AWS Services

Amazon Pinpoint

A campaign management web service for mobile apps. Use it to understand app user behavior and define which users to engage. It will help you determine which push notifications to send, decide when to deliver the notifications, and track the results of your campaign.

AWS Cloud9

A cloud-based integrated IDE that you use to write, run, and debug code.

AWS Single Sign-On

A cloud-based service that simplifies managing SSO access to AWS accounts and business applications. You can control access and user permissions across all your AWS accounts in AWS Organizations. You can also administer access to popular business applications and custom applications that support Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0. In addition, it offers a user portal where your users can find all their assigned AWS accounts, business applications, and custom applications in one place.

AWS CodePipeline

A continuous delivery service that enables you to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software.

Amazon GuardDuty

A continuous security monitoring service. It can help to identify unexpected and potentially unauthorized or malicious activity in your AWS environment.

AWS CodeDeploy

A deployment service that enables developers to automate the deployment of applications to instances and to update the applications as required.

Amazon QuickSight

A fast business analytics service to build visualizations, perform ad hoc analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. This seamlessly discovers AWS data sources, enables organizations to scale to hundreds of thousands of users, and delivers fast and responsive query performance by using a robust in-memory engine (SPICE).

Amazon Redshift

A fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to efficiently analyze all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. It is optimized for datasets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.

Amazon Neptune

A fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of this is a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine that is optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency. It supports the popular graph query languages Apache TinkerPop Gremlin and W3C's SPARQL, allowing you to build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. It graphs use cases such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, drug discovery, and network security.

Amazon ECR

A fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

AWS Glue

A fully managed ETL service that makes it simple and cost-effective to categorize your data, clean it, enrich it, and move it reliably between various data stores. It consists of a central data repository, an ETL engine that automatically generates Python code, and a flexible scheduler that handles dependency resolution, job monitoring, and retries. This service is serverless, so there's no infrastructure to set up or manage. Use the console to discover your data, transform it, and make it available for search and querying.

Amazon DynamoDB

A fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. You can use this to create a database table that can store and retrieve any amount of data, and serve any level of request traffic. It automatically spreads the data and traffic for the table over a sufficient number of servers to handle the request capacity specified by the customer and the amount of data stored, while maintaining consistent and fast performance.

AWS CodeBuild

A fully managed build service that compiles your source code, runs unit tests, and produces artifacts that are ready to deploy.

Amazon Sagemaker

A fully managed machine learning service. With this, data scientists and developers can quickly and easily build and train machine learning models, and then directly deploy them into a production-ready hosted environment. It provides an integrated Jupyter authoring notebook instance for easy access to your data sources for exploration and analysis, so you don't have to manage servers. It also provides common machine learning algorithms that are optimized to run efficiently against extremely large data in a distributed environment. With native support for bring-your-own-algorithms and frameworks, this provides flexible distributed training options that adjust to your specific workflows.

Amazon CloudSearch

A fully managed service in the cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website. This service enables you to search large collections of data such as web pages, document files, forum posts, or product information. With this, you can quickly add search capabilities to your website without having to become a search expert or worry about hardware provisioning, setup, and maintenance. As your volume of data and traffic fluctuates, this service automatically scales to meet your needs.

Amazon API Gateway

A fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Create an API to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as applications running on an EC2, code running on Lambda, or any web application.

AWS Tools for PowerShell

A functionality exposed by the AWS SDK for .NET, that enables you to script operations on AWS resources from the command line.

Amazon Route 53

A highly available and scalable DNS web service.

Amazon ECS

A highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage

A just-in-time video packaging and origination service that delivers highly secure, scalable, and reliable video streams to a wide variety of playback devices.

Amazon Elasticsearch

A managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch, a popular open-source search and analytics engine. It also offers security options, high availability, data durability, and direct access to the Elasticsearch API.

Amazon Translate

A neural machine translation service for translating text to and from English across a breadth of supported languages. Powered by deep-learning technologies, this service delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. It provides a managed, continually trained solution so you can easily translate company and user-authored content or build applications that require support across multiple languages. The machine translation engine has been trained on a wide variety of content across different domains to produce quality translations that serve any industry need.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor

A personalization and monetization service that allows scalable server-side ad insertion. The service enables you to serve targeted ads to viewers while maintaining broadcast quality in over-the-top (OTT) video applications. The service also enables you to track ad views for accurate ad reporting.

Amazon Macie

A security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS. It recognizes sensitive data such as PII or intellectual property, and provides you with dashboards and alerts that give visibility into how this data is being accessed or moved.

Amazon Inspector

A security vulnerability assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of your AWS resources. It automatically assesses resources for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices, and then produces a detailed list of security findings prioritized by level of severity. It also includes a knowledge base of hundreds of rules mapped to common security standards and vulnerability definitions that are regularly updated by AWS security researchers.

Amazon Mobile Analytics

A service for collecting, visualizing, and understanding app usage data at scale. The service is built to scale with your business, allowing you to collect and process billions of events per day from many millions of users. Simply add the SDK in your iOS and Android/Fire OS apps, or use the REST API, and start accessing your Reports to learn about how your app is being used.

AWS Snowball

A service for customers who want to transport terabytes or petabytes of data to and from AWS, or who want to access the storage and compute power of the AWS Cloud locally and cost effectively in places where connecting to the internet may not be an option.

AWS Import/Export

A service that accelerates transferring data into and out of AWS using physical storage appliances, bypassing the Internet. It was originally the only service offered by AWS for data transfer by mail. Disk supports transfers data directly onto and off of storage devices you own using the Amazon high-speed internal network.

AWS Storage Gateway

A service that connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between your on-premises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure in the cloud.

AWS Organizations

A service that enables AWS customers to consolidate and centrally manage multiple AWS accounts. With this, you can create accounts and invite existing accounts to join your organization. You can organize those accounts into groups and attach policy-based controls. If you already have a Consolidated Billing family of accounts, those accounts automatically become part of your organization.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert

A service that formats and compresses offline video content for delivery to televisions or connected devices. High-quality video transcoding makes it possible to create on-demand video assets for virtually any device.

Amazon Cognito

A service that you can use to create unique identities for your users, authenticate these identities with identity providers, and save mobile user data in the AWS Cloud.

Amazon Glacier

A storage service optimized for infrequently used data, or "cold data." The service provides durable and extremely low-cost storage with security features for data archiving and backup. With this, you can store your data cost effectively for months, years, or even decades. It enables you to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling storage to AWS, so you don't have to worry about capacity planning, hardware provisioning, data replication, hardware failure detection and recovery, or time-consuming hardware migrations.

AWS CodeCommit

A version control service that enables you to privately store and manage Git repositories in the AWS cloud.

AWS Elemental MediaStore

A video origination and storage service that offers the high performance, predictable low latency, and immediate consistency required for live origination. With this, you can manage video assets as objects in containers to build dependable, cloud-based media workflows.

AWS Elemental MediaLive

A video service that allows easy and reliable creation of live outputs for broadcast and streaming delivery.

AWS WAF

A web application firewall that lets you monitor web requests that are forwarded to Amazon CloudFront distributions or an Application Load Balancer. You can also use it to block or allow requests based on conditions that you specify, such as the IP addresses that requests originate from or values in the requests.

AWS IAM

A web service for securely controlling access to AWS services. With this, you can centrally manage users, security credentials such as access keys, and permissions that control which AWS resources users and applications can access.

AWS Artifact

A web service that enables you to download AWS security and compliance documents such as ISO certifications and SOC reports.

Amazon RDS

A web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.

Amazon EMR

A web service that makes it easy to process large amounts of data efficiently. It uses Hadoop processing combined with several AWS products to do such tasks as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine learning, scientific simulation, and data warehousing.

Amazon ElastiCache

A web service that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale distributed in-memory cache environments in the AWS Cloud. It provides a high performance, resizeable, and cost-effective in-memory cache, while removing the complexity associated with deploying and managing a distributed cache environment.

Amazon EC2

A web service that provides resizeable computing capacity—literally, servers in Amazon's data centers—that you use to build and host your software systems.

AWS Data Pipeline

A web service that you can use to automate the movement and transformation of data. With this, you can define data-driven workflows, so that tasks can be dependent on the successful completion of previous tasks.

AWS Database Migration Service

A web service you can use to migrate data from your database that is on-premises, on a RDS, DB instance, or in a database on an EC2 instance to a database on an AWS service. These services can include a database on RDS or a database on an EC2 instance. You can also migrate a database from an AWS service to an on-premises database. You can migrate data between heterogeneous or homogenous database engines.

