Other Services

Question 1

CI/CD

Answer 1

AWS suite includes CodeCommit (Git), CodeBuild (build pipeline) CodeDeploy/Elastic Beanstalk

Question 2

CloudFormation

Answer 2

CloudFormation is a declarative way of outlining your AWS Infrastructure, for any resources (most of them are supported)
- Infrastructure as code

Question 3

ECS

Answer 3

Elastic Container Service - ECS is a container orchestration service (Docker)

Question 4

ECR

Answer 4

Elastic Container Registry - Store, managed and deploy your containers on AWS

Question 5

Fargate

Answer 5

Automate scaling of containers

Question 6

EKS

Answer 6

Amazon EKS standards for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service - ECS but different platform

Question 7

Step Functions

Answer 7

Build serverless visual workflow to orchestrate your Lambda functions
• Represent flow as a JSON state machine

Question 8

SWF

Answer 8

Simple Workflow Service - pretty much Step Functions but older and not serverless (runs on EC2)

Question 9

EMR

Answer 9

Elastic MapReduce - helps creating Hadoop clusters

Question 10

AWS Glue

Answer 10

Fully-managed ETL (Extract,Transform & Load) service

- move data between services and perform transformations on it

Question 11

AWS Opsworks

Answer 11

Chef & Puppet help you perform server configuration automatically, or repetitive actions

Question 12

AWS Elastic Transcoder

Answer 12

Convert media files (video + music) stored in S3 into various formats for tablets, PC, Smartphone,TV, etc

Question 13

AWS WorkSpaces

Answer 13

Managed, Secure Cloud Desktop

• Great to eliminate management of on-premiseVDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)