AWS Analytics

Question 1

What is Amazon Redshift?

Answer 1

Redshift is a scalable data warehouse solution.

• Data warehousing solution
• Improves speed and efficiency
• Handles exabyte-scale data

Question 2

How to use Amazon Redshift in the real world?

Answer 2

• When consolidating multiple data sources for reporting
• When you want to run a database that doesn’t require real-time transaction processing (INSERT,UPDATE and DELETE)

Question 3

What is Amazon Athena?

Answer 3

Amazon Athena is query service for Amazon S3

• Query Service
• Analyze S3 data using SQL
• Pay per query
• Considered serverless

Question 4

What is Amazon Glue?

Answer 4

Amazon Glue prepares your data for analytics.

• Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) service
• Prepeare load data
• Helps to better understand your data

Question 5

What is Amazon Kinesis?

Answer 5

Amazon Kinesis allows you to analyze data and video streams in real time.

• Analyze real-time, streaming data
• Supports video, audio, application logs, website clickstreams, and IoT

NB: Kinesis helps analyze logs in near real time for application monitoring or fraud detection

Question 6

What is Elastic MapReduce (EMR)?

Answer 6

EMR helps you process large amounts of data.

• Process big data
• Analyze data using Hadoop
• Works with big data frameworks

Question 7

What is Data Pipeline?

Answer 7

Data Pipeline helps you move data between compute and storage services running either on AWS or on-premises.

• Moves data at specific intervals
• Moves data based on conditions
• Sends notifications on success or failure