Here is a dictionary of the 200+ AWS.
Overview
NOTE: Content here are my personal opinions, and not intended to represent any employer (past or present). “PROTIP:” here highlight information I haven’t seen elsewhere on the internet because it is hard-won, little-know but significant facts based on my personal research and experience.
How many AWS Services are there?
Among the 200+, the key services:
List AWS Service names
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Aurora (one replica in each AZ, cluster storage replicated multi-master in several regions) but writes only to primary region.
Config records changes on resources in one or more regions & audits compliance to standards for alerts to SNS
DynamoDB - global (multi-master read/write)
EventBridge notifies SNS & Invokes Lambda
Fargate (mode of EC2 with ENI’s in a VPC like auto-scaling groups)
FSx (Launch, run, and scale feature-rich and highly-performant file systems) -
GuardDuty - continuous AI/ML threat intelligence to identify unexpected and unauthorized activities in data sources (DNS Logs, VPC Flow, CloudTrail mgmt events, CloudTrails S3 Data Events) to EventBridge
AWS Glue - C
AWS Kinesis Video Streams - C
AWS Lex & Connect - C
RDS (Cross Region Read Replica Async replication in several regions)
Rekognition - C
References
More on Amazon
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- AWS Cloud Services Comparisons
- AWS Well-Architected Cloud
- AWS Cloud Services
- AWS IAM
- AWS CLI
- AWS On-boarding (GUI, CLI, API)
- AWS Security
- AWS Data Tools
- AWS DevOps (CodeCommit, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy)
- AWS server deployment options
- AWS CDK
- Build load-balanced servers in AWS EC2
- AWS Networking
- AWS Xray
- IoT on AWS
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Lambda