Analytics

Amazon Athena – Released November 30, 2016

• 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 manage
Amazon CloudSearch – Released April 11, 2012
• Makes it simple and cost-effective to set up, manage, and scale
a search solution for your website or application.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service – Released October 1, 2015
• Makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and operate
Elasticsearch at scale with zero down time
• Offers open-source Elasticsearch APIs, managed Kibana, and
integrations with Logstash and other AWS Services, enabling
you to securely ingest data from any source and search,
analyze, and visualize it in real time.
Amazon EMR – Released April 2009
• 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.
• Securely and reliably handles a broad set of big data use cases,
including log analysis, web indexing, data transformations
(ETL), machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation,
and bioinformatics.
Amazon Kinesis – Released December 16, 2013
• Makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time,
streaming data so you can get timely insights and react quickly
to new information
• Offers key capabilities to cost-effectively process streaming
data at any scale, along with the flexibility to choose the tools
that best suit the requirements of your application
• You can ingest real-time data such as video, audio, application
logs, website clickstreams, and IoT telemetry data for machine
learning, analytics, and other applications.
Amazon Redshift – Released February 14, 2013
• A fast, scalable data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-
effective to analyze all your data across your data warehouse
and data lake.
• Delivers ten times faster performance than other data
warehouses by using machine learning, massively parallel
query execution, and columnar storage on high-performance
disk
Amazon Quicksight – Released November 15, 2016
• Makes it easy to deliver insights to everyone in your
organization
• Lets you easily create and publish interactive dashboards that
include ML Insights.
• Dashboards can then be accessed from any device, and
embedded into your applications, portals, and websites.
AWS Data Pipeline – Released December 2012
• A web service that helps you reliably process and move data
between different AWS compute and storage services, as well
as on-premises data sources, at specified intervals
• You can regularly access your data where it’s stored, transform
and process it at scale, and efficiently transfer the results to
AWS services
• Helps you easily create complex data processing workloads
that are fault tolerant, repeatable, and highly available.
AWS Glue – Released August 14, 2017
• Extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for
customers to prepare and load their data for analytics
• You can create and run an ETL job with a few clicks in the AWS
Management Console. You simply point AWS Glue to your data
stored on AWS, and AWS Glue discovers your data and stores
the associated metadata (e.g. table definition and schema) in
the AWS Glue Data Catalog
Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka – Announced November 29, 2018
• Makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use
Apache Kafka to process streaming data
• An open-source platform for building real-time streaming data
pipelines and applications
 • You can use Apache Kafka APIs to populate data lakes, stream
changes to and from databases, and power machine learning
and analytics applications.
AWS Lake Formation – Released August 8, 2019
• Makes it easy to set up a secure data lake in days.
• Lake Formation collects and catalogs data from databases and
object storage, moves the data into your new Amazon S3 data
lake, cleans and classifies data using machine learning
algorithms, and secures access to your sensitive data.
AWS Data Exchange – Released November 13, 2019
• A service that makes it easy for AWS customers to find,
subscribe to and use third-party data in the cloud.

Application Integration
Amazon EventBridge – Released July 11, 2019
• A serverless event bus that connects applications together
using data from your own apps, SaaS apps, and AWS services.
• An event is a signal that a system’s state has changed (e.g. a
change in the status of a customer support ticket).
• You can set up routing rules to determine where to send your
data to build application architectures that react in real-time to
all of your data sources.
AWS Step Functions – Released December 1, 2016
• Let’s you coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless
workflows so you can build and update apps quickly
• You can design and run workflows that stitch together services
such as AWS Lambda and Amazon ECS into feature-rich
applications.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) – Released November 5,
2012
• Message queuing service that enables you to decouple and
scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless
applications.
• Eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with
managing and operating message oriented middleware, and
empowers developers to focus on differentiating work.
 • Using SQS, you can send, store, and receive messages between
software components at any volume, without losing messages
or requiring other services to be available
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) – Released April 7,
2010
• Durable, secure, fully managed pub/sub messaging service that
enables you to decouple microservices, distributed systems,
and serverless applications
• Provides topics for high-throughput, push-based, many-to-
many messaging
Amazon MQ – Released November 28, 2017
• Managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that
makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the
cloud.
• Reduces your operational load by managing the provisioning,
setup, and maintenance of ActiveMQ, a popular open-source
message broker
Amazon AppSync – Released April 13, 2018
• Simplifies application development by letting you create a
flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data
from one or more data sources
•You can build scalable applications, including those requiring
real-time updates, on a range of data sources such as NoSQL
data stores, relational databases, HTTP APIs, and your custom
data sources with AWS Lambda.
Amazon AppFlow – Released April 2020
• No code integration for SaaS applications and AWS services –
you can securely transfer data between SaaS applications like
Salesforce, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services.
• Can be used to set up data flows in minutes with no coding
required.
• Easily scales up so there’s no need to plan or provision
resources giving you the ability to move large volumes of data
without having to break it down into numerous batches.
• Automatically encrypts data in motion reducing exposure to
security threats.
 • You can run data flows at nearly any scale at the frequency you
choose.
AR & VR
Amazon Sumerian – Released May 15, 2018
• Lets you create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality
(AR), and 3D applications quickly and easily without requiring
any specialized programming or 3D graphics expertise
• You can build highly immersive and interactive scenes that run
on popular hardware such as Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive,
HTC Vive Pro, Google Daydream, and Lenovo Mirage as well as
Android and iOS mobile devices
AWS Cost Management
AWS Cost Explorer -Released April 8, 2014
• Lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs
and usage over time.
• Creates custom reports that analyze cost and usage data, both
at a high level and for highly-specific requests sashbAWS Cost
Explorer Forecasting
AWS Budgets — Released June 29, 2015
• Set custom budgets that alert you when your costs or usage
exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budgeted amount
• Set RI utilization or coverage targets and receive alerts when
your utilization drops below the threshold you define
Reserved Instance Reporting – Released December 2016
• Using these reports, you can set custom RI utilization and
coverage targets, visualize how well you are tracking towards
your goals, and access information associated with your savings
as compared to On-Demand prices.
• From there, you can refine the underlying data using the
available filtering dimensions to grain greater insight into your
reservations.
AWS Cost and Usage Report – Release December 16, 2015
• Lists AWS usage for each service category used by an account
and its IAM users in hourly or daily line items, as well as any tags
that you have activated for cost allocation purposes.
Savings Plans – Released November 6, 2019
• A flexible pricing model that provides customers with savings
of up to 72% on committed usage for EC2 and Fargate.
Blockchain
Amazon Managed Blockchain – Released April 30, 2019
• Often used to solve two types of customer needs
• 1- multiple parties work with a centralized, trusted
authority to maintain a complete and verifiable record of
transactions
• 2 – multiple parties transact in a decentralized manner
without the need for a centralized, trusted authority.
• Makes it easy to setup, deploy, and manage scalable blockchain
networks, eliminating the need for you to rely on expensive
consulting implementations.
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
– Released September 10, 2019
• Ledger database that provides a transparent, immutable, and
cryptographically verifiable transaction log owned by a central
trusted authority
• Tracks each and every application data change and maintains a
complete and verifiable history of changes over time
Business Applications
Alexa for Business – Released November 30, 2017
• Enables organizations and employees to use Alexa to get more
work done.
• Employees can use Alexa as their intelligent assistant to be
more productive in meeting rooms, at their desks, and even
with the Alexa devices they already have at home.
Amazon Chime – Released February 13, 2017
• Communications service that lets you meet, chat, and place
business calls inside and outside your organization, all using a
single application
• You have the flexibility to choose the features that you need for
online meetings, video conferencing, and business calling, and
pay only when you use them
Amazon WorkMail – Released January 4, 2016
• A secure, managed business email and calendar service with
support for existing desktop and mobile email client
applications
• gives users the ability to seamlessly access their email, contacts,
and calendars using the client application of their choice,
including Microsoft Outlook, native iOS and Android email
applications, any client application supporting the IMAP
protocol, or directly through a web browser.
Amazon WorkDocs- Released July 10, 2014
• A fully managed, secure content creation, storage, and
collaboration service.
• You can easily create, edit, and share content, and access it
from anywhere on any device
• Lets you integrate with your existing systems, and offers a rich
API so that you can develop your own content-rich
applications.
Amazon HoneyCode – Released in beta June 2020
• Build mobile and web apps without writing any code.

Customer Engagement
Amazon Connect – Released March 28, 2017
• A self-service, cloud-based contact center service that makes it
easy for any business to deliver better customer service at
lower cost
• Makes it easy for non-technical users to design contact flows,
manage agents, and track performance metrics – no
specialized skills required
Amazon Pinpoint – Released December 1, 2016
• Send targeted messages to your customers through multiple
engagement channels
• Tracks the ways that your customers respond to the messages
you send
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) – January 25, 2011
• Email sending service designed to help digital marketers and
application developers send marketing, notification, and
transactional email
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect – Released July 2020
• A set of Machine Learning analytics capabilities that are
integrated into Amazon Connect.
• Gives contact center supervisors the ability to understand the
sentiment, trends, and compliance risks of customer
conversations to replicate successful interactions and identify
crucial customer feedback on the company and product.
Compute
Amazon EC2 – Released August 2006
• A web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity
in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing
easier for developers.
• Allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal
friction. It provides you with complete control of your
computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven
computing environment
• Reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server
instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity,
both up and down, as your computing requirements change.
On the ParkMyCloud blog – most blogs in our How to Save on AWS
category deal with EC2
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling – Released May 17, 2009
• Helps you maintain application availability and allows you to
automatically add or remove EC2 instances according to
conditions you define
• You can use the fleet management features of EC2 Auto
Scaling to maintain the health and availability of your fleet. You
can also use the dynamic and predictive scaling features of EC2
Auto Scaling to add or remove EC2 instances. Dynamic scaling
responds to changing demand and predictive scaling
automatically schedules the right number of EC2 instances
based on predicted demand.
How to Schedule Auto Scaling Groups
Amazon Lightsail – Released November 30, 2016
• The easiest way to get started with AWS for developers, small
businesses, students, and other users who need a simple virtual
private server (VPS) solution.
• Provides developers compute, storage, and networking
capacity and capabilities to deploy and manage websites and
web applications in the cloud.
• Includes everything you need to launch your project quickly – a
virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS
management, and a static IP.
AWS Batch – Released January 5, 2017
• Enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and
efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs
on AWS.
• AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and
type of compute resources (e.g., CPU or memory optimized
instances) based on the volume and specific resource
requirements of the batch jobs submitted.
• AWS Batch plans, schedules, and executes your batch
computing workloads across the full range of AWS compute
services and features, such as Amazon EC2 and Spot Instances.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk – Released January 19, 2011
• An easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web
applications and services developed with Java, .NET, PHP,
Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such
as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS
• Simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically
handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load
balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring.
AWS Lambda – Released April 15, 2015
• Lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers
• You can run code for virtually any type of application or
backend service – all with zero administration.
• Upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything
required to run and scale your code with high availability.
ParkMyCloud + AWS Lambda for Supercharged Automation
AWS Serverless Application Repository – Released February 21,
2018
• A managed repository for serverless applications.
• It enables teams, organizations, and individual developers to
store and share reusable applications, and easily assemble and
deploy serverless architectures in powerful new ways.
• You can use pre-built applications from the Serverless
Application Repository in your serverless architectures, helping
you and your teams reduce duplicated work, ensure
organizational best practices, and get to market faster.
VMware Cloud on AWS – Released August 28, 2017
• Delivers a highly scalable, secure and innovative service that
allows organizations to seamlessly migrate and extend their
on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS
Cloud running on next-generation Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (Amazon EC2) bare metal infrastructure
• AWS brings the broad, diverse and rich innovations of AWS
services natively to the enterprise applications running on
VMware’s compute, storage and network virtualization
platforms.
• This allows organizations to easily and rapidly add new
innovations to their enterprise applications by natively
integrating AWS infrastructure and platform capabilities
• You can leverage AWS’s breadth of services, including
compute, databases, analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), security,
mobile, deployment, application services, and more.
AWS Outposts – Released December 3, 2019
• Brings native AWS services, infrastructure, and operating
models to virtually any data center, co-location space, or on-
premises facility.
• You can use the same APIs, same tools, same hardware, and
same functionality across on-premises and the cloud to deliver
a truly consistent hybrid experience.
• Outposts can be used to support workloads that need to
remain on-premises due to low latency or local data processing
needs.
 • AWS Outposts come in two variants:
• 1) VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts allows you to use the
same VMware control plane and APIs you use to run your
infrastructure
• 2) AWS native variant of AWS Outposts allows you to use
the same exact APIs and control plane you use to run in
the AWS cloud, but on-premises.
AWS Wavelength – Released December 3, 2019
• Enables developers to build applications that deliver single-
digit millisecond latencies (such as game and live video
streaming, machine learning inference at the edge, and
augmented and virtual reality) to mobile devices and end-
users.
• AWS Wavelength brings AWS compute and storage services to
the edge of the 5G network, minimizing the latency to connect
to an application from a mobile device
AWS Snow Family – See in “Migration & Transfer” and
“Storage”
Containers
AWS App2Container – Released June 2020
• Command-line tool for modernizing .NET and Java applications
into containerized applications.
• Allows you to containerize and migrate existing applications
and standardize on a single set of tooling for monitoring,
operations, and software delivery.
Amazon Elastic Container Registry – Released December 21,
2015
• A fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy
for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container
images
• Amazon ECR eliminates the need to operate your own
container repositories or worry about scaling the underlying
infrastructure.
• Amazon ECR hosts your images in a highly available and
scalable architecture, allowing you to reliably deploy containers
for your applications.
Amazon ECR & Other Container Services
Amazon Elastic Container Service – Released April 9, 2015
• A highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration
service that supports Docker containers and allows you to
easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS
• Eliminates the need for you to install and operate your own
container orchestration software, manage and scale a cluster of
virtual machines, or schedule containers on those virtual
machines
Amazon ECS Overview
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service – Released June 5, 2018
• Makes it easy to deploy, manage, and scale containerized
applications using Kubernetes on AWS.
• Amazon EKS runs the Kubernetes management infrastructure
for you across multiple AWS availability zones to eliminate a
single point of failure. Applications running on any standard
Kubernetes environment are fully compatible and can be easily
migrated to Amazon EKS.
Amazon EKS & Other Container Services
AWS Fargate – Released November 29, 2017
• A compute engine for Amazon ECS that allows you to run
containers without having to manage servers or clusters
• Removes the need to choose server types, decide when to scale
your clusters, or optimize cluster packing.
• Removes the need for you to interact with or think about
servers or clusters.
• Lets you focus on designing and building your
applications instead of managing the infrastructure that
runs them
• AWS Fargate eliminates the need to manage a cluster of
Amazon EC2 instances.
• You no longer have to pick the instance types, manage
cluster scheduling, or optimize cluster utilization.
End User Computing
Amazon WorkSpaces – Released March 26, 2014
• Provision either Windows or Linux desktops in just a few
minutes and quickly scale to provide thousands of desktops to
workers across the globe
• Your users get a fast, responsive desktop of their choice that
they can access anywhere, anytime, from any supported device.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 – Released December 1, 2016
• Fully managed application streaming service.
• You centrally manage your desktop applications on
AppStream 2.0 and securely deliver them to any
computer.
• You can easily scale to any number of users across the globe
without acquiring, provisioning, and operating hardware or
infrastructure
Amazon WorkLink – Released January 23, 2019
• Lets you provide your employees with secure, easy access to
your internal corporate websites and web apps using their
mobile phones.
• Employees can access internal web content as easily as they
access any public website, without the hassle of connecting to
their corporate network.
Game Tech
Amazon GameLift – Released February 9, 2016
• Managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling
dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games.
• Lets you scale high-performance game servers up and down to
meet player demand.
• Deploys your first game server in the cloud in just minutes, and
saves up to thousands of engineering hours in upfront software
development and lowering technical risks.
Amazon Lumberyard – Released February 9, 2016
• Free, cross-platform AAA game engine deeply integrated with
AWS and Twitch – with full source code provided.
• Help developers build games with beautiful worlds, realistic
characters, and stunning effects
Database
Amazon Aurora- Released July 27, 2015
• A MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built
for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of
traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-
effectiveness of open source databases
• Provides the security, availability, and reliability of commercial
databases at 1/10th the cost.
• Fully managed by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS),
which automates time-consuming administration tasks like
hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.
Amazon RDS – Released October 22, 2009
• Makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database
in the cloud.
• Provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating
time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware
provisioning, database setup, patching and backups.
Start & Stop RDS Instances on a Schedule for cost savings
Amazon DynamoDB – Released January 18, 2012
• A key-value and document database that delivers single-digit
millisecond performance at any scale.
• It’s a fully managed, multiregion, multimaster database with
built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching
for internet-scale applications.
• Supports some of the world’s largest scale applications by
providing consistent, single-digit millisecond response times at
any scale.
Amazon ElastiCache – Released August 22, 2011
• Seamlessly deploy, run, and scale popular open source
compatible in-memory data stores.
• Build data-intensive apps or improve the performance of your
existing apps by retrieving data from high throughput and low
latency in-memory data stores
Amazon Redshift – See in “Analytics” Category Above
Amazon Neptune – Released May 30, 2018
• A fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that
makes it easy to build and run applications that work with
highly connected datasets.
• A purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine
optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the
graph with milliseconds latency.
• Highly available, with read replicas, point-in-time recovery,
continuous backup to Amazon S3, and replication across
Availability Zones.
• Allows you to easily build queries that efficiently navigate
highly connected datasets.
AWS Neptune Overview
AWS Database Migration Service – March 15, 2016
• Helps you 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.
• Can migrate your data to and from most widely used
commercial and open-source databases.
• Supports homogenous migrations, as well as heterogeneous
migrations between different database platforms.
Amazon Timestream – Preview announced on Nov 28, 2018
• A fast, scalable, fully managed time series database service for
IoT and operational applications that makes it easy to store and
analyze trillions of events per day at 1/10th the cost of relational
databases
• A purpose-built time series database that efficiently stores and
processes this data by time intervals.
• You can easily store and analyze log data for DevOps, sensor
data for IoT applications, and industrial telemetry data for
equipment maintenance
• Timestream’s adaptive query processing engine understands
its location and format, making your data simpler and faster to
analyze.
 •Automates rollups, retention, tiering, and compression of data,
so you can manage your data at the lowest possible cost.
Amazon RDS on VMware – October 16, 2019
• Lets you deploy managed databases in on-premises VMware
environments using the Amazon RDS technology enjoyed by
hundreds of thousands of AWS customers.
• Provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating
time-consuming administration tasks including hardware
provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.
• Allows you to utilize the same simple interface for managing
databases in on-premises VMware environments as you would
use in AWS. You can easily replicate RDS on VMware databases
to RDS instances in AWS, enabling low-cost hybrid
deployments for disaster recovery, read replica bursting, and
optional long-term backup retention in Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3).
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) – See in
“Blockchain” Category Above
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) –
Released January 9, 2019
• A fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document
database service that supports MongoDB workloads.
• Customers use MongoDB as a document database to store,
retrieve, and manage semi-structured data.
• However, it is hard to build performant, highly available
applications that can quickly scale to multiple terabytes
and hundreds of thousands of reads- and writes-per-
second because of the complexity that comes with
setting up and managing MongoDB clusters at scale.
• Amazon DocumentDB is designed from the ground-up to give
you the performance, scalability, and availability you need
when operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads at scale
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) – Released April
2020
• A scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–
compatible database service.
 • You can run your Cassandra workloads in AWS using the same
Cassandra application code and tools that you use today.
Developer Tools
AWS Cloud Development Kit – Generally Available July 11, 2019
• An open-source software development framework to model
and provision your cloud application resources.
• Accelerates your onboarding to AWS.
• You can design your own reusable components to fit your
organization’s security, compliance and governance
requirements.
• Enables you to build your cloud application without leaving
your IDE.
• Provides you with high-level components that preconfigure
cloud resources with proven defaults, so you can build cloud
applications without needing to be an expert.
AWS CodeStar – Released April 19, 2017
• Enables you to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications
on AWS.
• Provides a unified user interface, enabling you to easily manage
your software development activities in one place
• You can set up your entire continuous delivery toolchain in
minutes, allowing you to start releasing code faster.
• Makes it easy for your whole team to work together securely,
allowing you to easily manage access and add owners,
contributors, and viewers to your projects
• You can easily track progress across your entire software
development process, from your backlog of work items to
teams’ recent code deployments.
AWS CodeCommit – Released July 9, 2015
• 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
• Eliminates the need to operate your own source control system
or worry about scaling its infrastructure.
 •Can use to securely store anything from source code to
binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.
AWS CodeBuild – Released December 1, 2016
• A fully managed continuous integration service that compiles
source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that
are ready to deploy.
• Scales continuously and processes multiple builds
concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue.
• Eliminates the need to set up, patch, update, and manage your
own build servers and software.
AWS CodeDeploy – Released November 12, 2014
• A fully managed deployment service that automates software
deployments to a variety of compute services such as Amazon
EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and your on-premises servers,
eliminating the need for error-prone manual operations.
• Makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, helps
you avoid downtime during application deployment, and
handles the complexity of updating your applications.
AWS CodePipeline – Released July 9, 2015
• A fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you
automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application
and infrastructure updates.
• Automates the build, test, and deploy phases of your release
process every time there is a code change, based on the release
model you define.
This enables you to rapidly and reliably deliver features
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and updates.
AWS Cloud9 – Released November 30, 2017
• A cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that
lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.
• Includes a code editor, debugger, and terminal.
• Comes prepackaged with essential tools for popular
programming languages, so you don’t need to install files or
configure your development machine to start new projects.
• Provides a seamless experience for developing serverless
applications enabling you to easily define resources, debug,
 and switch between local and remote execution of serverless
applications.
AWS X-Ray – Released April 19, 2017
• Helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed
applications, such as those built using a microservices
architecture.
• You can understand how your application and its underlying
services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root
cause of performance issues and errors.
• Provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through
your application, and shows a map of your application’s
underlying components.
• You can use to analyze both applications in development and
in production, from simple three-tier applications to complex
microservices applications consisting of thousands of services.
AWS Command Line Interface – Released September 3, 2013
• A unified tool to manage your AWS services.
• With just one tool to download and configure, you can control
multiple AWS services from the command line and automate
them through scripts.
Amazon Corretto – Released January 31st, 2019
• A no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the
Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK).
• Amazon runs Corretto internally on thousands of production
services and Corretto is certified as compatible with the Java SE
standard. With Corretto, you can develop and run Java
applications on popular operating systems, including Linux,
Windows, and macOS.
AWS Tools and SDKs
•AWS includes Tools and SDKs that allows you to access and
manage AWS services with your preferred development
language or platform.
AWS Device Farm – See in “Mobile” Category Above
AWS CodeArtifact – Released June 2020
• Secure, scalable, and cost-effective artifact management for
software development
 • Can be configured to automatically fetch software packages
and dependencies from public artifact repositories so
developers have access to the latest versions.
• Works with package managers and build tools making it easy
to integrate into existing development workflows.
Amazon CodeGuru – Released June 2020
• A machine learning service for development teams used for
automated code reviews and to identify the most expensive
lines of code in their applications.
• It also receives intelligent recommendations on how to fix or
improve their code.
Internet of Things
AWS IoT Core – Released December 18, 2015
• A managed cloud service that lets connected devices easily and
securely interact with cloud applications and other devices.
• Can support billions of devices and trillions of messages, and
can process and route those messages to AWS endpoints and
to other devices reliably and securely.
• Allows you to easily connect devices to the cloud and to other
devices.
Amazon FreeRTOS – Released November 29, 2017
• An operating system for microcontrollers that makes small,
low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure,
connect, and manage.
• You can take advantage of the large ecosystem of existing tools
developed for the FreeRTOS kernel.
AWS Greengrass – Released June 7, 2017
• Extends AWS to edge devices so they can act locally on the
data they generate, while still using the cloud for management,
analytics, and durable storage.
• You can use familiar languages and programming models to
create and test your device software in the cloud, and then
deploy it to your devices.
• Can be programmed to filter device data and only transmit
necessary information back to the cloud.
 • Can also connect to third-party applications, on-premises
software, and AWS services out-of-the-box.
AWS IoT 1-Click – Released May 16, 2018
• A service that enables simple devices to trigger AWS Lambda
functions that can execute an action.
• AWS IoT 1-Click supported devices enable you to easily perform
actions such as notifying technical support, tracking assets, and
replenishing goods or services
• AWS IoT 1-Click supported devices are ready for use right out of
the box and eliminate the need for writing your own firmware
or configuring them for secure connectivity. AWS IoT 1-Click
supported devices can be easily managed.
• You can easily create device groups and associate them with a
Lambda function that executes your desired action when
triggered. You can also track device health and activity with the
pre-built reports.
AWS IoT Analytics – Released April 24, 2018
• A fully-managed service that makes it easy to run and
operationalize sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of
IoT data without having to worry about the cost and complexity
typically required to build an IoT analytics platform.
• It is the easiest way to run analytics on IoT data and get insights
to make better and more accurate decisions for IoT
applications and machine learning use cases.
• Automates each of the difficult steps that are required to
analyze data from IoT devices.
• AWS IoT Analytics filters, transforms, and enriches IoT data
before storing it in a time-series data store for analysis.
• You can setup the service to collect only the data you
need from your devices, apply mathematical transforms
to process the data, and enrich the data with device-
specific metadata such as device type and location before
storing the processed data.
• Makes it easy to get started with machine learning by including
pre-built models for common IoT use cases.
 • Automates the execution of your custom analyses created in
Jupyter Notebook or your own tools (such as Matlab, Octave,
etc.) to be executed on your schedule.
• AWS IoT Analytics is a fully managed service that
operationalizes analyses and scales automatically to support up
to petabytes of IoT data.
• With AWS IoT Analytics, you can analyze data from
millions of devices and build fast, responsive IoT
applications without managing hardware or
infrastructure.
AWS IoT Button – Released May 2016
• A programmable button based on the Amazon Dash Button
hardware.
• This simple Wi-Fi device is easy to configure and designed
for developers to get started with AWS IoT Core, AWS
Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon SNS, and many
other Amazon Web Services without writing device-
specific code.
• You can code the button’s logic in the cloud to configure
button clicks to count or track items, call or alert someone, start
or stop something, order services, or even provide feedback.
Why We Love the AWS IoT Button
AWS IoT Device Defender – Released August 2, 2018
• A fully managed service that helps you secure your fleet of IoT
devices.
• Continuously audits your IoT configurations to make sure that
they aren’t deviating from security best practices.
• Makes it easy to maintain and enforce IoT configurations, such
as ensuring device identity, authenticating and authorizing
devices, and encrypting device data.
• Continuously audits the IoT configurations on your devices
against a set of predefined security best practices.
• Sends an alert if there are any gaps in your IoT configuration
that might create a security risk, such as identity certificates
being shared across multiple devices or a device with a revoked
identity certificate trying to connect to AWS IoT Core.
 • Lets you continuously monitor security metrics from devices
and AWS IoT Core for deviations from what you have defined as
appropriate behavior for each device.
