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aws.md

Amazon Web Services in one line

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

  • AS 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
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