What are the some of the popular aws services?
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AWS services are categorised in sections. Note this may not be complete, AWS bring out new services frequently. Check the products page for latest info. https://aws.amazon.com/products/
Networking & Content Delivery.
- VPC - Virtual Private Cloud, a data center in the cloud, allows you to isolate AWS resources.
- CloudFront - Content delivery network, For caching content.
- DirectConnect - Is a dedicated network connection from AWS datacenter to your office, it allow for consistent speeds. The traffic bypasses the internet.
- Route53 - Is DNS for AWS resources.
Compute.
- EC2 - These are your virtual machines in the cloud, called instance.
- ECS - These are docker containers in the cloud.
- Lambda - Allow you to run code without provisioning servers.
- Elastic Beanstalk - Deploys application to AWS, like php, mysql, apache, etc without any infrastructure code. A push button deployment of applications.
Storage.
- S3 - Simple Storage Service, is highly available object storage for storing most content types, also used in Big Data storage solutions.
- Glacier - Is a highly available archival storage.
- Storage Gateway - Allows you to connect your office storage to AWS.
- EFS - Elastic File System for EC2 instances, allow multiple EC2 instance to use it at the same time and share the same data, like NFS.
Migration.
- Snowball - Allows you to migrate Petabytes of data to AWS.
- DMS - Data Migration Service, Migrate databases from on premise to AWS, or AWS to AWS.
- Server Migration - Migrate on premise servers to AWS, also allow automation & scheduling of the migrations.
Database.
- RDS - Relational database, No need to patch, install or back up, AWS take care of this for you.
- DynamoDB - NoSQL DB, Highly available NoSQL DB.
- Elasticache - In-memory cache, caching for databases.
- Redshift - Data Warehouse, Petabyte level data warehouse.
Management.
- CloudWatch - Monitoring & logging for AWS resources, custom metrics.
- CloudFormation - Write templates to deploy infrastructure, templates are in JSON or YAML formats.
- Cloudtrail - Is an auditing tool see who has done what.
- OpsWorks - Chef configuration management, scales applications based on the runtime.
- Config - AWS resource inventory, configuration history and configuration change notifications.
- Trused Advisor - Help by advising you of ways to reduce costs and advise if resources have security risks.
- Service Catalog - Tool to catalogs approved IT services on AWS.
Security, Identity, & Compliance.
- IAM - Controls access to AWS resources.
- Inspector - Check applications running on EC2 and informs you of security risks.
- Certificate Manager - Provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certs.
- Directory Service - Directory Service, is LDAP/Active Directory for AWS.
- Cloud HSM - Allow you to create encryption keys using dedicated hardware security modules.
- KSM - Manage service for encryption keys.
- WAF - Web application firewall.
- Sheild - expanded DDOS service.
- Compliance reports (Artifact) - AWS documents.
Developer Tools.
- CodeCommit - Manage Git source control
- Code Build - Compile source code, runs tests
- CodeDeploy - Automate deployments to on premise or AWS
- Code Pipeline - CI/CD
Business Productivity.
- WorkMail - Manage company email.
- WorkDocs - Manage company documents.
Mobile Services.
- Mobile Hub - build, test, & monitor mobile apps
- Cognito - Authenticate users, save preferences
- Device Farm - Test mobile app against device on the cloud.
- Mobile Analytics - Get metric information from mobile apps.
- Pinpoint - Mobile push notifications.
Artificial Intelligence.
- Lex - Speech to text conversion.
- Polly - Text to Speech conversion.
- Recognition - Imagine recognition.
- Machine Learning - Complex algorithms and predictions.
Gaming.
- GameLift - automated infrastructure deployment & autoscaling for session based multiplayer games.
Internet of Things.
- AWS IoT - Connect hardware device to the cloud.
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