List of AWS Services

Explore quick notes on 124 important AWS services, categorized for easy navigation and learning. These services are particularly relevant for AWS Certification exams such as Solutions Architect, Developer, and SysOps.

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Compute

  1. EC2
  2. Auto Scaling Group
  3. ECS
  4. EKS
  5. Fargate
  6. Batch
  7. LightSail
  8. Elastic Beanstalk
  9. App Runner
  10. Lambda
  11. Outposts
  12. Amplify
  13. GameLift

SQL Databases

  1. RDS
  2. Aurora
  3. Redshift

Non-SQL Databases

  1. DynamoDB
  2. DocumentDB
  3. Neptune
  4. ElastiCache
  5. Amazon Keyspaces (for Cassandra)

Storage

  1. S3
  2. EFS
  3. FSx Family
  4. Storage Gateway
  5. Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  6. Instance Store

Migration & Transfer

  1. Data Sync
  2. DMS
  3. Migration Hub
  4. Snow Family
  5. Transfer Family
  6. Application Migration Service (MGN)

Data and Analytics

  1. Athena
  2. Glue
  3. QuickSight
  4. Kinesis
  5. Data Exchange
  6. OpenSearch
  7. Data Pipeline
  8. EMR
  9. Lake Formation

Billing and Cost Management

  1. Cost Explorer
  2. Budgets
  3. Savings Plans
  4. Consolidated Billing
  5. Data Exports

Machine Learning

  1. SageMaker
  2. Rekognition
  3. Textract
  4. Forecast
  5. Fraud Detector
  6. Bedrock
  7. Translate

Customer Engagement

  1. Kendra
  2. SES
  3. Pinpoint
  4. Connect
  5. Lex
  6. Transcribe
  7. Polly
  8. Comprehend

Application Integration

  1. SNS
  2. SQS
  3. EventBridge
  4. AppSync
  5. Step Functions
  6. MQ
  7. AppFlow

Monitoring & Observability

  1. Cloudwatch
  2. X-Ray
  3. Cloudtrail

Developer Tools

  1. Cloud9
  2. CodeCommit
  3. CodeBuild
  4. CodeDeploy
  5. CodePipeline

Management & Governance

  1. Resource Explorer
  2. Config
  3. AppConfig
  4. Trusted Advisor
  5. Systems Manager
  6. CloudFormation
  7. Service Catalog
  8. License Manager
  9. Well-Architected Tool
  10. Organizations
  11. Control Tower
  12. Backup
  13. Disaster Recovery (DRS)
  14. Global Infrastructure

Networking & Content Delivery

  1. VPC
  2. Route 53
  3. CloudFront
  4. Global Accelerator
  5. API Gateway
  6. NAT Gateway
  7. Internet Gateway
  8. Transit Gateway
  9. Direct Connect
  10. Elastic Load Balancing
  11. Site-to-Site VPN
  12. VPC Endpoint Gateway
  13. VPC Peering
  14. Customer Gateway
  15. Virtual Private Gateway
  16. ACL/NACLs
  17. Direct Connect Gateway
  18. Transit VPC

Security, Identity & Compliance

  1. Cognito
  2. KMS
  3. GuardDuty
  4. Inspector
  5. Macie
  6. Shield
  7. WAF
  8. AWS IAM identity Center(formerly AWS SSO)
  9. AWS Organizations
  10. Directory Service
  11. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
  12. CloudHSM
  13. Firewall Manager
  14. Secrets Manager
  15. Audit Manager
Important AWS keywords/Terminology that every new learner should know
Keyword Simple Meaning
Fully Managed AWS handles all infrastructure, scaling, and maintenance, so you only focus on using the service.
Serverless No need to manage servers. Resources scale automatically based on demand, and you only pay for usage.
High Availability (HA) System is designed to work even if some parts fail (e.g., multiple AZs).
Scalability Ability to grow (or shrink) resources automatically based on demand.
Elasticity Auto-scale up and down (dynamic resizing depending on load).
Fault Tolerance System keeps running even if part of it completely fails (e.g., hardware crash).
Multi-AZ Deployment App/data is spread across multiple Availability Zones for higher reliability.
Multi-Region Deployment App/data is replicated across different AWS regions (geo-locations).
Durability Data survives over a long time (e.g., S3’s "11 9’s" durability = 99.999999999%).
Resilience Ability to recover quickly from failures.
Pay-As-You-Go You pay only for what you actually use (no upfront huge cost).
Consumption-Based Pricing Billing depends on how much you consume (like serverless models).
Decoupling Breaking systems into independent pieces that work loosely together (e.g., SQS between app and database).
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Managing servers, databases, networking etc. using code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform).
Well-Architected Framework AWS guide for building secure, reliable, efficient, and cost-optimized systems.
IAM (Identity and Access Management) Managing who can access what in AWS securely.
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Private network inside AWS where you can launch your resources securely.
Load Balancer Distributes traffic across multiple servers so no single server is overloaded.
Auto Scaling Automatically adds/removes servers based on traffic load.
Edge Locations Part of AWS Global Infrastructure (for faster content delivery via CloudFront/CDN).
Latency Time delay between a user request and system response.
Throughput Amount of data processed in a given time (important for services like Kinesis, DynamoDB).
Monitoring & Observability Watching your systems for health and performance (e.g., CloudWatch, X-Ray).
Encryption (at Rest / in Transit) Protecting your data — either when stored or when moving between places.
Disaster Recovery (DR) Plans and setups to recover apps/data if there's a major failure (like backup strategies).
SLA (Service Level Agreement) AWS’s official promises around uptime (like "99.99% availability").