Other Flashcards
What is AWS SES used for?
Sending emails securely and at scale; supports inbound/outbound email, stats, IP options.
What security features does SES support?
DKIM, SPF, and flexible IP deployment (shared, dedicated, customer-owned).
What is Amazon OpenSearch used for?
Search any field including partial matches; complement to databases.
How does OpenSearch integrate with AWS?
Ingestion from Kinesis Firehose, IoT, CloudWatch Logs; security via IAM, KMS, TLS.
What is Amazon Athena?
Serverless SQL query service for data in S3.
What formats does Athena support?
CSV, JSON, ORC, Avro, Parquet.
What is Athena’s pricing model?
$5 per TB of data scanned.
How can Athena’s performance be improved?
Use columnar formats like Parquet, compress data, partition data, use large files.
What is Athena Federated Query?
Run SQL across AWS/on-prem data using Lambda data source connectors.
What is Amazon MSK?
Managed Apache Kafka service; supports VPC, HA, Zookeeper.
What is MSK Serverless?
Run Apache Kafka without managing capacity.
Compare Kinesis vs MSK.
Kinesis: 1MB/shards/splitting; MSK: Kafka topics, more config, up to 10MB.
What does ACM do?
Manages SSL/TLS certificates; integrates with ELB, CloudFront, API Gateway.
What is ACM Private CA?
Create private CAs to issue X.509 certs for internal org use.
What is Amazon Macie?
ML-based service to detect sensitive data like PII in AWS.
What is AWS AppConfig?
Manage and deploy dynamic app configs independent of code.
What can validate AppConfig changes?
JSON schema or Lambda function.
What is CloudWatch Evidently?
Feature flag & experimentation tool for safe deployments.
What are CloudWatch Evidently launches?
Enable/disable features for subsets of users.
What are CloudWatch Evidently experiments?
Compare versions of features for A/B testing.