• If something doesn’t look right, it sends out an alert so you can
take action to remediate the issue
AWS IoT Device Management – Released November 29, 2017
• Makes it easy to securely onboard, organize, monitor, and
remotely manage IoT devices at scale.
• You can register your connected devices individually or in bulk,
and easily manage permissions so that devices remain secure.
• You can organize your devices, monitor and troubleshoot
device functionality, query the state of any IoT device in your
fleet, and send firmware updates over-the-air (OTA).
• You can manage devices from constrained microcontrollers to
connected cars all with the same service.
• Allows you to scale your fleets and reduce the cost and effort of
managing large and diverse IoT device deployments.
AWS IoT Events – May 30, 2019
• A fully managed IoT service that makes it easy to detect and
respond to events from IoT sensors and applications
• It’s simple to detect events across thousands of IoT sensors
sending different telemetry data.
• Continuously monitors data from multiple IoT sensors and
applications, and it integrates with other services, to enable
early detection and unique insights into events.
• Automatically triggers alerts and actions in response to events
based on the logic you define.
• This helps resolve issues quickly, reduce maintenance
costs, and increase operational efficiency.
AWS IoT SiteWise – Released July 2020
• A managed service that makes it easy to collect and organize
data from industrial equipment at scale.
• You can easily monitor equipment across your industrial
facilities to identify waste.
 • Provides software running on a gateway that resides in your
facilities and automates the process of collecting and
organizing industrial equipment data.
• This gateway securely connects to your on-premises data
servers, collects data, and sends the data to the AWS
Cloud.
• Monitor operations across facilities, quickly compute common
industrial performance metrics, and build applications to
analyze industrial equipment data, prevent costly equipment
issues, and reduce production inefficiencies.
AWS Partner Device Catalog – Released November 2018
• A hardware validation and benefits program for all AWS
Partner Network (APN) Partners
• Through this program, APN Partners can submit their
hardware for technical validation for Amazon FreeRTOS,
AWS IoT Greengrass, AWS IoT Core, and Amazon Kinesis
Video Streams.
AWS IoT Things Graph – May 30, 2019
• A service that makes it easy to visually connect different
devices and web services to build IoT applications.
• Provides a visual drag-and-drop interface for connecting and
coordinating devices and web services, so you can build IoT
applications quickly.
• You can get started with AWS IoT Things Graph using these
pre-built models for popular device types, such as switches and
programmable logic controllers (PLCs), or create your own
custom model using a GraphQL-based schema modeling
language, and deploy your IoT application to AWS IoT
Greengrass-enabled devices such as cameras, cable set-top
boxes, or robotic arms in just a few clicks
Machine Learning
Amazon SageMaker – Released November 29, 2017
• Provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to
build, train, and deploy machine learning models quickly.
 • A fully-managed service that covers the entire machine
learning workflow to label and prepare your data, choose an
algorithm, train the model, tune and optimize it for
deployment, make predictions, and take action.
Amazon Comprehend – Released November 29, 2017
• A natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine
learning to find insights and relationships in text. No machine
learning experience required.
• Uses machine learning to help you uncover the insights and
relationships in your unstructured data.
• The service 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.
• You can also use AutoML capabilities in Amazon
Comprehend to build a custom set of entities or text
classification models that are tailored uniquely to your
organization’s needs.
Amazon Lex – Released April 19, 2017
• A service for building conversational interfaces into any
application using voice and text.
• Provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of
automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to
text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize
the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with
highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational
interactions
• Democratizes these deep learning technologies by putting the
power of Amazon Alexa within reach of all developers.
• Harnessing these technologies, Amazon Lex enables you
to define entirely new categories of products made
possible through conversational interfaces.
• As a fully managed service, Amazon Lex scales automatically, so
you don’t need to worry about managing infrastructure
Amazon Polly – Released November 30, 2016
• A service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to
create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories
of speech-enabled products.
• A Text-to-Speech service that uses advanced deep learning
technologies to synthesize speech that sounds like a human
voice.
Amazon Rekognition – Released November 30, 2016
• 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
• Provides highly accurate facial analysis and facial recognition
on images and video that you provide.
• You can detect, analyze, and compare faces for a wide
variety of user verification, people counting, and public
safety use cases.
• A simple and easy to use API that can quickly analyze any
image or video file stored in Amazon S3.
Amazon Translate – Released April 4, 2018
• A neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-
quality, and affordable language translation.
• Allows you to localize content – such as websites and
applications – for international users, and to easily translate
large volumes of text efficiently.
Amazon Transcribe – Released April 4, 2018
• An automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it
easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to their
applications
• You can analyze audio files stored in Amazon S3 and have the
service return a text file of the transcribed speech.
• You can also send a live audio stream to Amazon
Transcribe and receive a stream of transcripts in real time.
 • Can be used for lots of common applications, including the
transcription of customer service calls and generating subtitles
on audio and video content.
• The service can transcribe audio files stored in common
formats, like WAV and MP3, with time stamps for every
word so that you can easily locate the audio in the original
source by searching for the text.
AWS DeepLens – Released June 13, 2018
• Helps put deep learning in the hands of developers, literally,
with a fully programmable video camera, tutorials, code, and
pre-trained models designed to expand deep learning skills.
•The world’s first deep-learning enabled video camera for
developers of all skill levels to grow their machine learning skills
through hands-on computer vision tutorials, example code,
and pre-built models.
AWS Deep Learning AMIs – Released in 2017
• Provides machine learning practitioners and researchers with
the infrastructure and tools to accelerate deep learning in the
cloud, at any scale.
Apache MXNet on AWS – Released in 2017
• A fast and scalable training and inference framework with an
easy-to-use, concise API for machine learning.
• Includes the Gluon interface that allows developers of all skill
levels to get started with deep learning on the cloud, on edge
devices, and on mobile apps.
TensorFlow on AWS – Released in 2017
• Enables developers to quickly and easily get started with deep
learning in the cloud.
• The framework has broad support in the industry and has
become a popular choice for deep learning research and
application development, particularly in areas such as
computer vision, natural language understanding and
speech translation.
• Comes with a full suite of visualization tools that make it easy to
understand, debug, and optimize applications.
 • With support for a variety of styles – from images and
audio to histograms and graphs – you can train massive
deep neural networks quickly and easily.
Amazon Personalize – June 10, 2019
• A machine learning service that makes it easy for developers to
create individualized recommendations for customers using
their applications.
• Allows developers with no prior machine learning experience to
easily build sophisticated personalization capabilities into their
applications, using machine learning technology perfected
from years of use on Amazon.com.
• Amazon Personalize will process and examine the data, identify
what is meaningful, select the right algorithms, and train and
optimize a personalization model that is customized for your
data.
• You provide an activity stream from your application –
page views, signups, purchases, and so forth – as well as
an inventory of the items you want to recommend, such
as articles, products, videos, or music.
Amazon Forecast – August 22, 2019
• A fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver
highly accurate forecasts.
• Uses machine learning to combine time series data with
additional variables to build forecasts.
• Requires no machine learning experience to get started.
• You only need to provide historical data, plus any
additional data that you believe may impact your
forecasts.
Amazon Inferentia – Coming late 2019
• A machine learning inference chip designed to deliver high
performance at low cost.
• Provides high throughput, low latency inference performance
at an extremely low cost.
Amazon Textract – May 29, 2019
• A service that automatically extracts text and data from
scanned documents.
 • Goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also
identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored
in tables.
• Using machine learning to instantly “read” virtually any type of
document to accurately extract text and data without the need
for any manual effort or custom code.
• You can quickly automate document workflows, enabling you
to process millions of document pages in hours.
Amazon Elastic Inference – Released November 28, 2018
• Allows you to attach low-cost GPU-powered acceleration to
Amazon EC2 and Amazon SageMaker instances to reduce the
cost of running deep learning inference by up to 75%.
• Allowing you to attach just the right amount of GPU-powered
inference acceleration to any EC2 or SageMaker instance type
with no code changes.
• You can now choose the instance type that is best suited to the
overall CPU and memory needs of your application, and then
separately configure the amount of inference acceleration that
you need to use resources efficiently and to reduce the cost of
running inference.
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth – Released November 28,
2018
• Helps you build highly accurate training datasets for machine
learning quickly.
• Offers easy access to public and private human labelers and
provides them with built-in workflows and interfaces for
common labeling tasks.
• Can lower your labeling costs by up to 70% using automatic
labeling, which works by training Ground Truth from data
labeled by humans so that the service learns to label data
independently.
• Significantly reduces the time and effort required to create
datasets for training to reduce costs.
AWS DeepRacer – April 29, 2019
• The first autonomous scale car specifically developed to help
developers get hands-on with reinforcement learning.
 • Gives developers a simple way to learn RL, experiment with
new RL algorithms and simulation-to-real domain transfer
methods, and experience RL in the real world.
AWS Deep Learning Containers – Released March 27, 2019
• Docker images pre-installed with deep learning frameworks to
make it easy to deploy custom machine learning (ML)
environments quickly by letting you skip the complicated
process of building and optimizing your environments from
scratch
• Docker containers are a popular way to deploy custom ML
environments that run consistently in multiple environments
• AWS DL Containers provide Docker images that are pre-
installed and tested with the latest versions of popular deep
learning frameworks and the libraries they require.
