AWS Services

simple storage service (S3)

an object storage service that offers industry leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance

elastic compute cloud (EC2)

cloud-based virtual machine servers (instances) that are programmatically scalable

AWS Management Console

web-based application that contains and provides centralized access to all individual AWS service consoles

AWS Identity Access Management

web service that allows you to securely control access to AWS services

Elastic Block Store (EBS)

provides scalable, high-performance block storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances

Elastic File System (EFS)

a scalable file storage service for use with AWS cloud services and on-premises resources

Amazon FSx

provides fully managed windows file servers

AWS Storage Gateway

hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage

AWS Backup

centralized backup service to automate and manage backups across AWS services

AWS Snow Family

• Snowcone: small, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device

• Snowball: petabyte-scale data transport solution

• Snowmobile: exabyte-scale data transfer service using a secure back

AWS DataSync

automates moving data between on-premises storage and AWS storage services

Cost management

• pay-as-you-go pricing

• reserved instances

• savings plan

• spot instances

EC2

provides scalable computing capacity in the AWS cloud

EC2 instance types

• general purpose: balanced compute, memory, and networking resources

• compute-optimized: designed to deliver high performance for compute intensive applications

• memory-optimized: designed to deliver high performance for memory-intensive applications

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services

AWS Lightsail

a simplified cloud platform that offers everything needed to build an application or website

Docker

a platform for containerizing applications

Kubernetes

an orchestration system for managing containerized applications

Amazon ECS (elastic container service)

fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications

Amazon EKS (elastic kubernetes service)

a managed kubernetes service that makes it easy to run kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own kubernetes control plane or nodes

AWS Fargate

a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon ECS and EKS

monolithic application

single, unified unit; components are interconnected and interdependent, making the entire application a single entity

microservices application

structured as a collection of loosely couples services, each independently deployable

AWS serverless computing

allows you to build and run applications without thinking about servers; you don’t manage the infrastructure, it’s all about writing and deploying code

AWS Lambda

a serverless compute service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources

AWS API Gateway

fully managed services that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. it acts as the “front door” for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from backend services, such as lambda, ec2, or any web applications

AWS DynamoDB

a fast and flexible NoSQL database that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability

AWS Amplify

a set of tools and services that enable developers to build and deploy scalable full-stack web and mobile applications

Amazon RDS (relational database service)

fully managed relational database service

Amazon Aurora

high-performance, fully managed relational database compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL

Amazon ElastiCache

managed in-memory caching services for redis and memcached

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. it allows you to send, store, and receive messages b/w software components w/o losing messages or requiring other services to be available

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

a fully managed publish/subscribe messaging and mobile push notification service. it allows you to send messages to a large number of subscribers via multiple protocols

Amazon Kinesis

fully managed service for collecting, processing, and analyzing real-time data streams. it allows you to build real-time applications that continuously ingest and process large volumes of data