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AWS Application Integration and Messaging Flashcards

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  1. Which AWS service acts as a serverless event bus that connects application data from your own apps, SaaS apps, and AWS services?

    Answer: Amazon EventBridge

    Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications using data from external SaaS providers, AWS services, or your own applications.

  2. What does Amazon API Gateway primarily provide for developers?

    Answer: A fully managed service for creating, publishing, and securing APIs

    Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale, acting as the front door for backend services.

  3. Which AWS service provides managed Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ message brokers for migrating traditional message brokers to the cloud?

    Answer: Amazon MQ

    Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ, making it easy to migrate existing applications that use standard messaging APIs to AWS.

  4. What is the visibility timeout in Amazon SQS?

    Answer: The period during which a received message is hidden from other consumers

    The visibility timeout is the period during which SQS prevents other consumers from receiving and processing a message that has already been received by one consumer.

  5. Which AWS service enables you to build real-time, bidirectional communication applications using WebSockets via API Gateway?

    Answer: API Gateway WebSocket APIs

    API Gateway WebSocket APIs enable you to build real-time two-way communication applications, such as chat apps and dashboards, without managing infrastructure.

  6. In AWS Step Functions, what is the difference between Standard and Express Workflows?

    Answer: Standard is for long-running workflows up to 1 year; Express is for high-volume, short-duration workflows

    Standard Workflows support executions up to 1 year for long-running processes, while Express Workflows are optimized for high-volume, event-driven workloads with durations up to 5 minutes.