Pyongwon Lee

[AWS] Systems Manager

Systems Manager (formerly known as SSM) manages EC2 instances at scale (EC2 fleet).

[AWS] Kinesis Video Streams

Kinesis Video Streams securely stream video (audio or images) from connected devices to AWS for analytics, machine learning, and other processing.

[AWS] Kinesis Data Analytics

“Kinesis Data Analytics” analyzes streaming data and gains actionable insights in real-time.

Kinesis Firehose is a fully managed service that loads streaming data into data stores (S3) and analytic tools (Redshift, Elasticsearch, or Splunk), enabling near real-time analytic with existing business intelligence tools.

[AWS] CloudTrail

CloudTrail is a governance, compliance, risk management, and auditing service that records account activities (by Console or APIs) and stores logs in S3.

CloudTrail tracks all user activities and API calls across your AWS accounts – through a console, SDKs, and CLI
You can track the user name, event name, event date/time, IP address, access key, region, and error code.

[AWS] CloudWatch

CloudWatch is a collection of services that monitor/observe cloud resources – via metrics, logs, and events – and provide actionable insights.

CloudWatch monitors the performance of AWS services – a repository service for metric data.
CloudWatch logs the events and visualizes them.

[AWS] Redshift

A data warehouse is a data storage solution that aggregates a massive amount of historical data. It supports querying, reporting, analytics, and business intelligence (BI).

Redshift is a petabyte-scale data warehousing solution (Business Intelligence).

[AWS] Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

EMR is a large-scale parallel distributed data processing tool; on-demand billing is the key benefit.

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