Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the biggest on-demand cloud computing platforms. Amazon offers more than 90 services spanning a wide range including computing, storage, web and mobile application development services, networking, database, Internet of Things services and data analytics. Two of the most popular include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS). Others include: Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), AWS Config, Amazon Cloudwatch (monitoring) and AWS Cloudtrail (Auditing).

Amazon cloud environment can be managed from AWS page or using a AWS command line tool.

List of AWS services and products

For a complete list of AWS products, you can visit the AWS services wikipedia page. This tutorial here will include:

AWS Command Line Tool (CLI), a unified tool to manage your AWS services
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)^[1]
CloudFormation AWS Infrastructure as a code service.
AWS Cloudtrail
Amazon Cloudwatch (monitoring) and Cloudwatch Logs (since July 2014),^[2] which can stream logs to AWS Elasticsearch^[3]
AWS Inspector, released in October 2015^[4]
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis^[5]
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), a storage service with unlimited file storage
- AWS Glacier (08/2012), cold data solution
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud^[6] and VPC Flowlogs since October 2015^[7]
- AWS Privatelink since November 2017 ^[8]
Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Elastic Container Registry (ECR), available since December 2015^[9] with tagging support from December 2018^[10]
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), since May 5, 2018.^[11]
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provisioning and managing SSL/TLS certificates,^[12] available since June 2016.
AWS Systems Manager, since November 2017^[13]
AWS Elasticsearch, since October 2015^[14]

AWS Tag Editor^[15]
AWS Management Console
AWS Data Migration Services (DMS)
AWS Backup, since January 2019.^[16]
AWS CodePipeline, a continuous delivery service available since July 2015
AWS CodeDeploy,^[17] available since November 2014^[18] and including Blue/Green deployments since November 2018. ^[19]
AWS Lambda
AWS Step Functions since December 2016^[20].
AWS Secrets Manager since April 2018^[21]
AWS Fargate for running containers
AWS Elastic Beanstalk orchestration service offered since 2011
AWS Simple Email Service (SES) Simple Email Service
AWS ElastiCache, managed, Redis or Memcached-compatible in-memory data store
AWS Sagemaker, machine learning service
AWS IoT Greengrass, open-source IoT service for edge computing^[22]

AWS Cloud Practitioner

For an overview of AWS services, users can take the AWS Cloud Practitioner, a course which covers entry-level understanding of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure and related concepts.

References

[1] ttps://aws.amazon.com/iam/

[2] ttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/07/10/introducing-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/

[3] ttps://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/CWL_ES_Stream.html

[4] "Announcing Amazon Inspector". Amazon Web Services, Inc. Retrieved 2023-12-09.

[5] ttps://aws.amazon.com/memorydb/

[6] ttps://aws.amazon.com/vpc/

[7] ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/vpc-flow-logs-log-and-view-network-traffic-flows/

[8] ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-privatelink-endpoints-kinesis-ec2-systems-manager-and-elb-apis-in-your-vpc/

[9] ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-container-registry-now-generally-available/

[10] ttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/12/amazon-ecr-now-allows-repository-tagging/

[11] ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-eks-now-generally-available/

[12] "Now Available: AWS Certificate Manager | AWS Security Blog". aws.amazon.com. 2016-01-21. Retrieved 2023-12-16.

[13] ttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/aws-announces-aws-systems-manager/

[14] ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-elasticsearch-service/

[15] "Using Tag Editor - Tagging AWS Resources". docs.aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 2023-12-09.

[16] ttps://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/01/introducing-aws-backup/

[17] ttps://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/

[18] ttps://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-web-services-announces-new-application-lifecycle

[19] ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/use-aws-codedeploy-to-implement-blue-green-deployments-for-aws-fargate-and-amazon-ecs/

[20] ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-step-functions-build-distributed-applications-using-visual-workflows/

[21] ttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-secrets-manager-store-distribute-and-rotate-credentials-securely/

[22] "What is AWS IoT Greengrass? - AWS IoT Greengrass". docs.aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 2023-12-09.

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Amazon Web Services

List of AWS services and products

AWS Cloud Practitioner

See also

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