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Amazon API Gateway

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Fully managed API management service that handles concepts like authentication, logging, and throttling for your API layer

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S3 Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive

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Archive storage classes for Amazon S3. These are designed for objects you need to keep but don’t plan to access.

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AWS CloudFormation

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Managed service for launching infrastructure based on templates

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Amazon Cognito

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User directory service for custom applications that can also enable access to AWS resources for your custom applications

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AWS Direct Connect

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Cloud service solution that makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your data center to AWS

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

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Service that provides object storage for objects up to 5 TB in size - with no limit on the total storage

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Auto Scaling Group

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EC2 capability that manages a group of EC2 instances that have rules for automated scaling and management which includes health checks for each member of the group

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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

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Managed service for relational databases including support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora

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Amazon VPC

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Logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define

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Amazon Elasticache

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Fully-managed in-memory data store that supports memcached and Redis engines

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Amazon Macie

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Data classification, protection, and monitoring service powered by machine learning for Amazon S3 data

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AWS CloudTrail

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Service that provides audit trail for all services used in an AWS account (across all interaction methods)

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Elastic Load Balancing

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Service that enables you to distribute traffic across multiple targets (including EC2, ECS, Lambda).

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AWS Config

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Provides continual analysis of AWS resources to ensure they are meeting rules defined in the service

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AWS CodePipeline

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Fully-managed continuous delivery service on AWS for automating building, deploying, and testing. Integrates with other developer services

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Amazon GuardDuty

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Fully-managed service that continually monitors your AWS account and resources for potential malicious behavior and anomalies

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Amazon Route 53

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Highly-available AWS Domain Name Service (DNS) service that can be leveraged in creating highly available and fault tolerant applications. This is a global service.

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AWS CodeDeploy

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Fully-managed deployment service for applications running on Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and on-premise servers

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Amazon Transcribe

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Audio transcription service powered by Machine Learning that can transcribe audio (either streaming or in batch) in many different languages

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AWS Lambda

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Service that enables you to use compute resources without having to launch or manage the underlying infrastructure - this is leveraged in serverless architectures

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Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)

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Fully managed NFS file system designed for Linux workloads with support for petabytes of data

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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Service that controls access to AWS resources. This is where you create IAM users, IAM groups, and roles. Policies are attached to identities for permission to access resources.

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Amazon Redshift

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Managed petabyte scale data warehousing solution on AWS. In addition, Redshift Spectrum support querying exabytes of data stored in Amazon S3.

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Elastic Load Balancing

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Service that supports routing traffic across multiple targets including EC2 instances, Lambda functions, as well as other targets on AWS

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AWS Glue
Fully-managed serverless extract, transform, and load (ETL) service
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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Managed message queue service. This can enable fault tolerant and serverless applications. This supports standard and FIFO (first-in first-out) queues.
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Amazon Rekognition
Computer vision service powered by Machine Learning that can detect objects in images and video
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AWS Snowball
Petabyte scale data transfer service where a physical device is delivered to your organization and returned by a local carrier then loaded into Amazon S3
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Amazon CloudWatch
Monitoring and management service that integrates with most AWS services. It provides both metrics and alarms based on those metrics.
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Amazon Quicksight
Fully-managed Business Intelligence (BI) service enabling self-service data dashboards for data stored in the cloud
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AWS Secrets Manager
Service that manages secrets (such as passwords, keys, tokens, etc…) used in your custom applications on AWS. It also supports auto-rotation of credentials on supported AWS services
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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
Service that enables you to move your data (from popular commercial and open source databases) easily onto the cloud
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AWS Marketplace
Catalog of third-party software offerings that makes it easy to launch pre-defined solutions onto your AWS account from these vendors
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Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
Managed pub/sub (publish / subscribe) messaging service. This can enable fan-out architecture with one message triggering multiple actions.
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AWS Service Catalog
Service for offering your organization’s pre-defined IT offerings to other members of your organization in a self-service portal on AWS
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AWS Systems Manager
Service that provides a collection of tools and insight into operational data for central management of those cloud or on-premise instances.
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AWS Shield
Managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service for apps running on AWS
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AWS Storage Gateway
Hybrid-cloud storage service that enables companies to take advantage of cloud storage on their local networks
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Persistent block storage designed for use with a single EC2 server. It can scale to support petabytes of data and supports different volume types.
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AWS Step Functions
Manages the orchestration of complex workflows which are defined using Amazon States Language. It can be leveraged in a serverless architecture.
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AWS CodeStar
Workflow tool for automatic creation of a continuous delivery pipeline for a custom application using the other developer services
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Amazon CloudFront
Amazon‘s global Content Delivery Network (CDN) service that enables your users to get content from a server that is closest to them
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AWS Control Tower
System that launches a multi-account configuration based on AWS best practices
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Amazon Athena
Service that enables serverless querying of data stored within Amazon S3 using standard SQL queries
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Network Access Control Lists (ACL)
Control for inbound and outbound traffic within a specific subnet in a VPC. Traffic can be allowed or denied based on custom rules
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Amazon Aurora
MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database that was built for the cloud
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AWS CodeCommit
Fully-managed source control service using Git
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AWS Snowmobile
Exabyte scale data transfer service where a ruggedized shipping container is sent to your office then loaded into Amazon S3
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AWS DataSync
Automated data transfer service that efficiently transfer data from your local network into AWS
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Amazon Inspector
Automated security assessment service for EC2 instances
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Amazon EMR
Big-data cloud-based tool suite using popular open source tools including Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Presto, and many others.
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Amazon DynamoDB
Fully managed NoSQL database service that has extremely low latency and scaling based on configuration
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AWS Artifact
Portal that provides self-service access to AWS compliance reports and agreements you may have with AWS
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AWS Data Pipeline
Data workflow orchestration service that supports multiple AWS services providing extract, transform, and load (ETL) capabilities
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Platform (PaaS) for scaling and deploying web apps and services across a specific list of technologies
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Amazon CloudSearch
Managed search service for custom applications
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Amazon Translate
Text translation service powered by Machine Learning that can translate text (either streaming or in batch) into many different languages. It also provides language detection.
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AWS CodeBuild
Fully-managed build and continuous integration service on AWS
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Amazon EC2
Service that provides secure and resizable virtual servers on AWS
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Security Groups
Firewall-like controls for EC2 instances within a VPC that controls access for inbound and outbound traffic. Instances can have multiple security groups
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AWS VPN
Service that supports an encrypted tunnel into a VPC. This can support either site-to-site (from your data center into the VPC) or client (from a single computer into the VPC)
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AWS OpsWorks
a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.

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