• Come optimized to distribute ML workloads efficiently on
clusters of instances on AWS, so that you get high performance
and scalability right away.
Amazon Augmented AI – Released December 3, 2019
• Makes it easy to build workflows that are required for human
review of Machine Learning predictions.
•Brings human review to all developers, removing the
undifferentiated heavy lifting associated with building human
review systems or managing large numbers of human
reviewers.
Amazon CodeGuru – Released June 2020
• A machine learning service for development teams used for
automated code reviews and to identify the most expensive
lines of code in their applications.
• It also receives intelligent recommendations on how to fix or
improve their code.
Amazon Fraud Detector – Released July 2020
• A fully managed service that makes it easy to identify
potentially fraudulent online activities – ex. online payment
fraud and the creation of fake accounts.
• Uses machine learning and years of fraud detection expertise
from AWS and Amazon.com to automatically identify
 potentially fraudulent activity so you can catch more fraud
faster.
Amazon Kendra – Released May 2020
• An enterprise search service powered by machine learning and
is highly accurate and easy to use.
• Provides a more intuitive way to search, using natural
language, and returns more accurate answers so your end
users can more easily find the information they need within the
vast amount of content spread across your company.
AWS DeepComposer – Will be available in early Q1 2020
• The world’s first machine learning-enabled keyboard for
developers.
• With the AWS DeepComposer keyboard, you can create a
melody that will transform into a completely original song in
seconds, all powered by AI.
PyTorch on AWS
• Flexible open-source machine learning framework.
• Allows developers to iterate quickly on their models in the
prototyping stage without giving up performance in the
production stage.
• Using TorchScript in PyTorch, developers can seamlessly
transition between eager mode and graph mode for efficient
execution in production environments.

Management & Governance

AWS Chatbot – In beta as of July 24, 2019
• An interactive agent that makes it easy to monitor and interact
with your AWS resources from your team chat room.
• You can receive alerts and execute commands to return
diagnostic information.
• Can be set up for your Amazon Chime or Slack chat rooms.
Amazon CloudWatch – Released May 2009
• A monitoring and management service built for developers,
system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT
managers.
 • Provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your
applications, understand and respond to system-wide
performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a
unified view of operational health
• Collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs,
metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS
resources, applications and services that run on AWS, and on-
premises servers
• Set high resolution alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by
side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover
insights to optimize your applications, and ensure they are
running smoothly.
CloudWatch Automatic Dashboards
AWS Auto Scaling – Released January 16, 2018
• Monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity
to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest
possible cost
• It’s easy to setup application scaling for multiple resources
across multiple services in minutes.
• The service provides a simple, powerful user interface that lets
you build scaling plans for resources.
• Makes scaling simple with recommendations that allow you to
optimize performance, costs, or balance between them
• Your applications always have the right resources at the right
time.
How to Save Money with AWS Auto Scaling Groups
AWS CloudFormation – Released February 25, 2011
• Provides a common language for you to describe and provision
all the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment.
• Allows you to use a simple text file to model and provision, in an
automated and secure manner, all the resources needed for
your applications across all regions and accounts.
• This file serves as the single source of truth for your cloud
environment.
Terraform vs. CloudFormation
AWS CloudTrail – Released November 13, 2013
• A service that enables governance, compliance, operational
auditing, and risk auditing of your AWS account.
• You can log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity
related to actions across your AWS infrastructure
• Provides event history of your AWS account activity, including
actions taken through the AWS Management Console, AWS
SDKs, command line tools, and other AWS services.
• This event history simplifies security analysis, resource
change tracking, and troubleshooting.
AWS Config – Released November 12, 2014
• A service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the
configurations of your AWS resources.
• Continuously monitors and records your AWS resource
configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of
recorded configurations against desired configurations.
• you can review changes in configurations and relationships
between AWS resources, dive into detailed resource
configuration histories, and determine your overall compliance
against the configurations specified in your internal guidelines.
• This enables you to simplify compliance auditing, security
analysis, change management, and operational
troubleshooting.
AWS OpsWorks – Released February 18, 2013
• 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.
• OpsWorks has three offerings, AWS Opsworks for Chef
Automate, AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise, and
AWS OpsWorks Stacks.
AWS Service Catalog – Released July 9, 2015
• 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.
• Allows you to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services,
and helps you achieve consistent governance and meet your
compliance requirements, while enabling users to quickly
deploy only the approved IT services they need
AWS Systems Manager – Released November 29, 2017
• Gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS.
• 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
• You can group resources,by application, view operational data
for monitoring and troubleshooting, and take action on your
groups of resources.
• Simplifies resource and application management, shortens the
time to detect and resolve operational problems, and makes it
easy to operate and manage your infrastructure securely at
scale.
AWS Trusted Advisor – Released July 31, 2014
• An online tool that provides you real time guidance to help you
provision your resources following AWS best practices.
• Take advantage of the recommendations provided by Trusted
Advisor on a regular basis to help keep your solutions
provisioned optimally.
AWS Personal Health Dashboard – Released December 1, 2016
• Provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is
experiencing events that may impact you.
• Gives you a personalized view into the performance and
availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources.
• The dashboard displays relevant and timely information to help
you manage events in progress, and provides proactive
notification to help you plan for scheduled activities.
 • Alerts are triggered by changes in the health of AWS
resources, giving you event visibility, and guidance to help
quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
AWS Control Tower – Released November 28, 2018
• Automates the set-up of their landing zone and configures
AWS management and security services based on established
best practices in a secure, compliant, multi-account
environment
AWS License Manager – Released November 28, 2018
• Makes it easier to manage licenses in AWS and on-premises
servers from software vendors.
• Lets administrators create customized licensing rules that
emulate the terms of their licensing agreements, and then
enforces these rules when an instance of EC2 gets launched
• The rules enable you to limit a licensing breach by physically
stopping the instance from launching or by notifying
administrators about the infringement.
• Administrators gain control and visibility of all their licenses and
reduce the risk of non-compliance, misreporting, and
additional costs due to licensing overages.
•Integrates with AWS services to simplify the management of
licenses across multiple AWS accounts, IT catalogs, and on-
premises, through a single AWS account.
AWS Well-Architected Tool – Released November 29, 2018
• Helps you review the state of your workloads and compares
them to the latest AWS architectural best practices.
• The tool is based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework,
developed to help cloud architects build secure, high-
performing, resilient, and efficient application infrastructure.
• Provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to
evaluate architectures, has been used in tens of thousands of
workload reviews conducted by the AWS solutions architecture
team, and provides guidance to help implement designs that
scale with application needs over time.
• Provides a plan on how to architect for the cloud using
established best practices.
AWS Command Line Interface – See in “Developer Tools”
section above
AWS Console Mobile Application – Released November 15, 2018
• Lets customers view and manage a select set of resources to
support incident response while on-the-go.
• Allows AWS customers to monitor resources through a
dedicated dashboard and view configuration details, metrics,
and alarms for select AWS services.
• The Dashboard provides permitted users with a single view a
resource’s status,
• Customers can view ongoing issues and follow through to the
relevant CloudWatch alarm screen for a detailed view with
graphs and configuration options. In addition, customers can
check on the status of specific AWS services, view detailed
resource screens, and perform select actions.
AWS Management Console – Released January 8, 2009
• Facilitates cloud management for all aspects of your AWS
account, including monitoring your monthly spending by
service, managing security credentials, or even setting up new
IAM Users.
• Access and manage Amazon Web Services through a simple
and intuitive web-based user interface.
AWS Managed Services – Released December 12, 2016
• Operates AWS on your behalf, providing a secure and
compliant AWS Landing Zone, a proven enterprise operating
model, on-going cost optimization, and day-to-day
infrastructure management.
• Helps to reduce your operational overhead and risk.
• Automates common activities, such as change requests,
monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services,
and provides full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support
your infrastructure.
AWS Organizations – Released February 27, 2017
• Helps you centrally govern your environment as you grow and
scale your workloads on AWS.
 • You can automate account creation, create groups of accounts
to reflect your business needs, and apply policies for these
groups for governance.
AWS Compute Optimizer – Released December 3, 2019
• A machine learning-based recommendation service that
makes it easy for you to ensure that you are using optimal AWS
Compute resources to reduce costs and improve performance
for workloads.
• Delivers intuitive and easily actionable EC2 instance
recommendations so you can identify optimal EC2 instance
types for your workloads without requiring specialized
knowledge or investing substantial time and money.
Media Services
AWS Elemental Appliances & Software – Announced May 2019
• Solutions that bring advanced video processing and delivery
technologies into your data center, co-location space, or on-
premises facility.
• Supports video workloads that need to remain on-prem to
accommodate physical camera and router interfaces, managed
network delivery, or network bandwidth constraints.
• Comes in two variants: ready-to-deploy appliances, or AWS-
licensed software that you install on your own hardware.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder – Released January 28, 2013
• Media transcoding in the cloud.
• 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.
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams – Released November 29, 2017
• Makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices
to AWS for analytics, machine learning (ML), playback, and
other processing.
• Automatically provisions and elastically scales all the
infrastructure needed to ingest streaming video data from
millions of devices
 • Durably stores, encrypts, and indexes video data in your
streams, and allows you to access your data through easy-to-
use APIs.
