AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — Question 662

Which AWS service or feature is an example of a relational database management system?

Answer options

• A. Amazon Athena
• B. Amazon Redshift
• C. Amazon S3 Select
• D. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that operates as a relational database management system (RDBMS) based on PostgreSQL. Amazon Athena and Amazon S3 Select are query features used to retrieve data stored in Amazon S3 rather than standalone database engines, while Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is designed for real-time data streaming and ingestion.