Services Flashcards
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2)
A web service that provides resizeable computing capacity—literally, servers in Amazon’s data centers—that you use to build and host your software systems.
Amazon ECR
Amazon Elastic Container Registry
(Amazon ECR)
A fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.
Amazon ECS
Amazon Elastic Container Service
(Amazon ECS)
A highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is the easiest way to get started with AWS for developers who just need virtual private servers.
Lightsail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly - a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP - for a low, predictable price.
Amazon VPC
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(Amazon VPC)
Enables you to launch Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources into a virtual network that you’ve defined. This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that you’d operate in your own data center, with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure of AWS.
AWS Batch
AWS Batch enables you to run batch computing workloads on the AWS Cloud. Batch computing is a common way for developers, scientists, and engineers to access large amounts of compute resources. AWS Batch removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of configuring and managing the required infrastructure.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk reduces management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring.
AWS Lambda
With AWS Lambda, you can run code without provisioning or managing servers.
You pay only for the compute time you consume—there’s no charge when your code isn’t running. You can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service—all with zero administration.
Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability.
You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.
AWS Serverless Application Repository
With AWS Serverless Application Repository, you can quickly find and deploy serverless applications in the AWS Cloud. You can browse applications by category, or search for them by name, publisher, or event source. To use an application, you simply select it, configure required fields, and deploy it with a few clicks.
As a serverless application developer, you can also easily publish applications, sharing them across teams and organizations and with other AWS users. To publish serverless applications, you can use the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs to upload the code, along with a simple manifest file.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3)
Storage for the Internet. You can use Amazon S3 to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web. You can accomplish these tasks using the simple and intuitive web interface of the AWS Management Console.
Amazon EBS
Amazon Elastic Block Store
(Amazon EBS)
Provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. EBS volumes are highly available and reliable storage volumes that can be attached to any running instance that is in the same Availability Zone. EBS volumes that are attached to an EC2 instance are exposed as storage volumes that persist independently from the life of the instance. With Amazon EBS, you pay only for what you use. For more information about Amazon EBS pricing, see the Projecting Costs section of the Amazon Elastic Block Store page.
Amazon EBS is recommended when data must be quickly accessible and requires long-term persistence. EBS volumes are particularly well-suited for use as the primary storage for file systems, databases, or for any applications that require fine granular updates and access to raw, unformatted, block-level storage. Amazon EBS is well suited to both database-style applications that rely on random reads and writes, and to throughput-intensive applications that perform long, continuous reads and writes.
For simplified data encryption, you can launch your EBS volumes as encrypted volumes. Amazon EBS encryption offers you a simple encryption solution for your EBS volumes without the need for you to build, manage, and secure your own key management infrastructure. When you create an encrypted EBS volume and attach it to a supported instance type, data stored at rest on the volume, disk I/O, and snapshots created from the volume are all encrypted. The encryption occurs on the servers that hosts EC2 instances, providing encryption of data-in-transit from EC2 instances to EBS storage. For more information, see Amazon EBS Encryption.
Amazon EBS encryption uses AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) master keys when creating encrypted volumes and any snapshots created from your encrypted volumes. The first time you create an encrypted EBS volume in a region, a default master key is created for you automatically. This key is used for Amazon EBS encryption unless you select a Customer Master Key (CMK) that you created separately using the AWS Key Management Service. Creating your own CMK gives you more flexibility, including the ability to create, rotate, disable, define access controls, and audit the encryption keys used to protect your data. For more information, see the AWS Key Management Service Developer Guide.
You can attach multiple volumes to the same instance within the limits specified by your AWS account. Your account has a limit on the number of EBS volumes that you can use, and the total storage available to you. For more information about these limits, and how to request an increase in your limits, see Request to Increase the Amazon EBS Volume Limit.
Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon EFS provides file storage for your Amazon EC2 instances. With Amazon EFS, you can create a file system, mount the file system on your EC2 instances, and then read and write data from your EC2 instances to and from your file system.
Amazon Glacier
Amazon Glacier is a storage service optimized for infrequently used data, or “cold data.” The service provides durable and extremely low-cost storage with security features for data archiving and backup. With Amazon Glacier, you can store your data cost effectively for months, years, or even decades. Amazon Glacier enables you to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling storage to AWS, so you don’t have to worry about capacity planning, hardware provisioning, data replication, hardware failure detection and recovery, or time-consuming hardware migrations.
AWS Snowball
AWS Snowball is a service for customers who want to transport terabytes or petabytes of data to and from AWS, or who want to access the storage and compute power of the AWS Cloud locally and cost effectively in places where connecting to the internet may not be an option.
AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway is a service that connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between your on-premises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure in the cloud.
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. You can use Amazon DynamoDB to create a database table that can store and retrieve any amount of data, and serve any level of request traffic. Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for the table over a sufficient number of servers to handle the request capacity specified by the customer and the amount of data stored, while maintaining consistent and fast performance.
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale distributed in-memory cache environments in the AWS Cloud. It provides a high performance, resizeable, and cost-effective in-memory cache, while removing the complexity associated with deploying and managing a distributed cache environment.
Amazon Neptune
Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of Neptune is a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine that is optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency. Neptune supports the popular graph query languages Apache TinkerPop Gremlin and W3C’s SPARQL, allowing you to build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. Neptune powers graph use cases such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, drug discovery, and network security.
Amazon RDS
Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS)
A web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. It is optimized for datasets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.
AWS Application Discovery Service
The AWS Application Discovery Service helps systems integrators quickly and reliably plan application migration projects by automatically identifying applications running in on-premises data centers, their associated dependencies, and their performance profile.
AWS Database Migration Service
AWS Database Migration Service Documentation
AWS Database Migration Service is a web service you can use to migrate data from your database that is on-premises, on an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) DB instance, or in a database on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance to a database on an AWS service. These services can include a database on Amazon RDS or a database on an Amazon EC2 instance. You can also migrate a database from an AWS service to an on-premises database. You can migrate data between heterogeneous or homogenous database engines.
AWS Import/Export
AWS Import/Export is a service that accelerates transferring data into and out of AWS using physical storage appliances, bypassing the Internet. AWS Import/Export Disk was originally the only service offered by AWS for data transfer by mail. Disk supports transfers data directly onto and off of storage devices you own using the Amazon high-speed internal network. If you’re looking for documentation on AWS Snowball, a service used to transport terabytes or petabytes of data, see AWS Snowball Documentation.
AWS Migration Hub
AWS Migration Hub provides a single location to track migration tasks across multiple AWS tools and partner solutions. With Migration Hub, you can choose the AWS and partner migration tools that best fit your needs while providing visibility into the status of your migration projects. Migration Hub also provides key metrics and progress information for individual applications, regardless of which tools are used to migrate them.
AWS SMS
AWS Server Migration Service
(AWS SMS)
Combines data collection tools with automated server replication to speed the migration of on-premises servers to AWS.
AWS Schema Conversion Tool
The AWS Schema Conversion Tool makes heterogeneous database migrations easy by automatically converting the source database schema and a majority of the custom code to a format compatible with the target database. The custom code that the tool converts includes views, stored procedures, and functions. Any code that the tool cannot convert automatically is clearly marked so that you can convert it yourself. For supported source and target databases, see the User Guide, following.
Amazon VPC
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
(Amazon VPC)
Enables you to launch Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources into a virtual network that you’ve defined. This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that you’d operate in your own data center, with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure of AWS.
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is a web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content, for example, .html, .css, .php, image, and media files, to end users. CloudFront delivers your content through a worldwide network of edge locations. When an end user requests content that you’re serving with CloudFront, the user is routed to the edge location that provides the lowest latency, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. If the content is already in that edge location, CloudFront delivers it immediately. If the content is not currently in that edge location, CloudFront retrieves it from an Amazon S3 bucket or an HTTP server (for example, a web server) that you have identified as the source for the definitive version of your content.
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Create an API to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as applications running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any web application.
AWS Direct Connect
AWS Direct Connect links your internal network to an AWS Direct Connect location over a standard 1 gigabit or 10 gigabit Ethernet fiber-optic cable. One end of the cable is connected to your router, the other to an AWS Direct Connect router. With this connection in place, you can create virtual interfaces directly to the AWS cloud and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, bypassing Internet service providers in your network path.
Elastic Load Balancing
Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes your incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances. It monitors the health of registered targets and routes traffic only to the healthy targets. Elastic Load Balancing supports three types of load balancers: Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, and Classic Load Balancers.
AWS CodeStar
AWS CodeStar lets you quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS.
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeCommit is a version control service that enables you to privately store and manage Git repositories in the AWS cloud.
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed build service that compiles your source code, runs unit tests, and produces artifacts that are ready to deploy.
AWS CodeDeploy
AWS CodeDeploy is a deployment service that enables developers to automate the deployment of applications to instances and to update the applications as required.
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service that enables you to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software.
AWS Cloud9
AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that you use to write, run, and debug code.
AWS X-Ray
AWS X-Ray makes it easy for developers to analyze the behavior of their distributed applications by providing request tracing, exception collection, and profiling capabilities.
AWS Tools & SDKs
This index highlights the primary developer tools, SDKs, IDE Toolkits, and Command Line Tools for developing and managing your AWS applications.
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch provides a reliable, scalable, and flexible monitoring solution that you can start using within minutes. You no longer need to set up, manage, and scale your own monitoring systems and infrastructure.
Use CloudWatch to monitor your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time.
Use CloudWatch Events to send system events from AWS resources to AWS Lambda functions, Amazon SNS topics, streams in Amazon Kinesis, and other target types.
Use CloudWatch Logs to monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon EC2 instances, AWS CloudTrail, or other sources.
AWS Auto Scaling
With AWS Auto Scaling, you can quickly discover the scalable AWS resources for your application and set up dynamic scaling. It uses Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to scale your EC2 instances and Application Auto Scaling to scale resources from other services.
AWS CloudFormation
AWS CloudFormation enables you to create and provision AWS infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly. It helps you leverage AWS products such as Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon SNS, Elastic Load Balancing, and Auto Scaling to build highly reliable, highly scalable, cost-effective applications in the cloud without worrying about creating and configuring the underlying AWS infrastructure. AWS CloudFormation enables you to use a template file to create and delete a collection of resources together as a single unit (a stack).
AWS CloudTrail
With AWS CloudTrail, you can monitor your AWS deployments in the cloud by getting a history of AWS API calls for your account, including API calls made via the AWS Management Console, the AWS SDKs, the command line tools, and higher-level AWS services. You can also identify which users and accounts called AWS APIs for services that support CloudTrail, the source IP address the calls were made from, and when the calls occurred. You can integrate CloudTrail into applications using the API, automate trail creation for your organization, check the status of your trails, and control how administrators turn CloudTrail logging on and off.
AWS Config
AWS Config provides a detailed view of the resources associated with your AWS account, including how they are configured, how they are related to one another, and how the configurations and their relationships have changed over time.
AWS OpsWorks
AWS OpsWorks provides a simple and flexible way to create and manage stacks and applications. With AWS OpsWorks, you can provision AWS resources, manage their configuration, deploy applications to those resources, and monitor their health.
AWS Service Catalog
AWS Service Catalog allows IT administrators to create, manage, and distribute portfolios of approved products to end users, who can then access the products they need in a personalized portal. Typical products include servers, databases, websites, or applications that are deployed using AWS resources (for example, an Amazon EC2 instance or an Amazon RDS database). You can control which users have access to specific products to enforce compliance with organizational business standards, manage product lifecycles, and help users find and launch products with confidence.
AWS Systems Manager
Use AWS Systems Manager to organize, monitor, and automate management tasks on your AWS resources.
AWS Support
AWS Support provides support for users of Amazon Web Services. All users have access to account and billing help in the AWS Support Center. In addition, customers with some support plans have access to additional features, including AWS Trusted Advisor and an API for programmatic access to support cases and Trusted Advisor.
AWS Health
AWS Health provides personalized information about events that can affect your AWS infrastructure, guides you through scheduled changes, and accelerates the troubleshooting of issues that affect your AWS resources and accounts.
AWS Management Console
The AWS Management Console is a web application that comprises and refers to a broad collection of service consoles for managing Amazon Web Services. When you first sign in, you see the console home page.
AWS CLI
The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is a unified tool that provides a consistent interface for interacting with all parts of AWS. AWS CLI commands for different services are covered in the accompanying user guide, including descriptions, syntax, and usage examples.
AWS Tools for PowerShell
AWS Tools for PowerShell and AWS Tools for PowerShell Core are PowerShell modules, built on functionality exposed by the AWS SDK for .NET, that enable you to script operations on AWS resources from the PowerShell command line. Although you use the SDK’s service clients and methods to implement the cmdlets, the cmdlets give you a PowerShell experience to specify parameters and handle results. For example, the cmdlets in both modules support PowerShell pipelining to pipe PowerShell objects to and from the cmdlets.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert media files that you have stored in Amazon S3 into media files in the formats required by consumer playback devices. For example, you can convert large, high-quality digital media files into formats that users can play back on mobile devices, tablets, web browsers, and connected televisions.
AWS Elemental MediaConvert
AWS Elemental MediaConvert is a service that formats and compresses offline video content for delivery to televisions or connected devices. High-quality video transcoding makes it possible to create on-demand video assets for virtually any device.
AWS Elemental MediaLive
AWS Elemental MediaLive is a video service that allows easy and reliable creation of live outputs for broadcast and streaming delivery.
AWS Elemental MediaPackage
AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a just-in-time video packaging and origination service that delivers highly secure, scalable, and reliable video streams to a wide variety of playback devices. AWS Elemental MediaPackage enriches audience experience with live-to-VOD and catch-up TV features.
AWS Elemental MediaStore
AWS Elemental MediaStore is a video origination and storage service that offers the high performance, predictable low latency, and immediate consistency required for live origination. With AWS Elemental MediaStore, you can manage video assets as objects in containers to build dependable, cloud-based media workflows.
AWS Elemental MediaTailor
AWS Elemental MediaTailor is a personalization and monetization service that allows scalable server-side ad insertion. The service enables you to serve targeted ads to viewers while maintaining broadcast quality in over-the-top (OTT) video applications. The service also enables you to track ad views for accurate ad reporting.
Amazon Sagemaker
Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning service. With Amazon SageMaker, data scientists and developers can quickly and easily build and train machine learning models, and then directly deploy them into a production-ready hosted environment. It provides an integrated Jupyter authoring notebook instance for easy access to your data sources for exploration and analysis, so you don’t have to manage servers. It also provides common machine learning algorithms that are optimized to run efficiently against extremely large data in a distributed environment. With native support for bring-your-own-algorithms and frameworks, Amazon SageMaker provides flexible distributed training options that adjust to your specific workflows.
Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Comprehend uses natural language processing (NLP) to extract insights about the content of documents without the need of any special preprocessing. Amazon Comprehend processes any text files in UTF-8 format. It develops insights by recognizing the entities, key phrases, language, sentiments, and other common elements in a document. Use Amazon Comprehend to create new products based on understanding the structure of documents. With Amazon Comprehend you can search social networking feeds for mentions of products, scan an entire document repository for key phrases, or determine the topics contained in a set of documents.
AWS Deep Learning AMIs
The AWS Deep Learning AMIs equip machine learning practitioners and researchers with the infrastructure and tools to accelerate deep learning in the cloud at any scale. You can quickly launch Amazon EC2 instances on Amazon Linux or Ubuntu, preinstalled with popular deep learning frameworks. Examples include Apache MXNet and Gluon, TensorFlow, the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), Caffe, Caffe2, Theano, Torch and Keras. You can use these frameworks to train sophisticated, custom AI models; experiment with new algorithms; or to learn new skills and techniques.
Whether you need Amazon EC2 GPU or CPU instances, there is no additional charge for the Deep Learning AMIs. You only pay for the AWS resources needed to store and run your applications.
Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is an AWS service for building conversational interfaces into applications using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, the same deep learning engine that powers Amazon Alexa is now available to any developer, enabling you to build sophisticated, natural language chatbots into your new and existing applications. Amazon Lex provides the deep functionality and flexibility of natural language understanding (NLU) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) to enable you to build highly engaging user experiences with lifelike, conversational interactions and create new categories of products.
Amazon Polly
Amazon Polly is a Text-to-Speech (TTS) cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech. You can use Amazon Polly to develop applications that increase engagement and accessibility. Amazon Polly supports multiple languages and includes a variety of lifelike voices, so you can build speech-enabled applications that work in multiple locations and use the ideal voice for your customers.
Amazon Rekognition
Amazon Rekognition makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications. You just provide an image or video to the Rekognition API, and the service can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities. It can detect any inappropriate content as well. Amazon Rekognition also provides highly accurate facial analysis and facial recognition. You can detect, analyze, and compare faces for a wide variety of use cases, including user verification, cataloging, people counting, and public safety.
Amazon Rekognition is based on the same proven, highly scalable, deep learning technology developed by Amazon’s computer vision scientists to analyze billions of images and videos daily—and requires no machine learning expertise to use. Amazon Rekognition includes a simple, easy-to-use API that can quickly analyze any image or video file that’s stored in Amazon S3. Amazon Rekognition is always learning from new data, and we’re continually adding new labels and facial recognition features to the service.
Amazon Machine Learning
Amazon Machine Learning makes it easy for developers to build smart applications, including applications for fraud detection, demand forecasting, targeted marketing, and click prediction. The powerful algorithms of Amazon Machine Learning create machine learning (ML) models by finding patterns in your existing data. The service uses these models to process new data and generate predictions for your application.
Apache MXNet
Apache MXNet (MXNet) is an open source deep learning framework that allows you to define, train, and deploy deep neural networks on a wide array of platforms, from cloud infrastructure to mobile devices. It is highly scalable, which allows for fast model training, and supports a flexible programming model and multiple languages.
The MXNet library is portable and lightweight, and it scales seamlessly to run on multiple GPUs and across multiple machines.
MXNet supports programming in various languages to build and train deep learning models. Languages include Python, R, Scala, Julia, and Perl.
Amazon Translate
**Amazon Translate **is a neural machine translation service for translating text to and from English across a breadth of supported languages. Powered by deep-learning technologies, Amazon Translate delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. It provides a managed, continually trained solution so you can easily translate company and user-authored content or build applications that require support across multiple languages. The machine translation engine has been trained on a wide variety of content across different domains to produce quality translations that serve any industry need.
Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Transcribe provides transcription services for your audio files. It uses advanced machine learning technologies to recognize spoken words and transcribe them into text.
AWS DeepLens
AWS DeepLens pairs a connected HD camera developer kit with a set of sample projects to help developers learn machine learning concepts using hands-on computer vision use cases. AWS DeepLens is preconfigured to work with multiple AWS services to provide a deep learning framework that is optimized for AWS DeepLens, so it is easy to build computer vision applications. AWS DeepLens is powerful enough for experts, but designed to help all developers get started quickly with little to no experience in deep learning.
Amazon Athena
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage, and you pay only for the queries you run. To get started, simply point to your data in S3, define the schema, and start querying using standard SQL.
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudSearch is a fully managed service in the cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website. Amazon CloudSearch enables you to search large collections of data such as web pages, document files, forum posts, or product information. With Amazon CloudSearch, you can quickly add search capabilities to your website without having to become a search expert or worry about hardware provisioning, setup, and maintenance. As your volume of data and traffic fluctuates, Amazon CloudSearch automatically scales to meet your needs.
AWS Data Pipeline
AWS Data Pipeline is a web service that you can use to automate the movement and transformation of data. With AWS Data Pipeline, you can define data-driven workflows, so that tasks can be dependent on the successful completion of previous tasks.
