Welcome back to our #100DaysOfAWS series! In this blog, we're taking a step back in time to revisit an essential topic that forms the bedrock of our AWS journey. While this blog is not new, it's a necessary foundation to grasp the concepts and services that power the world of Amazon Web Services.
Before we continue our expedition into AWS, it's crucial to build a strong understanding of the AWS services that shape the cloud computing landscape. These services are the building blocks of countless solutions, and having a solid grasp of them will make your AWS journey smoother and more insightful.
AWS offers huge catalog of cloud-based products including compute, storage, databases, networking, security, analytics, etc. These services enables organizations to move faster, reduce the IT cost and scale according to their requirement.
Most of the services in AWS are regional services. Not every service is offered in every region. You can visit to AWS Regional Services List to find out which services are available in which region.
As I'm writing this blog, there are more than 190 unique services offered by AWS. Let us list down few key services.
Compute Service
These services help developers build, deploy, and scale an application in the cloud platform. AWS EC2, Lambda are few examples of compute services.
AWS EC2 is a web service that allows developers to rent virtual machines and automatically scales the compute capacity when required. It offers various instance types to developers so that they can choose required resources such as CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity based on their application requirements.
AWS Lambda is a server-less compute service. It is also responsible for executing code for applications. It helps you execute a program without the hassle of managing servers.
Storage
AWS provides web data storage service for archiving data. Also, its primary advantage is disaster data recovery with high durability. S3, EBS are examples of Storage services.
Amazon S3 is an open cloud-based storage service that is utilized for online data backup. It provides storage through a web services interface and is designed for developers where web-scale computing can be easier for them.
Amazon EBS provides a high availability storage volume for persistent data. It is mainly used by Amazon EC2 instances. EBS volumes are used explicitly for primary storage such as file storage, databases storage, and block-level storage.
Database
AWS database domain service offers cost-efficient, highly secure, and scalable database instances in the cloud.
DynamoDB is a flexible NoSQL database service that offers fast and reliable performance with no scalability issues. It is a multi-region and durable database with instant built-in security, backup and restores features.
Networking and Delivery of Content
It offers a highly secure cloud platform and connects your physical network to your private VN with a high transfer speed.
Amazon VPC Define and provision a logically isolated network for your AWS resources. It gives you control over the complete cloud network environment, including the section of your IP address range, subnets, route table configuration, and network gateways. With this, developers can both IPv4 and IPv6 at a time for your resources in a highly secure environment.
Security, Identity & Compliance
It helps in monitoring a safe environment for your AWS resources by providing limited access to specific users.
IAM - Identity Access Management is a framework that helps in maintaining access to AWS services in a secure way. The service gives you Shared access to your AWS account and Secure access to AWS services that run on the AWS EC2 application.
For more information on all the services offered by AWS, please visit AWS Cloud Products.
I hope you find this exploration of AWS services valuable and that it serves as a helpful reference as you navigate the AWS landscape.
Thank you for reading!
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