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# Amazon Services

Compute

* EC2	Virtual Private Servers
* Lightsail	Amazon’s hosting provider (vps, dns, storage)
* Lambda	Functions you can run, written in Python, NodeJS, Go etc. Can run many in parallel.
* Batch	Run software jobs on EC2 machines
* Elastic Beanstalk	Run software on managed virtual machines
* Serverless Application Repository	Repository of serverless applications that you can deploy (on lambda)
* AWS Outposts	Run Amazon services in your own data center
* EC2 Image Builder	Create EC2 (ami?) images automatically

Storage	&#x20;

* S3	File storage. Not directly used for mounting, but you can directly download files from HTTP.
* EFS	NFS. Mount network disks to your machines.
* FSx	Windows / Lustre filesystems you can connect to your ec2 machines
* S3 Glacier	Low cost storage system for backups and archives and such
* Storage Gateway	iSCSI so you can connect s3 to your own (remote) machine.
* AWS Backup	Automatically create backups of different AWS service (ec2, rds etc)

Database	&#x20;

* RDS	Managed mysql, postgres databases etc.
* DynamoDB	Large & scalable non-relational database
* ElastiCache	Managed memcache and redis machines
* Neptune	Graph database
* Amazon Redshift	Warehousing. Store lots of data that can be processed through streams.
* Amazon QLDB	Database for immutable and cryptographically verifiable data (money transactions etc)
* Amazon DocumentDB	MongoDB clone (but not really compatible anymore)
* Amazon Keyspaces	Managed Apache Cassandra clone

Migration & Transfer	&#x20;

* AS Migration Hub	Migrate things from your DC to AWS
* Application Discovery Service	Discover services in your datacenter
* Database Migration Service	Migrate databases to RDS while staying online (can convert structures as well)
* Server Migration Service	Migrate virtual machines to amazon.
* AWS Transfer Family	(s)FTP service with S3 backend. Upload to FTP, directly store on S3 bucket.
* Snowball	Get a machine from AWS, plug in your DC, transfer data fast to AWS, return machine
* DataSync	Sync data between your datacenter and AWS

Networking & Content Delivery	&#x20;

* VPC	Create your own virtual private network within AWS.
* CloudFront	Content Delivery Network.
* Route 53	Manage domain names and records.
* API Gateway	Create HTTP APIs and let them connect to different backends.
* Direct Connect	Create a (physical) connection between you (or DC) to AWS.
* AWS App Mesh	Automatically run Envoy as a sidecar for your containers (ECS or EKS).
* AWS Cloud Map	Service discovery for your containers.
* Global Accelerator	Run your app on edge locations so they are closer to your customers (CDN for apps).

Developer Tools	&#x20;

* CodeStar	Quickly develop applications by using template code and codecommit, codebuild etc
* CodeCommit	Amazon source repositories (git repo’s etc)
* CodeBuild	CI service
* CodeDeploy	Deployment service
* CodePipeline	Code delivery with workflows
* Cloud9	Online IDE
* X-Ray	Allows tracing in your applications, supports Python, NodeJs, Go etc.

Robotics	&#x20;

* AWS RoboMaker	Cloud solution for robotic developers to simulate, test and securely deploy robotic applications

Customer Enablement	&#x20;

* AWS IQ	Job board: Hire AWS experts for whatever you need.
* Support	AWS support center
* Managed Services	Let AWS handle your AWS services for you.

Blockchain	&#x20;

* Amazon Managed Blockchain	Block chains

Satellite	&#x20;

* Ground Station	Satellites as a service

Quantum Technologies	&#x20;

* Amazon Braket	Some quantum thing. It’s in preview so I have no idea what it is.

Management & Governance	&#x20;

* AWS Organizations	Configure (sub)organisations and accounts
* CloudWatch	Logging from various AWS components
* AWS Auto Scaling	Scale resources based on your custom inputs and rules
* CloudFormation	Templates to create and configure AWS components (think terraform/sls)
* CloudTrail	Figure out who did what in your AWS services
* Config	Audit the configurations of your AWS resources
* OpsWorks	Use Ansible to automate stuff
* Service Catalog	Manage list of items/codes etc you have in the cloud
* Systems Manager	View data from your resources grouped in ways you like (like application specific etc)
* AWS AppConfig	Store and publish application configuration data
* Trusted Advisor	Checks your account for issues (costs, performance, security etc)
* Control Tower	Manage multi-accounts
* AWS License Manager	Manage licenses
* AWS Well-Architected Tool	Generate questionnaires about your architecture to see if you follow best practices
* Personal Health Dashboard	StatusPage for AWS
* AWS Chatbot	Connect AWS to slack
* Launch Wizard	Deploy MSSQL or SAP
* AWS Compute Optimizer	Finds your resources and advices on how to save costs

Media Services	&#x20;

* Elastic Transcoder	Encode files from S3 into different other formats and store back at S3
* Kinesis Video Streams	Capture media streams
* MediaConnect	?
* MediaConvert	Convert media into different formats
* MediaLive	Share live video with many others
* MediaPackage	?
* MediaStore	?
* MediaTailor	Insert advertisements into your broadcasts
* Elemental Appliances & Software	create videos on-premise. Basically a mix of all of the above services. Seems expensive. Probably is.

Machine Learning	&#x20;

* Amazon SageMaker	Machine learning tools
* Amazon CodeGuru	Profile java code with machine learning
* Amazon Comprehend	Understand and classify data like emails, tweets etc
* Amazon Forecast	Create forecasts from data
* Amazon Fraud Detector	in preview so no idea.
* Amazon Kendra	Search service where you can ask questions
* Amazon Lex	Create voice and chatbots
* Amazon Machine Learning	Deprecated. Use SageMaker instead.
* Amazon Personalize	Create personalized recommendations based on data (mahout??)
* Amazon Polly	Convert text to speech in different languages
* Amazon Rekognition	Recognize objects and people in images
* Amazon Textract	Convert text found in images to text (OCR)
* Amazon Transcribe	Convert audio to text
* Amazon Translate	Translates text from one language to another
* AWS DeepLens	A video camera that does machine learning
* AWS DeepRacer	Some kind of game where you program a racecar to race against others.
* Amazon Augmented AI	Let humans in the loop to make AI learn things better
* AWS DeepComposer	Computer generated music. It’s as horrible as it sounds.

Analytics	&#x20;

* Athena	Query data stored in s3 buckets.
* EMR	Elastic Map/Reduce
* CloudSearch	AWS version of managed document search system (like elasticsearch)
* Elasticsearch Service	Elasticsearch as a service
* Kinesis	Collect massive amount of data so you can do analytics (like ELK?)
* QuickSight	Business Intelligence service
* Data Pipeline	Move and transform data to dynamodb, rds, s3 etc.
* AWS Data Exchange	Find APIs which data you can consume, which can be very expensive
* AWS Glue	ETL service. Enrich, validate data.
* AWS Lake Formation	Create data lakes
* MSK	Kafka as a service

Security, Identity, & Compliance	&#x20;

* IAM	AWS’s permission system that can control users and AWS services.
* Resource Access Manager	Share certain AWS resources like Route53, licenses, ec2 with other accounts.
* Cognito	User and password management system. Useful for managing users for your applications.
* Secrets Manager	Secrets key/value store. Can automatically rotate secrets.
* GuardDuty	Automatically scan your cloudtrail/vpc logs for threats.
* Inspector	Automatically find (security) issues in your network and machines.
* Amazon Macie	Analyzes data in your S3 buckets and check for PII data.
* AWS Single Sign-On	Allow single-sign on to your applications.
* Certificate Manager	Manage and even create (free) SSL certificates.
* Key Management Service	Manage secret keys
* CloudHSM	Hardware security modules. Allows you to generate and operate on cryptographic keys.
* Directory Service	Active directory as a service
* WAF & Shield	Web Application Firewall (for loadbalancers, cloudfront, api gateway). Can setup your own rules or use predefined ones
* AWS Firewall Manager	Firewall manager for different accounts in your organisation
* Artifact	Documents for cloud compliance (things like 27001 certification etc)
* Security Hub	Overall security checker that uses guardduty, inspector, macie etc
* Detective	Log security issues found (from security hub etc)

Mobile	&#x20;

* AWS Amplify	Let AWS automatically generate frontend & backend apps and deploy them automatically.

Mobile Hub	Part of AWS Amplify now.

* AWS AppSync	Create API backends that you can connect to. Can be created through AWS Amplify as well.
* Device Farm	AWS BrowserStack. Automatically test apps on many different mobile devices and browsers.

AR & VR	&#x20;

* Amazon Sumerian	No idea. The dashboard crashes in my browsers

Application Integration	&#x20;

* Step Functions	State machines written in amazon’s own language
* Amazon AppFlow	Automatically connects apps together (zapier?). For instance: slack to s3 buckets.
* Amazon EventBridge	Some kind of eventbus system
* Amazon MQ	ActiveMQ
* Simple Notification Service	Notification system that can notify through email, api endpoints, sms etc.
* Simple Queue Service	Message queue system
* SWF	Create workflows.

AWS Cost Management	&#x20;

* AWS Cost Explorer	Gives an overview and projection of your budgets
* AWS Budgets	Create budgets for your AWS components
* AWS Marketplace Subscriptions	Find (and buy) AMI’s with software installed

Customer Engagement	&#x20;

* Amazon Connect	AWS version of ZenDesk
* Pinpoint	Create transactional emails, SMS or voice calls based on templates.
* Simple Email Service	Send out emails. Email provider.

Business Applications	&#x20;

* Alexa for Business	Connect Alexa to your business needs.
* Amazon Chime	AWS version of Zoom.
* WorkMail	AWS version of Gmail / Calendar.

End User Computing	&#x20;

* WorkSpaces	Virtual desktops from Windows or Linux.
* AppStream 2.0	Stream applications running native onto your browser
* WorkDocs	Store your documents and manage them online.
* WorkLink	Connect mobile users to your intranet.

Internet Of Things	&#x20;

* IoT Core	Manage fleets of IOT devices through MQTT broker
* FreeRTOS	RTOS operating system for microcontrollers to automatically connect to IOT-Core or greengrass.
* IoT 1-Click	Manage 1-click buttons that can be connected to other systems like Lambda
* IoT Analytics	Clean up and save messages from topics into a data-store for analytics
* IoT Device Defender	Detect unwanted issues on your devices and take actions
* IoT Device Management	Organize IoT devices into groups, schedule jobs on the devices and configure remote access
* IoT Events	Monitor telemetry from devices and then trigger other AWS services or jobs on the devices themselves
* IoT Greengrass	A message broker can buffer messages for groups of up to 200 devices which can communicate and process data locally if connectivity to IoT Core is intermittent.
* IoT SiteWise	?
* IoT Things Graph	Cloudformation-like designer for graphing how devices should communicate with other AWS services

Game Development	&#x20;

* Amazon GameLift	Deploy game servers with low latency on AWS

Containers	&#x20;

* Elastic Container Registry	Store docker images like on DockerHub
* Elastic Container Service	Run containers, either on your own EC2 machines, or on managed machines called FarGate.
* Elastic Kubernetes Service	Kubernetes as a service

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