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A list of AWS components and what they do.
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| Compute | |
| EC2 Virtual Private Servers | |
| Lightsail Amazon's hosting provider (vps, dns, storage) | |
| Lambda Functions you can run, written in Python, NodeJS, Go etc. Can run many in parallel. | |
| Batch Run software jobs on EC2 machines | |
| Elastic Beanstalk Run software on managed virtual machines | |
| Serverless Application Repository Repository of serverless applications that you can deploy (on lambda) | |
| AWS Outposts Basically run Amazon services on your own hardware (datacenter) | |
| EC2 Image Builder Create EC2 (ami?) images automatically | |
| Storage | |
| S3 File storage. Not directly used for mounting, but you can directly download files from HTTP. | |
| EFS NFS. Mount network disks to your machines. | |
| FSx Windows / Lustre filesystems you can connect to your ec2 machines | |
| S3 Glacier Low cost storage system for backups and archives and such | |
| Storage Gateway iSCSI so you can connect s3 to your own (remote) machine. | |
| AWS Backup Automatically create backups of different AWS service (ec2, rds etc) | |
| Database | |
| RDS Managed mysql, postgres databases etc. | |
| DynamoDB Large & scalable non-relational database (but not really a NoSQL system) | |
| ElastiCache Managed memcache and redis machines | |
| Neptune Graph database | |
| Amazon Redshift Warehousing. Store lots of data that can be processed through streams. | |
| Amazon QLDB Database for immutable and cryptographically verifiable data (money transactions etc) | |
| Amazon DocumentDB MongoDB clone (but not really compatible anymore) | |
| Amazon Keyspaces Managed Apache Cassandra clone | |
| Migration & Transfer | |
| AWS Migration Hub Migrate things from your DC to AWS | |
| Application Discovery Service Discover services in your datacenter | |
| Database Migration Service Migrate databases to RDS while staying online (can convert structures as well) | |
| Server Migration Service Migrate virtual machines to amazon. | |
| AWS Transfer Family (s)FTP service with S3 backend. Upload to FTP, directly store on S3 bucket. | |
| Snowball Get a machine from AWS, plug in your DC, transfer data fast to AWS, return machine | |
| DataSync Sync data between your datacenter and AWS | |
| Networking & Content Delivery | |
| VPC Create your own VPCs within AWS. | |
| CloudFront Content Delivery Network. | |
| Route 53 Manage domain names and records. | |
| API Gateway Create HTTP APIs and let them connect to different backends. | |
| Direct Connect Create a (physical) connection between you (or DC) to AWS. | |
| AWS App Mesh Automatically run Envoy as a sidecar for your containers (ECS or EKS). | |
| AWS Cloud Map Service discovery for your containers. | |
| Global Accelerator Run your app on edge locations so they are closer to your customers (CDN for apps). | |
| Developer Tools | |
| CodeStar Quickly develop applications by using template code and codecommit, codebuild etc | |
| CodeCommit Amazon source repositories (git repo's etc) | |
| CodeBuild CI service | |
| CodeDeploy Deployment service | |
| CodePipeline Code delivery with workflows | |
| Cloud9 Online IDE | |
| X-Ray Allows tracing in your applications, supports Python, NodeJs, Go etc. | |
| Robotics | |
| AWS RoboMaker After reading it over and over again, i still have no idea what it does. | |
| Customer Enablement | |
| AWS IQ Job board: Hire AWS experts for whatever you need. | |
| Support AWS support center | |
| Managed Services Let AWS handle your AWS services for you. | |
| Blockchain | |
| Amazon Managed Blockchain Block chains | |
| Satellite | |
| Ground Station Satellites as a service | |
| Quantum Technologies | |
| Amazon Braket Some quantum thing. It's in preview so I have no idea what it is. | |
| Management & Governance | |
| AWS Organizations Configure (sub)organisations and accounts | |
| CloudWatch Logging from various AWS components | |
| AWS Auto Scaling Scale resources based on your custom inputs and rules | |
| CloudFormation Templates to create and configure AWS components (think terraform/sls) | |
| CloudTrail Figure out who did what in your AWS services | |
| Config Audit the configurations of your AWS resources | |
| OpsWorks Use Ansible to automate stuff | |
| Service Catalog Manage list of items/codes etc you have in the cloud | |
| Systems Manager View data from your resources grouped in ways you like (like application specific etc) | |
| AWS AppConfig Store and publish application configuration data | |
| Trusted Advisor Checks your account for issues (costs, performance, security etc) | |
| Control Tower Manage multi-accounts | |
| AWS License Manager Manage licenses | |
| AWS Well-Architected Tool Generate questionnaires about your architecture to see if you follow best practices | |
| Personal Health Dashboard StatusPage for AWS | |
| AWS Chatbot Connect AWS to slack | |
| Launch Wizard Deploy MSSQL or SAP | |
| AWS Compute Optimizer Finds your resources and advices on how to save costs | |
| Media Services | |
| Elastic Transcoder Encode files from S3 into different other formats and store back at S3 | |
| Kinesis Video Streams Capture media streams | |
| MediaConnect ? | |
| MediaConvert Convert media into different formats | |
| MediaLive Share live video with many others | |
| MediaPackage ? | |
| MediaStore ? | |
| MediaTailor Insert advertisements into your broadcasts | |
| Elemental Appliances & Software create videos on-premise. Basically a mix of all of the above services. Seems expensive. Probably is. | |
| Machine Learning | |
| Amazon SageMaker Machine learning tools | |
| Amazon CodeGuru Profile java code with machine learning | |
| Amazon Comprehend Understand and classify data like emails, tweets etc | |
