Top 10 AWS services to choose for your business in 2020
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Published: 2019-08-09 12:35:27

<h2><b>The universe of Amazon</b></h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">In the past years, cloud computing has revolutionized the technology industry. With it, tech companies don’t need anymore to make essential investments in hardware and infrastructure; alternatively, they can purchase just the appropriate volume of computing resources to instantly operate their IT departments on the pay-as-yo-go basis.</span>

<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amazon Web Services</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (AWS) is genuinely the undisputed pioneer in the cloud computing market who launched the computing services on an as-needed basis. More than 100 efficient services in their extensive portfolio provide a comprehensive <strong>list of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)</strong> offerings, among which are the services for a database, application development, security, infrastructure management, storage, etc. </span>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">AWS services are compatible building blocks for development and deployment of any specific kind of cloud application or expanding the existing cloud environment. AWS products are technologically aligned with each other to bring to life highly scalable and refined products. AWS owns and operates the hardware necessary for maintaining their services.</span>
<h3><b>Benefits of AWS services:</b></h3>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flexible and scalable IT resources</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Considerable cost savings on hardware</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Faster innovation</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instant upscaling or downscaling</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Quick positioning of necessary resources</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Flawless infrastructure</span></li>
</ul>
More read: <a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/blog/benefits-of-aws-cloud/">“The Definitive Benefits of AWS Cloud Adoption”</a> 

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s very easy to take the wrong turn with such a vast number of AWS offerings. That’s why we’ve made up a <strong>list of the top 10 most popular and in-demand essential AWS services for businesses.</strong> We hope this AWS services overview will come in handy on your way to becoming a stronger and more innovative company.</span>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Top 10 must-have AWS services:</b></h2>
<ol>
 	<li><b>Amazon EC2 - </b><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.</span></b></li>
 	<li><b>Amazon ELB - </b><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elastic Load Balancing.</span></b></li>
 	<li><b>Amazon DynamoDB - </b><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">NoSQL Cloud Databas.</span></b></li>
 	<li><b>Amazon RedShift - </b><b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Data Warehouse.</span></b></li>
 	<li><b>Amazon RDS - <span style="font-weight: 400;">Relational Database Service.</span></b></li>
 	<li><b>Amazon Lambda - <span style="font-weight: 400;">Serverless Functions.</span></b></li>
 	<li><b>Amazon SNS - <span style="font-weight: 400;">Simple Notification Service.</span></b></li>
 	<li><b>Amazon S3 - <span style="font-weight: 400;">Redundant File Storage.</span></b></li>
 	<li><b>Amazon Lex - <span style="font-weight: 400;">Conversational Interfaces.</span></b></li>
 	<li><b>Amazon VPC - <span style="font-weight: 400;">Virtual Private.</span></b></li>
</ol>

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<h3><strong>Amazon EC2</strong></h3>
<b>Features: <span style="font-weight: 400;">EC2 allows creating virtual machines (instances) and other server management features, like storage, security, ports, with the chosen operating system. There are lots of pre-configured instance templates - AMIs (Amazon Machine Image). In addition, the instances may be configured as per requirement.</span></b>

<b>Benefits:</b>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Very easy to scale up and down</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Integration with other services</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hourly payment</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eliminates the need to deploy costly physical servers</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Security and resistibility</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Accelerated development and deployment of applications</span></li>
</ul>
<img class="litespeed-loaded alignleft" src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AWS-elb-logo.png" alt="Amazon ELB" width="173" height="173" data-lazyloaded="1" data-src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AWS-elb-logo.png" data-was-processed="true" />
<h3><strong>Amazon <b>ELB</b></strong></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><b>Features: </b>ELB automatically distributes the load between different instances, in other words, if one instance is busy, the other one can handle the large incoming traffic. The service helps avoid any server hotspots. ELB offers three types of load balancers: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Application Load Balancer, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Network Load Balancer, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Classic Load Balancer. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ELB ensures only healthy targets receive traffic.</span>