Amazon Elasticsearch
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch, a popular open-source search and analytics engine. Amazon ES also offers security options, high availability, data durability, and direct access to the Elasticsearch API.
Amazon EMR
Amazon EMR is a web service that makes it easy to process large amounts of data efficiently. Amazon EMR uses Hadoop processing combined with several AWS products to do such tasks as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine learning, scientific simulation, and data warehousing.
AWS Glue
AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) service that makes it simple and cost-effective to categorize your data, clean it, enrich it, and move it reliably between various data stores. AWS Glue consists of a central data repository known as the AWS Glue Data Catalog, an ETL engine that automatically generates Python code, and a flexible scheduler that handles dependency resolution, job monitoring, and retries. AWS Glue is serverless, so there’s no infrastructure to set up or manage. Use the AWS Glue console to discover your data, transform it, and make it available for search and querying. You can also use the AWS Glue API operations to interface with AWS Glue.
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time.
Use Kinesis Video Streams to:
- Capture, process, and store video streams for analytics and machine learning
- Build custom applications that analyze data streams using popular stream processing frameworks
- Load data streams into AWS data stores
- Analyze data streams with SQL
Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight is a fast business analytics service to build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. QuickSight seamlessly discovers AWS data sources, enables organizations to scale to hundreds of thousands of users, and delivers fast and responsive query performance by using a robust in-memory engine (SPICE).
AWS IAM
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service for securely controlling access to AWS services. With IAM, you can centrally manage users, security credentials such as access keys, and permissions that control which AWS resources users and applications can access.
AWS Artifact
AWS Artifact is a web service that enables you to download AWS security and compliance documents such as ISO certifications and SOC reports.
AWS Certificate Manager
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) makes it easy to provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certificates on AWS-managed resources.
AWS CloudHSM
AWS CloudHSM offers secure cryptographic key storage for customers by providing managed hardware security modules in the AWS Cloud.
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito is a service that you can use to create unique identities for your users, authenticate these identities with identity providers, and save mobile user data in the AWS Cloud.
AWS Directory Service
AWS Directory Service provides multiple ways to set up and run Amazon Cloud Directory, Amazon Cognito, and Microsoft AD with other AWS services. Amazon Cloud Directory provides a highly scalable directory store for your application’s multihierarchical data. Amazon Cognito helps you create a directory store that authenticates your users either through your own user pools or through federated identity providers. AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as Microsoft AD, enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use a managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.
AWS Firewall
AWS Firewall Manager simplifies your AWS WAF administration and maintenance tasks across multiple accounts and resources. With AWS Firewall Manager, you set up your firewall rules just once. The service automatically applies your rules across your accounts and resources, even as you add new resources.
Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon GuardDuty is a continuous security monitoring service. Amazon GuardDuty can help to identify unexpected and potentially unauthorized or malicious activity in your AWS environment.
Amazon Inspector
Amazon Inspector is a security vulnerability assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of your AWS resources. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses resources for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices, and then produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by level of severity. Amazon Inspector includes a knowledge base of hundreds of rules mapped to common security standards and vulnerability definitions that are regularly updated by AWS security researchers.
AWS KMS
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is an encryption and key management service scaled for the cloud. KMS keys and functionality are used by other AWS services, and you can use them to protect data in your own applications that use AWS.
Amazon Macie
Amazon Macie is a security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS. Amazon Macie recognizes sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property, and provides you with dashboards and alerts that give visibility into how this data is being accessed or moved.
AWS Organizations
AWS Organizations is a service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to consolidate and centrally manage multiple AWS accounts. With AWS Organizations, you can create accounts and invite existing accounts to join your organization. You can organize those accounts into groups and attach policy-based controls. If you already have a Consolidated Billing family of accounts, those accounts automatically become part of your organization.
AWS Secrets Manager
AWS Secrets Manager helps you to securely encrypt, store, and retrieve credentials for your databases and other services. Instead of hardcoding credentials in your apps, you can make calls to Secrets Manager to retrieve your credentials whenever needed. Secrets Manager helps you protect access to your IT resources and data by helping you rotate and manage access to your secrets.
AWS Shield
AWS provides two levels of protection against DDoS attacks: AWS Shield Standard and AWS Shield Advanced. AWS Shield Standard is automatically included at no extra cost beyond what you already pay for AWS WAF and your other AWS services. For added protection against DDoS attacks, AWS offers AWS Shield Advanced. AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for your Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, Amazon CloudFront distributions, and Amazon Route 53 hosted zones.
AWS Single Sign-On
AWS Single Sign-On is a cloud-based service that simplifies managing SSO access to AWS accounts and business applications. You can control SSO access and user permissions across all your AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. You can also administer access to popular business applications and custom applications that support Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0. In addition, AWS SSO offers a user portal where your users can find all their assigned AWS accounts, business applications, and custom applications in one place.
AWS WAF
AWS WAF is a web application firewall that lets you monitor web requests that are forwarded to Amazon CloudFront distributions or an Application Load Balancer. You can also use AWS WAF to block or allow requests based on conditions that you specify, such as the IP addresses that requests originate from or values in the requests.
AWS AppSync
AWS AppSync is an enterprise level, fully managed GraphQL service with real-time data synchronization and offline programming features.
AWS Mobile Hub
AWS Mobile Hub provides an integrated console that helps you build, test, and monitor your mobile apps. Use the console to choose the features you want to include in your app. Mobile Hub then provisions and configures the necessary AWS services on your behalf and creates a working sample app for you.
AWS Device Farm
AWS Device Farm is an app testing service that enables you to test your iOS, Android and Fire OS apps on real, physical phones and tablets that are hosted by AWS. The service allows you to upload your own tests or use built-in, script-free compatibility tests.
Amazon Mobile Analytics
Amazon Mobile Analytics is a service for collecting, visualizing, and understanding app usage data at scale. The service is built to scale with your business, allowing you to collect and process billions of events per day from many millions of users. Simply add the AWS Mobile SDK in your iOS and Android/Fire OS apps, or use the Amazon Mobile Analytics REST API, and start accessing your Amazon Mobile Analytics Reports to learn about how your app is being used.
Amazon Pinpoint
Amazon Pinpoint is a campaign management web service for mobile apps. Use Amazon Pinpoint to understand app user behavior and define which users to engage. Amazon Pinpoint helps you determine which push notifications to send, decide when to deliver the notifications, and track the results of your campaign.
AWS Mobile SDK for Android
The AWS Mobile SDK for Android provides libraries, code samples, and documentation for developers to build connected mobile applications using AWS.
AWS Mobile SDK for iOS
The AWS Mobile SDK for iOS provides a library, code samples, and documentation for developers to build connected mobile applications using AWS.
AWS Mobile SDK
The AWS Mobile SDK for Unity contains a set of .NET classes that enables games written with Unity to utilize AWS services. The AWS Unity Plug-in also contains sample code that illustrates how to call AWS services from a Unity game. The AWS Mobile SDK for Unity is compatible with Unity version 4.0 and greater.
AWS Mobile SDK for .NET and Xamarin
The AWS Mobile SDK for .NET and Xamarin provides a set of .NET libraries, code samples, and documentation to help developers build connected mobile applications for:
Xamarin iOS
Xamarin Android
Windows Phone Silverlight
Windows RT 8.1
Windows Phone 8.1
Mobile apps written using the AWS Mobile SDK for .NET and Xamarin call native platform APIs so they have the look and feel of native applications. The .NET libraries in the SDK provide C# wrappers around the AWS REST APIs.
Amazon SNS
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a web service that enables applications, end-users, and devices to instantly send and receive notifications from the cloud.
Amazon Sumerian
Amazon Sumerian is a set of tools for creating high-quality virtual reality (VR) experiences on the web. With Sumerian, you can construct an interactive 3D scene without any programming experience, test it in the browser, and publish it as a website that is immediately available to users.
AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions makes it easy to coordinate the components of distributed applications as a series of steps in a visual workflow. You can quickly build and run state machines to execute the steps of your application in a reliable and scalable fashion.
Amazon SWF
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) makes it easy to build applications that coordinate work across distributed components. In Amazon SWF, a task represents a logical unit of work that is performed by a component of your application. Coordinating tasks across the application involves managing intertask dependencies, scheduling, and concurrency in accordance with the logical flow of the application. Amazon SWF gives you full control over implementing tasks and coordinating them without worrying about underlying complexities such as tracking their progress and maintaining their state.
Amazon SQS
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon SQS moves data between distributed application components and helps you decouple these components.
Amazon MQ
Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Amazon MQ provides interoperability with your existing applications and services. Amazon MQ works with your existing applications and services without the need to manage, operate, or maintain your own messaging system.
Amazon Connect
Amazon Connect is a contact center as a service (CCaS) solution that offers easy, self-service configuration and enables dynamic, personal, and natural customer engagement at any scale.
Amazon SES
Amazon Simple Email Service
(Amazon SES)
An email sending and receiving service that provides an easy, cost-effective way for you to send email.
Alexa for Business
Alexa for Business gives you the tools you need to manage Alexa devices, enroll users, and assign skills.
You can build your own voice skills using the Alexa Skills Kit and the Alexa for Business API.
You can also make them available as private skills for your organization.
Amazon Chime
Amazon Chime is a secure, real-time, unified communications service that transforms meetings by making them more efficient and easier to conduct.
Amazon WorkDocs
Amazon WorkDocs is a fully managed, secure enterprise storage and sharing service with strong administrative controls and feedback capabilities that improve user productivity.
Amazon WorkMail
Amazon WorkMail is a managed email and calendaring service that offers strong security controls and support for existing desktop and mobile clients.
Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces offers an easy way to provide a cloud-based desktop experience to your end users. Select from a choice of bundles that offer a range of different amounts of CPU, memory, storage, and a choice of applications. Users can connect from a PC, Mac desktop computer, iPad, Kindle, or Android tablet.
Amazon WAM
Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (Amazon WAM) offers a fast, flexible, and secure way for you to deploy and manage applications for Amazon WorkSpaces.
