DEA-C01 Data Ingestion and Transformation Practice Question
A company needs to ingest streaming data from an existing Amazon Kinesis Data Streams into Amazon S3 with partitioning by date. Which TWO services can accomplish this with minimal coding? (Choose two.)
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Why each option matters
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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Answer analysis
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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Why this is correct
Firehose can read from a Kinesis stream and deliver to S3 with partitioning.
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AWS Glue Streaming
Why it's wrong here
Glue Streaming can process but requires more setup than Firehose or Lambda.
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AWS Lambda
Why this is correct
Lambda can be triggered by Kinesis records and write to S3 with custom partitioning.
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Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
Why it's wrong here
Kinesis Data Analytics is for SQL or Flink processing, not direct S3 delivery.
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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
Why it's wrong here
Transfer Acceleration is for uploading to S3, not consuming from Kinesis.
Quick reference
AWS S3 Storage Class Comparison
| Storage Class | Min Duration | Retrieval | Use Case |
|---|---|---|---|
| S3 Standard | None | Immediate | Frequently accessed data |
| S3 Standard-IA | 30 days | Immediate | Infrequent access, rapid retrieval |
| S3 One Zone-IA | 30 days | Immediate | Non-critical infrequent data |
| S3 Intelligent-Tiering | None | Immediate–hours | Unknown or changing access patterns |
| S3 Glacier Instant | 90 days | Milliseconds | Archive with instant retrieval |
| S3 Glacier Flexible | 90 days | Minutes–hours | Archive, flexible retrieval |
| S3 Glacier Deep Archive | 180 days | Hours | Long-term compliance archive |
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