Other Services

Question 1

Amazon WorkSpaces

Answer 1

• Desktop as a Service, fully managed VDI
• Users connect to VDI an open native applications
• Windows or Linux
• eliminates on-prem VDI (virtual desktop infra)
• integrates with KMS
• multi-region capable

Question 2

Amazon AppStream 2.0

Answer 2

• Desktop application streaming service
• deliver application as stream to any computer within a web browser
• Can configure instance for application type (CPU, RAM<\, GPU)

Question 3

AWS IoT Core

Answer 3

• connect IoT devices to AWS cloud
• serverless, secure, and scaleable
• Apps can communicate with devices even when not connected
• Can be pub/sub for these devices
• Integrates with Lambda, S3, etc.
• Build IoT apps that gather, process, analyze, and act on data

Question 4

AWS AppSync

Answer 4

• Store and sync data across mobile and web apps in realtime
• Uses GraphQL (from Facebook/Meta)
• Client code generated automatically
• Integrate with DynamoDB and Lambda
• Real time suscriptions
• off line data sync
• Can use AWS amplify

Question 5

AWS Amplify

Answer 5

• tools and services to develop and depoy full stack web and mobile applications
• Authentication, storage, API (REST, GraphQL), CI/CD, PubSub, Analytyics, AI/ML etc.

Question 6

AWS Application Composer

Answer 6

• Visual design for serverless application dev on AWS
• Deploy AWS infra without being an expert
• Configure how resources interact
• Generates IaaC using CloudFormation
• Import existing CloudFormation/SAM templates to visualize

Question 7

AWS Device Farm

Answer 7

• Fully managed service to test web and mobile apps against device farm
• RUn test concurrently on multiple devices
• Configure device setttings (GPS, language, wi-fi, etc.)

Question 8

AWS Backup

Answer 8

• fully managed service to manage and automate backups across AWS services
• ON-demand and scheduled backups
• Supports point-in-time recovery PITR
• Retention periods, lifecycle management, backup policies…
• Cross region backup
• Cross account backup using organizations

Question 9

Disaster recovery Strategies

Answer 9

• Backup and restore ($)
• • no app running
• Pilot light
• • run core app functions (just db) ($$)
• warm standby ($$$)
• • minimum size, live
• multi-site/hot-site ($$$$)
• • full copy of site ready on-demand

Question 10

AWS Elastic (DRS)

Answer 10

Elastic disaster recovery (DRS)

• Recover your physical, virtual, and cloud servers to AWS
• Protect databases from ransomware or other attack
• Continuous block level replication of servers

Question 11

AWS DataSync

Answer 11

• move lots of data from on-prem to AWS
• Can sync to S3, EFS, FSx for windows
• replication tasks can be regularly scheduled
• replication tasks are incremental after first full load

Question 12

AWS Application Discovery Service

Answer 12

• plan migration by gather info about on-prem
• server utilization data and dependency mapping
• Agentless Discovery
• • VM inventory, configuration, and performance history
• Agent-based Discovery
• • System configuration, performance, processes, network connection, etc.
• Results viewed in AWS migration hub

Question 13

**AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

Answer 13

• Lift and shift
• Convert the physical, virtual, and cloud based servers to run on AWS
• Supports wide range of platforms, OS
• minimal downtime
• reduced cost

Question 14

AWS Migration Evaluator

Answer 14

• Build data-driven business case for migration to AWS
• provide a clear baseline of organization’s costs today
• Install agentless collector for discovery
• Snapshot of the on-prem footprint, dependencies
• Analyze current state, define target state, develop migration plan

Question 15

AWS MIgration Hub

Answer 15

• central location to collect servers and application inventory data for planning and tracking AWS migrations
• Helps accelerate AWS migrations and lift and shift
• AWS Migration Hub Orchestrator pre-built templates to save time and effort on enterprise apps (SAP, SQL Service, etc)
• supports application migration services, and database migration service

Question 16

AWS FIS

Answer 16

Fault injection simulator

• Chaos engineering
• stresses by causing disruptive events
• helps uncover bugs
• Supports EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS…
• use pre-built templates to generate desired disruptions

Question 17

AWS Step Functions

Answer 17

• build serverless visual workflow to orchestrate lambda functions
• features sequence, parallel, conditions, timeouts, error handling
• Integrates with EC2, ECS, on-premise servers, API gateway, SQS
• can implement human approval steps
• order fulfillment, data processing, web applications, any workflow

Question 18

AWS Ground Station

Answer 18

• fully managed service to control satellite comms, process data and deal with satellites
• provides global network of ground stations near AWS regions
• download satellite data to your AWS VPC
• send to S3 or EC2
• Weather forecasting, surface imaging, communications, video broadcasts

Question 19

AWS Pinpoint

Answer 19

Scaleable 2 way (outbound/inbound) marketing communications service

• Email, SMS, push, voice, and in-app messaging
• Segment and personalize messages
• receive replies
• Billions of messages per day
• marketing, bulk, transactional SMS
• Versus SNS or SES
• • in SNS & SES you manage each message’s audience
• • In pinpoint, you create message templates, delivery schedules, target segments, and campaigns

Question 20

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

Answer 20

• Media transcoding in the cloud
• Convert median files from source format into versions for smartphones, tables, pc, etc