AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the biggest on-demand cloud computing platforms. Amazon offers more than 90 services spanning a wide range including computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, mobile, developer tools, and tools for the Internet of Things, two of the most popular include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS). Others include: Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), AWS Config, Amazon Cloudwatch (monitoring) and AWS Cloudtrail (Auditing).

Amazon cloud environment can be managed from AWS page or using a AWS command line tool.

AWS regions

As of 2019, AWS has distinct operations in 22 geographical "regions": 7 in North America, 1 in South America, 5 in Europe, 1 In Middle-East and 8 in Asia Pacific.

List of AWS services and products

For a complete list of AWS products you can visit wikipedia:List_of_Amazon_products_and_services#Amazon_Web_Services. Here we will introduce some of them:

• SQS (2004)
• AWS Bottlerocket Linux distribution for containers and Kubernetes
• AWS Cloudformation, AWS Infrastructure as code service.
• AWS Cloudtrail
• Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
• AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud and VPC Flowlogs since October 2015
  • AWS Privatelink since November 2017
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
  • AWS Glacier (08/2012), cold data solution
• Elastic Container Service (ECS)
• Elastic Container Registry (ECR), available since December 2015 with tagging support from December 2018
• Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
• AWS Elasticsearch
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), since May 5, 2018.
• AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provisioning and managing SSL/TLS certificates., available since June 2016.
• AWS Systems Manager, since November 2017
• AWS Elasticsearch, since October 2015
• Amazon Cloudwatch (monitoring) and Cloudwatch Logs (since July 2014), which can stream logs to AWS Elasticsearch

• AWS Tag Editor, https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/tag-editor.html
• AWS Management Console
• AWS Command Line Tool (CLI)
• AWS Inspector, released in October 2015 https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/
• AWS Data Migration Services (DMS)
• AWS Backup, since January 2019.
• AWS CodePipeline, a continuous delivery service available since July 2015
• AWS CodeDeploy, available since November 2014 and including Blue/Green deployments since November 2018.
• AWS Lambda
• AWS Step Functions since December 2016.
• AWS Secrets Manager since April 2018
• AWS Fargate for running containers
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk orchestration service offered since 2011
• AWS Simple Email Service (SES) Simple Email Service
• AWS ElastiCache, managed, Redis or Memcached-compatible in-memory data store
• AWS Sagemaker, machine learning service
• AWS Redshift
• Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS) (2009)
• AWS Outposts
• AWS Lightsail (2016)
• AWS App Mesh (March 2019)
• AWS Storage Gateway (2012)
• AWS Cognito (2014)
• Amazon DevOps Guru

Related terms

• AWS Free tier, AWS Cost
• CloudCraft
• LocalStack
• Availability Zone, Region

See also

• Cloud: cloud providers, cloud timeline, serverless computing, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, IBM Cloud, Alibaba CloudAlibaba, Tencent, Baidu, VPC, Cloud Foundry, Snowflake, Huawei Cloud, Oracle Cloud, CISPE, CIPS, Free trial, Cloudera, Vantage.sh, Render
• Manage AWS infrastructure using Ansible
• AWS, aws help, aws s3, pip install awscli
• AWS certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate (SSA), AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
• AWS, Amazon Managed Services, AWS Management & Governance, computing, security, networking, AWS compliance, AWS Outposts AWS Free Tier, AWS certifications, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Config, IAM Access Analyzer, AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Cost Management, AWS Budgets, AWS Organizations, AWS dev: (CodeStar, Cloud9), AWS Partner Network (APN), AWS Resource Access Manager, AWS Quick Starts, AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Elemental MediaStore, AWS Enterprise support, AWS support, AWS Professional Services Consultants, AWS Cloud Map, AWS Marketplace, AWS CLI, AWS Management Console, AWS acceptable use policy, amazonaws.com, Quotas, AWS Support plans, AWS Resource Explorer, AWS Managed Services (AMS), AWS savings, AWS Nitro System, AWS Activate, Serverless, AWS timeline
• AWS Timeline: wikipedia:Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Services

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Source: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Cloud_computing/Amazon_Web_Services