| Amazon Forecast Create forecasts from data | |
| Amazon Fraud Detector in preview so no idea. | |
| Amazon Kendra Search service where you can ask questions | |
| Amazon Lex Create voice and chatbots | |
| Amazon Machine Learning Deprecated. Use SageMaker instead. | |
| Amazon Personalize Create personalized recommendations based on data (mahout??) | |
| Amazon Polly Convert text to speech in different languages | |
| Amazon Rekognition Recognize objects and people in images | |
| Amazon Textract Convert text found in images to text (OCR) | |
| Amazon Transcribe Convert audio to text | |
| Amazon Translate Translates text from one language to another | |
| AWS DeepLens A video camera that does machine learning | |
| AWS DeepRacer Some kind of game where you program a racecar to race against others. | |
| Amazon Augmented AI Let humans in the loop to make AI learn things better | |
| AWS DeepComposer Computer generated music. It's as horrible as it sounds. | |
| Analytics | |
| Athena Query data stored in s3 buckets. | |
| EMR Elastic Map/Reduce | |
| CloudSearch AWS version of managed document search system (like elasticsearch) | |
| Elasticsearch Service Elasticsearch as a service | |
| Kinesis Collect massive amount of data so you can do analytics (like ELK?) | |
| QuickSight Business Intelligence service | |
| Data Pipeline Move and transform data to dynamodb, rds, s3 etc. | |
| AWS Data Exchange Find APIs which data you can consume, which can be very expensive | |
| AWS Glue ETL service. Enrich, validate data. | |
| AWS Lake Formation Create data lakes | |
| MSK Kafka as a service | |
| Security, Identity, & Compliance | |
| IAM AWS's permission system that can control users and AWS services. | |
| Resource Access Manager Share certain AWS resources like Route53, licenses, ec2 with other accounts. | |
| Cognito User and password management system. Useful for managing users for your applications. | |
| Secrets Manager Secrets key/value store. Can automatically rotate secrets. | |
| GuardDuty Automatically scan your cloudtrail/vpc logs for threats. | |
| Inspector Automatically find (security) issues in your network and machines. | |
| Amazon Macie Analyzes data in your S3 buckets and check for PII data. | |
| AWS Single Sign-On Allow single-sign on to your applications. | |
| Certificate Manager Manage and even create (free) SSL certificates. | |
| Key Management Service Manage secret keys | |
| CloudHSM Hardware security modules. Allows you to generate and operate on cryptographic keys. | |
| Directory Service Active directory as a service | |
| WAF & Shield Web Application Firewall (for loadbalancers, cloudfront, api gateway). Can setup your own rules or use predefined ones | |
| AWS Firewall Manager Firewall manager for different accounts in your organisation | |
| Artifact Documents for cloud compliance (things like 27001 certification etc) | |
| Security Hub Overall security checker that uses guardduty, inspector, macie etc | |
| Detective Log security issues found (from security hub etc) | |
| Mobile | |
| AWS Amplify Let AWS automatically generate frontend & backend apps and deploy them automatically. | |
| Mobile Hub Part of AWS Amplify now. | |
| AWS AppSync Create API backends that you can connect to. Can be created through AWS Amplify as well. | |
| Device Farm AWS BrowserStack. Automatically test apps on many different mobile devices and browsers. | |
| AR & VR | |
| Amazon Sumerian No idea. The dashboard crashes in my browsers | |
| Application Integration | |
| Step Functions State machines written in amazon's own language | |
| Amazon AppFlow Automatically connects apps together (zapier?). For instance: slack to s3 buckets. | |
| Amazon EventBridge Some kind of eventbus system | |
| Amazon MQ ActiveMQ | |
| Simple Notification Service Notification system that can notify through email, api endpoints, sms etc. | |
| Simple Queue Service Message queue system | |
| SWF Create workflows. | |
| AWS Cost Management | |
| AWS Cost Explorer Gives an overview and projection of your budgets | |
| AWS Budgets Create budgets for your AWS components | |
| AWS Marketplace Subscriptions Find (and buy) AMI's with software installed | |
| Customer Engagement | |
| Amazon Connect AWS version of ZenDesk | |
| Pinpoint Create transactional emails based on templates. | |
| Simple Email Service Send out emails. Email provider. | |
| Business Applications | |
| Alexa for Business Connect Alexa to your business needs. | |
| Amazon Chime AWS version of Zoom. | |
| WorkMail AWS version of Gmail / Calendar. | |
| End User Computing | |
| WorkSpaces Virtual desktops from Windows or Linux. | |
| AppStream 2.0 Stream applications running native onto your browser | |
| WorkDocs Store your documents and manage them online. | |
| WorkLink Connect mobile users to your intranet. | |
| Internet Of Things | |
| IoT Core Manage fleets of IOT devices through MQTT broker | |
| FreeRTOS RTOS operating system for microcontrollers to automatically connect to IOT-Core or greengrass. | |
| IoT 1-Click Manage 1-click buttons that can be connected to other systems like Lambda | |
| IoT Analytics Clean up and save messages from topics into a data-store for analytics | |
| IoT Device Defender Detect unwanted issues on your devices and take actions | |
| IoT Device Management ? | |
| IoT Events ? | |
| IoT Greengrass ? | |
| IoT SiteWise ? | |
| IoT Things Graph ? | |
| Game Development | |
| Amazon GameLift Deploy game servers with low latency on AWS | |
| Containers | |
| Elastic Container Registry Store docker images like on DockerHub | |
| Elastic Container Service Run containers, either on your own EC2 machines, or on managed machines called FarGate. | |
| Elastic Kubernetes Service Kubernetes as a service |
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