AWS Compute Services
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AWS Compute Services

Compute

  • EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) – Virtual servers
  • Lambda – Serverless functions
  • ECS (Elastic Container Service) – Container orchestration
  • EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) – Managed Kubernetes
  • Elastic Beanstalk – PaaS for web apps
  • Lightsail – Simplified VPS
  • Batch – Batch job processing

Storage

  • S3 (Simple Storage Service) – Object storage
  • EBS (Elastic Block Store) – Block storage for EC2
  • EFS (Elastic File System) – Managed file system
  • FSx – High-performance file systems (Windows, Lustre)
  • S3 Glacier – Archive & cold storage
  • Storage Gateway – Hybrid storage

Database

Relational

  • RDS – Managed relational DBs (Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server)
  • Aurora – High-performance MySQL/Postgres-compatible DB

NoSQL & Specialized

  • DynamoDB – Serverless NoSQL key-value DB
  • ElastiCache – In-memory Redis / Memcached
  • Neptune – Graph database
  • Keyspaces – Cassandra-compatible
  • Timestream – Time-series database
  • DocumentDB – MongoDB-compatible

Networking & Content Delivery

  • VPC – Virtual private networks
  • Route 53 – DNS & traffic routing
  • CloudFront – CDN
  • Elastic Load Balancer (ALB, NLB, CLB)
  • API Gateway – Managed APIs
  • Direct Connect – Dedicated network link
  • Transit Gateway – Network hub
  • Global Accelerator – Global traffic optimization

Security, Identity & Compliance

  • IAM – Identity & access management
  • Cognito – User authentication
  • KMS – Key management
  • Secrets Manager
  • Certificate Manager (ACM)
  • WAF – Web Application Firewall
  • Shield – DDoS protection
  • GuardDuty – Threat detection
  • Inspector – Vulnerability scanning
  • Security Hub

Monitoring, Logging & Management

  • CloudWatch – Metrics & logs
  • CloudTrail – API auditing
  • Config – Resource compliance
  • Systems Manager (SSM)
  • Trusted Advisor
  • Health Dashboard
  • X-Ray – Distributed tracing

Developer Tools & DevOps

  • CodeCommit – Git repositories
  • CodeBuild – CI build service
  • CodeDeploy – App deployments
  • CodePipeline – CI/CD pipelines
  • CloudFormation – Infrastructure as Code
  • CDK (Cloud Development Kit)
  • Amplify – Frontend & mobile apps

Analytics & Big Data

  • Athena – Serverless SQL on S3
  • Redshift – Data warehouse
  • EMR – Hadoop / Spark
  • Glue – ETL & data catalog
  • Kinesis – Streaming data
  • QuickSight – BI & dashboards
  • OpenSearch Service – Search & log analytics

Machine Learning and AI

  • SageMaker – ML training and deployment
  • Bedrock – Foundation models (GenAI)
  • Rekognition – Image/video analysis
  • Comprehend – NLP
  • Textract – OCR
  • Polly – Text-to-speech
  • Transcribe – Speech-to-text
  • Translate – Language translation
  • Lex – Chatbots

Application Integration & Messaging

  • SQS – Message queues
  • SNS – Pub/Sub notifications
  • EventBridge – Event bus
  • Step Functions – Workflow orchestration
  • AppSync – Managed GraphQL

Migration & Hybrid

  • Migration Hub
  • Application Migration Service (MGN)
  • Database Migration Service (DMS)
  • Snowball / Snowcone / Snowmobile
  • Outposts
  • VMware Cloud on AWS

Cost Management

  • Cost Explorer
  • Budgets
  • Billing Dashboard
  • Savings Plans
  • Compute Optimizer

End-User Computing

  • WorkSpaces – Virtual desktops
  • AppStream 2.0 – App streaming
  • WorkDocs
  • WorkMail