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The company wants to perform near-real time defect detection on a time-series of 200 performance metrics, and store all the data for offline analysis. The best approach for this scenario is to use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose for ingestion and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Random Cut Forest (RCF) to perform anomaly detection. Use Kinesis Data Firehose to store data in Amazon S3 for further analysis.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a service that can capture, transform, and deliver streaming data to destinations such as Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and Splunk. Kinesis Data Firehose can handle any amount and frequency of data, and automatically scale to match the throughput. Kinesis Data Firehose can also compress, encrypt, and batch the data before delivering it to the destination, reducing the storage cost and enhancing the security.

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is a service that can analyze streaming data in real time using SQL or Apache Flink applications. Kinesis Data Analytics can use built-in functions and algorithms to perform various analytics tasks, such as aggregations, joins, filters, windows, and anomaly detection. One of the built-in algorithms that Kinesis Data Analytics supports is Random Cut Forest (RCF), which is a supervised learning algorithm for forecasting scalar time series using recurrent neural networks. RCF can detect anomalies in streaming data by assigning an anomaly score to each data point, based on how distant it is from the rest of the data. RCF can handle multiple related time series, such as the performance metrics of the aircraft engine, and learn a global model that captures the common patterns and trends across the time series.

Therefore, the company can use the following architecture to build the near-real time defect detection solution:

Use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose for ingestion: The company can use Kinesis Data Firehose to capture the streaming data from the aircraft engine testing, and deliver it to two destinations: Amazon S3 and Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. The company can configure the Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to specify the source, the buffer size and interval, the compression and encryption options, the error handling and retry logic, and the destination details.

Use Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Random Cut Forest (RCF) to perform anomaly detection: The company can use Kinesis Data Analytics to create a SQL application that can read the streaming data from the Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream, and apply the RCF algorithm to detect anomalies. The company can use the RANDOM_CUT_FOREST or RANDOM_CUT_FOREST_WITH_EXPLANATION functions to compute the anomaly scores and attributions for each data point, and use the WHERE clause to filter out the normal data points. The company can also use the CURSOR function to specify the input stream, and the PUMP function to write the output stream to another destination, such as Amazon Kinesis Data Streams or AWS Lambda.

Use Kinesis Data Firehose to store data in Amazon S3 for further analysis: The company can use Kinesis Data Firehose to store the raw and processed data in Amazon S3 for offline analysis. The company can use the S3 destination of the Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to store the raw data, and use another Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream to store the output of the Kinesis Data Analytics application. The company can also use AWS Glue or Amazon Athena to catalog, query, and analyze the data in Amazon S3.

What Is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose?

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DeepAR Forecasting Algorithm - Amazon SageMaker

To secure calls to the Amazon SageMaker Service API, the ML specialist should take the following steps:

Modify the security group on the endpoint network interface to restrict access to the instances. This will allow the ML specialist to control which instances in the VPC can communicate with the VPC interface endpoint for the Amazon SageMaker Service API. The security group can specify inbound and outbound rules based on the instance IDs, IP addresses, or CIDR blocks1.

Add a SageMaker Runtime VPC endpoint interface to the VPC. This will allow the ML specialist to invoke the SageMaker endpoints from within the VPC without using the public internet. The SageMaker Runtime VPC endpoint interface connects the VPC directly to the SageMaker Runtime using AWS PrivateLink2.

The other options are not as effective or necessary as the steps above. Adding a VPC endpoint policy to allow access to the IAM users is not required, as the IAM users can already access the Amazon SageMaker Service API through the VPC interface endpoint. Modifying the users’ IAM policy to allow access to Amazon SageMaker Service API calls only is not sufficient, as it does not prevent unauthorized instances from accessing the VPC interface endpoint. Modifying the ACL on the endpoint network interface to restrict access to the instances is not possible, as network ACLs are associated with subnets, not network interfaces3.

Security groups for your VPC - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

Connect to SageMaker Within your VPC - Amazon SageMaker

Network ACLs - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud

 To meet the requirements with the least operational overhead, the company should use AWS Glue crawlers, AWS Glue workflows and jobs, and Amazon Fraud Detector. AWS Glue crawlers can scan the data in Amazon S3 and identify the schema, which is then stored in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. AWS Glue workflows and jobs can perform data transformations on the data in Amazon S3 using serverless Spark or Python scripts. Amazon Fraud Detector can train a model to detect fraud using the transformed data and the company’s historical fraud labels, and then generate fraud predictions using a simple API call.

Option A is incorrect because Amazon Athena is a serverless query service that can analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL, but it does not perform data transformations or fraud detection.

Option C is incorrect because Amazon Redshift is a cloud data warehouse that can store and query data using SQL, but it requires provisioning and managing clusters, which adds operational overhead. Moreover, Amazon Redshift does not provide a built-in fraud detection capability.

Option E is incorrect because Amazon Redshift ML is a feature that allows users to create, train, and deploy machine learning models using SQL commands in Amazon Redshift. However, using Amazon Redshift ML would require loading the data from Amazon S3 to Amazon Redshift, which adds complexity and cost. Also, Amazon Redshift ML does not support fraud detection as a use case.

AWS Glue Crawlers

AWS Glue Workflows and Jobs

Amazon Fraud Detector