads, based on Chaos Engineering principles to stress applications and improve performance.
What do AWS Step Functions allow you to build?
Hint: It orchestrates serverless workflows.
Allows you to build serverless visual workflows to orchestrate Lambda functions.
What is AWS Ground Station?
Hint: It controls satellite communications.
A fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, process data, and scale satellite operations.
What does AWS Pinpoint do?
Hint: It’s about marketing communications.
A scalable 2-way marketing communications service that supports email, SMS, push, voice, and in-app messaging.
