AWS Services Summary

Name of the Service	Definition
Artifact	AWS Artifact is a resource for compliance-related information. It provides on-demand access to AWS’ security and compliance reports and select online agreements
Athena	Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
Bootstrapping	Bootstrapping is the execution of automated actions to services such as EC2 and RDS. This is typically in the form of scripts that run when the instances are launched.
Budgets	AWS Budgets gives you the ability to set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage exceed (or are forecasted to exceed)
Certificate Manager"	AWS Certificate Manager" service is used for creating SSL/TLS certificates for use with HTTPS connections.
Cloud Directory	Amazon Cloud Directory enables you to build flexible cloud-native directories for organizing hierarchies of data along multiple dimensions.
Cloud Formation	AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to model and provision AWS and third party application resources in your cloud environment.Infrastructure as a Code
Cloud9	"AWS Cloud9" is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser
CloudFormation	AWS CloudFormation" is used to deploy resources through code, as a service, it does not include preconfigured servers.
CloudHSM	AWS CloudHSM is a cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys on the AWS Cloud.
CloudTrail	AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records activity made on your account and delivers log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. CloudTrail is for auditing whereas CloudWatch is for performance monitoring.
CloudWatch	Amazon CloudWatch" : service performs performance monitoring
CloudWatch Logs	Amazon CloudWatch Logs lets you monitor and troubleshoot your systems and applications using your existing system, application and custom log files
Code Commit	CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that hosts secure Git-based repositories. It makes it easy for teams to collaborate on code in a secure and highly scalable ecosystem.
Code Deploy	"AWS CodeDeploy is a deployment service that automates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises
CodeStar"	CodeStar" enables you to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS. AWS CodeStar provides a unified user interface, enabling you to easily manage your software development activities in one place.
Comprehend	Amazon Comprehend identifies the language of the text; extracts key phrases, places, people, brands, or events; understands how positive or negative the text is; analyzes text using tokenization and parts of speech; and automatically organizes a collection of text files by topic.
Containers	Containers are packaged software that runs in a Docker image. Services such as Amazon ECS and Fargate can run Docker containers.
Cost Explorer	AWS Cost Explorer is a free tool that allows you to view charts of your costs
Cross-Region Replication	S3 Cross-Region Replication is used for copying data between regions, not into AWS. It is also unsuitable for moving such as huge amount of data.
Database Migration Service	AWS Database Migration Service is used to migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely. The source database remains fully operational during the migration, minimizing downtime to applications that rely on the database. The AWS Database Migration Service can migrate data to and from most widely used commercial and open-source databases.
Database Migration Service (DMS)	AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) helps you migrate databases to AWS quickly and securely
Direct Connect	AWS Direct Connect provides a low-latency, high bandwidth connection to connect customer on-premise environments with the AWS cloud which allows them to create a “hybrid” cloud architecture.
DynamoDB	Amazon DynamoDB is fully managed and can be scaled without incurring downtime. DynamoDB scales horizontally and it does so seamlessly.
EBS volume	An EBS volume is a block storage device that is most similar to a virtual hard disk in the cloud as when attached to an instance it appears as a local disk that can have an operating system installed on or be formatted and used for any other local storage purpose.
Ec2 Dedicated host	Is a physical server with EC2 instance capacity full dedicated for your use. Dedicated hosts allow you to use existing per socket, per core, Per VM software licenses
Elastic Beanstalk	AWS Elastic Beanstalk  can be used to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud.
Elastic Block Store (EBS)	Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a block-based storage system that provides a “virtual hard disk in the cloud”. You can back up your EBS volumes using snapshots which are point-in-time copies of the data.
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides elastic web-scale computing in the cloud allowing you to deploy instances running the Windows and Linux operating systems.
Elastic Container Registry (ECR)	Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images
Elastic Container Service	Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
Elastic File Storage (EFS) filesystem	"Amazon Elastic File Storage (EFS) filesystem is an EFS filesystem is mounted over the NFS protocol which is a file-level protocol. Therefore, it is a network filesystem
Elastic File System (EFS)	Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides an NFS filesystem for usage by EC2 instances. Amazon Elastic File System allows you to connect hundreds or thousands of EC2 instances concurrently and is accessed using the file-level NFS protocol.
Elastic IP address	An Elastic IP address is a static IPv4 address designed for dynamic cloud computing. An Elastic IP address is associated with your AWS account. With an Elastic IP address, you can mask the failure of an instance or software by rapidly remapping the address to another instance in your account.
Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)	Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) provides a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process vast amounts of data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.
Elastic Transcoder	Amazon Elastic Transcoder is a highly scalable, easy to use and cost-effective way for developers and businesses to convert (or “transcode”) video and audio files from their source format into versions that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs.
ElastiCache	Amazon ElastiCache offers fully managed Redis and Memcached database services.
Elasticsearch	Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, operate, and scale Elasticsearch to search, analyze, and visualize data in real-time. Elasticsearch is based on open source software.
Glacier Deep Archive	Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive is a  storage class  suited to archival and takes several hours to restore data.
Glue"	AWS Glue"  is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics.
Golden Images	Golden Images are snapshots of pre-configured EBS volumes that can be used to launch new instances. You do this using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).
GuardDuty	Amazon GuardDuty offers threat detection and continuous security monitoring for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads.
