AWS EMR (Amazon Elastic MapReduce) - is used for big data reading/processing and analysis / process applications with data intensive workload
AWS Kinesis - real-time streaming data
AWS Custom Kinesis Streams Applications - to analyze data and move analyze outcomes to other systems
VPC Peering - for inter-region private connection
VPC Endpoints - private link; should be used with VPC Peering for inter-region connection
NAT Gateway - allows private instances to download updates from internet; AWS recommends creating a NAT Gateway in each AZ
CloudWatch Alarms - can do auto-scaling, EC2 actions, SNS notifications etc.,
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose - is used to ship data to other AWS services (not for analysis)
AWS RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) - is an SQL DB. It works on OLTP
Amazon DynamoDB - is a No-SQL DB. It is used for light-weight and durable storage
AWS Direct Connect - is used to establish a network connection from on premises to AWS. But, don't use this to transfer huge data of size like TB
AWS Snowball - a solution to transport data of sizes like TB / PB
Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration - is used to speed up content transfers to and from Amazon S3 by as much as 50-500 % for long distance transfer of large objects. But, don't use this to transfer huge data of size like TB
AWS Global Accelerator - is used to improve availability and performance for applications. It is not meant for data transfer
AWS Aurora - is fully managed MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database engine; It gives 5x throughput of MySQL & 3x throughput of PostgreSQL
AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) - is container management service that makes it easy to run, stop and manage Docker containers on a cluster
AWS SQS (Simple Queue Service) - is some message queue service used by distributed applications to exchange messages through a polling model (not through push mechanism). It is not used for storage. It cannot read real-time data
AWS RedShift - is usually used for petabyte (PB) based storage. It works on OLAP
AWS Glacier - is used for archive storage
AWS DynamoDB - best, light-weight, durable storage option for meta-data
AWS STS - temporary access to AWS resources / cross account access / AssumeRole API
AWS CloudTrail - auditing
AWS Config - check compliance. This is a configuration service
Amazon Single Sign On (SSO) - identity federation
Identity Providers - authenticate users (not services)
Federated Identity Providers - authenticate users
Cognito Identity Pool - authorizes users
AWS Directory Services - AWS Active Directory
Route53 Health Checks - are used to check whether the instance's status is healthy or not
CloudFront - improves website performance; speeds up static/dynamic web content distribution through edge locations; for performance optimization (for GET requests)
Elastic Beanstalk - to quickly deploy and manage applications; to provision new development environment
AWS KMS (Key Management Service) - for encryption at rest (not transit)
Lambda Authorizer - controls access to API
AWS RAM (Resource Access Manager) - used to share AWS resources (e.g., Aurora DB) with other AWS Organizations
AWS Resource Share - used to share AWS resources in an account with other accounts in the same AWS Organization (especially when sharing is NOT enabled in that AWS Organization)
AWS DataSync - used for huge amount of data transfer between on-premises & AWS cloud. It's a secure way of online data transfer
AWS Storage Gateway - used to sync. data between on-premises & AWS S3 buckets
Gateway cached volumes - low latency for frequently accessed data
Gateway stored volumes - low latency for entire dataset
DMS Engine conversion tool - for homogeneous DB migration
DMS Schema conversion tool - for heterogeneous DB migration
ELB - used to distribute traffic among EC2 instances
Athena - a serverless query service to perform interactive queries on data stored in S3
Elasticsearch - to perform complex real-time search
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