Services Flashcards

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Amazon GuardDuty

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A threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and delivers detailed security findings for visibility and remediation

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AWS Shield

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A managed DDoS protection service, provides always on detection and automatic inline migrations that minimize application downtime and latency

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AWS Launch Wizard

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Offers a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying AWS resources for third party applications, without needing to manually identify and provision individual AWS resources

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Amazon Cognito

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Let’s you add user sign up, sign in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. Supports sign in with social identity providers such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0

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AWS CloudFormation

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An infrastructure as code IaC tool which allows users to provision infrastructure services using either JSON or YAML. With AWS CloudFormation you can easily provision resources in a different Region easily

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AWS CloudTrail

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AWS CloudTrail tracks API calls that are made within a particular AWS account. It will track the API call made, the IP address it originated from and which IAM principal initiated the action.

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Amazon SageMaker

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A managed Machine Learning service. With Amazon SageMaker, you can package your own algorithms that can then be trained and deployed in the SageMaker environment.

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Amazon Redshift

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Uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at any scale.

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Amazon RDS

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A fully managed relational database service

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Amazon ElastiCache

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Provides in-memory caching which improves performance for read requests when the data is cached in ElastiCache.

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Amazon EFS

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Elastic file system is a fully managed service, uses the NFS protocol. Can concurrently connect to EC2 instances from multiple AZs

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AWS Managed Services

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A comprehensive suite of tools and expertise provided by AWS to simplify and automate the management of infrastructure, ensuring security, compliance, and operational efficiency for enterprises

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AWS Direct Connect Gateway

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Connects your AWS Direct Connect connection over a private virtual interface to one or more VPCs in your account that are located in the same or different regions

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AWS Artifact

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Central resource for compliance related information. Provides on demand access to AWS security and compliance reports and select online agreements.

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Elastic Container Registry

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A fully managed Docker container registry

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AWS IoT Core

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A managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices.

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AWS Trusted Advisor

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An online resource that helps to reduce cost, increase performance and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment.

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AWS Lambda

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A serverless service that runs code as functions. That means that your code is run when needed but there are no servers running.

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AWS Health Dashboard

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Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.

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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

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Enables businesses to recover applications quickly and reliably while utilizing economical storage and minimum compute resources. It is designed to minimize downtime and data loss.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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Used ti quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud. Developers upload applications and Elastic Beanstalk handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring

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AWS CodeDeploy

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A fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of computer services such as Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and on-premise servers.

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AWS CodeCommit

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A fully managed source control service that host secure Git based repositories.

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)

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A managed service for running Docker containers.

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Amazon Workspaces

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A managed desktop computing/virtualization service running in the AWS cloud.

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Amazon FSx

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Offers fully managed third party file systems

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Amazon Inspector

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Helps to find security vulnerabilities and deviations from best practices in your EC2 instances

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Amazon SQS

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Simple Queue Service is a message bus for temporarily storing data that is being passed between application components. Makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications

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Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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Provides the information required to launch an instance.

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Amazon Aurora

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Designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single Amazon Aurora database to span multiple AWS regions. This is a way to have an SQL database across regions.

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Amazon API Gateway

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A service for creating, publishing, maintaining, monitoring, and securing REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs at any scale.

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AWS Step Functions

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A visual workflow service that helps developers use AWS services to build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning pipelines

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AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM)

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Designed to enable you to securely share your AWS resources with any AWS account or, if you are part of AWS Organizations, with Organizational Units or within your organization.

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Amazon Rekognition

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Offers pre trained and customizable computer vision capabilities to extract information and insights from your images and videos

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Amazon Comprehend

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A natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text.

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Amazon MQ

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A managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ.

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AWS Quick Starts

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Automated reference deployments built by AWS solutions architects and partners to help you deploy popular technologies on AWS, based on AWS best practices for security and high availability.

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Amazon AppStream 2.0

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Streaming or delivery of virtual desktops with selective persistence. Saved files and application settings remain persistent between use sessions, and a fresh virtual desktop is assigned to the user every time they log on.

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Amazon QuickSight

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A fast cloud powered business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your organization. Makes it easy to create and publish interactive dashboards that include ML Insights. Dashboards can be accessed from any device, and embedded into your applications, portals, and websites.

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Amazon Lex

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an AWS service specifically designed to build conversational interfaces using voice and text. Leveraging advanced deep learning functionalities, it enables the creation of chatbots that can engage with users naturally.

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Amazon Textract

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extracts text and data from scanned documents

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Amazon Transcribe

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converts speech to text

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AWS WAF

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The AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) is used to protect web applications or APIs against common web exploits. Rules can be created that block traffic based on source IP address.

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AWS Fargate

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a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).

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AWS Glue

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a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for users to prepare and load their data for analytics.

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Amazon EMR

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For big data processing using the Spark and Hadoop frameworks, Amazon EMR provides a managed service for processing vast amounts data.

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Amazon Kinesis

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processes and analyzes streaming data at any scale as a fully managed service. With Kinesis, you can ingest real-time data, such as video, audio, application logs, website clickstreams, and IoT telemetry data, for machine learning (ML), analytics, and other applications.

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AWS Cost Explorer

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enables you to visualize your usage patterns over time and to identify your underlying cost drivers.

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Amazon Macie

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a data security service that uses machine learning (ML) and pattern matching to discover and help protect your sensitive data.

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AWS Transit Gateway

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enables customers to connect their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and their on-premises networks to a single gateway.

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AWS Direct Connect

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establish a dedicated connection from an on-premises network to one or more VPCs. AWS Direct Connect can reduce network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than internet-based connections.

