AWS Solution Architect Associate C03 and C02 Exam Scope Service Comparison
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Published: 2022-06-15 09:49:41

Solutions Architect Associate (SAA) Exams will change on 8/30/2022
By changing from the current SAA-C02 to C03, the test content and the number of services in the test range will change.
I compared how many services change

# Number of Exam range services for C03 and C02
* C03: 131 pieces
* C02: 63 pieces
 * C03 is more than double C02

# Exam Guide
* [SAA-C03](https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sa-assoc/AWS-Certified-Solutions-Architect-Associate_Exam-Guide_C03.pdf)
* [SAA-C02](https://d1.awsstatic.com/training-and-certification/docs-sa-assoc/AWS-Certified-Solutions-Architect-Associate_Exam-Guide.pdf)

# Service comparison between C03 and C02
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  <td height=24 td style="text-align: center;"><b>SAA-C03(131)</b></td>
  <td td style="text-align: center;"><b>SAA-C02(63)<b/></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Analytics<b/></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Athena</td>
  <td>Athena</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Data Exchange</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Data Pipeline</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>EMR</td>
  <td>EMR</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Glue</td>
  <td>Glue</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Kinesis</td>
  <td>Kinesis</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Lake Formation</td>
  <td></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)</td>
  <td></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>OpenSearch Service (Elasticsearch
  Service)</td>
  <td>Elasticsearch Service (ES)</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>QuickSight</td>
  <td>QuickSight</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Redshift</td>
  <td></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Application Integration</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>AppFlow</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>AppSync</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>EventBridge (CloudWatch Events)</td>
  <td>EventBridge (CloudWatch Events)</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>MQ</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Simple Notification Service (SNS)</td>
  <td>Simple Notification Service (SNS)</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Simple Queue Service (SQS)</td>
  <td>Simple Queue Service (SQS)</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Step Functions</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Cost management
</b></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Budgets</td>
  <td>Budgets</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Cost and Usage Report</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Cost Explorer</td>
  <td>Cost Explorer</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Savings Plans</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Computing</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Batch</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>EC2</td>
  <td>EC2</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>EC2 Auto Scaling</td>
  <td></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Elastic Beanstalk</td>
  <td>Elastic Beanstalk</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Outposts</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Serverless Application Repository</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>VMware Cloud on AWS</td>
  <td></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Wavelength</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Container</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>ECR</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>ECS</td>
  <td>ECS</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>ECS Anywhere</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>EKS</td>
  <td>EKS</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>EKS Anywhere</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>EKS Distro</td>
  <td></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Database</b></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Aurora</td>
  <td>Aurora</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Aurora Serverless</td>
  <td></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)</td>
  <td></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>DynamoDB</td>
  <td>DynamoDB</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>ElastiCache</td>
  <td>ElastiCache</td>
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  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)</td>
  <td></td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Neptune</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>QLDB</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>RDS</td>
  <td>RDS</td>
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 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Redshift</td>
  <td>Redshift</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Timestream</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Developer Tools</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>X-Ray</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Front-End Web and Mobile</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Amplify</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>API Gateway</td>
  <td>API Gateway</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Device Farm</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Pinpoint</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Machine Learning</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Comprehend</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Forecast</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Fraud Detector</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Kendra</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Lex</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Polly</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Rekognition</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>SageMaker</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Textract</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Transcribe</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Translate</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Management and Governance</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Auto Scaling</td>
  <td>Auto Scaling</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>CloudFormation</td>
  <td>CloudFormation</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>CloudTrail</td>
  <td>CloudTrail</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>CloudWatch</td>
  <td>CloudWatch</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>AWS CLI</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Compute Optimizer</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Config</td>
  <td>Config</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Control Tower</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>License Manager</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Managed Grafana</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Managed Service for Prometheus</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Management Console</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Organizations</td>
  <td>Organizations</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Personal Health Dashboard</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Proton</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Service Catalog</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Systems Manager</td>
  <td>Systems Manager</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Trusted Advisor</td>
  <td>Trusted Advisor</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Well-Architected Tool</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Media Services</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Elastic Transcoder</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Kinesis Video Streams</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Migration and Transfer</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Application Discovery Service</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Application Migration Service
  (CloudEndure Migration)</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Database Migration Service (DMS)</td>
  <td>Database Migration Service (DMS)</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>DataSync</td>
  <td>DataSync</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Migration Hub</td>
  <td>Migration Hub</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Server Migration Service (SMS)</td>
  <td>Server Migration Service (SMS)</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Snow Family</td>
  <td>Snowball</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Transfer Family</td>
  <td>Transfer Family</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Networking and Content Delivery</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>CloudFront</td>
  <td>CloudFront</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Direct Connect</td>
  <td>Direct Connect</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>ELB</td>
  <td>ELB</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Global Accelerator</td>
  <td>Global Accelerator</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>PrivateLink</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Route 53</td>
  <td>Route 53</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Transit Gateway</td>
  <td>Transit Gateway</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>VPC</td>
  <td>VPC</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>VPN</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Security, Identity, and Compliance</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Artifact</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Audit Manager</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>ACM</td>
  <td>ACM</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>CloudHSM</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Cognito</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Detective</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Directory Service</td>
  <td>Directory Service</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Firewall Manager</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>GuardDuty</td>
  <td>GuardDuty</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>IAM</td>
  <td>IAM</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Inspector</td>
  <td>Inspector</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>KMS</td>
  <td>KMS</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Macie</td>
  <td>Macie</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Network Firewall</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Resource Access Manager</td>
  <td>Resource Access Manager</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Secrets Manager</td>
  <td>Secrets Manager</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Security Hub</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Shield</td>
  <td>Shield</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>AWS SSO</td>
  <td>AWS SSO</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>AWS WAF</td>
  <td>AWS WAF</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Serverless</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>AppSync</td>
  <td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Fargate</td>
  <td>Fargate</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Lambda</td>
  <td>Lambda</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td colspan=2 td style="text-align: center;"><b>Storage</b></td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>AWS Backup</td>
  <td>AWS Backup</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>EBS</td>
  <td>EBS</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>EFS</td>
  <td>EFS</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>FSx (All Type)</td>
  <td>FSx</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>S3</td>
  <td>S3</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>S3 Glacier</td>
  <td>S3 Glacier</td>
 </tr>
 <tr height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>
  <td height=24 style='height:17.65pt'>Storage Gateway</td>
  <td>Storage Gateway</td>
 </tr>

</table>