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App Stream​

  • Desktop app streaming service, i.e. it's a service that streams to us desktop applications
  • Deliver a specific application to any computer without provisioning infrastructure
  • Application delivered from within a web browser

AWS Device Farm​

  • App testing service for mobile and web apps
  • Test across real browsers and real phones
  • Fully automated using framework
  • Can remotely login to devices for debugging to figure out why it works on one OS and not the other!

CICD​

  • Continuous Integration:
    • As new code is pushed, testing is automatically done via testing / build servers
    • Helps us to check code for errors or things that "worked on developers laptop"
    • Developer gets feedback quickly
  • Continuous Delivery:
    • Ensure software can be released reliably whenever needed
    • Ensure deployment happens often and are quick
    • As build servers run in Continuous Integration, it can be released to a Deployment Server with specific tags and versions
  • Code: Github
  • Build: Github, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild
  • Test: Github, AWS CodeBuild
  • Deploy: Many things here, all depends on where packages need to end up
    • AWS Beanstalk
    • Github
    • AWS CodeDeploy
  • Provision: EC2 Fleet, Spark cluster, K8's cluster, etc...
  • Orchestrator: Github Workflows, AWS CodePipeline

CodePipeline and GitHub have some integrations as well, usually use GitHub WebHooks into CodePipeline or a CodeStar pipeline to sync GitHub and CodePipeline

CodeGuru​

  • ML powered services for code reviews and app performance recommendations
    • CodeGuru Reviewer: Automated code reviews for static code analysis (development)
    • CodeGuru Profilier: Visibility / recommendations about application performance during runtime (production)
  • Supports Java and Python
  • Integrates with GitHub and CodePipeline as a whole

Macie​

  • Data security and data privacy service
  • Helped to identify and alert you to sensitive PII data
  • Analyzes data in S3, and notifies Amazon EventBridge

SES​

  • Simple Email Service
  • API or SMTP server
  • Outbound and Inbound (can receive replies)
  • Provides stats like deliveries, bounces, feedback loop, email opened, etc...
  • Supports DomainKeys Identified Mail and Sender Policy Frameworks
  • Flexible IP deployment: shared, dedicated, and customer-owned IP's
  • Send emails using your app using Console, API's, or SMTP
  • Good for mass mail marketing, integrating with Personalize and EventBridge
  • Configuration Sets:
    • Customize and analyze your email send events
    • Event destinations:
      • Kinesis Data Firehose: Receives metrics for each email (bounces, clicks, opens, etc)
        • Write into Data Analytics ot S3 (Athena can query S3 then)
      • SNS: For immediate feedback on bounce and complaint information
    • IP Pool Management: Use IP pools to send particular types of emails

Pinpoint​

  • Scalable, 2-way (inbound and outbound) marketing communication service

  • Supports emails, SMS, push, voice, and in-app messaging

  • Billions of messages per day

  • Use cases:

    • Running marketing campaigns by sending marketing, bulk, or transactional SMS messages

  • How to use this compared to SNS vs SES?

    • SNS and SES we must manage all end users and content
    • Pinpoing allows us to do templating, delivery schedules, targeted segments, etc so it's just a specific implementation on top of these tools

EC2 Image Builder​

  • Helps to automate creation of VM's or container images
  • Automate creation, maintenance, and validation of EC2 AMI's
    • Can spin up an EC2 and automatically run specific tests if desired
  • Can publish these AMI's to multiple regions and accounts
  • Run on a schedule
  • Builds and packages up everything onto an AMI
  • CICD Flow (CodePipeline):
    • Build Code:
      • Github / Something
      • AWS CodeBuild
    • Build AMI
      • AWS CloudFormation
      • EC2 Image Builder
      • AMI!
    • Rollout
      • AWS CloudFormation

IoT Core​

  • Internet of Things
  • Network of internet connected devices that are able to collect and transfer data
  • AWS IoT Core allows you to easily connect IOT devices to AWS cloud
  • Serverless & secure
  • Scales to billions of devices and trillions of messages
  • Integrates with multiple AWS services
    • Lambda, Sagemaker, S3, Kinesis, etc
    • IoT Topics:
      • Ingest via MQTT protocol
      • Filter down with IoT Rules
      • Act with IoT Rules Actions
    • Integrate
      • Lots of them, focus on:
      • Kinesis Data Firehose
        • IoT Core sends MQTT, which is sent to Kinesis Firehose by way of IoT Core Rules Actions
        • Can use this to transform and send downstream for aggregation and analysis
  • Build IoT apps that gather, process, analyze, and act upon data