GETTING STARTED WITH AWS
Tags: aws, tutorial, gettingstartedaws, beginners
Published: 2023-01-22 07:24:29

**Amazon API Gateway** (_networking & content delivery_)
Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that developers can use to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/


![Amazon API Gateway](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/rhx8kqepxwressedv4t8.png)







**Amazon Route 53** (_networking & content delivery_)
Amazon Route 53 is a web service you can use to create a new DNS service or migrate your existing DNS service to the cloud. A reliable and cost-effective way to route end users' traffic to internet application
https://aws.amazon.com/route53/


![Amazon Route 53](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/4u48oedp1kmu63fgdv5n.png)





**Amazon CloudFront** (_networking & content delivery_)
Amazon CloudFront is an AWS content delivery service that helps you improve your websites and applications' performance, reliability, and availability. Fast, secure, and programmable content delivery network (CDN).
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/

![Amazon CloudFront](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/1129gtb2qep9m8ah7ihp.png)



**Amazon VPC**  (_networking & content delivery_)
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) 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.
https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/

![Amazon VPC](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/2zwyqdvciyd9bvzmnwep.png)





**Elastic Load Balancing** (_networking & content delivery_)
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a web service that improves an application's availability by distributing incoming traffic between two or more EC2 instances. Achieve fault tolerance for any application by ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/

![Elastic Load Balancing](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/l3q52d545napyyd2oqcr.png)



**Amazon Trusted Advisor** (_management & governance_)
AWS Trusted Advisor is a web service that inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money, improving system availability and performance, and helping to close security gaps.
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/

![Amazon Trusted Advisor](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/08afnqauoz57rw53v5z0.png)




**Amazon CloudWatch** (_management & governance_)
Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that you can use to monitor and manage various metrics, and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics. Observability of your AWS resources  and applications on AWS and on-premises
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/

![Amazon CloudWatch](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/7qs8sfroa9xly2kf3t72.png)



**AWS CloudFormation** (_management & governance_)
AWS CloudFormation is a service that helps you model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your applications that run in AWS. Model and provision all your cloud infrastructure resources.
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

![AWS CloudFormation](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/u9y1iu4ij4h68d6rkp3n.png)




**AWS CloudTrail** (_management & governance_)
AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements that the AWS service returns. Track user activity and API usage.
https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/

![AWS CloudTrail](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/yjd1ket0mfouyyhhevr1.png)


**Amazon EC2** (_Compute_)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a web service for launching and managing Linux/UNIX and Windows Server instances in Amazon data centers.
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/



![Amazon EC2](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/jpitte41e3tt511efhfx.png)




**Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling** (_Compute_)
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is a web service that launches or terminates instances automatically based on user-defined policies, schedules, and health checks.
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/autoscaling/

![Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/fy5vdurr3716nc152r8y.png)



**AWS Elastic Beanstalk** (Compute)
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a web service for deploying and managing applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications.
https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

![AWS Elastic Beanstalk](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/aiu8pbs24qpy6uvi56r2.png)




**AWS Lambda** (_Compute_)
AWS Lambda is a web service that you can use to run code without provisioning or managing servers. You can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service with zero administration. You can set up your code to automatically start from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app. Run code without thinking about servers, and pay only for the compute time you consume.
https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/.

![AWS Lambda](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/4yufagdlxxjfo1mypc4q.png)




**AWS Fargate** (_Compute_)
AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers.
https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/

![AWS Fargate](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/50wpq8r71qywqzfyv8c0.png)



**Amazon EKS** (_Compute_)
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is a managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to stand up or maintain your own Kubernetes control plane.
https://aws.amazon.com/eks/

![Amazon EKS](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/7hm8312cwzc8lcyjqpav.png)



**Amazon SNS** (_application integration_)
Amazon Simple Notification Service is a web service that applications, users, and devices can use to instantly send and receive notifications from the cloud.
https://aws.amazon.com/sns/

![Amazon SNS](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/sldf5rd0od4sgxwyn8s1.png)



**Amazon EventBridge** (_application integration_)
Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that you can use to connect your applications with data from a variety of sources and route that data to targets such as AWS Lambda. You can set up routing rules to determine where to send your data to build application architectures that react in real-time to all of your data sources.
https://aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/.

![Amazon EventBridge](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/3cohmflm88n4yll5hb4i.png)



**Amazon SQS**(_application integration_)
Amazon Simple Queue Service is a reliable and scalable hosted queues for storing messages as they travel between computers.
https://aws.amazon.com/sqs

![Amazon SQS](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/bs5yy7lkjpt378b9t4ft.png)



**AWS Step Functions** (_application integration_)
AWS Step Functions is a web service that coordinates the components of distributed applications as a series of steps in a visual workflow.
https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/.

![AWS Step Functions](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/v5vdz9ijzuc22am17lk7.png)



**AWS IAM** (_Security, Identity, and Compliance_)
AWS Identity and Access Management is a web service that Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can use to manage users and user permissions within AWS.
https://aws.amazon.com/iam.

![AWS IAM](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/8uj9865brjxg8v024i0n.png)



**AWS IAM Identity Center** (_Security, Identity, and Compliance_)
AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) is a cloud-based service that brings together the administration of users and their access to AWS accounts and cloud applications. You can control single sign-on access and user permissions across all your AWS accounts in AWS Organizations.
https://aws.amazon.com/single-sign-on/.

![AWS IAM Identity Center](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/bxg9xteso90k5yusbe95.png)



**Amazon GuardDuty** (_Security, Identity, and Compliance_)
Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and anomalous behavior to protect your AWS accounts, workloads, Kubernetes clusters, and data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The GuardDuty service monitors for activity such as unusual API calls, unauthorized deployments, and exfiltrated credentials that indicate a possible account reconnaissance or compromise.
https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/

![Amazon GuardDuty](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/mz153w4max3x57b5cokx.png)



**Amazon Cognito** (_Security, Identity, and Compliance_)
Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily
https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/

![Amazon Cognito](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/t2560c57djs5qxq0qlja.png)



**Amazon S3** (_storage_)
Amazon S3 is storage for the internet. You can use it to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3.

![Amazon S3](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/wjmo0ue4tqujaa3dzo44.png)




**Amazon S3 Glacier** (_storage_)
Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and low-cost storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. You can reliably store large or small amounts of data for significantly less than on-premises solutions. S3 Glacier is optimized for infrequently accessed data, where a retrieval time of several hours is suitable.
https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/.

![Amazon S3 Glacier](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/zt6i0sderzlod4qq3ugq.png)



**Amazon EFS** (_storage_)
Amazon Elastic File System is a file storage service for EC2 instances. Amazon EFS provides an interface that you can use to create and configure file systems. Amazon EFS storage capacity grows and shrinks automatically as you add and remove files.
https://aws.amazon.com/efs/.

![Amazon EFS](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/h0lfew1qqmzd7yggbq1w.png)



**Amazon RDS** (_database_)
Amazon Relational Database Service is 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.
https://aws.amazon.com/rds.

![Amazon RDS](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/l2wruvgclla3p7w5h8yy.png)



**Amazon DynamoDB** (_database_)
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.
https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/.

![Amazon DynamoDB](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/f0gloeaz9rqh61wi591z.png)




**Amazon Aurora** (_database_)
Amazon Aurora is a fully managed MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases.
https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/.athen
 
![Amazon Aurora](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/k3ljyxp2fgg7lh9hkfce.png)



**Amazon ElastiCache** (_database_)
Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that simplifies deploying, operating and scaling an in-memory cache in the cloud. The service improves the performance of web applications by providing information retrieval from fast, managed, in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases.
https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/.

![Amazon ElastiCache](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/i8j8qxlgcwyrg20dy0uv.png)



**Elasticsearch** (_analytics_)
An open-source, real-time distributed search and analytics engine used for full-text search, structured search, and analytics. OpenSearch was developed by the Elastic company.
**Amazon OpenSearch Service** (OpenSearch Service) is an AWS-managed service for deploying, operating and scaling OpenSearch in the AWS Cloud.
https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/

![Amazon OpenSearch Service](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/adejo3nsaw1tj9lekpah.png)



**Amazon Athena** (_analytics_)
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that you can use to analyze data in Amazon S3 using ANSI SQL. Athena is serverless, so there's no infrastructure to manage. Athena scales automatically and is simple to use, so you can start analyzing your datasets within seconds.
https://aws.amazon.com/athena/.

![Amazon Athena](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/xzptw41dplae2pi6te0x.png)


**Amazon Kinesis** (_analytics_)
Amazon Kinesis is a platform for streaming data on AWS. Kinesis offers services that simplify the loading and analysis of streaming data.
https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/.


![Amazon Kinesis](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/9tjy8g77j60wx9hpb08v.png)






**Amazon QuickSight** (_analytics_)
Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that you can use to build visualizations, perform analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data.
https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/.


![Amazon QuickSight](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/8uxxqharz1el5pdxai0i.png)






**Amazon EMR** (_analytics_)
Amazon Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that you can use to process large amounts of data efficiently. Amazon EMR 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.
https://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce


![Amazon EMR](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/dd27ktzm215zucx3kvt7.png)






**Amazon Redshift** (_analytics_)
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. With Amazon Redshift, you can analyze your data using your existing business intelligence tools.
https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/.


![Amazon Redshift](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/cryghyh2rpzcgi6di7vi.png)





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**REFERENCE**:

- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/glos-chap.html
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/security-services.html
- https://digitalcloud.training/
- https://sketchboard.me/