AMAZON WEB SERVICES

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of cloud computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform offered by Amazon.com. These services operate from 12 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services arguably include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3".

It is further divided into different categories based on the usage and requirements.

1. Compute

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides scalable virtual private servers using Xen.
• Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) allows businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cheaply process vast amounts of data. It uses a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of EC2 and Amazon S3.
• Amazon Lambda (LAMBDA)[32] provides a compute service that runs code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources needed to run the code.[33]

2. Networking

• Amazon Route 53 provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) creates a logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances which can be connected to an existing network using a VPN connection.
• AWS Direct Connect provides dedicated network connections into AWS data centers, providing faster and cheaper data throughput.
• Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances.

3. Content delivery

• Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN) for distributing objects to so-called "edge locations" near the requester

4. Storage and content delivery

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) provides Web Service based storage.
• Amazon Glacier provides a low-cost, long-term storage option (compared to S3). High redundancy and availability, but low-frequent access times. Intended for archiving data.
• AWS Storage Gateway, an iSCSI block storage virtual appliance with cloud-based backup.
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block-level storage volumes for EC2.
• AWS Import/Export, accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport.
• Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) a file storage service for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

5. Database

• Amazon DynamoDB provides a scalable, low-latency NoSQL online Database Service backed by SSDs.
• Amazon ElastiCache provides in-memory caching for web applications. This is Amazon's implementation of Memcached and Redis.
• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) provides a scalable database server with MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL support.[34]
• Amazon Redshift provides petabyte-scale data warehousing with column-based storage and multi-node compute.
• Amazon SimpleDB allows developers to run queries on structured data. It operates in concert with EC2 and S3 to provide "the core functionality of a database".
• AWS Data Pipeline provides reliable service for data transfer between different AWS compute and storage services (e.g., Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR). In other words this service is simply a data-driven workload management system, which provides a simple management API for managing and monitoring of data-driven workloads in cloud applications.[35]
• Amazon Kinesis streams data in real time with the ability to process thousands of data streams on a per-second basis. The service, designed for real-time apps, allows developers to pull any amount of data, from any number of sources, scaling up or down as needed.

6. Deployment

• AWS CloudFormation provides a declarative template-based Infrastructure as Code model for configuring AWS.[36]
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides quick deployment and management of applications in the cloud.
• AWS OpsWorks provides configuration of EC2 services using Chef.
• AWS CodeDeploy provides automated code deployment to EC2 instances.

7. Management

• Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an implicit service, the authentication infrastructure used to authenticate access to the various services.
• AWS Directory Service a managed service that allows you to connect AWS resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory or to set up a new, stand-alone directory in the AWS Cloud.
• Amazon CloudWatch, provides monitoring for AWS cloud resources and applications, starting with EC2.
• AWS Management Console (AWS Console), A web-based point and click interface to manage and monitor the Amazon infrastructure suite including (but not limited to) EC2, EBS, S3, SQS, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon CloudFront. Amazon also makes available a mobile application for Android which has support for some of the management features from the console.
• Amazon CloudHSM - The AWS CloudHSM service helps to meet corporate, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud.
• AWS Key Management Service (KMS) a managed service to create and control encryption keys.

8. Application services

• Amazon API Gateway is a service for publishing, maintaining and securing web service APIs.
• Amazon CloudSearch provides basic full-text search and indexing of textual content.
• Amazon DevPay, currently in limited beta version, is a billing and account management system for applications that developers have built atop Amazon Web Services.
• Amazon Elastic Transcoder (ETS) provides video transcoding of S3 hosted videos, marketed primarily as a way to convert source files into mobile-ready versions.
• Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) provides an interface for micropayments.
• Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) provides bulk and transactional email sending.
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) provides a hosted message queue for web applications.
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) provides a hosted multi-protocol "push" messaging for applications.
• Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) is a workflow service for building scalable, resilient applications.
• Amazon Cognito a simple user identity and data synchronization service that helps you securely manage and synchronize app data for users across their mobile devices.[37]
• Amazon AppStream a flexible, low-latency service that lets you stream resource intensive applications and games from the cloud.

9. Analytics

• Amazon Machine Learning a service that makes it easy for developers of all skill levels to use machine learning technology.
• Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed, cloud-based service for real-time data processing over large, distributed data streams.[38]

10. Miscellaneous

• Amazon Fulfillment Web Service provides a programmatic web service for sellers to ship items to and from Amazon using Fulfillment by Amazon. This service will no longer be supported by Amazon. All of the functionality of this service is now transferred to Amazon marketplace Web service.
• Amazon Historical Pricing provides access to Amazon's historical sales data from its affiliates. (It appears that this service has been discontinued.)
• Amazon Mechanical Turk (Mturk) manages small units of work distributed among many persons.
• Amazon Product Advertising API formerly known as Amazon Associates Web Service (A2S) and Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS), provides access to Amazon's product data and electronic commerce functionality.
• Amazon Gift Code On Demand (AGCOD) for Corporate Customers[39] enables companies to distribute Amazon gift cards (gift codes) instantly in any denomination, integrating Amazon's gift-card technology into customer loyalty, employee incentive and payment disbursement platforms.
• AWS Partner Network (APN) provides technology partners and consulting partners with the technical information and sales and marketing support to increase business opportunities through AWS and with businesses using AWS. Launched in April 2012, the APN is made up of Technology Partners including Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), tool providers, platform providers, and others.[40][41][42] Consulting Partners include System Integrators (SIs), agencies, consultancies, Managed Service Providers (MSPs), and others. Potential Technology and Consulting Partners must meet technical and non-technical training requirements set by AWS.[citation needed]
• Amazon Lumberyard is a free triple-A game engine that is integrated with AWS.[43]