Identity and Access Management (IAM)	AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely
Inspector	"Using AWS Inspector" is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.
Interntet Gateway	Horizontally scaled, redundant, and highly available VPC Component that allows communications between instances in your VPC and the internet.
IOT Core	Lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications.
Key Management Service (KMS)	AWS Key Management Service (KMS) gives you centralized control over the encryption keys used to protect your data.
Kinesis	Amazon Kinesis makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly to new information.
LightSail	AWSLightSail provides preconfigured virtual private servers (instances) that include everything required to deploy and application or create a database. LightSail includes everything you need to launch your project quickly – a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP.
Machine Images (AMI)	Amazon Machine Images (AMI) store configuration information for Amazon EC2 instances.
Macie	Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect sensitive data in AWS.
Managed Services	AWS Managed Services manages the daily operations of your AWS infrastructure in alignment with ITIL processes. AWS Managed Services provides a baseline integration with IT Service Management (ITSM) tools such as the ServiceNow platform.
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. With Amazon Neptune, you can create sophisticated, interactive graph applications that can query billions of relationships in milliseconds.
Object Life Cycle Management	Allows you to set rules to automatically transfer objects between different storage classes at defined time intervals
OpsWorks	AWS OpsWorks is 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. OpsWorks lets you use Chef and Puppet to automate how servers are configured, deployed, and managed across your Amazon EC2 instances or on-premises compute environments,
Organizations	AWS organizations allow you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. Each paying account is an independent entity and is not able to access resources of other accounts in the Organization. The billing is performed centrally on the root account in the AWS Organization
Personal Health Dashboard	AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you.
Personal Health Dashboard	AWS Personal Health Dashboard provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that may impact you. While the Service Health Dashboard displays the general status of AWS services, Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources.
QuickSight	Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business intelligence service that makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your organization.
RedShift	Amazon RedShift is a data warehouse. With a data warehouse you load data from other databases such as transactional SQL databases and run analysis. You can analyze data using SQL and Business Intelligence tools.
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 the objects, people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content.
Reserved Instance	Reserved Instances (RI) provide a significant discount (up to 72%) compared to On-Demand pricing and provide a capacity reservation when used in a specific Availability Zone. The following types of RI are available:Standard RIs: These provide the most significant discount (up to 75% off On-Demand) and are best suited for steady-state usage  :Convertible RIs: These provide a discount (up to 54% off On-Demand) and the capability to change the attributes of the RI as long as the exchange results in the creation of Reserved Instances of equal or greater value. Like Standard RIs, Convertible RIs are best suited for steady-state usage.
Route53 Health Check	Monitor the health and performance of your web applications , web server and other resources.
S3 Event Notifications	Amazon S3 Event Notifications is a feature that notifies you when certain events happen in your S3 buckets
S3 One Zone-IA	S3 One Zone-IA is for data that is accessed less frequently, but requires rapid access when needed. Unlike other S3 Storage Classes which store data in a minimum of three Availability Zones (AZs), S3 One Zone-IA stores data in a single AZ and costs 20% less than S3 Standard-IA.....S3 One Zone-IA is ideal for customers who want a lower-cost option for infrequently accessed data but do not require the availability and resilience of S3 Standard or S3 Standard-IA........It’s a good choice for storing secondary backup copies of on-premises data or easily re-creatable data. You can also use it as cost-effective storage for data that is replicated from another AWS Region using S3 Cross-Region Replication.
Secrets Manager	AWS Secrets Manager" service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle.
Security Token Service (STS)	AWS Security Token Service (STS) is a web service that enables you to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users.
Service Catalog	AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures
Shield	AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service.
Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)	Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a web service that gives you access to message queues that store messages waiting to be processed. SQS offers a reliable, highly-scalable, hosted queue for storing messages in transit between computers. SQS is used for distributed/decoupled application.
Snowball	WS Snowball you can move up to 80TB per device. AWS call this a “petabyte-scale data transfer service”.
Snowmobile	With AWS Snowmobile you can move 100PB per snowmobile. AWS call this an “Exabyte-scale data transfer service”.
SNS	Amazon SNS is used for building and integrating loosely-coupled, distributed applications.
SWF	Amazon SWF helps developers build, run, and scale background jobs that have parallel or sequential steps. You can think of Amazon SWF as a fully-managed state tracker and task coordinator in the Cloud.
Systems Manager	AWS Systems Manager gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS. Systems Manager provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources.
tag	A tag is a label that you assign to an AWS resource. Each tag consists of a key and an optional value, both of which you define. Tags enable you to categorize your AWS resources in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment
Transcribe	Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to their applications
Transfer Acceleration	S3 Transfer Acceleration is meant speed up uploads to Amazon S3 but would not be used for exabytes of data.
Transit Gateway	AWS Transit Gateway is used to connect Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and on-premises networks to a single gateway for connecting multiple VPCs and on-premises networks.
Trusted Advisor	AWS Trusted Advisor is an online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment.
WAF is a web application firewall	AWS WAF is a web application firewall that protects against common exploits that could compromise application availability, compromise security or consume excessive resources.
Workflow automation	Workflow automation is a process or orchestrating automated actions. This is associated with services such as Chef and Puppet or AWS OpsWorks.
X-Ray	AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices