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| Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (Compute) |
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| delivers scalable, pay-as-you-go compute capacity in the cloud |
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| Elastic MapReduce (Compute) |
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| web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data |
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| allows you to automatically scale your Amazon EC2 capacity up or down according to conditions you define |
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| Elastic Load Balancing (Compute) |
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| automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances |
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| web service that makes it easy to distribute content with low latency via a global network of edge locations |
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| Relational Database Service (RDS) |
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| web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud |
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| fully-managed, high performance, NoSQL database service that is easy to set up, operate, and scale |
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| web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud |
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| fast and powerful, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. Amazon Redshift offers you fast query performance when analyzing virtually any size data set using the same SQL-based tools and business intelligence applications you use today. |
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| Identity and Access Management (IAM)(Deploy & Mgt) |
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| enables you to securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users. IAM enables you to create and manage users in AWS, and enables you to grant access to AWS resources for users managed outside of AWS in your corporate directory |
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| CloudWatch (Deploy & Mgt) |
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| web service that provides monitoring for AWScloud resources, starting with Amazon EC2 |
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| Elastic Beanstalk (Deploy & Mgt) |
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| even easier way to quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. You simply upload your application, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring |
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| CloudFormation (Deploy & Mgt) |
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| service that gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of related AWS resources and provision them in an orderly and predictable fashion |
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| Data Pipeline (Deploy & Mgt) |
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| service that helps you reliably process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services as well as on-premise data sources at specified intervals |
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| DevOps platform for managing applications of any scale or complexity on the AWS cloud |
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| fully-managed search service in the cloud that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their applications |
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| Simple Workflow Service (SWF) (AppSer) |
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| helps you coordinate the processing steps in your applications and manage distributed execution state |
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| Simple Queue Service (SQS) (AppSer) |
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| hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers, making it easy to build automated workflow between Web services |
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| Simple Notification Service (SNS) (AppSer) |
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| web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud |
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| Simple Email Service (SES) (AppSer) |
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| highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for the cloud |
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| Elastic Transcoder (AppSer) |
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| fully managed service that makes it easy to convert media files in the cloud with scalability and at a low cost |
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| online store that helps customers find, buy, and immediately start using software that runs on the AWS cloud. It includes software from trusted vendors like SAP, Zend, Microsoft, IBM, Canonical, and 10gen as well as many widely used open source offerings including Wordpress, Drupal, and MediaWiki |
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| highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service |
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| Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) (Networking) |
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| lets you provision a private, isolated section of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. With Amazon VPC, you can define a virtual network topology that closely resembles a traditional network that you might operate in your own datacenter |
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| Direct Connect (Networking) |
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| makes it easy to establish a dedicated network connection from your premise to AWS, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than Internet-based connections |
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| Flexible Payments Service (FPS) (Pay & Bill) |
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| facilitates the digital transfer of money between any two entities, humans or computers |
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| billing and account management service which enables developers to collect payment for their AWS applications |
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| Simple Storage Service (S3) |
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| provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the Web |
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| extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup |
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| Elastic Block Store (EBS) |
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| provides block level storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes are off-instance storage that persists independently from the life of an instance |
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| accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport |
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| service connecting an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization’s on-premises IT environment and AWS’s storage infrastructure. |
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| Alexa Web Information Service (Web Traffic) |
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| makes Alexa’s huge repository of data about structure and traffic patterns on the Web available to developers |
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| Alexa Top Sites (Web Traffic) |
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| exposes global website traffic data as it is continuously collected and updated by Alexa Traffic Rank |
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| enables companies to access thousands of global workers on demand and programmatically integrate their work into various business processes |
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