Pop Quiz on All Hands Sessions
The first listed "Do" in the session "Engage Effectively with Senior Customer Executives", and the only that was "exclaimed" is this single word command.
What is "Prepare!"
This "classic" service (classic as in classic car, not classic Coca Cola) was finally retired in 2022, ending its 16 year run.
What is EC2-Classic networking (or EC2-Classic)
This SA and Twitch celebrity has written multiple blogs about hackathons.
Who is Justin Stanley?
An outage in February of 2017, in us-east-1, which caused Ted Zamborsky to not be able to access bus times as a college student in Chicago (as well as many other things across the web), was arguably the reason the broader public realized just how much of the internet is dependent on this storage service.
What is Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
A common lip based advice acronym that encourages you to reduce complexity, in this case by choosing the best cloud based object storage around.
From the presentation "Generative AI on AWS", the most costly way to customize a Generative AI model is retraining, while the least costly is this strategy, which is also a very trendy job title in 2023 if you drop the "ing" from the end.
What is "Prompt Engineering"
This service hasn't been totally flushed, but it's in maintenance mode only and can't be accessed through the console. So if you need to move around data, please use anything else.
What is Data Pipeline?
This SA is the author of at least 18 blogs, with another 2 in review awaiting publication. The most recent blog (at time of writing this clue) can guide you on how a Nonprofit can customize its direct mail campaigns with machine learning.
Who is Mike George?
This disruption, which happened right around American Thanksgiving in 2020, featured cascading failures on several services that could ultimately be traced back to dependencies on this streaming service
What is Amazon Kinesis?
If you are using Hadoop or Spark on AWS to keep valuable materials out of landfills, you might be doing this
What is "Elastic Map Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling"
According to "Understanding your Academic Research Customers" , the key decision maker in a lab is known as this two word phrase, which is usually shortened to an acronym that looks like the 16th letter of the Greek Alphabet.
What is a principal investigator (PI). (must have both words)
This early hardware experiment, scheduled for end of life in 2024, brought AWS ML into the physical world. I hope it took a selfie to remember itself by.
What is AWS Deeplens
This SA wrote a blog in 2021 about using flight tracking information to combat illicit activity.
Who is Scott Glasser?
It's ancient history by now, but in April of 2011 a single AZ of us-east-1 experienced a disruption due to this service that is vital for both EC2 and RDS to function.
What is Elastic Block Store?
This common meteorological idiom for someone who is always daydreaming about infrastructure as code
What is "Head in the CloudFormation"
AWS Network Firewall has a rules engine that can run from this level of the OSI model all the way up to L7.
What is Layer 3/L3/Network Layer (accept any)?
This database knew it wasn't long for the world when its younger, more "electric" cousin was launched in 2012.
What is Simple DB?
This SA Team Lead and cricket aficionado authored a blog on digitizing patient intake forms in 2022
Who is David Lloyd
The wordly among us might remember this event in September of 2021 in the ap-northeast-1. The early sign that there was something amiss with this service was elevated packet loss in traffic to and from AWS VPCs
What is Direct Connect
How you might described a managed version of an open source streaming technology that you find oppressive, nightmarish, or extremely bureaucratic.
What is Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafkaesque
The lowest layer on the Hierarch of Questions is this
What is "The question they didn’t even think about?"
This 3D AR/VR service lasted a far shorter time than its namesake did. Both were still ultimately replaced by Babylon, though
What is Amazon Sumerian?
These two SAs wrote a blog showing NPOs how they can utilize Media2Cloud to create a video storage platform. You have to name both.
Who are Veena Chandran and Angela Tsai
This database service, only 3.5 years old at the time of this September 2015 service event in us-east-1, also affected CloudWatch, EC2 autoscaling, and SQS
What is DynamoDB?
The full name of our service for running serverless functions alongside Alonzo Church's alternative to Turing Machines
(not Amazon Lambda Calculus)