Service Categories

AWS Service Categories Overview

Service Categories

• AWS offers broad set of global cloud-based products
• 23 different product/service categories
• Focus on widely used services and those on AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam
• Main categories covered:
  • Compute
  • Cost Management
  • Database
  • Management and Governance
  • Networking and Content Delivery
  • Security, Identity, and Compliance
  • Storage

Storage Services

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

  • Object storage service
  • Scalability, availability, security, performance
  • Use for websites, apps, backup, archive, IoT, big data

• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

  • High-performance block storage for EC2
  • For databases, enterprise apps, containers, big data

• Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

  • Scalable, managed elastic NFS file system
  • Grows/shrinks automatically as files added/removed

• Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier

  • Low-cost cloud storage for archiving
  • 11 9s of durability
  • Comprehensive security/compliance capabilities

Compute Services

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

  • Resizable compute capacity as virtual machines

• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

  • Automatically add/remove EC2 instances based on conditions

• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

  • Container orchestration service supporting Docker

• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)

  • Fully-managed Docker container registry

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk

  • Deploy/scale web applications on familiar servers

• AWS Lambda

  • Run code without provisioning/managing servers
  • Pay only for compute time consumed

• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

  • Deploy, manage, scale Kubernetes applications

• AWS Fargate

  • Compute engine for ECS without managing servers

Database Services

• Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

  • Setup, operate, scale relational databases
  • Automates administration tasks

• Amazon Aurora

  • MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible database
  • 5x faster than MySQL, 3x faster than PostgreSQL

• Amazon Redshift

  • Run analytic queries against petabytes of data
  • Fast performance at any scale

• Amazon DynamoDB

  • Key-value and document database
  • Single-digit millisecond performance at any scale

Networking and Content Delivery

• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

  • Provision logically isolated sections of AWS Cloud

• Elastic Load Balancing

  • Distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets

• Amazon CloudFront

  • Fast content delivery network (CDN)
  • Low latency, high transfer speeds

• AWS Transit Gateway

  • Connect VPCs and on-premises networks to single gateway

• Amazon Route 53

  • Scalable cloud DNS web service
  • Translates domain names to IP addresses

• AWS Direct Connect

  • Private network connection from data center to AWS

• AWS VPN

  • Secure private tunnel from network to AWS

Security, Identity, and Compliance

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  • Manage access to AWS services/resources securely
  • Create/manage users and groups

• AWS Organizations

  • Restrict services/actions allowed in accounts

• Amazon Cognito

  • Add user sign-up, sign-in, access control to apps

• AWS Artifact

  • On-demand access to security/compliance reports

• AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

  • Create/manage encryption keys

• AWS Shield

  • Managed DDoS protection service

Cost Management

• AWS Cost and Usage Report

  • Comprehensive cost/usage data

• AWS Budgets

  • Set custom budgets with alerts

• AWS Cost Explorer

  • Visualize, understand, manage costs/usage

Management and Governance

• AWS Management Console

  • Web-based user interface

• AWS Config

  • Track resource inventory and changes

• Amazon CloudWatch

  • Monitor resources and applications

• AWS Auto Scaling

  • Scale multiple resources to meet demand

• AWS Command Line Interface

  • Unified tool to manage AWS services

• AWS Trusted Advisor

  • Optimize performance and security

• AWS Well-Architected Tool

  • Review and improve workloads

• AWS CloudTrail

  • Track user activity and API usage

AWS provides a comprehensive set of services across multiple categories, enabling customers to build sophisticated applications with the right tools for each aspect of their infrastructure.