Analytics
AWS analytics services
A recognition group for core analytics tasks: Athena queries data in S3 with SQL, Kinesis handles streaming data, Glue integrates and catalogs data, and Amazon Quick Sight provides business-intelligence analysis and dashboards within Amazon Quick.
Key points
- Athena is serverless interactive SQL over data such as objects in S3.
- Kinesis collects and processes streaming data.
- Glue provides serverless data integration and a catalog.
- Amazon Quick Sight is the exam-guide BI capability within the current Amazon Quick experience.
Best-known use cases
- Query S3 data without managing database servers.
- Process real-time streams.
- Prepare and catalog data for analytics.
- Create BI dashboards.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Athena queries; Kinesis streams; Glue integrates and catalogs; Quick Sight visualizes.
- Redshift is a managed data warehouse and EMR runs big-data frameworks; recognize them without deep administration.
Key Cloud Practitioner takeaway
Match the analytics verb—query, stream, integrate/catalog, or visualize—to the service.
Related services
- Amazon S3
- Other in-scope service recognition
Relevant exam tasks
- D3.7