Amazon AppStream 2.0
Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed, secure application streaming service that allows you to stream desktop applications from AWS to a web browser. Amazon AppStream 2.0 provides users instant-on access to the applications they need, and a responsive, fluid user experience on the device of their choice.
AWS IoT
**AWS IoT **enables secure, bi-directional communication between Internet-connected things (such as sensors, actuators, embedded devices, or smart appliances) and the AWS Cloud over MQTT and HTTP.
Amazon FreeRTOS
Amazon FreeRTOS is an operating system that makes microcontroller-based edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, and maintain. Amazon FreeRTOS extends the FreeRTOS kernel, a popular open source operating system for microcontrollers, with software libraries that can be used to securely connect devices (locally and to the cloud) and update them remotely.
AWS Greengrass
AWS Greengrass seamlessly extends AWS onto physical devices so they can act locally on the data they generate, while still using the cloud for management, analytics, and durable storage. AWS Greengrass ensures your devices can respond quickly to local events and operate with intermittent connectivity. AWS Greengrass minimizes the cost of transmitting data to the cloud by allowing you to author AWS Lambda functions that execute locally.
AWS IoT Device Management
AWS IoT Device Management is a cloud-based device management service that makes it easy for customers to securely manage IoT devices throughout their lifecycle. Customers can use AWS IoT Device Management to onboard device information and configuration, organize their device inventory, monitor their fleet of devices, and remotely manage devices deployed across many locations. This remote management includes over-the-air (OTA) updates to device software.
Amazon Lumberyard
Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch—with full source. Lumberyard provides a growing set of tools to help you create the highest quality games, engage massive communities of fans, and connect games to the vast compute and storage of the cloud. Participate in the forums or learn about new changes on our blog.
Amazon GameLift
Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling session-based multiplayer game servers in the cloud. Built on the AWS computing environment, GameLift lets you scale high performance game servers up and down to meet player demand.
AWS SDK for C++
The SDK for C++ is a modern, open-source C++ library that makes it easy to integrate your C++ application with AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon DynamoDB.
AWS SDK for Go
The AWS SDK for Go provides easy-to-use APIs and utilities developers can use to quickly integrate Go applications with AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2.
AWS SDK for Java
The AWS SDK for Java provides a Java API for AWS infrastructure services. Using the SDK, you can build applications on top of Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon DynamoDB, and more.
AWS SDK for JavaScript
The AWS SDK for JavaScript enables developers to build libraries and applications that use AWS services. You can use the JavaScript API in the browser and inside Node.js applications on the server
AWS SDK for .NET
The AWS SDK for .NET makes it easier for Windows developers to build .NET applications that tap into the cost-effective, scalable, and reliable AWS infrastructure services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, and DynamoDB.
AWS SDK for PHP
The SDK for PHP is a modern, open-source PHP library that makes it easy to integrate your PHP application with AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, and Amazon DynamoDB.
Boto 3
Boto is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Python, which allows Python developers to write software that makes use of Amazon services like S3 and EC2. Boto provides an easy to use, object-oriented API as well as low-level direct service access.
AWS SDK for Ruby
The AWS SDK for Ruby helps you to get started building applications using AWS infrastructure services, including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon DynamoDB, and more.
AWS Toolkit for Eclipse
The AWS Toolkit for Eclipse is an open source plug-in for the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easier for developers to develop, debug, and deploy Java applications that use Amazon Web Services. It enhances the Eclipse IDE with additional features:
The AWS SDK for Java is included and managed by Maven when you create a new AWS project using the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse
AWS Explorer, an interface to Amazon Web Services that allows you to manage your AWS resources from within the Eclipse environment.
AWS Lambda Java project and Serverless Application Model (SAM) project blueprint creation, deployment and debugging
AWS CodeCommit repository cloning
Integration with AWS CodeStar
AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment and debugging
An AWS CloudFormation template editor
Support for multiple AWS accounts
Important
There is no charge for using the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse, however you may incur AWS charges for creating or using AWS chargeable resources, such as running Amazon EC2 instances or using Amazon S3 storage. You can use the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator to estimate charges for the use of various AWS resources.
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is a plug-in for the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE).
The Toolkit makes it easier for developers to develop, debug, and deploy .NET applications that use Amazon Web Services.
AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services
AWS Tools for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) contains tasks you can use in build and release definitions in VSTS to interact with AWS services. AWS Tools for VSTS is available through the Visual Studio Marketplace.
AWS Billing and Cost Management
Amazon Web Services (AWS) bills your account for usage, which ensures that you pay only for what you use. To help you manage your charges, AWS provides features that let you monitor your costs and pay your bill.
AWS Marketplace
AWS Marketplace is an online store where you can buy or sell software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). As a subscriber, you can find, buy, and quickly deploy software that runs on AWS. As a seller, you can manage the sales channel for products you sell.
AWS Support
AWS Support provides support for users of Amazon Web Services. All users have access to account and billing help in the AWS Support Center. In addition, customers with some support plans have access to additional features, including AWS Trusted Advisor and an API for programmatic access to support cases and Trusted Advisor.
