Section 19: AWS Other Services (CloudFront, Step Functions, SWF, SES, Redshift, ACM) Flashcards
What is AWS CloudFront?
A fast CDN
What does CDN stand for?
Content Delivery Network
How many Points of Presence does CloudFront offer as of April 2020?
Over 200
How is CloudFront helpful security wise?
Can help protect against network attacks
Can provide SSL encryption at the Edge using ACM
Is Videos/media supported by CloudFront? If so, via what protocol?
RTMP Protocol
What does RTMP stand for?
Real-Time Messaging Protocol
What does ACM stand for?
AWS Certificate Manager
What are your two options when you want to equip your app hosted on AWS with an SSL certificate?
Buy your own and upload it using the CLI
Have ACM provision and renew a public SSL certificate for you
How much does ACM charges for SSL certificates?
0$ (free)
In what integrations can ACM load SSL certificates?
Load Balancers
CloudFront distributions
APIs on API Gateway
Are SSL certificates easy to manage manually?
No, thatโs why ACM is great to leverage in your AWS infrastructure
What do AWS Step Functions allow you to do?
Build serverless visual workflow to orchestrate your Lambda functions
How is an AWS Step Function flow represented as?
A JSON state machine
What features do AWS Step Functions provide?
Sequence Parallel Conditions Timeouts Error handling
What other integrations does AWS Step Functions support?
EC2
ECS
On premise servers
API Gateway
What is the maximum execution time of a step function?
1 year
What are some use cases of step functions?
Order fulfillment
Data processing
Web apps
Any workflow
What does AWS SWF stand for?
AWS Simple Workflow Service
Where does the code run when using AWS SWF
On EC2 (not serverless)
What does is the max runtime of AWS SWF?
1 year
What are the two types of steps in AWS SWF?
Activity step
Decision step
What should you prefer between Step Functions and AWS SWF?
Step functions
When should you use SWF rather than step functions?
If you need external signals to intervene in the processes
If you need child processes that return values to parent processes
What does AWS SES stand for?
AWS Simple Email Service
What are the two things you can use to send emails with AWS SES?
SMTP interface
AWS SDK
Does SES has the ability to receive emails?
Yes
What does SES integrate with?
S3
SNS
Lambda
What is AWS Redshift?
Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud.
What does AWS Redshift provide?
Data warehousing / Data Lake
Analytics queries
What does AWS DMS stand for?
AWS Database Migration Service