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Amazon VPN

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a point-to-point connection between an on-premises location and a single Amazon VPC

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AWS Client VPN

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allows end users to connect to AWS using a VPN client.

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AWS CloudHSM

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a cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that allows you to easily add secure key storage and high-performance crypto operations to your AWS applications. Automates time-consuming administrative tasks, such as hardware provisioning, software patching, high availability, and backups.

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Amazon SWF

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Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) is a web service that makes it easy to coordinate work across distributed application components. SWF enables applications for a range of use cases, including media processing, web application back-ends, business process workflows, and analytics pipelines, to be designed as a coordination of tasks.

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AWS STS

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AWS Security Token Service (STS) is used for requesting temporary credentials.

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Amazon Elasticsearch Service

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involved with operational analytics such as application monitoring, log analytics and clickstream analytics. Amazon Elasticsearch Service allows you to search, explore, filter, aggregate, and visualize your data in near real-time.

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Amazon Athena

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Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-source frameworks, supporting open-table and file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives. Used to analyze data directly in S3 and Glacier using standard SQL queries.

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AWS X-Ray

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Analyze and debug production and distributed applications

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AWS CodeBuild

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Compiles source code, runs tests and produces packages that are ready to deploy

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AWS CodePipline

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End to end solution, build, test, and deploy your application every time there is a code change

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AWS Cloud9

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Browser based Cloud IDE

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AWS CodeArtifact

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A fully managed artifact repository service. Store, publish, and share software packages used in their software development process. This includes everything needed to build your application, including libraries, deployable packages, compiled applications, and documentation relating to your application.

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AWS EventBridge

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Help build event driven applications that respond to state changes triggered by AWS services like EC2

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Amazon MSK

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Managed Streaming for Kafka it is a fully managed service that facilitates building and running applications built on Apache Kafka without having to manage the underlying infrastructure.

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AWS Outposts

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Extends your VPC into the on premises data canter

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AWS Data Exchange

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Allows customers to find, subscribe to, and use third party data in the cloud

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AWS Data Pipeline

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Web service that facilitates the processing and transfer of data between different AWS services and on-premises data sources

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AWS Global Accelerator

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Enables access to your application by leveraging Edge Locations and routing connections across the AWS global network

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AWS Snowcone

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A small and secure device offering edge computing, data storage, and data transfer on the go

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AWS Partner Solutions

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Built by AWS solutions architects and help you deploy popular technologies on AWS. Quick starts

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Amazon Detective

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automatically processes terabytes of event data records about IP traffic, AWS management operations, and malicious or unauthorized activity.

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Amazon OpenSearch Service

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set up, manage, and scale search and analytics solutions, providing the necessary functionalities to efficiently find articles based on different criteria.

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Amazon CodeGuru

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review code and provide intelligent recommendations for improvement.

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AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

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an open source software development framework to define cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. With AWS CDK you can stick to using programming languages that are familiar to you and have infrastructure deployed using AWS CloudFormation.

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AWS Storage Gateway

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a service that offers options for connecting on-premises storage to the cloud.

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AWS DataSync

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AWS DataSync is a secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data between on premises and AWS Storage services.

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AWS Mobile Hub

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used for building, testing, and monitoring mobile applications that make use of one or more AWS services.

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AWS Marketplace

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a curated digital catalog that makes it easy for organizations to discover, procure, entitle, provision, and govern third-party software. You can find thousands of software listings from popular categories like security, business applications, and data & analytics, and across specific industries, such as healthcare, financial services, and public sector.

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AWS OpsWorks

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a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet. Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers.

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Amazon Lightsail

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Build applications and websites fast with low-cost, pre-configured cloud resources

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AWS IQ

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help customers find AWS certified third-party experts for on-demand help. Through AWS IQ, business owners can find, communicate with, and hire AWS experts quickly and securely to help them implement AWS solutions and projects, making it the best fit for the scenario described.

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VPC Flow Logs

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enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC.

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AWS AppConfig

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allows users to deploy application configuration changes quickly and reliably without needing to write additional code or restart services. It supports validation checks to ensure configuration data is syntactically and semantically correct before deployment, avoiding potential outages.

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AWS CodeStar

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provides a unified interface for managing software development activities in one place

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AWS Control Tower

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a service that is intended for organizations with multiple accounts and teams who are looking for the easiest way to set up their new multi-account AWS environment and govern at scale

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AWS Transfer Family

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Seamlessly migrate, automate, and monitor your file transfer workflows into and out of Amazon S3 and Amazon EFS using the SFTP, FTPS, and FTP protocols.

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AWS Application Discovery Service

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AWS Application Discovery Service helps you plan cloud migration projects by gathering information about your on-premises data centers.

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Amazon Kendra

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Query using natural language

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Amazon Polly

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Generates natural sounding speech from text

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AWS Compute Optimizer

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uses machine learning to analyze historical usage patterns and identify the optimal AWS resources for reducing costs and improving performance for your workloads

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AWS Audit Manager

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continuously audit your AWS usage to simplify how you assess risk and compliance with regulations and industry standards

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Amazon DynamoDB

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Serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale

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Amazon AppStream

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Converts applications to software as a service for employees or end users

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Bastion host

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a server whose purpose is to provide access to a private network from an external network, such as the Internet.

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AWS Neptune

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Neptune is a fully managed graph database designed for superior scalability and availability.

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Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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Media transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable, easy to use, and cost effective way for developers and businesses to convert media files from their source format into versions that will play back on devices like smartphones, tablets, and PCs