Alexa Top Sites
Alexa Top Sites is a web service that provides lists of web sites, ordered by Alexa Traffic Rank. Using this web service, developers can page through lists of top sites and incorporate traffic data into their applications.
AWIS
The Alexa Web Information Service (AWIS) offers a platform for creating innovative Web solutions and services based on Alexa’s vast information about web sites, accessible with a web services API.
Amazon Silk
Amazon Silk is a next-generation web browser available only on Kindle Fire. Built on a split architecture that divides processing between the client and the Amazon cloud, Silk is designed to create a faster, more responsive mobile browsing experience.
AWS GovCloud
The AWS GovCloud (US) User Guide provides information about setting up your AWS GovCloud (US) account, identifies the differences between the AWS GovCloud (US) Region and other AWS regions, and defines usage guidelines for processing ITAR-regulated data within the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. In this guide, we assume you are familiar with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
AWS Regions and Endpoints
To reduce data latency in your applications, most Amazon Web Services offer a regional endpoint to make your requests. An endpoint is a URL that is the entry point for a web service. For example, https://dynamodb.us-west-2.amazonaws.com is an entry point for the Amazon DynamoDB service.
Some services, such as IAM, do not support regions; therefore, their endpoints do not include a region. Some services, such as Amazon EC2, let you specify an endpoint that does not include a specific region, for example, https://ec2.amazonaws.com. In that case, AWS routes the endpoint to us-east-1.
If a service supports regions, the resources in each region are independent. For example, if you create an Amazon EC2 instance or an Amazon SQS queue in one region, the instance or queue is independent from instances or queues in another region.
You can find region and endpoint information from the following sources:
To see the supported services per region in a tabbed format, see the Region Table. This page does not include endpoint information.
For information about the AWS services and endpoints available in the China (Beijing) Region, see China (Beijing) Region Endpoints.
For information about the AWS services and endpoints available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, see AWS GovCloud (US) Endpoints.
For information about which regions and endpoints are supported for each service, see the following tables.
AWS Security Credentials
When you interact with AWS, you specify your AWS security credentials to verify who you are and whether you have permission to access the resources that you are requesting. AWS uses the security credentials to authenticate and authorize your requests.
For example, if you want to download a specific file from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket, your credentials must allow that access. If your credentials aren’t authorized to download the file, AWS denies your request.
Note
In some cases, you can make calls to AWS without security credentials, such as downloading a file that is publicly shared in an Amazon S3 bucket.
ARNs
Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) uniquely identify AWS resources. We require an ARN when you need to specify a resource unambiguously across all of AWS, such as in IAM policies, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) tags, and API calls.
AWS Service Limits
The following tables provide the default limits for AWS services for an AWS account. Unless otherwise noted, each limit is region-specific. Many services contain limits that cannot be changed. For more information about the limits for a specific service, see the documentation for that service.
AWS Trusted Advisor offers a Service Limits check (in the Performance category) that displays your usage and limits for some aspects of some services. For more information, see Service Limits Check Questions in the Trusted Advisor FAQs.
You can take the following steps to request an increase for limits. These increases are not granted immediately, so it may take a couple of days for your increase to become effective.
To request a limit increase
Open the AWS Support Center page, sign in if necessary, and choose Create Case.
For Regarding, choose Service Limit Increase.
Complete Limit Type, Use Case Description, and Contact method. If this request is urgent, choose Phone as the method of contact instead of Web.
Choose Submit.
Working with Resource Groups
You can maximize your effectiveness with AWS offerings by working with resource groups. This guide provides a short introduction to creating and managing resource groups in the AWS Management Console. To learn more about the AWS Management Console in general, see Working with the AWS Management Console.
Working with Tag Editor
Tags are words or phrases that act as metadata for identifying and organizing your AWS resources. The tag limit varies with the resource, but most can have up to 50 tags. Each tag consists of a key and a value. For more about tagging, see Using Cost Allocation Tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide.
You can add tags to resources when you create the resource or add, change, or remove those tags one resource at a time within each resource’s console. To add to multiple resources at once, you need to use Tag Editor. With Tag Editor, you search for the resources that you want to tag, and then add, remove, or edit tags for the resources in your search results.
To start Tag Editor
Sign in to the AWS Management Console.
On the navigation bar, choose Resource Groups, and then choose Tag Editor.
Not all resources can have tags applied. To see if a resource supports tagging, consult the documentation for that resource’s service.
AWS QuickStarts
Quick Starts are built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help you deploy popular solutions on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability. These reference deployments implement key technologies automatically on the AWS Cloud, often with a single click and in less than an hour. You can build your test or production environment in a few simple steps, and start using it immediately.
AWS Whitepapers
AWS Whitepapers features a comprehensive list of technical AWS whitepapers, covering topics such as architecture, security, and economics. These whitepapers have been authored by the AWS Team, independent analysts, or the AWS Community (Customers or Partners). To read reports authored by industry analysts click here. This page will be updated regularly with new and updated whitepapers and reports.
