Other Services/Miscellaneous

Question 1

What is the CloudFormation Service Role?

Answer 1

An IAM role that allows CloudFormation to create, update and delete stack resources on your behalf, or that can be used to give users to the power to create/update/delete CF resources without having the direct resource permissions

Question 2

What is the purpose of Simple Email Service?

Answer 2

Send emails en masse to many people securely and at scale for transactional, marketing or bulk email communications

Question 3

What AWS service would be used to create message templates, delivery schedules and full campaigns for marketing within the service itself?

Answer 3

Pinpoint

Question 4

Can Pinpoint receive replies?

Answer 4

Yes - they are sent to SNS/KDF/CW Logs

Question 5

What AWS service can be used to start a secure shell on your EC2 instances and on-premises servers without having to open port 22?

Answer 5

SSM Session Manager

Question 6

How does SSM Session Manager allow you to SSH in without opening port 22?

Answer 6

It goes through the installed SSM Agent to allow the connections in

Question 7

Can AWS Cost Explorer visualise data across accounts?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

What is AWS Amplify?

Answer 8

A web and mobile application development tool, similar to Elastic Beanstalk but for mobile apps

Question 9

What is Amazon AppFlow?

Answer 9

An integration service that enables the secure transfer of data from SaaS applications and AWS e.g. from Salesforce

Question 10

Does Amazon AppFlow pass through the Amazon private network or through the internet?

Answer 10

Encrypted through the public internet

Question 11

What is the purpose of the AWS Resource Access Manager?

Answer 11

Used to securely share your resources across AWS accounts in your AWS organisation