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Amazon EMR securely and reliably handles a broad set of big data use cases, including log analysis, web indexing,
data transformations (ETL), machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics.
References
https://aws.amazon.com/emr/ https://aws.amazon.com/emr/details/10.2.2.10 Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity
in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web
service interface allows to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. Amazon EC2 reduces the time
required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing quickly scale capacity, both up and down,
as computing requirements change.
References
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/details/10.2.2.11 AWS Identity & Access Management
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps to securely control access to AWS
resources for users. IAM used to control who can use AWS resources (authentication) and what resources they
can use and in what ways (authorization). AWS IAM provides features such as Shared access to AWS account,
Granular permissions, Secure access to AWS resources for applications that run on Amazon EC2,Identity
federation, Identity information for assurance, PCI DSS Compliance, Integrated with many AWS services,
Eventually Consistent.
References
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction.html10.2.2.12 Amazon QuickSight:
Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations,
perform ad-hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from data. Using QuickSight cloud-based service you
can easily connect to data, perform advanced analysis, and create stunning visualizations and rich dashboards
that can be accessed from any browser or mobile device.
References
https://quicksight.aws/10.2.2.13 AWS CloudFormation:
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a
collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.
Developers can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create own templates to describe the AWS
resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run an application.
References
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