<b>Benefits:</b>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Application performance monitoring</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Automatic upscaling or downscaling</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Better performance</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fault-tolerant applications</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robust security features</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">User authentication</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Increased availability of an application</span></li>
</ul>
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<h3><strong>Amazon <b>DynamoDB</b></strong></h3>
<b>Features: <span style="font-weight: 400;">This completely managed NoSQL cloud database platform ensures storage, processing, and access to data, and supports scale-driven and high-performance applications. It works with document and key-value storage models. Perfect for IoT, ad tech, gaming, and mobile apps. DynamoDB can scale to accommodate large datasets.</span></b>

<b>Benefits:</b>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Supports mission-critical workloads</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Extremely fast</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Serverless</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fully managed in-memory cache</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Low-latency data access at any scale</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Single-digit millisecond response time</span></li>
</ul>
<strong><img class="litespeed-loaded alignleft" src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/amazon-redshift.png" alt="Amazon Redshift" width="150" height="150" data-lazyloaded="1" data-src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/amazon-redshift.png" data-was-processed="true" /></strong>
<h3><strong>Amazon <b>RedShift</b></strong></h3>
<b>Features: <span style="font-weight: 400;">This Database-as-a-Service solution is the fastest data warehouse available in the cloud market. It can house petabytes of data and scale up or down according to your requirements. RedShift powers mission-critical analytical workloads. The clusters are fully managed by AWS. The database is compatible with most third-party applications.</span></b>

<b>Benefits:</b>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cost-efficient</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fast-performing</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Horizontal scaling</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Continuous backups</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Columnar storage</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Massively Parallel Processing (MPP)</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Data lake integration</span></li>
</ul>
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<h3><strong>Amazon <b>RDS</b> </strong></h3>
<b>Features: <span style="font-weight: 400;">This service allows running and managing a relational database without typically having to spend time and considerable resources for its infrastructure management. Databases can be equipped with 5 GB-6 TB in size and can be run on magnetic or solid state storage (SSD). The service can support multiple database engines, like Aurora, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server.</span></b>

<b>Benefits:</b>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cost-effective</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fully managed</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highly scalable</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resizeable</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lower administrative burden</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dedicated instances for databases in minutes</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Automatic software patching</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><strong><img class="litespeed-loaded alignleft" src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Romexsoft-Amazon-Lambda.png" alt="Amazon Lambda" width="150" height="150" data-lazyloaded="1" data-src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Romexsoft-Amazon-Lambda.png" data-was-processed="true" />Amazon <b>Lambda</b></strong></h3>
<b>Features: <span style="font-weight: 400;">It is also called Function-as-a-Service (FaaS). You barely have to upload your code virtually for any kind of application or backend service, and Lambda handles everything to run and scale your code with high availability. Supports all types of development tasks. You can execute code functions without the requirement of any EC2 server.</span></b>

<b>Benefits:</b>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">No servers to manage</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zero administration</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pay per run</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Helps avoid complexity and management overhead</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Automatic scaling of an application</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><strong><img class="litespeed-loaded alignleft" src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Romexsoft-Amazon-SNS.png" alt="Amazon SNS" width="150" height="150" data-lazyloaded="1" data-src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Romexsoft-Amazon-SNS.png" data-was-processed="true" />Amazon <b>SNS</b></strong></h3>
<b>Features: <span style="font-weight: 400;">Allows sending notifications to users on any platform. The service sends emails, text messages, SQS (Simple queue services), HTML endpoint messages. Enables to decouple microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. This service is built for high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging.</span></b>

