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  • [AWS CCP] 44, AWS Analytics Services

    [AWS CCP] 44, AWS Analytics Services
    2026/05/06
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - Use Amazon Athena for serverless SQL queries directly on data stored in S3. - Choose Amazon EMR when you need to process vast amounts of data using big data frameworks like Hadoop and Spark on managed clusters. - Select Amazon Kinesis for real-time ingestion, processing, and analysis of streaming data feeds. - Leverage AWS Glue for serverless ETL jobs, discovering data schemas, and creating a centralized data catalog. - Employ Amazon QuickSight to create interactive dashboards and business intelligence visualizations from your data. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
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    3 分
  • [AWS CCP] 43, Machine Learning Services on AWS

    [AWS CCP] 43, Machine Learning Services on AWS
    2026/05/05
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - Amazon SageMaker is the platform for data scientists to build, train, and deploy custom ML models. - Services like Rekognition, Comprehend, and Translate are pre-trained AI services that require no ML expertise, only an API call. - Distinguish between Rekognition for image/video analysis and Comprehend for natural language processing and sentiment analysis. - A key exam trap is confusing Amazon Comprehend (understanding text meaning) with Amazon Textract (extracting text and structured data from documents). - Amazon Lex is used to build conversational chatbots, while Amazon Polly converts text into lifelike speech. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
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    3 分
  • [AWS CCP] 42, Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring

    [AWS CCP] 42, Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring
    2026/05/04
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - The four core functions of CloudWatch: Metrics, Alarms, Logs, and Dashboards (M.A.L.D.). - The critical difference between Basic Monitoring (5-minute intervals, free) and Detailed Monitoring (1-minute intervals, paid) for EC2 instances. - A key exam trap: CloudWatch monitors resource performance, while CloudTrail audits API activity and user actions. - That CloudWatch does not monitor EC2 memory usage by default; this requires installing the CloudWatch Agent to send custom metrics. - How CloudWatch Events (now Amazon EventBridge) enables automation by triggering actions in response to changes in your AWS environment. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
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    3 分
  • [AWS CCP] 41, AWS Developer and Deployment Tools

    [AWS CCP] 41, AWS Developer and Deployment Tools
    2026/05/03
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - CodeCommit is AWS's managed source control service for private Git repositories. - CodeBuild compiles source code and runs tests, while CodeDeploy automates application deployments to compute services like EC2 and Lambda. - CodePipeline orchestrates the entire CI/CD workflow, integrating services like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy. - CloudFormation provides 'Infrastructure as Code' using JSON or YAML templates to predictably provision and manage AWS resources. - Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that simplifies application deployment by managing the underlying infrastructure for developers. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
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    4 分
  • [AWS CCP] 40, Amazon Aurora and Redshift

    [AWS CCP] 40, Amazon Aurora and Redshift
    2026/05/02
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - Amazon Aurora is a high-performance relational database (OLTP) for transactional workloads like web applications and e-commerce sites. - Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale data warehouse (OLAP) designed for business intelligence and complex analytical queries on large datasets. - Aurora is compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL and provides high availability by replicating data across multiple Availability Zones. - Redshift uses columnar storage and massively parallel processing (MPP) to deliver fast performance for analytical workloads. - The key exam differentiator is the use case: choose Aurora for running day-to-day business operations and Redshift for analyzing historical business data. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
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    4 分
  • [AWS CCP] 39, AWS Compute Services Comparison

    [AWS CCP] 39, AWS Compute Services Comparison
    2026/05/01
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - To choose EC2 when an exam question emphasizes needing full control over the virtual server and operating system. - To identify Lambda as the correct service for short-running, event-driven tasks where server management is to be avoided. - The key distinction between ECS for container orchestration with server management, and Fargate for serverless container execution. - When to select Lightsail for simple applications like blogs or test environments that require a predictable, low monthly cost. - To recognize AWS Batch as the ideal solution for large-scale, offline processing workloads like scientific simulations or financial analysis. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
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    4 分
  • [AWS CCP] 38, Amazon SQS and SNS Messaging

    [AWS CCP] 38, Amazon SQS and SNS Messaging
    2026/04/30
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - SQS Standard queues offer high throughput with at-least-once delivery, while FIFO queues guarantee order and exactly-once processing. - SNS is a publish/subscribe service that pushes notifications to multiple subscribers like SQS queues, Lambda functions, or email endpoints. - SQS and SNS are fundamental services for creating decoupled architectures, which enhances application scalability and resilience. - The fan-out pattern uses a single SNS topic to distribute a message to multiple SQS queues, enabling parallel and independent processing. - A key exam distinction is that SQS consumers pull messages from a queue, whereas SNS pushes messages to its subscribers. For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
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    3 分
  • [AWS CCP] 37, AWS Storage Services Comparison

    [AWS CCP] 37, AWS Storage Services Comparison
    2026/04/29
    This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams. In this episode you will learn: - The fundamental difference between object (S3), block (EBS), and file (EFS, FSx) storage. - Why Amazon S3 is the ideal choice for static website hosting, backups, and storing application assets. - How Amazon EBS provides persistent, low-latency block storage for a single EC2 instance. - When to use Amazon EFS for shared file access across multiple Linux-based EC2 instances. - How to differentiate between EFS and FSx on the exam, primarily based on the operating system (Linux vs. Windows). For more free exam prep tools, practice questions, and AI-powered explanations, visit https://open-exam-prep.com/ or YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Open-exam-prep
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    3 分