• Enables you to playback video for live and on-demand viewing,
and quickly build applications that take advantage of computer
vision and video analytics through integration with Amazon
Recognition Video, and libraries for ML frameworks such as
Apache MxNet, TensorFlow, and OpenCV.
• Provides SDKs that make it easy for devices to securely stream
video to AWS for playback, storage, analytics, machine learning,
and other processing.
•Can ingest data from edge devices, smartphones, and security
cameras, and other data sources such as RADARs, LIDARs,
drones, satellites, dashcams, and depth-sensors.
AWS Elemental MediaConvert – Released November 26, 2017
• A file-based video transcoding service with broadcast-grade
features. It allows you to easily create video-on-demand (VOD)
content for broadcast and multiscreen delivery at scale.
• The service combines advanced video and audio capabilities
with a simple web services interface and pay-as-you-go pricing.
AWS Elemental MediaLive – Released November 26, 2017
• A broadcast-grade live video processing service. It lets you
create high-quality video streams for delivery to broadcast
televisions and internet-connected multiscreen devices, like
connected TVs, tablets, smart phones, and set-top boxes
• The service works by encoding your live video streams in real-
time, taking a larger-sized live video source and compressing it
into smaller versions for distribution to your viewers.
• You can easily set up streams for both live events and 24×7
channels with advanced broadcasting features, high
availability, and pay-as-you-go pricing.
• Lets you focus on creating compelling live video experiences
for your viewers without the complexity of building and
operating broadcast-grade video processing infrastructure.
AWS Elemental MediaPackage – Released November 26, 2017
• Prepares and protects your video for delivery over the Internet.
From a single video input, AWS Elemental MediaPackage
creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs,
mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles
• Can also protect your content using Digital Rights
Management (DRM).
• Scales automatically in response to load, so your viewers will
always get a great experience without you having to accurately
predict in advance the capacity you’ll need.
AWS Elemental MediaStore – Released November 26, 2017
• An AWS storage service optimized for media. It gives you the
performance, consistency, and low latency required to deliver
live streaming video content.
• Acts as the origin store in your video workflow. Its high
performance capabilities meet the needs of the most
demanding media delivery workloads, combined with long-
term, cost-effective storage.
AWS Elemental MediaTailor – Released November 26, 2017
• Lets video providers insert individually targeted advertising into
their video streams without sacrificing broadcast-level quality-
of-service.
• Viewers of your live or on-demand video each receive a stream
that combines your content with ads personalized to them.
• With AWS Elemental MediaTailor your entire stream – video
and ads – is delivered with broadcast-grade video quality to
improve the experience for your viewers.
• Delivers automated reporting based on both client and server-
side ad delivery metrics, making it easy to accurately measure
ad impressions and viewer behavior.
• You can easily monetize unexpected high-demand viewing
events with no up-front costs.
• Also improves ad delivery rates, helping you make more money
from every video, and it works with a wider variety of content
delivery networks, ad decision servers, and client devices.
AWS Elemental MediaConnect – Released November 27, 2018
• A high-quality transport service for live video.
• Enables you to build mission-critical live video workflows in a
fraction of the time and cost of satellite or fiber services.
• You can use to ingest live video from a remote event site, share
video with a partner, or replicate a video stream for processing.
• Combines reliable video transport, highly secure stream
sharing, and real-time network traffic and video monitoring
that allow you to focus on your content, not your transport
infrastructure.
Amazon Interactive Video Service – Released July 2020
• Managed live streaming solution that is quick and easy to set
up – ideal for creating interactive video experiences.
• These streams are designed to provide low-latency live video.

Migration & Transfer

CloudEndure Migration – Released July 11, 2019
• Simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of cloud migration
by offering an automated lift-and-shift solution.
• Continually replicates your source machines into a staging area
in your AWS account without causing downtime or impacting
performance.
AWS Application Discovery Service – Released December 19,
2016
• Helps enterprise customers plan migration projects by
gathering information about their on-premises data centers.
• Collects and presents configuration, usage, and behavior data
from your servers to help you better understand your
workloads.
• The collected data is retained in encrypted format in an AWS
Application Discovery Service data store.
AWS Database Migration Service – See in “Database” Section
Above
AWS Migration Hub – Released August 14, 2017
• Provides a single location to track the progress of application
migrations across multiple AWS and partner solutions.
 • Allows you to choose the AWS and partner migration tools that
best fit your needs, while providing visibility into the status of
migrations across your portfolio of applications.
• Provides key metrics and progress for individual applications,
regardless of which tools are being used to migrate them
• You can view the migration progress of all the resources in the
application.
• This allows you to quickly get progress updates across all
of your migrations, easily identify and troubleshoot any
issues, and reduce the overall time and effort spent on
your migration projects.
•Provides a single place to monitor migrations in any AWS
region where your migration tools are available.
AWS Server Migration Service – Released October 24, 2016
• an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to
migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. AWS
SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental
replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to
coordinate large-scale server migrations.
AWS Snow Family – First Version AWS Snowball Released 2009
• Offers a number of physical devices and capacity points,
including some with built-in compute capabilities.
• These services help physically transport up to Exabytes of
data into and out of AWS.
• All Snow family devices are designed to be secure and tamper-
resistant while on site or in transit to AWS: the hardware and
software is cryptographically signed and all data stored is
automatically encrypted using 256-bit encryption keys owned
and managed by the customer.
AWS DataSync – Released November 26, 2018
• A data transfer service that makes it easy for you to automate
moving data between on-premises storage and Amazon S3 or
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS).
• Automatically handles many of the tasks related to data
transfers that can slow down migrations or burden your IT
operations, including running your own instances, handling
 encryption, managing scripts, network optimization, and data
integrity validation.
• Use DataSync to transfer data at speeds up to 10 times faster
than open-source tools.
• DataSync uses an on-premises software agent to connect to
your existing storage or file systems using the Network File
System (NFS) protocol, so you don’t have to write scripts or
modify your applications to work with AWS APIs.
AWS Transfer Family – Released April 2020
• A fully managed service that enables the transfer of files
directly into and out of Amazon S3 using the Secure File
Transfer Protocol (SFTP)—also known as Secure Shell (SSH) File
Transfer Protocol.
• AWS helps you seamlessly migrate your file transfer workflows
to AWS Transfer for SFTP—by integrating with existing
authentication systems, and providing DNS routing with
Amazon Route 53—so nothing changes for your customers and
partners, or their applications.
Migration Evaluator (Formerly TSO logic) – Released July 2020
• Provides a business case for cloud migration.
• Creates a statistical model of compute patterns for all
instances, showing how much is being spent, what is over-
provisioned, and any opportunities to realize significant savings
now and in the future.
Mobile
AWS Amplify- Released November 21, 2017
• Makes it easy to create, configure, and implement scalable
mobile and web apps powered by AWS
• Provisions and manages your mobile backend and provides a
simple framework to easily integrate your backend with your
iOS, Android, Web, and React Native frontends.
• Automates the application release process of both your
frontend and backend allowing you to deliver features faster.
Amazon API Gateway – Released July 9, 2015
• Makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain,
monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
 • Handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up
to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including
traffic management, authorization and access control,
monitoring, and API version management
Amazon Pinpoint – See in “Customer Engagement” Section
Above
AWS AppSync – See in “Application Integration” Section Above
AWS Device Farm – Released July 2015
• An app testing service that lets you test and interact with your
Android, iOS, and web apps on many devices at once, or
reproduce issues on a device in real time
• Lets you test your application on a shared fleet of 2500+ devices
or on your own private device lab in the cloud.
Networking & Content Delivery
Amazon VPC – Released August 25, 2009
• Lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud
where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that
you define.
• You have complete control over your virtual networking
environment, including selection of your own IP address range,
creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and
network gateways.
AWS PrivateLink – Released November 8, 2017
• Simplifies the security of data shared with cloud-based
applications by eliminating the exposure of data to the public
Internet.
• Provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and
on-premises applications, securely on the Amazon network.
• Makes it easy to connect services across different accounts and
VPCs to significantly simplify the network architecture.
Amazon CloudFront – Released November 2008
• A fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely
delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers
globally with low latency, high transfer speeds, all within a
developer-friendly environment.
 • Works seamlessly with services including AWS Shield for DDoS
mitigation, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2
as origins for your applications, and Lambda@Edge to run
custom code closer to customers’ users and to customize the
user experience.
Amazon Route 53 – Released December 05, 2010
• A highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System
(DNS) web service.
• It is designed to give developers and businesses an
extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end
users to Internet applications by translating names into
the numeric IP addresses that computers use to connect
to each other.
• Effectively connects user requests to infrastructure running in
AWS – such as Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing
load balancers, or Amazon S3 buckets – and can also be used to
route users to infrastructure outside of AWS.
• Also offers Domain Name Registration – you can purchase and
manage domain names and Amazon Route 53 will
automatically configure DNS settings for your domains.
Amazon API Gateway – See in “Mobile” Section Above
AWS Direct Connect – Released August 3, 2011
• A cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a
dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.
• You can establish private connectivity between AWS and your
datacenter, office, or colocation environment
• In many cases this can reduce your network costs,
increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more
consistent network experience than Internet-based
connections.
