The Supporting Cast: Data, Compute, and Pipes

The non-ML services the exam assumes you know cold: the storage family, the analytics yard, compute and containers, and the integration pipes that connect them.

Content current as of 2026-10.

Lessons

1. Where data lives: S3, EBS, EFS, and friends
2. The analytics yard: Glue, Athena, EMR, Redshift
3. Compute and containers: EC2, Lambda, ECR/ECS/EKS
4. Pipes and signals: Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS/SNS, CloudWatch

Sources

• Amazon S3 user guide — storage classes
• SageMaker AI developer guide — access training data (S3 modes, EFS, FSx for Lustre)
• AWS Glue developer guide — What is AWS Glue?
• AWS Step Functions developer guide — What is Step Functions?