Application Services and AI/Data Platform
Domain 7 - Application Services and AI/Data Platform
This domain covers managed application services and the AI/data products you would wire into an application.
Core rules
- CLOVA Studio exposes generative AI models (including HyperCLOVA X) through APIs and a console for prompt and agent development; calls are authenticated with IAM credentials and are subject to quotas.
- AI service APIs include OCR, Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech, Vision, Face Recognition, Papago translation and Chatbot.
- Application services - Maps, SMS, Push, Outbound Mailer, CAPTCHA, nShortURL - are consumed as APIs from your VPC or from the internet.
- Data platform: Hadoop/Data Forest for batch, Cloud Data Streaming Service for Kafka-compatible streams, Elasticsearch for search and analytics, Data Query for SQL over object data.
- Availability is region- and product-specific; not every AI service exists in every region.
Worked example
A support chatbot must answer from internal documents. Reasoning: store documents in Object Storage, build retrieval in the data platform, and call CLOVA Studio for generation. Keep the API key in Secret Manager, wrap calls with retry and backoff because quotas are enforced, and log prompts and responses to Object Storage for audit. Never call the model from the browser with an embedded key.
Traps
- Assuming AI APIs are free of quotas or rate limits.
- Assuming every service exists in the region you chose for compute.
- Sending personal data to a service without checking data-handling terms.
- Treating model output as trusted input without validation.