• Lets you establish a dedicated network connection between
your network and one of the AWS Direct Connect locations
AWS Cloud Map – Released November 28, 2018
• Cloud resource discovery service.
 • You can define custom names for your application resources,
and it maintains the updated location of these dynamically
changing resources.
• This increases your application availability because your
web service always discovers the most up-to-date
locations of its resources.
• Allows you to register any application resources, such as
databases, queues, microservices, and other cloud resources,
with custom names.
• Constantly checks the health of resources to make sure the
location is up-to-date.
The application can then query the registry for the
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location of the resources needed based on the application
version and deployment environment.
AWS App Mesh- Released November 28, 2018
• A service mesh that provides application-level networking to
make it easy for your services to communicate with each other
across multiple types of compute infrastructure.
• Standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-
to-end visibility and ensuring high-availability for your
applications.
• Makes it easy to run services by providing consistent visibility
and network traffic controls for services built across multiple
types of compute infrastructure.
• Removes the need to update application code to change how
monitoring data is collected or traffic is routed between
services.
• Configures each service to export monitoring data and
implements consistent communications control logic across
your application.
• This makes it easy to quickly pinpoint the exact location of
errors and automatically re-route network traffic when
there are failures or when code changes need to be
deployed.
AWS Transit Gateway – Released November 26, 2018
• A service that enables customers to connect their Amazon
Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and their on-premises networks
to a single gateway
• You only have to create and manage a single connection from
the central gateway in to each Amazon VPC, on-premises data
center, or remote office across your network.
• Acts as a hub that controls how traffic is routed among all
the connected networks which act like spokes.
AWS Global Accelerator – Released November 26, 2018
• A networking service that improves the availability and
performance of the applications that you offer to your global
users.
• Uses the highly available and congestion-free AWS global
network to direct internet traffic from your users to your
applications on AWS, making your users’ experience more
consistent.
• Improves application availability by continuously monitoring
the health of your application endpoints and routing traffic to
the closest healthy endpoints.
• Makes it easier to manage your global applications by
providing static IP addresses that act as a fixed entry point to
your application hosted on AWS
• This eliminates the complexity of managing specific IP
addresses for different AWS Regions and Availability
Zones
Elastic Load Balancing – Released May 2009
• Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across
multiple targets
• It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a
single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones.
• Offers three types of load balancers that all feature the high
availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to
make your applications fault tolerant.
• Application Load Balancer
• Network Load Balancer
 • Classic Load Balancer
Robotics
AWS RoboMaker – Released November 26, 2018
• A service that makes it easy to develop, test, and deploy
intelligent robotics applications at scale. RoboMaker extends
the most widely used open-source robotics software
framework, Robot Operating System (ROS), with connectivity to
cloud services.
• Provides a robotics development environment for application
development, a robotics simulation service to accelerate
application testing, and a robotics fleet management service
for remote application deployment, update, and management.
• Provides the tools to make building intelligent robotics
applications more accessible, a fully managed simulation
service for quick and easy testing, and a deployment service for
lifecycle management.
• Removes the heavy lifting from each step of robotics
development so you can focus on creating innovative robotics
applications.
Satellite
AWS Ground Station – May 23, 2019
• A fully managed service that lets you control satellite
communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale
your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively
without having to worry about building or managing your own
ground station infrastructure.
• A fully managed service that will enable customers to easily
command, control, and downlink data from satellites.
• When using AWS Ground Station, you can ingest data from the
satellite, monitor the satellite health and status, and transmit
commands to change the satellite’s operations. Incoming data
is streamed to an Amazon EC2 instance where it can then be
stored or processed using other AWS services.
Security, Identity & Compliance
AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) – Released November 21,
2018
• A service that enables you to easily and securely share AWS
resources with any AWS account or within your AWS
Organization.
• RAM eliminates the need to create duplicate resources in
multiple accounts, reducing the operational overhead of
managing those resources in every single account you own.
AWS Identity & Access Management – Released May 3, 2011
• Enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources
securely.
• Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups,
and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS
resources.
AWS IAM User vs. AWS IAM Role for Secure Management
Amazon Cognito – Released July 10, 2014
• Lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your
web and mobile apps quickly and easily.
• Scales to millions of users and supports sign-in with social
identity providers, such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and
enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0.
AWS Single Sign-On – Released December 7, 2017
• A cloud SSO service that makes it easy to centrally manage SSO
access to multiple AWS accounts and business applications.
• With just a few clicks, you can enable a highly available
SSO service without the upfront investment and on-going
maintenance costs of operating your own SSO
infrastructure.
• You can easily manage SSO access and user permissions to all
of your accounts in AWS Organizations centrally
Amazon GuardDuty – Released November 28, 2017
• A threat detection service that continuously monitors for
malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your
AWS accounts and workloads
• You now have an intelligent and cost-effective option for
continuous threat detection in the AWS Cloud.
 • The service uses machine learning, anomaly detection,
and integrated threat intelligence to identify and
prioritize potential threats
• Analyzes tens of billions of events across multiple AWS data
sources, such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon VPC Flow Logs, and
DNS logs.
• With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console,
GuardDuty can be enabled with no software or hardware
to deploy or maintain. By integrating with AWS
CloudWatch Events, GuardDuty alerts are actionable, easy
to aggregate across multiple accounts, and
straightforward to push into existing event management
and workflow systems.
Amazon Inspector – Released April 20, 2016
• An automated security assessment service that helps improve
the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS.
• Automatically assesses applications for exposure,
vulnerabilities, and deviations from best practices.
• After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector
produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by
level of severity.
• Amazon Inspector security assessments help you check for
unintended network accessibility of your Amazon EC2
instances and for vulnerabilities on those EC2 instances.
• Amazon Inspector assessments are offered to you as pre-
defined rules packages mapped to common security best
practices and vulnerability definitions.
Amazon Macie – Released August 14, 2017
• A security service that uses machine learning to automatically
discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS.
• Recognizes sensitive data and provides you with dashboards
and alerts that give visibility into how this data is being
accessed or moved
• The fully managed service continuously monitors data access
activity for anomalies, and generates detailed alerts when it
detects risk of unauthorized access or inadvertent data leaks.
AWS Certificate Manager – Released January 21, 2016
• A service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy
public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer
Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and
your internal connected resources.
• Removes the time-consuming manual process of purchasing,
uploading, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates.
• You can quickly request a certificate, deploy it on ACM-
integrated AWS resources and let AWS Certificate Manager
handle certificate renewals.
• Enables you to create private certificates for your internal
resources and manage the certificate lifecycle centrally.
AWS CloudHSM – Released March 26, 2013
• A cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that enables
you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys on the
AWS Cloud.
• You can manage your own encryption keys using FIPS 140-2
Level 3 validated HSMs.
• Offers you the flexibility to integrate with your applications
using industry-standard APIs, such as PKCS#11, Java
Cryptography Extensions (JCE), and Microsoft CryptoNG (CNG)
libraries.
• Is standards-compliant and enables you to export all of your
keys to most other commercially-available HSMs, subject to
your configurations.
• It is a fully-managed service that automates time-consuming
administrative tasks for you, such as hardware provisioning,
software patching, high-availability, and backups.
• Also enables you to scale quickly by adding and removing HSM
capacity on-demand, with no up-front costs.
AWS Directory Service – Released October 21, 2014
• For Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed
Microsoft AD, enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS
resources to use managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.
 • Built on actual Microsoft Active Directory and does not require
you to synchronize or replicate data from your existing Active
Directory to the cloud.
• You can use standard Active Directory administration tools and
take advantage of built-in Active Directory features.
• With AWS Managed Microsoft AD, you can easily join Amazon
EC2 and Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to your domain,
and use AWS Enterprise IT applications such as Amazon
WorkSpaces with Active Directory users and groups.
AWS Firewall Manager – Released April 4, 2018
• Security management service that makes it easier to centrally
configure and manage AWS WAF rules across your accounts
and applications.
• You can easily roll out AWS WAF rules for your Application Load
Balancers and Amazon CloudFront distributions across
accounts in AWS Organizations.
• As new applications are created, Firewall Manager also
makes it easy to bring new applications and resources
into compliance with a common set of security rules from
day one.
Now you have a single service to build firewall rules,
•
create security policies, and enforce them in a consistent,
hierarchical manner across your entire Application Load
Balancers and Amazon CloudFront infrastructure.
AWS Key Management Service – Released November 12, 2014
• Makes it easy for you to create and manage keys and control
the use of encryption across a wide range of AWS services and
in your applications.
• A secure and resilient service that uses FIPS 140-2 validated
hardware security modules to protect your keys.
• Is integrated with AWS CloudTrail to provide you with logs of all
key usage to help meet your regulatory and compliance needs.
AWS Secrets Manager – Released April 4, 2018
• Helps you protect secrets needed to access your applications,
services, and IT resources.
 • The service enables you to easily rotate, manage, and retrieve
database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout
their lifecycle.
• Offers secret rotation with built-in integration for Amazon RDS,
Amazon Redshift, and Amazon DocumentDB.
• The service is extensible to other types of secrets, including API
keys and OAuth tokens.
• Enables you to control access to secrets using fine-grained
permissions and audit secret rotation centrally for resources in
the AWS Cloud, third-party services, and on-premises.
