AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty — Question 114

An online retail company with millions of users around the globe wants to improve its ecommerce analytics capabilities. Currently, clickstream data is uploaded directly to Amazon S3 as compressed files. Several times each day, an application running on Amazon EC2 processes the data and makes search options and reports available for visualization by editors and marketers. The company wants to make website clicks and aggregated data available to editors and marketers in minutes to enable them to connect with users more effectively.
Which options will help meet these requirements in the MOST efficient way? (Choose two.)

Answer options

• A. Use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to upload compressed and batched clickstream records to Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service).
• B. Upload clickstream records to Amazon S3 as compressed files. Then use AWS Lambda to send data to Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service) from Amazon S3.
• C. Use Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service) deployed on Amazon EC2 to aggregate, filter, and process the data. Refresh content performance dashboards in near-real time.
• D. Use OpenSearch Dashboards (Kibana) to aggregate, filter, and visualize the data stored in Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service). Refresh content performance dashboards in near-real time.
• E. Upload clickstream records from Amazon S3 to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams and use a Kinesis Data Streams consumer to send records to Amazon OpenSearch Service (Amazon Elasticsearch Service).

Correct answer: A, D

Explanation

The correct answers are A and D. Option A uses Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to efficiently stream data to Amazon OpenSearch Service, allowing for quick access to analytics. Option D enables visualization through OpenSearch Dashboards, ensuring that editors and marketers can access the data in near-real time. The other options either involve slower processing methods or do not fully meet the requirement for immediate data availability.