Machine Learning, Advanced Identity and Other Services Flashcards
What is AWS Rekognition used for?
Hint: Think of it as a visual recognition tool.
Used to find objects, people, text, and scenes in images and videos using machine learning (face detection, analysis, labeling, celebrity recognition).
What does AWS Transcribe do?
Hint: It converts spoken words into written text.
Automatically converts audio speech to text (e.g., subtitles) and can remove personally identifiable information using redaction.
What is the purpose of AWS Polly?
Hint: It transforms written content into spoken words.
Converts text to audio using deep learning technology.
What does AWS Translate provide?
Hint: Think of it as a language translator.
Offers language translation services using machine learning.
What is AWS Lex used for?
Hint: It powers conversational interfaces.
Builds conversational bots and chatbots using the same technology as Alexa.
What is AWS Connect?
Hint: It’s about customer interactions.
A cloud contact center service for managing customer communications.
What does AWS Comprehend do?
Hint: It analyzes text for insights.
Uses natural language processing (NLP) to find insights and relationships in text.
What is AWS SageMaker?
Hint: A development platform for machine learning.
A fully managed service for developers and data scientists to build, train, and deploy machine learning models.
What is AWS Forecast used for?
Hint: Think of it as predicting future outcomes.
A fully managed service that uses machine learning to build highly accurate forecasts.
What does AWS Kendra do?
Hint: It helps with document searches.
A fully managed document search engine used to extract answers from within documents.
What is AWS Personalize?
Hint: It customizes user experiences.
Builds applications with real-time personalized recommendations for users.
What does AWS Textract accomplish?
Hint: It digitizes printed text.
Automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents using AI and ML.
What is the AWS Security Token Service (STS)?
Hint: Think of it as a provider of temporary access.
Creates temporary, limited-privileges credentials to access AWS resources (short-term credentials like access keys).
What does AWS Cognito provide?
Hint: It simplifies user access management.
Adds user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to web and mobile apps quickly and easily.
What is the purpose of AWS Directory Services?
Hint: It connects to Microsoft systems.
Integrates Microsoft Active Directory in AWS environments.
What is IAM Identity Center used for?
Hint: Think centralized user management.
Manages single sign-on login for multiple AWS accounts and applications.
What is IAM (Identity and Access Management)?
Hint: It’s about controlling user access in AWS.
Manages users and permissions within your AWS account for trusted individuals belonging to your organization.
What is AWS Workspaces?
Hint: Think of it as virtual desktops.
A managed Desktop as a Service solution to provision Windows or Linux desktops.
What does AWS AppStream 2.0 do?
Hint: It streams applications to users.
A desktop application streaming service that delivers applications from within a web browser.
What is AWS IoT Core?
Hint: It connects devices to the cloud.
Allows you to easily connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the AWS Cloud.
What is the function of AWS Elastic Transcoder?
Hint: It converts media formats.
Converts media files stored in S3 into formats required by consumer playback devices.
What is AWS Amplify?
Hint: It aids in app development.
A set of tools and services that help you develop and deploy scalable full-stack web and mobile applications.
What does AWS Application Composer allow you to do?
Hint: It helps design serverless applications visually.
Visually design and build serverless applications on AWS.
What is AWS Device Farm?
Hint: It tests applications on real devices.
Lets you test web and mobile apps against desktop browsers and real mobile devices and tablets.
