10000 Foot Overview - Part 2

Question 1

S3

Answer 1

Virtual disk in the cloud where you can store objects (files). Don’t use to store DBs or OSs or apps

Question 2

Glacier

Answer 2

Archive files from S3

Question 3

EFS (Elastic File Service)

Answer 3

Block-based storage that you can share (can install DBs, apps, etc)

Question 4

Storage Gateway

Answer 4

Virtual machine that connects S3 to your on-premises datacenter

Question 5

RDS

Answer 5

relational database service

Question 6

DynamoDB

Answer 6

nonrelational database

Question 7

RedShift

Answer 7

data warehousing

Question 8

Elasticache

Answer 8

cache data in cloud (takes load off of database)

Question 9

Snowball

Answer 9

move terabytes of data into cloud

Question 10

DMS

Answer 10

migrate on-premise database to the cloud, migrate databases inside AWS to other regions or services. no down time, can convert databases

Question 11

EMR

Answer 11

big data processing. know what it is and how to access it

Question 12

Kinesis

Answer 12

streaming and analyzing real-time data at massive scale

Question 13

Cloud Search/Elastic Search

Answer 13

if you need to create search capabilities for website

Question 14

Data Pipeline

Answer 14

move data from one place to another