AWS Service Short Description

An EC2 instance is nothing but a virtual server in Amazon Web services terminology. It stands
Ec2 Instance for Elastic Compute Cloud. It is a web service where an AWS subscriber can request and
provision a compute server in AWS cloud.
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a master image for the creation of virtual servers (known as
EC2 instances) in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. The machine images are like
AMI
templates that are configured with an operating system and other software, which determine
the user’s operating environment.
An Amazon EBS volume is a durable, block-level storage device that you can attach to a single
EBS Volumes EC2 instance. You can use EBS volumes as primary storage for data that requires frequent
updates, such as the system drive for an instance or storage for a database application.
An EBS snapshot is a point-in-time copy of your Amazon EBS volume, which is lazily copied to
EBS Snapshot
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). EBS snapshots are incremental copies of data.
AWS security groups (SGs) are associated with EC2 instances and provide security at the
Security Groups protocol and port access level. Each security group works much the same way as a firewall. It
contains a set of rules that filter traffic coming into and out of an EC2 instance.
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple
targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can
Load balancers
handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across multiple
Availability Zones.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling helps you ensure that you have the correct number of Amazon EC2
Autoscaling
instances available to handle the load for your application.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast, container management
ECS service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of
Amazon EC2 instances.
Amazon EKS runs Kubernetes control plane instances across multiple Availability Zones to
EKS ensure high availability. Amazon EKS automatically detects and replaces unhealthy control plane
instances, and it provides automated version upgrades and patching for them
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events and
automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you. You can use AWS Lambda to
Lambda
extend other AWS services with custom logic, or create your own back-end services that operate
at AWS scale, performance, and security.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and
Elasticbeanstalk services developed with Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar
servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that
provides object storage through a web service interface. Amazon S3 has various features you
can use to organize and manage your data in ways that support specific use cases, enable cost
S3 efficiencies, enforce security, and meet compliance requirements.
Amazon Elastic File System is a cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services
EFS designed to provide scalable, elastic, concurrent with some restrictions, and encrypted file
storage for use with both AWS cloud services and on-premises resources.
AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to
Storage
virtually unlimited cloud storage. Customers use Storage Gateway to simplify storage
Gateway
management and reduce costs for key hybrid cloud storage use cases.
 Amazon RDS is a managed relational database service that provides you six familiar database
engines to choose from, including Amazon Aurora, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL
RDS Server, and PostgreSQL. This means that the code, applications, and tools you already use today
with your existing databases can be used with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS handles routine
database tasks such as provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, failure detection, and repair.
DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service to store and retrieve any amount of data,
DynamoDB
and serve any level of request traffic.
Amazon ElastiCache allows you to seamlessly set up, run, and scale popular open-Source
compatible in-memory data stores in the cloud. Build data-intensive apps or boost the
Elastic Cache
performance of your existing databases by retrieving data from high throughput and low latency
in-memory data stores.
Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse service in the cloud.
AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for
Server
you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. It incrementally replicates your
Migration
server VMs as cloud-hosted Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) ready for deployment on Amazon
Service
EC2.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to launch AWS resources into a virtual
network that you've defined. This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that
VPC
you'd operate in your own data center, with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure
of AWS.
You can use a network address translation (NAT) gateway to enable instances in a private subnet
NAT Gateway to connect to the internet or other AWS services, but prevent the internet from initiating a
connection with those instances.
A network access control list (ACL) is an optional layer of security for your VPC that acts as a
firewall for controlling traffic in and out of one or more subnets. You might set up network ACLs
Network ACLs
with rules similar to your security groups in order to add an additional layer of security to your
VPC.
An encrypted link where data can pass from the customer network to or from AWS.
VPN tunnel Each VPN connection includes two VPN tunnels which you can simultaneously use for high
availability.
Endpoints are virtual devices. They are horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available VPC
VPC endpoints components. They allow communication between instances in your VPC and services without
imposing availability risks or bandwidth constraints on your network traffic.

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data,
videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all
Cloudfront within a developer-friendly environment.
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web
Route 53
service.
Amazon API Gateway enables you to create and deploy your own REST and WebSocket APIs at
any scale. You can create robust, secure, and scalable APIs that access AWS or other web
API Gateway
services, as well as data that’s stored in the AWS Cloud. You can create APIs to use in your own
client applications, or you can make your APIs available to third-party app developers.
 CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps you avoid downtime
during application deployment, and handles the complexity of updating your applications. It is
Code Deploy
used to automate software deployments, eliminating the need for error-prone manual
operations. The service scales to match your deployment needs.
AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your
release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates. CodePipeline
Code Pipeline
automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release process every time there is a code
change, based on the release model you define.
It allows you to integrate building, deploying and testing onto various environments, while
Jenkins
reducing wait times for your development teams
AWS Organizations helps you centrally govern your environment as you grow and scale your
AWS workloads on AWS. Whether you are a growing startup or a large enterprise, Organizations
Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share
resources across your AWS accounts.
Amazon CloudWatch is basically a metrics repository. It puts metrics into the repository, and you
Cloudwatch retrieve statistics based on those metrics. If you put your own custom metrics into the
repository, you can retrieve statistics on these metrics as well.
AWS CloudFormation is a service that helps you model and set up your Amazon Web
Cloud
Services resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time
Formation
focusing on your applications that run in AWS.

AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables governance, compliance, operational auditing, and risk
auditing of your AWS account. ... CloudTrail provides event history of your AWS account activity,
Cloud trail
including actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, command line tools,
and other AWS services.
AWS Config is a service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of
your AWS resources. Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource
Config
configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against
desired configurations.

AWS Trusted Advisor is an application that draws upon best practices learned from AWS'
aggregated operational history of serving hundreds of thousands of AWS customers. Trusted
Trusted Advisor
Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money,
improving system performance, or closing security gaps.
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (KDS) is a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming
Kinesis service. ... The data collected is available in milliseconds to enable real-time analytics use cases
such as real-time dashboards, real-time anomaly detection, dynamic pricing, and more.

Elastic Search Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and
Service scale Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS Cloud

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and
IAM resources securely. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use
permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources.
GuardDuty is a threat detection service which constantly monitors the activity in your AWS
Guard Duty
network for anomalous behavior which could indicate cyber attacks or other unauthorized uses.
 Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security
Inspector and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses
applications for exposure, vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices.

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against
WAF common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive
resources.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a highly available, durable, secure, fully managed
SNS pub/sub messaging service that enables you to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and
serverless applications.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers a secure, durable, and available hosted
SQS
queue that lets you integrate and decouple distributed software systems and components.
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective email service built on the reliable and
SES scalable infrastructure using which you can send transactional email, marketing messages, or
any other type of high-quality content to your customers.

Build high-availability into your application architecture by co-locating your compute, storage,
Availablity zone
networking, and data resources within a zone and replicating in other zones.