Other AWS Services Flashcards
What is AWS Direct Connect?
Allows you to connect on premise environment to your VPC. Private connection.
What is AWS Quick Start?
Gives you the ability to use templates provided by AWS to help you get up and running in the AWS environment.
What is Amazon Athena?
Athena is a serverless interactive query service used to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Because Athena is serverless, there is no infrastructure to manage. Athena is billed only for queries that you run.
What is Amazon EMR?
Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) provides a managed Hadoop framework. Amazon EMR is designed for processing broad sets of big data, including log analysis, web indexing, machine learning, and financial analysis.
What is Lightsail?
Lightsail is a private virtual server instance aimed at developers to provide everything needed to launch a service or project quickly. There are a number of “quick start” prepacked setups to support a variety of operating systems and solutions.
What is Amazon Rekognition?
Amazon Rekognition provides video/image analysis. The service can identify objects, people, text, etc. in the image/video. Rekognition also supports facial recognition and analysis.
What is Amazon Device Farm (previously Mobile Lab)?
Device Farm provides physical devices that can be used to test and troubleshoot applications on mobile devices, as well as help simulate real-world customer conditions.
What is Amazon Mechanical Turk?
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that simplifies outsourcing of processes and jobs to a distributed workforce. Practically any task that can be performed remotely (virtually) can be tasked via Mechanical Turk. Crowdsourcing is great for manual, time-consuming tasks that can be completed by distributed workers.
