☁️💻 My recap of AWS services

Notes

Here is my personal recap of AWS services.

List of Services

Most used services

• EC2
• Lambda

• S3

• RDS

• CloudFront

• SNS

• Elastic Cache

Compute

• EC2 -> virtual machine
• Fargate -> serveless / Container as a Service

• Lambda -> serveless / Function as a Service

• Elastic Beanstalk -> EC2 orchestration

• AWS App Runner -> Devops

Container

• ECR -> container registry
• ECS -> container manager
• EKS -> managed kubernetes

Storage

• S3 -> object storage / bucket
• EBS -> block storage volume (for EC2)
• EFS -> file storage volume (for EC2, container, etc ...)
• S3 Glacier -> S3 for archives, vault, etc ...

Network

• VPC -> virtual private cloud
• ELB -> load balancer
• Route 53 -> DNS dynamic service
• CloudFront -> CDN
• Direct Connect

Security / Identity

• IAM -> roles, permissions, etc ...
• Inspector -> vulnerabilities management
• Shield -> DDOS protection service
• Firewall Manager -> fireware rules

Database

• Aurora -> managed SQL (Mysql/Postgresql compatible)
• RDS -> advanced managed SQL (multiple SQL db)
• DocumentDB -> managed noSQL document
• DynamoDB -> managed noSQL key/value
• Elasticache -> In memory cache
• Neptune -> Graph
• Timestream -> Timeseries

Analytics

• Athena -> query engine
• Redshift -> data warehouse

• Kinesis -> streaming data system (like Kafka)

• EMR -> managed big data platform (like Hadoop)

• DataPipeline -> ETL

• Glue -> ETL

Governance / Management

• CloudWatch -> monitor alertes on AWS services
• CloudFormation -> provision AWS resources (like Terraform)
• CloudTrail -> log / audit

Migration

• DMS -> migrate sql, nosql
• Snowball -> Petabyte scale data transport
• Datasync -> copy data service (like NFS)

Machine Learning

• Sagemaker -> ML service (like Jupyterlab)

Developer Tools

• CodeCommit -> version control service
• CodeDeploy -> code Deployment service
• CodePipeline -> a continuous delivery service

Mobile

• MobileHub -> mobile app deployment and configuration
• Cognito -> authentication to your mobile and web apps.
• Device Farm -> mobile testing
• SNS -> managed messaging service (notification)

App Services

• API Gateway
• CloudSearch -> search solution (like ElasticSearch)

• Elastic Transcoder -> media transcoding service

• SES -> email service

• SQS -> queue service

• SWF -> workflow service

Business Applications

• Chime -> video conference (like Skype, Teams)
• Honeycode -> quickly build mobile and web apps for teams—without programming
• WorkDocs -> (like Google Docs)
• WorkMail -> (like Gmail)

End User Computing

• Workspaces -> fully managed desktop
• AppStream -> fully managed application streaming service

Front User

• Amplify -> fully managed web hosting service
• AppSync -> managed GraphQL

• Amazon Location Service -> geolocation

• Pinpoint -> CRM

Other

• AWS BlockChain
• AWS Ground Station -> satellite
• GameLift -> game server hosting
• Braket -> quantum computing
• KMS -> cryptographic keys
• Robomaker -> robotics

Links

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/

Comments

[Javid Mougamadou]

Here is an additional link that could better explain AWS IAM roles : spacelift.io/blog/aws-iam-roles

[oshox]

CloudFront is a CDN. Static file hosting is only a small part of what it does.

[Javid Mougamadou]

Okay, i will correct it

[Rima Sharma]

This is an excellent blog post! It's great to see the wide range of AWS services and the way they can be used to create great DevOps solutions. I definitely learned a lot from this article. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience!

[Zakaria Beji]

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