AWS Services Categories

AWS Services Categories

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AWS (Amazon Web Services) offers a wide range of services that can be categorized into various domains. Here are some common categories of AWS services:

  1. Compute Services: This category includes services for managing compute resources, such as virtual servers, containers, and serverless computing. Examples include Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Lambda, and AWS Batch.

  2. Storage Services: Services related to storage and data management fall into this category. It includes object storage, block storage, file storage, and data transfer services. Examples include Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS, and AWS Snowball.

  3. Database Services: AWS provides managed database services for different types of databases, including relational, NoSQL, in-memory, and data warehousing. Examples include Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Redshift.

  4. Networking Services: Services in this category focus on networking and connectivity, enabling you to build and manage network architectures, routing, DNS, and load balancing. Examples include Amazon VPC, Amazon Route 53, AWS Direct Connect, and AWS Global Accelerator.

  5. Security, Identity, and Compliance Services: This category encompasses services related to identity and access management, encryption, security monitoring, compliance, and governance. Examples include AWS IAM, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Config.

  6. Management and Monitoring Services: These services help you manage and monitor your AWS resources, automate operational tasks, and gain insights into performance and health. Examples include AWS CloudFormation, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS Trusted Advisor.

  7. Analytics Services: AWS provides various services for processing, analyzing, and visualizing data. This category includes services for big data analytics, data lakes, business intelligence, and machine learning. Examples include Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, Amazon QuickSight, and Amazon SageMaker.

  8. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Services: AWS offers a wide range of AI and ML services that enable you to build, train, and deploy machine learning models. Examples include Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Forecast.

  9. Application Integration Services: These services facilitate the integration of different applications, systems, and services. It includes messaging, queueing, event-driven processing, and workflow orchestration. Examples include Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, AWS Step Functions, and Amazon EventBridge.

  10. Developer Tools: AWS provides various tools and services to support the development and deployment of applications on the platform. It includes code repositories, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and debugging tools. Examples include AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS X-Ray.

  11. Internet of Things (IoT): AWS offers services for building IoT applications, managing IoT devices, and processing IoT data at scale. Examples include AWS IoT Core, AWS IoT Device Management, AWS IoT Analytics, and AWS IoT Greengrass.

  12. Blockchain Services: AWS provides blockchain-related services for building scalable and secure blockchain networks. Examples include Amazon Managed Blockchain and Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB).

These categories cover a broad range of AWS services, but it's worth noting that AWS regularly adds new services and updates existing ones to meet evolving customer needs.

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