Comprehensive List of AWS Services and Their Definitions

Introduction

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive cloud computing platform that provides a wide range of services to help businesses scale and grow. In this post, we’ll cover all AWS services, breaking them down into categories for easier understanding.

Categories of AWS Services

1. Compute
   • Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): Provides scalable computing capacity in the cloud, allowing users to run virtual servers.
   • AWS Lambda: A serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources.
   • Amazon Lightsail: An easy-to-use cloud platform that offers everything needed to deploy and manage websites and web applications.
2. Storage
   • Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service): Scalable storage service to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time.
   • Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store): Provides block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances.
   • Amazon Glacier: Low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup.
3. Database
   • Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service): Managed relational database service supporting several databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server.
   • Amazon DynamoDB: Fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.
   • Amazon Redshift: A fast, fully managed data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.
4. Networking
   • Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud): Allows you to launch AWS resources into a virtual network that you’ve defined.
   • AWS Direct Connect: Establishes a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.
   • Amazon Route 53: Scalable domain name system (DNS) web service designed to route end users to internet applications.
5. Security, Identity, & Compliance
   • AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management): Allows you to control access to AWS services and resources securely.
   • AWS KMS (Key Management Service): Managed service that makes it easy to create and control encryption keys used to encrypt data.
   • AWS Shield: Managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.
6. Machine Learning
   • Amazon SageMaker: Fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly.
   • AWS Rekognition: Service that makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications.
   • Amazon Lex: Service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text.
7. Developer Tools
   • AWS CodeCommit: Fully managed source control service that makes it easy for teams to host secure and scalable Git repositories.
   • AWS CodeBuild: Fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages.
   • AWS CodePipeline: Continuous integration and delivery service for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates.
8. Analytics
   • Amazon Kinesis: Platform for streaming data on AWS, offering powerful services to make it easy to load and analyze streaming data.
   • Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce): Managed cluster platform that simplifies running big data frameworks such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark.
   • AWS Glue: Fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy to prepare and load data for analytics.
9. Management & Governance
   • AWS CloudWatch: Monitoring and management service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers.
   • AWS CloudFormation: Gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion.
   • AWS Config: Provides AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance.