AWS Analytics Flashcards

(13 cards)

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What is Amazon Athena

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a serverless, interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL

rmb:
greek goddess of wisdom -> information -> SQL queries

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What is Amazon EMR

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Elastic map reduce - web service that enables businesses, researchers etc. to cost effectively process vast amounts of data

rmb:
big data processing -> map out different workloads -> reduce the output to useful info

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What is AWS Glue

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a fully-managed, PAYG, ETL (extract transform load), service that automates time consuming steps of data preparation for analytics

rmb:
glue -> intermediary -> holds together unprocessed data

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What is Amazon Redshift

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a datawarehouse that pulls data from many sources, formats and organises it, and supports complex queries that produce business reports

rmb:
Oracle (competitor) called “Big Red” because its red -> Amazon “shift” customers away from Oracle

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What is Amazon Kinesis

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a suite of services for collecting, processing and analysing real-time streaming data

rmb:
kinesis means movement -> pixels move -> videos -> streaming data information ->

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RECAP: Name all the services you just learnt

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Athena, EMR, Glue, Redshift, Kinesis

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What would you use if you want to run interactive queries against data directly in Amazon S3 without worrying about formatting data or managing infrastructure

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Amazon Athena

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What would you use if you want to transform and move data to various destinations. Used to prepare and load data for analytics

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AWS Glue

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What would you use if you want to run a wide variety of scale-out data processing tasks for applications such as machine learning, graph analytics, data transformation, streaming data

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Amazon EMR

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What would you use if you want to pull data from many sources, format and organize it, store it, and support complex, high speed queries that produce business reports

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Amazon Redshift

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What is AWS CloudSearch

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a fully managed, simple app/website search service

use case: adding simple, reliable search functionality to a website or app

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What is AWS OpenSearch

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open-source based search and analytics engine for log analytics, monitoring

use case: log analysis, SIEM, monitoring, vector search

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What is AWS QuickSight

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serverless, ML powered business intelligence (BI) service for creating interactive dashboards

use case: data visualisation, can link with OpenSearch and S3

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