AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive and widely adopted cloud

computing platform provided by Amazon. It offers a wide range of cloud-based

services such as computing power, storage, databases, machine learning,
networking, analytics, and much more. AWS enables businesses and developers
to host and manage applications, websites, and services without the need to
invest in or maintain physical hardware.
Here are some of the key features of AWS:
1. Compute Services
 EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): Allows users to run virtual machines
(VMs) in the cloud, providing scalable computing capacity.
 Lambda: Serverless computing service that allows you to run code
without provisioning or managing servers.
 Elastic Beanstalk: Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for deploying and
managing web applications.
 ECS (Elastic Container Service): A service to run and manage Docker
containers in the cloud.
 EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service): A managed Kubernetes service to
deploy and manage containerized applications.
2. Storage Services
 S3 (Simple Storage Service): Object storage service for storing and
retrieving any amount of data, often used for backups, media hosting, and
big data storage.
 EBS (Elastic Block Store): Block storage for use with EC2 instances,
providing persistent data storage.
 Glacier: Low-cost archival storage for long-term backup and data
retention.
 FSx: Managed file systems that provide fully managed Windows File
Server or Lustre.
3. Networking Services
 VPC (Virtual Private Cloud): Allows you to create a private network
within AWS to host your resources.
 Route 53: Scalable Domain Name System (DNS) and traffic routing
service.
 CloudFront: Content delivery network (CDN) that delivers your content
with low latency.
 Direct Connect: Establishes a dedicated network connection from your
premises to AWS.
4. Databases
  RDS (Relational Database Service): Managed relational databases like
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Oracle.
 DynamoDB: Managed NoSQL database service for fast and flexible
performance at scale.
 Aurora: A MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database service
that offers high performance.
 Redshift: Managed data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.
5. Machine Learning and AI
 SageMaker: Managed service for building, training, and deploying
machine learning models.
 Rekognition: Image and video analysis, including object detection and
facial recognition.
 Lex: Build conversational interfaces using chatbots and speech
recognition.
 Polly: Converts text into lifelike speech (text-to-speech).
6. Security & Identity
 IAM (Identity and Access Management): Allows you to control access
to AWS resources by creating and managing users, groups, and
permissions.
 Cognito: Authentication, authorization, and user management for apps.
 KMS (Key Management Service): Managed service for creating and
controlling encryption keys.
 Shield & WAF (Web Application Firewall): Protection against DDoS
attacks and web application threats.
7. Analytics
 Athena: Serverless interactive querying service for analyzing data in
Amazon S3 using SQL.
 EMR (Elastic MapReduce): Managed Hadoop framework for processing
large amounts of data.
 Kinesis: Real-time data streaming and analytics.
 Glue: Managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service for data
preparation.
8. Developer Tools
 CodeCommit: A source control service for Git repositories.
 CodeBuild: Fully managed build service to compile code and run tests.
 CodeDeploy: Automates code deployment to servers and instances.
  CodePipeline: Automates the process of building, testing, and deploying
code.
9. IoT (Internet of Things)
 IoT Core: Managed service to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices to
the cloud.
 Greengrass: Extends AWS to edge devices for local computing and
messaging.
10. Global Infrastructure
 Regions and Availability Zones: AWS has a global network of data
centers organized into regions, each containing multiple availability zones
for high availability and fault tolerance.
 Edge Locations: AWS has locations close to end-users for faster delivery
of content using CloudFront.
11. Cost Management
 AWS Cost Explorer: Visualize and manage your AWS costs and usage.
 AWS Budgets: Set custom cost and usage budgets to track and alert you
when thresholds are exceeded.
12. Compliance
 AWS provides several certifications and compliance programs to meet
regulatory and industry standards like GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 1, SOC 2, and
ISO 27001.