AWS CloudFront, SNS, SQS revision before the CSA exam

Quick revision on topics AWS CloudFront, SNS, SQS before appearing AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam.

CloudFront, SNS, SQS revision!

This article notes down a few important points about AWS (Amazon Web Services) CloudFront, SNS, and SQS. This can be helpful in last-minute revision before appearing for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate level certification exam.

This is third part of AWS CSA revision series. Rest of the series listed below :

In this article, we are checking out key points about CloudFront(CDN Content Delivery Network), SNS (Simple Notification Service), and SQS (Simple Queue Service).

Recommended read : AWS CSA exam preparation guide

Lets get started :

AWS Cloudfront

  • Origin can be S3 bucket or CNAME of Elastic Load Balancer ELB
  • S3 bucket as the origin. URL will be bucket_name.s3-reagion.cloudfront.net
  • Private content sharing with signed URL with an expiration time limit
  • To serve a new object version, create a new distribution, or create invalidation of the old objects. Since invalidation costs, creating new distribution always helps.
  • Limits :
    • 1,00,000 Requests per second per distribution
    • 200 distributions per account
    • 40Gbps speed per distribution
    • 25 origins per distribution
    • 20 GB max file size to serve
  • By default, object expiration is 24 hours. The minimum TTL is 0.

Amazon SNS

  • The latest addition to SNS is Lambda
  • SNS has two clients: Publishers and subscribers
  • Publishers communicate with subscribers by sending messages to the topic.
  • Protocol supported :
    • HTTP
    • HTTPS
    • SMS
    • email
    • email-JSON
    • Amazon SQS
    • AWS Lambda
  • SNS Topic of the same name can be created after 30-60 seconds the previous topic deleted.

Amazon SQS

  • The default visibility timeout is 30 secs. The maximum is 12 hours.
  • Mainly used to decouple your application
  • The default period message stays in queue is 4 days. Min-Max periods are 1 min to 2 weeks.
  • The maximum SQS message size is 256KB.
  • Supports an unlimited number of queues and unlimited messages per queue.
  • Long polling can be done from 1 to 20 secs.

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