Amazon S3

Storage for the Internet. You can use it to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web. You can accomplish these tasks using the simple and intuitive web interface of the AWS Management Console.

Amazon Lightsail

The easiest way to get started with AWS for developers who just need virtual private servers. It includes everything you need to launch your project quickly - a virtual machine, SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP - for a low, predictable price.

AWS Deep Learning AMIs

These equip machine learning practitioners and researchers with the infrastructure and tools to accelerate deep learning in the cloud at any scale. You can quickly launch Amazon EC2 instances on Amazon Linux or Ubuntu, preinstalled with popular deep learning frameworks. Examples include Apache MXNet and Gluon, TensorFlow, the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK), Caffe, Caffe2, Theano, Torch and Keras. You can use these frameworks to train sophisticated, custom AI models; experiment with new algorithms; or to learn new skills and techniques.

AWS Service Catalog

This allows IT administrators to create, manage, and distribute portfolios of approved products to end users, who can then access the products they need in a personalized portal. Typical products include servers, databases, websites, or applications that are deployed using AWS resources, such as EC2 and RDS. You can control which users have access to specific products to enforce compliance with organizational business standards, manage product lifecycles, and help users find and launch products with confidence.

Elastic Load Balancing

This automatically distributes your incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances. It monitors the health of registered targets and routes traffic only to the healthy targets.

AWS SMS

This combines data collection tools with automated server replication to speed the migration of on-premises servers to AWS.

AWS CloudFormation

This enables you to create and provision AWS infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly. It helps you leverage AWS products such as EC2, EBS, SNS, ELB, and Auto Scaling to build highly reliable, highly scalable, cost-effective applications in the cloud without worrying about creating and configuring the underlying AWS infrastructure. This enables you to use a template file to create and delete a collection of resources together as a single unit (a stack).

Amazon VPC

This enables you to launch AWS resources into a virtual network that you've defined. This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that you'd operate in your own data center, with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure of AWS.

Amazon VPC

This enables you to launch Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources into a virtual network that you've defined. This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that you'd operate in your own data center, with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure of AWS.

AWS Batch

This enables you to run batch computing workloads on the AWS Cloud. Batch computing is a common way for developers, scientists, and engineers to access large amounts of compute resources. It removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of configuring and managing the required infrastructure.

AWS Application Discovery Service

This helps systems integrators quickly and reliably plan application migration projects by automatically identifying applications running in on-premises data centers, their associated dependencies, and their performance profile.

AWS Secrets Manager

This helps you to securely encrypt, store, and retrieve credentials for your databases and other services. Instead of hardcoding credentials in your apps, you can make calls to this to retrieve your credentials whenever needed. It also helps you protect access to your IT resources and data by helping you rotate and manage access to your secrets.

AWS Tools & SDKs

This index highlights the primary developer tools, SDKs, IDE Toolkits, and Command Line Tools for developing and managing your AWS applications.

AWS CLI

This is a unified tool that provides a consistent interface for interacting with all parts of AWS.

AWS Management Console

This is a web application that comprises and refers to a broad collection of service consoles for managing Amazon Web Services.

Amazon CloudFront

This is a web service that speeds up distribution of your static and dynamic web content, for example, .html, .css, .php, image, and media files, to end users. It delivers your content through a worldwide network of edge locations. When an end user requests content that you're serving, the user is routed to the edge location that provides the lowest latency, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. If the content is already in that edge location, This will deliver it immediately. If the content is not currently in that edge location, it will retrieve the contentt from an Amazon S3 bucket or an HTTP server that you have identified as the source for the definitive version of your content.

Amazon Lex

This is an AWS service for building conversational interfaces into applications using voice and text. With this, the same deep learning engine that powers Amazon Alexa is now available to any developer, enabling you to build sophisticated, natural language chatbots into your new and existing applications. This provides the deep functionality and flexibility of NLU and ASR to enable you to build highly engaging user experiences with lifelike, conversational interactions and create new categories of products.

Amazon Elastic Transcoder

This lets you convert media files that you have stored in Amazon S3 into media files in the formats required by consumer playback devices. For example, you can convert large, high-quality digital media files into formats that users can play back on mobile devices, tablets, web browsers, and connected televisions.

