AWS Tour

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Short guide to so many cool services from AWS

Networking & Content Delivery

VPC

Description: Virtual Private Cloud. Basically, virtual data center. It is like a small network in the larger network.
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Route53

Description: DNS service. Ables you to buy a domain and setup the DNS records for it. The reason why it has 53 in name is that you open DSN on port 53.
Similar to: Gandi, GoDaddy.

Cloud Front

Description: Amazon CDN. Part of the CDN (Content Delivery Network). Makes your websites faster by caching videos, media files, etc. closer to your users.
Similar to: Akamai.

Direct Connect

Description: A way of connecting office, physical data centers directly to AWS using dedicated line. Used when needs to pass a lot of data into AWS.
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Route53

Description: DNS service. Ables you to buy a domain and setup the DNS records for it
Similar to: Gandi, GoDaddy.

Compute

EC2

Description: Virtual services (machines) in the cloud. Used for application hosting.
Similar to: DigitalOcean, Linode.

EC2 Container Service

Description: Docker as a Service. Highly scalable container management service. Supports docker containers. Eliminates the need to install own cluster management infrastructure.
Similar to: Docker cloud.

Elastic Beanstalk

Description: Platform as a Service. Deploy your code into AWS. For example, move app from Heroku to AWS.
Similar to: Heroku.

Lambda

Description: Small scripts. One of the components of the serverless architecture. Upload small code snippet and it to do series of simple tasks, it will respond on the events in S3, DynamoDB.
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Lightsail

Description: Out of the box cloud. It could deploy Wordpress, Joomla site for you.
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Storage

S3

Description: Simple Storage Service. Scalable storage in the cloud. Can store backups, images, share files between services. Could be used for serving static websites. Cannot be used as a database. Object based storage.
Similar to: Unlimited FTP server.

Glacier

Description: Archive files from S3. Used for long-term archiving.
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EFS

Description: Elastic File Service. Block based storage, place where you could install databases, apps and share volume with multiple machines
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Storage Gateway

Description: Automates getting files into S3 from your corporate network.
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Database

RDS

Description: Relational Database Service. Consists of different SQL technologies: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle, Aurora.
Similar to: Heroku Postgres.

DynamoDB

Description: NoSQL database. High-performant and scalable database
Similar to: Heroku Postgres.

Redshift

Description: Data Warehouse solution. Store analytics data for processing. Copy data from production DB to Redshift for analytics.
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Elasticache

Description: Amazon's Redis. Caches data in the cloud. Could be used to show the frequently needed data.
Similar to: Redis.

Migration

Snowball

Description: Send a disk or bunch of disks to AWS. You could move Terrabytes of Data into AWS.
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DMS

Description: Database Migration Services. Migrate database to AWS cloud or to other regions. You could migrate from local database to Aurora, here comes DMS.
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Server Migration Service (SMS)

Description: Almost the same as DMS except that it targets to the Virtual Machines instead of databases.
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Analytics

Athena

Description: Run SQL queries on S3.
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EMR

Description: Elastic MapReduce. Used for BigData processing. For example, for log analysis.
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Cloud Search

Description: Fully managed service provided by AWS. Allows to create search capabilites
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Elastic Search

Description: Similar to Cloud Search.
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Kinesis

Description: A way of streaming and analyzing large amounts of data.
Similar to: Kafka.

Data Pipeline

Description: Ability to move data. Extract, Transform and Load data from elsewhere in AWS. Schedule when it happens and get alerts when they fail.
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Quick Sight

Description: Business Analytics tool. Used to create visualization and rich dashboards.
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Security, Identity & Compliance

IAM

Description: Ables to setup users, create, new AWS Keys and policies.
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Inspector

Description: Agent that inspects your Virtual Machines for vulnarabilities.
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Certificate Manager

Description: Gives free SSL certificates.
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Directory Service

Description: Use Active Directory for Microsoft.
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WAF

Description: Web Application Firewall. Firewall from Amazon. Blocks bad requests to Cloudfront protected sites.
Similar to: Sophos.

Messaging

Application Services

Developer Tools

Management Tools

Internet of Things

Game Development

Mobile Services

Business Productivity

Artificial Intelligence

Desktop & App Streaming