Simple Queue Service Quiz
Your company has an application that takes care of uploading, processing and publishing videos posted by users. The current architecture for this application includes the following:
a) A set of EC2 Instances to transfer user uploaded videos to S3 buckets
b) A set of EC2 worker processes to process and publish the videos
c) An Auto Scaling Group for the EC2 worker processes
Which of the following can be added to the architecture to make it more reliable?
A. Amazon SQS
B. Amazon SNS
C. Amazon CloudFront
D. Amazon SES
A. Amazon SQS
Amazon SQS is used to decouple systems. It can store requests to process videos to be picked up by the worker processes.
AWS Documentation mentions the following:
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between applications or microservices. It moves data between distributed application components and helps you decouple these components.
For more information on AWS SQS, please visit the following URL:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/Welcome.html