AWS CodeStar

This lets you quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS.

AWS Direct Connect

This links your internal network to an AWS location over a standard 1 gigabit or 10 gigabit Ethernet fiber-optic cable. One end of the cable is connected to your router, the other to an AWS router. With this connection in place, you can create virtual interfaces directly to the AWS cloud and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, bypassing Internet service providers in your network path.

AWS Schema Conversion Tool

This makes heterogeneous database migrations easy by automatically converting the source database schema and a majority of the custom code to a format compatible with the target database. The custom code that the tool converts includes views, stored procedures, and functions. Any code that the tool cannot convert automatically is clearly marked so that you can convert it yourself.

AWS X-Ray

This makes it easy for developers to analyze the behavior of their distributed applications by providing request tracing, exception collection, and profiling capabilities.

Amazon Machine Learning

This makes it easy for developers to build smart applications, including applications for fraud detection, demand forecasting, targeted marketing, and click prediction. The powerful algorithms create ML models by finding patterns in your existing data. The service uses these models to process new data and generate predictions for your application.

Amazon Rekognition

This makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications. You just provide an image or video to this, and the service can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities. It can detect any inappropriate content as well. This also provides highly accurate facial analysis and facial recognition. You can detect, analyze, and compare faces for a wide variety of use cases, including user verification, cataloging, people counting, and public safety.

Amazon Kinesis

This makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze video and data streams in real time. Use it to capture, process, and store video streams for analytics and machine learning. Use it to build custom applications that analyze data streams using popular stream processing frameworks. Use it to load data streams into AWS data stores. Use it to analyze data streams with SQL.

AWS Certificate Manager

This makes it easy to provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certificates on AWS-managed resources.

AWS CloudHSM

This offers secure cryptographic key storage for customers by providing managed hardware security modules in the AWS Cloud.

AWS DeepLens

This pairs a connected HD camera developer kit with a set of sample projects to help developers learn machine learning concepts using hands-on computer vision use cases. This service is preconfigured to work with multiple AWS services to provide a deep learning framework that is optimized for it, so it is easy to build computer vision applications. This is powerful enough for experts, but designed to help all developers get started quickly with little to no experience in deep learning.

AWS Config

This provides a detailed view of the resources associated with your AWS account, including how they are configured, how they are related to one another, and how the configurations and their relationships have changed over time.

Amazon CloudWatch

This provides a reliable, scalable, and flexible monitoring solution that you can start using within minutes. You no longer need to set up, manage, and scale your own monitoring systems and infrastructure. Use this to monitor your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real time.

AWS OpsWorks

This provides a simple and flexible way to create and manage stacks and applications. With this, you can provision AWS resources, manage their configuration, deploy applications to those resources, and monitor their health.

AWS Migration Hub

This provides a single location to track migration tasks across multiple AWS tools and partner solutions. With this, you can choose the AWS and partner migration tools that best fit your needs while providing visibility into the status of your migration projects. It also provides key metrics and progress information for individual applications, regardless of which tools are used to migrate them.

AWS Mobile Hub

This provides an integrated console that helps you build, test, and monitor your mobile apps. Use the console to choose the features you want to include in your app. It will then provision and configure the necessary AWS services on your behalf and creates a working sample app for you.

Amazon EBS

This provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. Volumes of this are highly available and reliable storage volumes that can be attached to any running instance that is in the same Availability Zone. Volumes that are attached to an EC2 instance are exposed as storage volumes that persist independently from the life of the instance. With this, you pay only for what you use. This is recommended when data must be quickly accessible and requires long-term persistence. Volumes of this are particularly well-suited for use as the primary storage for file systems, databases, or for any applications that require fine granular updates and access to raw, unformatted, block-level storage. This is well suited to both database-style applications that rely on random reads and writes, and to throughput-intensive applications that perform long, continuous reads and writes.

Amazon Elastic File System

This provides file storage for your Amazon EC2 instances. With this, you can create a file system, mount the file system on your EC2 instances, and then read and write data from your EC2 instances to and from your file system.

AWS Mobile SDK for Android

This provides libraries, code samples, and documentation for developers to build connected mobile applications for Androids using AWS.