AWS Secrets Manager Makes Security Simpler
AWS Shield – Released December 1, 2016
• A managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection
service that safeguards applications running on AWS.
• Provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations
that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no
need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection.
• There are two tiers of AWS Shield – Standard and Advanced:
• Standard – defends against most common, frequently
occurring network and transport layer DDoS attacks that
target your web site or applications. When you use AWS
Shield Standard you receive comprehensive availability
protection against all known infrastructure (Layer 3 and 4)
attacks.
• Advanced -For higher levels of protection against attacks
targeting your applications running on Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancing (ELB),
Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator and
Amazon Route 53 resources.
• Provides additional detection and mitigation
against large and sophisticated DDoS attacks, near
real-time visibility into attacks, and integration with
AWS WAF, a web application firewall. Also gives you
24×7 access to the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT)
and protection against DDoS related spikes in your
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load
 Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global
Accelerator and Amazon Route 53 charges.
AWS WAF – Released October 6, 2015
• A web application firewall that helps protect your web
applications from common web exploits that could affect
application availability, compromise security, or consume
excessive resources.
• Gives you control over which traffic to allow or block to your
web applications by defining customizable web security rules.
• You can use to create custom rules that block common attack
patterns, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting, and rules
that are designed for your specific application.
• Includes a full-featured API that you can use to automate the
creation, deployment, and maintenance of web security rules.
AWS Artifact – Released December 7, 2016
• Your go-to, central resource for compliance-related information
that matters to you.
• It provides on-demand access to AWS’ security and
compliance reports and select online agreements.
• Reports available in AWS Artifact include:
• Service Organization Control (SOC) reports, Payment Card
Industry (PCI) reports, and certifications from
accreditation bodies across geographies and compliance
verticals that validate the implementation and operating
effectiveness of AWS security controls.
• Agreements available in AWS Artifact include:
The Business Associate Addendum (BAA) and the
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Nondisclosure Agreement (NDA).
AWS Security Hub – June 24, 2019
• Gives you a comprehensive view of your high-priority security
alerts and compliance status across AWS accounts.
• There are a range of powerful security tools at your
disposal, from firewalls and endpoint protection to
vulnerability and compliance scanners.
• You now have a single place that aggregates, organizes, and
prioritizes your security alerts, or findings, from multiple AWS
 services, such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, and
Amazon Macie, as well as from AWS Partner solutions.
Amazon Detective – Released March 2020
• Makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the
root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities.
Storage
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) – Released March 19, 2006
(First AWS Product)
• An object storage service that offers industry-leading
scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
• This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it
to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use
cases.
• Provides easy-to-use management features so you can
organize your data and configure finely-tuned access controls
to meet your specific business, organizational, and compliance
requirements.
• Designed for 99.999999999% (11 9’s) of durability, and stores
data for millions of applications for companies all around the
world.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) – Announced August 20,
2008
• Provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon
EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud.
• Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically replicated within its
Availability Zone to protect you from component failure,
offering high availability and durability.
• Amazon EBS volumes offer the consistent and low-latency
performance needed to run your workloads.
• You can scale your usage up or down within minutes – all while
paying a low price for only what you provision.
• Designed for application workloads that benefit from fine
tuning for performance, cost and capacity.
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) – Released June 29, 2016
• Provides a simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based
workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises
resources.
• It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting
applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add
and remove files, so your applications have the storage they
need – when they need it.
• It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access
to thousands of Amazon EC2 instances, enabling your
applications to achieve high levels of aggregate
throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies.
• A fully managed service that requires no changes to your
existing applications and tools, providing access through a
standard file system interface for seamless integration.
• There is a Standard and an Infrequent Access storage
class available with Amazon EFS.
• A regional service storing data within and across multiple
Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability and durability
• Is well suited to support a broad spectrum of use cases from
highly parallelized, scale-out workloads that require the highest
possible throughput to single-threaded, latency-sensitive
workloads.
Amazon S3 Glacier – Released August 21, 2012
• A secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service
for data archiving and long-term backup.
• It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provides
comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can
help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements.
• Provides query-in-place functionality, allowing you to run
powerful analytics directly on your archive data at rest.
• Customers can store data for as little as $0.004 per gigabyte
per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises
solutions.
 • To keep costs low yet suitable for varying retrieval needs,
Amazon S3 Glacier provides three options for access to
archives, from a few minutes to several hours.
AWS Storage Gateway – Released January 24, 2012
• A hybrid storage service that enables your on-premises
applications to seamlessly use AWS cloud storage.
• You can use the service for backup and archiving, disaster
recovery, cloud data processing, storage tiering, and migration.
• The service helps you reduce and simplify your datacenter and
branch or remote office storage infrastructure.
• Your applications connect to the service through a virtual
machine or hardware gateway appliance using standard
storage protocols, such as NFS, SMB and iSCSI.
• Connects to AWS storage services,providing storage for files,
volumes, snapshots, and virtual tapes in AWS.
• Includes a highly-optimized data transfer mechanism, with
bandwidth management, automated network resilience, and
efficient data transfer, along with a local cache for low-latency
on-premises access to your most active data.
AWS Snow Family – First Version AWS Snowball Released 2009
• Offers a number of physical devices and capacity points,
including some with built-in compute capabilities.
• These services help physically transport up to Exabytes of data
into and out of AWS.
• The Snow family of services are owned and managed by AWS
and integrate with AWS security, monitoring, storage
management and computing capabilities.
• All Snow family devices are designed to be secure and tamper-
resistant while on site or in transit to AWS: the hardware and
software is cryptographically signed and all data stored is
automatically encrypted using 256-bit encryption keys owned
and managed by the customer.
• Customers can use the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to
generate and manage the keys. Upon job completion devices
are erased using NIST media sanitation guidelines.
 • The AWS Snow family are physical devices that help migrate
large amounts of data into and out of the cloud without
depending on networks.
• This helps you apply the wide variety of AWS services for
analytics, file systems and archives to your data.
• Snowball is a suitcase-sized device, Snowball Edge is a rack
mountable and clusterable suitcase sized device with compute
capabilties, and Snowmobile is a shipping container moved
with a tractor-trailer.
• These services can assist with data migration, disaster
recovery, data center shutdown and remote data
collection projects.
Amazon FSx for Lustre – Released November 28, 2018
• Provides a high-performance file system optimized for fast
processing of workloads such as machine learning, high
performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial
modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA).
• These workloads commonly require data to be presented
via a fast and scalable file system interface, and typically
have data sets stored on long-term data stores like
Amazon S3.
• You can launch and run a file system that provides sub-
millisecond access to your data and allows you to read and
write data at speeds of up to hundreds of gigabytes per second
of throughput and millions of IOPS.
• Works natively with Amazon S3, making it easy for you process
cloud data sets with high performance file systems
• You can also use as a standalone high-performance file system
to burst your workloads from on-premises to the cloud.
• By copying on-premises data to an FSx for Lustre file
system, you can make that data available for fast
processing by compute instances running on AWS
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server – Released November 28,
2018
• Provides a fully managed native Microsoft Windows file system
so you can easily move your Windows-based applications that
require file storage to AWS.
• Built on Windows Server, Amazon FSx provides shared file
storage with the compatibility and features that your Windows-
based applications rely on, including full support for the SMB
protocol and Windows NTFS, Active Directory (AD) integration,
and Distributed File System (DFS).
• Uses SSD storage to provide the fast performance your
Windows applications and users expect, with high levels of
throughput and IOPS, and consistent sub-millisecond latencies.
• This compatibility and performance is particularly
important when moving workloads that require Windows
shared file storage, like CRM, ERP, and .NET applications,
as well as home directories.
• You can launch highly durable and available Windows file
systems that can be accessed from up to thousands of
compute instances using the industry-standard SMB protocol.
• Eliminates the typical administrative overhead of managing
Windows file servers
AWS Backup – Released January 16, 2019
• A fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize
and automate the back up of data across AWS services in the
cloud as well as on premises using the AWS Storage Gateway.
• You can centrally configure backup policies and monitor
backup activity for AWS resources, such as:
• Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon
DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS
Storage Gateway volumes.
• Automates and consolidates backup tasks previously
performed service-by-service, removing the need to create
custom scripts and manual processes.
 • With just a few clicks in the AWS Backup console, you can
create backup policies that automate backup schedules and
retention management.
• Provides a fully managed, policy-based backup solution,
simplifying your backup management, enabling you to meet
your business and regulatory backup compliance
requirements.
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
• Highly automated disaster recovery.
• Continuously replicates your machines from physical, virtual, or
cloud-based infrastructure to a low-cost staging area into a
low-cost staging area in your target AWS account and
preferred Region.
• Minimizes downtime and data loss by providing fast, reliable
recovery into AWS.
Quantum Technologies
Amazon Braket – Released August 2020
• A fully managed service that makes it easy for scientists,
researchers, and developers to build, test, and run quantum
computing algorithms
• Provides a development environment to design your own
quantum algorithms from scratch or choose from a set of pre-
built algorithms, test them on simulated quantum computers,
and run them on your choice of different quantum hardware
technologies.
• Provides a fully managed simulation service to help
troubleshoot and verify your implementation.
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AWS Services List
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