AWS Service Categories Overview Flashcards
AWS Cost Management; Compute; Containers; Database; Management and Governance; Networking and Content Delivery; Security, Identity, and Compliance; and Storage
What are the AWS foundational services?
Compute, Networking, and Storage
List some AWS services in the
Storage service category.
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier
An object storage service that offers scalability, data availability, security, and performance. Use it to store and protect any amount of data for websites, mobile apps, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and big data analytics
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
High-performance block storage that is designed for use with Amazon EC2 for both throughput-intensive and transaction-intensive workloads. It’s used for a range of workloads, such as relational and non-relational databases, enterprise applications, containerized applications, big data analytics engines, file systems, and media workflows
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
Provides a scalable, fully managed elastic Network File System (NFS) file system for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources. It’s built to scale on demand to petabytes, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files. It reduces the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)
A secure, durable, and low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 11 9s (99.999999999 percent) of durability, and to provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities to meet stringent regulatory requirements.
Amazon Simple Storage Service Glacier
List some AWS services in the
Compute service Category.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Lambda
A Compute service that provides resizable compute capacity as virtual machines in the cloud.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
It enables you to automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to conditions that you define.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
A service for deploying and scaling web applications and services on familiar servers such as Apache HTTP Server and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
This service enables you to run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time that you consume, so you won’t be charged when your code isn’t running.
AWS Lambda
Name some AWS services under
Networking and Content Delivery service category.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Transit Gateway
Amazon Route 53
AWS Direct Connect
AWS VPN
This Networking service enables you to provision logically isolated sections of the AWS Cloud.
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
It automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions
Elastic Load Balancing
A fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs) to customers globally, with low latency and high transfer speeds.
Amazon CloudFront
A service that enables customers to connect their virtual private clouds (VPCs) and their on-premises networks to a single gateway.
AWS Transit Gateway
A scalable, cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service that’s designed to give you a reliable way to route end users to internet applications. It translates names (like www.example.com) into the numeric IP addresses (like 192.0.2.1) that computers use to connect to each other.
Amazon Route 53
A networking service that provides a way to establish a dedicated private network connection from your data center or office to AWS, which can reduce network costs and increase bandwidth throughput.
AWS Direct Connect
A networking service that provides a secure private tunnel from your network or device to the AWS global network.
AWS VPN
What are some AWS services under Security, Identity, and Compliance service category?
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS Organizations
Amazon Cognito
AWS Artifact
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
AWS Shield
It enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. By using this service, you can create and manage AWS users and groups. You can use permissions to allow and deny user and group access to AWS resources.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
This service allows you to restrict what services and actions are allowed in your accounts.
AWS Organizations
This networking service lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps.
Amazon Cognito
This service provides on-demand access to AWS security and compliance reports and select online agreements.
AWS Artifact
A service that enables you to create and manage keys. You can use this service to control the use of encryption across a wide range of AWS services and in your applications.
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
A managed distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS.
AWS Shield
List some of the AWS services under Database service category.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Amazon Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon DynamoDB
This database service makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks, such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
A relational database that’s compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL. It’s up to five times faster than standard MySQL databases and three times faster than standard PostgreSQL databases.
Amazon Aurora
It enables you to run analytic queries against petabytes of data that’s stored locally in this service.
Amazon Redshift
A key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale, with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching.
Amazon DynamoDB
What are the AWS services included in the
Containers service category?
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
AWS Fargate
A highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
A fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
Using this service makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications that use Kubernetes on AWS.
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
A compute engine for Amazon ECS that enables you to run containers without managing servers or clusters.
AWS Fargate
Name some AWS service under AWS Cost Management service category.
AWS Cost and Usage Report
AWS Budgets
AWS Cost Explorer
Contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available, including additional metadata about AWS services, pricing, and reservations.
AWS Cost and Usage Report
Enables you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.
AWS Budgets
Has an easy-to-use interface that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
AWS Cost Explorer
List some of the services under Management and Governance service category.
AWS Management Console
AWS Config
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Auto Scaling
AWS Command Line Interface
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Well-Architected Tool
AWS CloudTrail
A management service that rovides a web-based user interface for accessing your AWS account.
AWS Management Console
A management service that provides a service that helps you track resource inventory and changes.
AWS Config
A management service that enables you to monitor resources and applications.
Amazon CloudWatch
A management service that provides features that allow you to scale multiple resources to meet demand.
AWS Auto Scaling
A management service that provides a unified tool to manage AWS services.
AWS Command Line Interface
A management service helps you optimize performance and security.
AWS Trusted Advisor
A management service provides help in reviewing and improving your workloads.
AWS Well-Architected Tool
A management service tracks user activity and API usage.
AWS CloudTrail
What are some AWS services under Cost Management service category?
AWS Cost and Usage Report
AWS Budgets
AWS Cost Explorer
Contains the most comprehensive set of AWS cost and usage data available, including additional metadata about AWS services, pricing, and reservations.
AWS Cost and Usage Report
Enables you to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount.
AWS Budgets
Has an easy-to-use interface that enables you to visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time
AWS Cost Explorer