AWS Directory Service

This provides multiple ways to set up and run Amazon Cloud Directory, Amazon Cognito, and Microsoft AD with other AWS services. It provides a highly scalable directory store for your application's multihierarchical data. While Amazon Cognito helps you create a directory store that authenticates your users either through your own user pools or through federated identity providers, this enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use a managed Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.

AWS Health

This provides personalized information about events that can affect your AWS infrastructure, guides you through scheduled changes, and accelerates the troubleshooting of issues that affect your AWS resources and accounts.

AWS Support

This provides support for users of Amazon Web Services. All users have access to account and billing help from this. In addition, customers with some support plans have access to additional features, including AWS Trusted Advisor and an API for programmatic access to support cases and Trusted Advisor.

Amazon Transcribe

This provides transcription services for your audio files. It uses advanced machine learning technologies to recognize spoken words and transcribe them into text.

AWS Shield

This provides two levels of protection against DDoS attacks: Standard and Advanced. Standard is automatically included at no extra cost beyond what you already pay for AWS WAF and your other AWS services. For added protection against DDoS attacks, AWS offers Advanced. Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for your Amazon EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, Amazon CloudFront distributions, and Amazon Route 53 hosted zones.

AWS Firewall

This simplifies your AWS WAF administration and maintenance tasks across multiple accounts and resources. With this, you set up your firewall rules just once. The service automatically applies your rules across your accounts and resources, even as you add new resources.

Amazon Comprehend

This uses NLP to extract insights about the content of documents without the need of any special preprocessing. This processes any text files in UTF-8 format. It develops insights by recognizing the entities, key phrases, language, sentiments, and other common elements in a document. Use this to create new products based on understanding the structure of documents. With this, you can search social networking feeds for mentions of products, scan an entire document repository for key phrases, or determine the topics contained in a set of documents.

AWS Systems Manager

Use this to organize, monitor, and automate management tasks on your AWS resources.

AWS CloudTrail

With this, you can monitor your AWS deployments in the cloud by getting a history of AWS API calls for your account, including API calls made via the AWS Management Console, the AWS SDKs, the command line tools, and higher-level AWS services. You can also identify which users and accounts called AWS APIs for services that support this, the source IP address the calls were made from, and when the calls occurred.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

With this, you can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. It reduces management complexity without restricting choice or control. You simply upload your application, and this will automatically handle the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and application health monitoring.

AWS Auto Scaling

With this, you can quickly discover the scalable AWS resources for your application and set up dynamic scaling.

AWS Serverless Application Repository

With this, you can quickly find and deploy serverless applications in the AWS Cloud. You can browse applications by category, or search for them by name, publisher, or event source. To use an application, you simply select it, configure required fields, and deploy it with a few clicks. As a serverless application developer, you can also easily publish applications, sharing them across teams and organizations and with other AWS users. To publish serverless applications, you can use the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs to upload the code, along with a simple manifest file.

AWS Lambda

With this, you can run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume—there's no charge when your code isn't running. You can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service—all with zero administration. Just upload your code and it will take care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability. You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.

Amazon Polly

this is a TTS cloud service that converts text into lifelike speech. You can use this to develop applications that increase engagement and accessibility. This supports multiple languages and includes a variety of lifelike voices, so you can build speech-enabled applications that work in multiple locations and use the ideal voice for your customers.

Amazon Athena

An interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. It is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage, and you pay only for the queries you run. To get started, simply point to your data in S3, define the schema, and start querying using standard SQL.

Apache MXNet

An open source deep learning framework that allows you to define, train, and deploy deep neural networks on a wide array of platforms, from cloud infrastructure to mobile devices. It is highly scalable, which allows for fast model training, and supports a flexible programming model and multiple languages. The library is portable and lightweight, and it scales seamlessly to run on multiple GPUs and across multiple machines. It supports programming in various languages to build and train deep learning models. Languages include Python, R, Scala, Julia, and Perl.

AWS Device Farm

An app testing service that enables you to test your iOS, Android and Fire OS apps on real, physical phones and tablets that are hosted by AWS. The service allows you to upload your own tests or use built-in, script-free compatibility tests.

AWS KMS

An encryption and key management service scaled for the cloud. Keys and functionality are used by other AWS services, and you can use them to protect data in your own applications that use AWS.

AWS AppSync

An enterprise level, fully managed GraphQL service with real-time data synchronization and offline programming features.