236 – 260: Edge, Networking & Hybrid
- Edge Locations Count – CloudFront POPs worldwide (exam sometimes asks conceptually).
- Regional Edge Caches – Bigger caches between origin and POP.
- AWS Local Zones – Compute closer to users in metro cities.
- Wavelength Zones – For 5G ultra-low latency edge compute.
- AWS Outposts Rack – Smaller on-prem AWS hardware.
- AWS Outposts Server – Even smaller, fits in standard IT rack.
- AWS Egress Fees – Cost for data leaving AWS.
- Public vs Elastic IP – Elastic IP → fixed, account-owned.
- ENA (Elastic Network Adapter) – High-performance networking for EC2.
- Global Accelerator vs CloudFront – GA → TCP/UDP app acceleration | CF → content delivery & caching.
- VPC Flow Logs – Capture network traffic metadata.
- VPC Reachability Analyzer – Find connectivity issues.
- IPv6 in VPC – Dual-stack possible.
- AWS Shield Standard – Free DDoS protection.
- AWS Route 53 Health Checks – Monitor endpoints & failover.
- Route 53 Routing Policies – Simple, Weighted, Latency, Geolocation, Failover, Multi-value.
- AWS IoT Fleet Hub – Monitor IoT devices fleet-wide.
- AWS IoT Device Defender – Security audits for IoT devices.
- AWS IoT Device Management – Scale registration + remote actions.
- AWS RoboMaker – Robotics simulation & deployment.
- Direct Connect Gateway – Connect DC to multiple VPCs across regions.
- Transit Gateway Multicast – Support multicast traffic.
- Cloud WAN – Global wide-area networking managed by AWS.
- PrivateLink – Private access to services via interface endpoints.
- Hybrid DNS with Route 53 Resolver – On-prem ↔ AWS DNS integration.
🔥 SET-11 (25 Points) – Data, AI, Application Integration, Messaging
- Kinesis Enhanced Fan-Out – 1 MB/s per shard throughput for consumers.
- Kinesis Extended Retention – Store streams up to 1 year.
- Kinesis Shard Splitting – Increase capacity.
- Kinesis Shard Merging – Reduce capacity.
- SQS Delay Queue – Delay messages up to 15 min.
- SQS Long Polling – Reduces empty responses → lowers cost.
- SQS FIFO Throughput – Per-message ordering guaranteed.
- SNS Mobile Push – Push to APNS / FCM.
- SNS SMS Types – Promotional vs Transactional.
- EventBridge Pipes – Point-to-point event flow.
- EventBridge Schedule – Cron-based serverless jobs.
- Step Functions Express Workflow – High-throughput rapid workflows.
- Glue DataBrew – Visual data preparation without coding.
- Glue Elastic Views – Unified view of multiple data stores.
- Lake Formation – Data lake permission control.
- Redshift Spectrum Pricing – Pay only per scanned TB.
- Redshift Materialized Views – Precomputed data for performance.
- OpenSearch UltraWarm Storage – Warm storage tier.
- OpenSearch Domain – Cluster of search nodes.
- Forecast Use-Cases – Retail sales, cloud capacity, traffic prediction.
- Personalize – Recommendation engine.
- Lookout for Metrics – Detect anomalies using ML.
- Lookout for Equipment – Predict equipment failures.
- Textract Queries – Search for specific fields in documents.
- Rekognition Custom Labels – Train custom image models.
- Transcribe Call Analytics – Contact-center call analysis.
- Polly Neural TTS – More natural speech.
- Amazon Lex V2 – Chatbot building (NLP + intent slots).
- Amazon Bedrock – Foundation models for GenAI (conceptual).
- AWS HealthLake – Healthcare data processing (HIPAA-ready).
