Explain AWS Services in Old-School Term

September 11, 2017 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

When I start playing Amazon AWS, one of thing struggling me is the service name introduced by Amazon. As the old-school system admin, I think this infographic may help someone like me to understand the aws services better.

Compute

EC2 👉 Virtual Private Server

EC2 Container Service 👉 Docker Management

Lightsail 👉 Similar to DigitalOcean

Elastic Beanstalk 👉 Similar to Heroku

Lambda 👉 Functions as a service

Batch 👉 Run batch job on VPS

Storage

S3 👉 Similar to Dropbox

EFS 👉 Network Attached Storage

Glacier 👉 Long-term backup

Storage Gateway 👉 Connecting Cloud Storage

Database

DynamoDB 👉 Relational Databases Service

DynamoDB 👉 NoSQL Database Service

ElastiCache 👉 Memcached & Redis Service

Redshift 👉 Data Warehousing

Networking & Content Delivery

VPC 👉 Virtual Network

CloudFront 👉 Content Delivery Network

Direct Connect 👉 Connecting Cloud Network

Route 53 👉 Similar to GoDaddy

Migration

Application Discovery Service 👉 Collect Application Info

DMS 👉 Cross Database Migration

Server Migration 👉 Migrate Server to Cloud

Snowball 👉 Petabyte Data Transfer

Developer Tools

CodeCommit 👉 Similar to GitHub

CodeBuild 👉 Managed Build Service

CodeDeploy 👉 Similar to Heroku

CodePipeline 👉 Similar to CircleCI

X-Ray 👉 Similar to New Relic

Management Tools

CloudWatch 👉 Similar to New Nagios

CloudFormation 👉 Infrastructure as Code

CloudTrail 👉 Logging aws user activities

Config 👉 Monitor AWS resource config

OpsWorks 👉 Configurations as Code

Service Catalog 👉 Preset AWS Service

Trusted Advisor 👉 Give advise for your AWS

Managed Services 👉 Managed AWS Services

Security, Identity & Compliance

IAM 👉 Users, Keys & Certs

Inspector 👉 Security Assessment

Certificate 👉 Free Certificate

Directory Service 👉 Managed Microsoft AD

WAF & Shield 👉 Defence web exploits & DDoS

AWS Artifact 👉 Compliance Reports

Analytics

Athena 👉 Analyze PB of data in S3

EMR 👉 Managed Hadoop Framework

CloudSearch 👉 Similar to ElasticSearch

Elasticsearch Service 👉 Managed ElasticSearch

Kinesis 👉 Similar to Kafka

Data Pipeline 👉 ETL from elsewhere in AWS

QuickSight 👉 Business Analytics Service

Artificial Intelligence

Lex 👉 Conversational Interfaces

Polly 👉 Text to Speech

Rekognition 👉 Image Recognition

Machine Learning 👉 Predict from existing data

Internet Of Things

AWS Iot 👉 Connect devices to AWS

Contact Center

Amazon Connect 👉 Connect Center Service

Game Development

Amazon GameLift 👉 Managed Game Servers

Mobile Services

Mobile Hub 👉 Mobile Apps Platform

Cognito 👉 Similar to Auth0

Device Farm 👉 Testing app in real mobiles

Mobile Analytics 👉 Similar to Flurry

Pinpoint 👉 Targeted Push Notification

Application Services

Step Functions 👉 Build app via visual workflow

SWF 👉 Similar to Iron.io

API Gateway 👉 Similar to 3Scale

Elastic Transcoder👉 Video transcoding in AWS

Messaging

Simple Queue Service 👉 Similar to Sidekiq

Simple Notification Service 👉 Push Notification Service

SES 👉 Similar to MailChimp

Business Productivity

WorkDocs 👉 Similar to Google Docs

WorkMail 👉 Google Apps for Domains

Amazon Chime 👉 Similar to Skype

Desktop & App Streaming

Amazon WorkSpaces 👉 Desktop as a Service

AppStream 2.0 👉 Similar to citrix

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