AWS Data Services

Question 1

What are four categories of analytics services?

Answer 1

1. Analytics
2. Data movement
3. Data lake
4. Predictive analytics and machine learning

Question 2

Examples of ‘Analytics’

Answer 2

1. Athena - Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that you can use to analyze data in Amazon S3 by using standard Structured Query Language (SQL).
2. EMR - A big data solution

Question 3

Examples of ‘Data Movement’

Answer 3

1. GLUE (serverless data integration)
2. Kinesis
3. DMS Migrate databases to AWS

Question 4

Examples of predictive analytics and machine learning

Answer 4

1. SageMaker (build, train and deploy ML models)
2. Rekognition (person, package, female, male, delivery, smiling)
3. Comprehend (connections in text) Amazon Comprehend enables you to analyze millions of documents so that you can discover the insights that they contain.

Question 5

Examples of data lakes

Answer 5

1. S3
2. AWS Lake Formation (set up a lake in days)