Commonly used AWS Services
Commonly used AWS Services#
This fix shows a few common AWS services and similar other services you may have worked with outside of the public cloud
Analytics#
MSK(Apache Kafka) - Managed Service for Apache Kafka
Compute#
EC2- Virtual machines (vmware vcloud director, digital ocean droplets, virtual private servers)Lambda- Serverless
Containers#
ECR(Elastic Container Registry) - container registry (vmware harbor, docker registry)ECS(Elastic Container Service) -EKS(Elastic Kubernetes Service) - downstream kubernetes (rancher rke, openshift okd, vmware tanzu, minikube)
Database#
DynamoDB- Managed NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB but managed)Amazon RDS- Relation Database Service (Mysql, Postgres, Sqlite)
Developer Tools#
CodeBuild- Build and Test Code (Jenkins, Gitlab CI)
Management and Governance#
Cloudwatch- Monitor resources, applications and do logging (elasticsearch, LibreNMS, Mmonit, elastalert, rsyslog, grafana loki)CloudFormation(CFN) - Create and manage resources with templates - (terraform)ControlTower- Manage a Multi-account environmentService Catalog- Create and use standardised products (foreman, terraform, ansible)
Networking and Content Delivery#
Route 53- DNS and Domain registration (Your DNS manager, PowerDNS)
Migration and Transfer#
AWS Transfer Family- File transfers with SFTP, FTPS and FTP (OpenSSH)Database MIgration Service- Managed Database Migration Service
Storage#
S3- Storage in the cloud (Minio, dropbox, CDN provider)
Load Balancing#
ELB(Elastic Load Balancer) - A subservice of EC2
Security, Identity and Compliance#
Secrets Manager(Easily rotate, manage and retrieve secrets) - Hashicorp vault
Other Things#
- Transit Gateway - Used as a hub connecting many VPCs (virtual private clouds) and on-premises networks