Question

List 6 things customers can do with Amazon Web Service (AWS)? AWS is Amazons cloud environment.

Answer 1

Below are the list of services provided by AWS to its customers:

Compute

1. EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) — These are just the virtual machines in the cloud on which you have the OS level control. You can run whatever you want in them.
2. LightSail — If you don’t have any prior experience with AWS this is for you. It automatically deploys and manages compute, storage and networking capabilities required to run your applications.
3. ECS (Elastic Container Service) — It is a highly scalable container service to allows you to run Docker containers in the cloud.
4. EKS (Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes) — Allows you to use Kubernetes on AWS without installing and managing your own Kubernetes control plane. It is a relatively new service.
5. Lambda — AWS’s serverless technology that allows you to run functions in the cloud. It’s a huge cost saver as you pay only when your functions execute.
6. Batch — It enables you to easily and efficiently run batch computingworkloads of any scale on AWS using Amazon EC2 and EC2 spot fleet.
7. Elastic Beanstalk — Allows automated deployment and provisioning of resources like a highly scalable production website.

Storage

1. S3 (Simple Storage Service) — Storage service of AWS in which we can store objects like files, folders, images, documents, songs, etc. It cannot be used to install software, games or Operating System.
2. EFS (Elastic File System) — Provides file storage for use with your EC2 instances. It uses NFSv4 protocol and can beused concurrently by thousands of instances.
3. Glacier — It is an extremely low-cost archival service to store files for a long time like a few years or even decades.
4. Storage Gateway — It is a virtual machine that you install on your on-premise servers. Your on-premise data can be backed up to AWS providing more durability.

Databases

1. RDS (Relational Database Service) — Allows you to run relational databases like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle or SQL Server. These databases are fully managed by AWS like installing antivirus and patches.
2. DynamoDB — It is a highly scalable, high-performance NoSQL database. It provides single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.
3. Elasticache — It is a way of caching data inside the cloud. It can be used to take load off of your database by caching most frequent queries.
4. Neptune — It has been launched recently. It is a fast, reliable and scalable graph database service.
5. RedShift — It is AWS’s data warehousing solution that can be used to run complex OLAP queries.

Migration

1. DMS (Database Migration Service) — It can be used to migrate on-site databases to AWS. It also allows you to migrate from one type of database to another. Eg -from Oracle to MySQL.
2. SMS (Server Migration Service) — It allows you to migrate on-site servers to AWS easily and quickly.
3. Snowball — It is a briefcase sized appliance that can be used to send terabytes of data inside and outside of AWS.

Networking & Content Delivery

1. VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) — It is simply a data center in the cloud in which you deploy all your resources. It allows you to better isolate your resources and secure them.
2. CloudFront -It is AWS’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) that consists of Edge locations that cache resources.
3. Route53 — It is AWS’s highly available DNS (Domain Name System) service. You can register domain names through it.
4. Direct Connect — Using it you can connect your data center to an Availability zone using a high speed dedicated line.
5. API Gateway — Allows you to create, store and manage APIs at scale.

Developer Tools

1. CodeStar — It is a cloud-based service for creating, managing, and working with software development projects on AWS. You can quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS with an AWS CodeStar project.
2. CodeCommit — It is AWS’s version control service that allows you to store your code and other assets privately in the cloud.
3. CodeBuild — It automates the process of building (compiling) your code.
4. CodeDeploy — It is a way of deploying your code in EC2 instances automatically.
5. CodePipeline — Allows you to keep track of different steps in your deployment like building, testing, authentication, and deployment on development and production environments.
6. Cloud9 —It is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for writing, running, and debugging code in the cloud.
7. X-Ray — It makes it easy for developers to analyze the behavior of their distributed applications by providing request tracing, exception collection, and profiling capabilities.

Management Tools

1. CloudWatch — It can be used to monitor AWS environments like CPU utilization of EC2 and RDS instances and trigger alarms based on different metrics.
2. CloudFormation — It is a way of turning infrastructure into the cloud. You can use templates to provision a whole production environment in minutes.
3. CloudTrail — A way of auditing AWS resources. It logs all changes and API calls made to AWS.
4. OpsWorks — It helps in automating Chef deployments on AWS.
5. Config — It monitors your environment and notifies you when you break certain configurations.
6. Service Catalog — For larger enterprises, helps to authorize which services will be used and which won’t be.
7. Trusted Advisor — Gives you recommendations on how to do cost optimizations, and secure your environment.
8. AWS Auto Scaling — Allows you to automatically scale your resources up and down based on CloudWatch metrics.
9. Systems Manager — Allows you to group your resources, so you can quickly gain insights, identify issues and act on them.
10. Managed Services—It provides ongoing management of your AWS infrastructure so you can focus on your applications.

Analytics

1. Athena — Allows you to run SQL queries on your S3 bucket to find files.
2. EMR (Elastic Map Reduce) — It is used for big data processing like Hadoop, Apache Spark, and Splunk, etc.
3. CloudSearch — It can be used to create a fully managed search engine for your website.
4. ElasticSearch — It is similar to CloudSearch but gives you more features like application monitoring.
5. Kinesis — A way of streaming and analyzing real-time data at massive scale. It can store TBs of data per hour.
6. Data Pipeline — Allows you to move data from one place to another. Eg: from S3 to DynamoDB or vice versa.
7. QuickSight —A business analytics tool that allows you to create visualizations in a rich dashboard for data in AWS. Eg: for S3, DynamoDB, etc.
8. Glue — It is a fully managed ETL (extract, transform, and load) servicethat makes it simple and cost-effective to categorize your data, clean it, enrich it, and move it reliably between various data stores.