While there are hundreds of Amazon Web Services (AWS)”services,” there are a few “Core Services” that are mentioned over and over again because of their vitalness and popularity. This page introduces these Core Services, grouped by Service Groups.
This page is part of the Technology Domain of the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam.
Compute
- Amazon EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud
- Amazon Elastic Container Service: Container Orchestration
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Easily Deploy/Scale Apps
- AWS Elastic Load Balancing: Distribute Traffic
- AWS Lambda: Write Serverless Code
Storage
- Amazon EBS: Elastic Block Store
- Amazon EFS: Elastic File System
- Amazon S3: Simple Storage Service
- AWS Snow Family: Data Storage, Migration, and Computation
- AWS Storage Gateway: Connect On-Prem with Cloud
Database
- Amazon RDS: Relational Database
- Amazon Redshift: Data Warehouse
- AWS Databases
- AWS DynamoDB: Non-Relational Database
Networking & Content Delivery
- Amazon CloudFront: Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- Amazon Direct Connect: Dedicated network connections
- Amazon Route 53: Cloud DNS
- Amazon VPC: Virtual Private Cloud
- AWS Global Accelerator: Improve access speed
Management Tools
- Amazon CloudFormation: Automated Provisioning
- AWS CloudTrail: Track Usage
- AWS CloudWatch: App & Infrastructure Monitoring
- AWS Config: Resource configuration auditor
- AWS Trusted Advisor: Optimize Infrastructure
Security, Identity & Compliance
- Amazon GuardDuty: Continuous Threat Detection
- Amazon Inspector: Automated Security Assessment
- AWS IAM: Identity Access Management
- AWS Shared Responsibility Model
- AWS Shield: Managed DDoS Protection
- AWS Trusted Advisor: Optimize Infrastructure
- AWS WAF: Web Application Firewall
- Security 101 for AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam