Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. It is a cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that offers a wide range of services for computing, storage, networking, databases, analytics, machine learning, and many other tools and services that can be used to build and deploy applications in the cloud.
AWS provides an infrastructure for businesses to run their applications, store and manage their data, and access computing resources on-demand. With AWS, businesses can avoid the need to invest in expensive hardware and can instead use a pay-as-you-go model to scale their resources up or down based on their needs.
AWS is used by individuals, startups, and enterprises across a wide range of industries and sectors, including healthcare, finance, education, gaming, and more. It is considered one of the leading cloud computing platforms, with a large and growing user base and a constantly evolving set of services and tools.
Here are 10 AWS services along with a brief description of what they do:
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): EC2 is a web service that provides scalable computing resources in the cloud. It allows users to rent virtual machines (called instances) and run their own applications on them.
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service): S3 is a storage service that allows users to store and retrieve data objects (such as files, images, and videos) from the cloud. S3 provides unlimited storage capacity and high durability.
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service): RDS is a managed database service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. RDS supports popular databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
Amazon CloudFront: CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that speeds up the delivery of static and dynamic content (such as videos, images, and web pages) to users all over the world.
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk: Elastic Beanstalk is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy and run web applications in various languages such as Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and Go.
Amazon Lambda: Lambda is a serverless computing service that lets users run their code without provisioning or managing servers. Users simply upload their code and Lambda automatically scales and runs it in response to requests.
Amazon DynamoDB: DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL database service that provides high performance and scalability for applications that require low-latency data access.
Amazon SageMaker: SageMaker is a fully-managed machine learning service that allows data scientists and developers to build, train, and deploy machine learning models at scale.
Amazon Kinesis: Kinesis is a streaming data platform that makes it easy to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data such as video, audio, and application logs.
Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service): ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that allows users to run, scale, and manage Docker containers on AWS. It integrates with other AWS services such as Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon VPC, and Amazon CloudWatch.