Technology - Migration, Transfer & Analytics

Question 1

DMS

Answer 1

Database Migration Service. Helps you migrate on-prem databases to or within AWS, supporting both homo and heterogeneous migrations.

Provides continuous data replication and virtually no downtime.

Question 2

SMS

Answer 2

Server Migration Service. Allows to migrate on-prem servers to AWS.

Servers are saved as a new Amazon Machine Image (AMI). You can use AMI to launch servers as EC2 instances.

Question 3

AWS Snow Family

Answer 3

Snowcone
Snowball
Snowmobile

Physical devices to facilitate data transfer and migration of large amounts of on-prem data where traditional internet transfers are not feasible or efficient.

Question 4

Snowcone

Answer 4

Holds 8 terabytes of usable storage. Designed for edge computing and data transfer in remote or disconnected environments.

Question 5

Snowball and Snowball Edge

Answer 5

Petabyte-scale transport solution. Transfers data in and out where high-speed internet may not be available or cost-effective.

Snowball Edge supports EC2 and Lambda. Used for data transfers but also edge computing - local processing to run apps when in a remote environment.

Question 6

Snowmobile

Answer 6

Multi-petabyte or exabyte scale used to securely transfer entire datacentres to AWS. Data is loaded to S3.

Question 7

DataSync

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Allows for online data transfer from on-prem to AWS storage services like S3 or EFS.

You can copy data over Direct Connect or the internet, copy the data over AWS storage services or replicate cross-Region or cross-account.

Question 8

Data warehouse

Answer 8

A data storage solution that aggregates massive amounts of historical data from disparate sources.

Question 9

Redshift

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A scalable data warehousing solution handling exabyte-scale data.

Question 10

Redshift Use Cases

Answer 10

1. Data consolidation - multiple data sources.
2. Relational databases - run a database that doesn’t require real-time transaction processing.

Question 11

Athena

Answer 11

A serverless query service for S3 using standard SQL. You pay per query.

Question 12

Glue

Answer 12

An ETL service (extract, transform, load) that prepares data for analytics.

Question 13

Kinesis

Answer 13

Allows you to analyse data and video streams in real time, supporting video, audio, apps logs, website clickstreams and IoT.

Question 14

EMR

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Elastic MapReduce. Helps to process large amount of data (data mining, ML etc.).

Works with Hadoop (clusters of computers) and other big data frameworks.

Question 15

Data Pipeline

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Helps to move data between compute and storage services running on AWS or on-prem.

Move data in intervals or based on conditions, and send notifications.

Question 16

QuickSight

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Helps to visualise data with dashboards, which could be embedded in your apps.