What are the some of the popular aws services?



  • 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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