AWS in Brief
Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds the Gartner’s Cloud Leader title for ten consecutive years on. The AWS cloud features wide IaaS, PaaS and SaaS functionality and rich capabilities for hybrid IT infrastructures. AWS offering is beneficial for:
Large businesses: Requiring geographically distributed hyperscale enterprise IT infrastructures.
Medium-sized businesses: Keen on the range of specialized cloud services.
SaaS providers: Focused on the development of scalable and highly available SaaS.
Table of Contents
Featured Amazon Web Services
Cloud computing
Amazon EC2
Customizable virtual computing instances scaled on demand.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Reactive and predictive scaling of instances.
AWS Lambda
Running code in the pay-as-you-go serverless environment.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Automated deployment of web apps in autoscaled and load-balanced instances.
Amazon Lightsail
AWS-managed virtual environment for the quick deployment of lightweight web apps, websites and databases.
AWS Outposts
Locally run APIs and tools to enhance the AWS infrastructure with on-premises computing and storing capacities.
AWS Batch
Fully managed and dynamically scaled cloud computing of batch loads in the cloud.
AWS Snow Family
Hardware devices for offline edge computing and data storage.
Storage
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Hyperscale storage and management of data objects in a fully managed virtual environment.
Amazon S3 Glacier
Long-term archiving and backup replication of sensitive data with advanced security features.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Block storage with replication of data across availability zones to ensure their fast retrieval.
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
Managed network file system for EC2 workloads with advanced security features.
AWS Storage Gateway
Hybrid data storage ensuring cloud scalability and on-premises low latencies for various use cases.
Amazon FSx
Fully managed file storage compatible with Windows and Lustre file systems.
AWS Backup
Single-point backup management across AWS workloads.
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
Backup replication of virtual instances and system snapshots across multiple regions for extra-low mean time to recovery.
Databases
Amazon RDS
Setting up, operation and scaling of relational databases: Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server and MariaDB.
Amazon Aurora
Highly available, secure and reliable relational database compatible with PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Amazon DynamoDB
Managing non-relational databases with autoscaling, encryption at rest and snapshot backups and archiving.
Amazon ElastiCache
Setup and management of in-memory data stores and distributed caching for the most demanding workloads.
Amazon DocumentDB
Non-relational document database service for storing, indexing and querying JSON data.
Amazon Neptune
Low-latency graph database engine optimized for high-scaled and interrelated datasets.
IT infrastructure management
AWS Systems Manager
Centralized management and automation of multiple AWS tasks, featuring analytical resource monitoring.
AWS CloudFormation
Provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure resources using the IaC (infrastructure as code) approach.
Amazon CloudWatch
AI-driven performance monitoring of AWS resources and apps running in the AWS cloud or on-premises.
AWS Trusted Advisor
Assistant tool to improve performance, cost and security of the AWS infrastructure.
AWS Service Catalog
Forming and managing catalogs of IT services approved for the deployment in the AWS infrastructure to maintain compliance requirements.
AWS Control Tower
Setting up and administering a multi-account AWS environment to meet standards for security and compliance.
Machine learning
Amazon SageMaker
Quick building, training and deploying of machine learning models.
Amazon Elastic Inference
Low-cost GPU cloud computing to run deep learning predictions.
Amazon Forecast
Accurate predictive analytics engine not requiring ML expertise.
Amazon Rekognition
ML-driven image and video analysis powered by advanced neural network models.
Amazon Comprehend
ML-driven text analysis to find logical relationships and insights.
Internet of Things
AWS IoT Device Management
Registering, monitoring and maintaining grouped and single IoT devices.
AWS IoT Things Graph
Easy building of IoT structures by visually connecting IoT devices and web services.
AWS IoT Core
Managed environment ensuring secure communication of IoT devices with cloud apps.
AWS IoT Events
Creating scenarios of response to events within an IoT network.
AWS IoT Greengrass
Extending IoT devices with AWS cloud capabilities and ensuring their secure communication.
AWS IoT Device Defender
IoT security management, monitoring and analytics of IoT data fetched from devices.