Analytics - INTRO

Athena -

This basically allows SQL queries on S3. Turning Flat files into searchable data bases.

Elastic Map Reduce -

This is used for big data processing.
This is used for processing of large amounts of data (web indexing, log analysis etc ). Framework based on Hadoop, Apache Spark etc.

Cloud Search -

This is similar to Elastic. Search engine for website or application we can use cloud or elastic search.
This is based purely managed service by the Amazon.

Elastic Search -

This is service using open source.

Kinesis -

This is a way of streaming and analyzing real time data. We can capture and store terrabytes of data, things like analyzing market, social media tweets etc.,

Data Pipeline - 

Data Pipeline is a service to move data place to place.  Ex:- From S3 to DynamoDB.

Quick Sight -

This is a business analytics tools, used for creating rich dashboards for the data. Not in demand now.