<b>Benefits:</b>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">High message durability</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fully managed service</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keeps sensitive data secure</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Integrates with any type of application (Node.JS, Python, PHP)</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Low-cost infrastructure for mass message delivery</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><strong><img class="litespeed-loaded alignleft" src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Romexsoft-Amazon-S3.png" alt="Amazon S3" width="150" height="150" data-lazyloaded="1" data-src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Romexsoft-Amazon-S3.png" data-was-processed="true" />Amazon <b>S3</b></strong></h3>
<b>Features:</b>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a triple redundant scalable data storage. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The data is stored in 3 datacenters in one particular region, which guarantees high data security and adequate protection from failures, errors, and potential threats. This service can be used by companies of all sizes for the storage, retrieval, and protection of any amount of data. The service offers a possibility to manage, classify and report on your data, as well as run big data analytics across your objects. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Objects consist of the data, key (assigned name), and metadata. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The objects are stored in “folders”, which can be private or public. The service provides integrations with PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP. </span></p>
<b>Benefits:</b>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">High data availability</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Granular data control</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Simple data transfer</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Backup and recovery</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incredibly secure infrastructure</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scalability</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Almost zero latency</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">High performance</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Easy-to-use management features</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Easy integration with third-party applications</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><strong><img class="litespeed-loaded alignleft" src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Amazon-Lex.png" alt="Amazon Lex logo" width="141" height="141" data-lazyloaded="1" data-src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Amazon-Lex.png" data-was-processed="true" />Amazon <b>Lex</b></strong></h3>
<b>Features: <span style="font-weight: 400;">Lex is an AI service for developing conversational interfaces (voice and text) for any application using the same deep learning technologies that power Amazon Alexa. They are Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU). You can build, test and deploy your chatbots directly from Amazon Lex console. This service enables creating applications with highly engaging user experiences.</span></b>

<b>Benefits:</b>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meaningful interactions</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sophisticated deep learning algorithms</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Easy-to-use console</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are charged for the  text of speech requests</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Scales automatically</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><strong><img class="litespeed-loaded alignleft" src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Romexsoft-Amazon-VPC.png" alt="Amazon EC2" width="150" height="150" data-lazyloaded="1" data-src="https://www.romexsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Romexsoft-Amazon-VPC.png" data-was-processed="true" />Amazon <b>VPC</b></strong></h3>
<b>Features: <span style="font-weight: 400;">This service has been launched as Amazon’s answer to the increasing number of security threats and data breaches. The service allows creating an isolated space on AWS, and provide access to it only for authorized individuals, groups, or systems. This provides an extra layer of security to the data and resources running under a defined VPC. Your information is absolutely free of exposure.</span></b>

<b>Benefits:</b>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Effective prevention of data security risk</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Possible VPN connections to a corporate network</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensured accessibility of information</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Complete control over the virtual networking environment</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inbound and outbound filtering</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: 24px;"><b>Summing up</b></span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">AWS services are invaluable for businesses directed towards superior agility, continuous innovation, and migration to the cloud. The broad range of services AWS offers can satisfy the most sophisticated requirements of any businesses with any specific goals. AWS services help considerably cut costs on infrastructure management and capital investment into hardware, and reach a quicker time to value. Companies pay exactly for what they use.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Wit Amazon AWS products costly on-premise data centers, which require maintenance and considerable attention, can be replaced with scalable and efficient digital infrastructure. <a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/aws-managed-services/">Managed AWS services</a> help upscale or downscale the infrastructure according to the ever-changing business landscape, ensure reliability and security, and maximize revenues.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But you nevertheless have to consider the fact, that not all the AWS services are an appropriate match with each other. You need to have an accurate understanding of which technology stack and the combination of AWS services you need to correctly solve a particular business task.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Have you made up your mind to<a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/aws-cloud-migration/"> migrate to AWS</a> and establish a thriving cloud-based business? Don’t have enough cloud expertise in-house? </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Romexsoft is a certified AWS consulting partner, and we can help you quickly and securely get a handle on complex AWS environment</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and mix the precise combination of AWS services with each other according to your business needs. Reach us to get in touch with our acknowledged </span><a href="https://www.romexsoft.com/get-in-touch/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AWS expert</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>

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