Let’s start with a motivational statement directly from AWS(Amazon Web Services):

“That’s why we launched Amazon Web Services in the spring of 2006, to rethink IT infrastructure completely, so that anyone—even a kid in a college dorm room— could access the same powerful technology as the world’s largest and most sophisticated companies.” (AWS Origins)

Pretty cool isn’t it and the rest is simply a history. From the historical launch of Simple Storage Service (S3) in 2006, followed by Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) – AWS has been relentlessly innovating at an incredible pace and now offering over 200 fully featured services and over 3000+ features to support the services. (About Amazon)

In the following article we would aim to take a high-level sneak peek into the services and try to share a one liner summary so we can use this as a quick reference guide to remember what a service is used for  and say oh I can surely use this one in my project 🙂  

To start of with AWS services are generally categorized into the following broad set of Core  AWS Cloud based products and services:

• Compute
• Storage
• Database 
• Analytics
• Networking
• Mobile 
• Developer Tools
• Management Tools 
• IoT
• Security
• Enterprise Applications

Below we will try to dive a little deeper into each but just enough so we can learn and remember them. It can be used as a simple memory cheat sheet. 

Note: This article will aim to keep up with the incredible rate of AWS innovation and in no point in time we would like to create an issue of lack of information or missing information – this is only for core existing services as off 22-04-2024 and can be used as daily reference link , bookmark or just to practice remembering AWS services. We will aim to update with best effort.

Compute 

Compute for any workload  – Instances, containers, and serverless computing

All Compute Services Link 

Instances – Virtual Machines 

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Amazon EC2 Spot
• Amazon EC2 Autoscaling
• Amazon Lightsail 
• AWS Batch  

Containers 

• Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS) 
• Amazon ECS Anywhere
• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• Amazon ECS Anywhere 
• Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) 
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) 
• Amazon EKS Anywhere
• AWS Fargate
• AWS App Runner

Serverless 

• AWS Lambda 

Edge and Hybrid 

• AWS Outposts
• AWS Snow Family 
• AWS Wavelength
• VMware Cloud on AWS
• AWS Local Zones

Cost and Capacity Management 

• AWS Savings Plan
• AWS Computer Optimiser
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk 
• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) 

Cloud Storage

Reliable, scalable, and secure storage for your data

All Cloud Storage Services Link 

Object, File, and Block Storage

• Amazon Simple Storage (S3)
• Amazon Elastic File System(EFS)
• Amazon FSx
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
• Amazon File Cache 

Data Migration

• AWS DataSync 
• AWS Snow Family

Hybrid Cloud Storage and Edge Computing:

• AWS Storage Gateway
• AWS Snow Family

Managed File Transfer

• AWS Transfer Family

Disaster Recovery and Backup

• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery(DRS)
• AWS Backup

AWS Cloud Databases

Modernize your data infrastructure with fully managed, purpose-built databases

All AWS Cloud Database Services Link 

Relational

• Amazon Aurora
• Amazon RDS 
• Amazon Redshift

Key-Value

• Amazon DynamoDB

In-Memory

• Amazon ElasticCache
• Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

Document

• Amazon DocumentDB(with MongoDB compatibility)

Wide Column

• Amazon Keyspaces

Graph

• Amazon Neptune

Time Series

• Amazon Timestream 

Ledger

• Amazon Ledger Database Services  

Analytics on AWS

Fastest way to get answers from all your data to all your users

Note: Some services are repeated in different categories as it has multi use. 

All AWS Analytics Services Link 

Advanced Analytics

• Amazon Athena
• Amazon OpenSearch Service
• Amazon S3
• Amazon EMR
• Amazon QuickSight
• Amazon SNS
• Amazon Redshift
• AWS Glue DataBrew
• AWS Glue
• Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
• Amazon Data Firehose 
• Amazon CloudWatch

Data Management

• AWS Glue
• Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
• Amazon S3 Glacier
• Amazon MSK
• Amazon Appflow 
• AWS Backup
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
• Amazon S3
• AWS Data Exchange
• Amazon Data Firehouse
• AWS Lake Formation

Predictive Analytics & Machine Learning

• AWS Deep Learning AMIs
• Amazon QuickSight ML Insights
• Amazon SageMaker
• AWS Data Exchange
• Amazon Redshift
• ML 
• Amazon Athena ML 

AWS Networking and Content Delivery

Run every workload on a secure and reliable global network 

All AWS Network and Content Delivery Services Link 

Network Foundations

• Amazon VPC
• AWS Transit Gateway
• AWS PrivateLink 

Application Networking 

• Amazon VPC Lattice
• AWS AppMesh
• AWS API Gateway
• AWS Cloud Map
• Elastic Load Balancing

Edge Networking

• Amazon Cloudfront 
• Amazon Route53
• AWS Global Accelerator 

Hybrid Connectivity

• AWS Direct Connect 
• AWS Site to Site VPN 
• AWS Client VPN
• AWS Cloud WAN

Network Security

• AWS Shield 
• AWS WAF 
• AWS Network Firewall
• AWS Firewall Manager

Front-End Web & Mobile on AWS

The fastest way to build web and mobile applications

All AWS Front End Web & Mobile Services Link 

Divided into Lifecycle state and capabilities

• Develop
  • AWS Amplify
    • Authentication
    • Storage
    • Datastore 
    • Functions 
    • Analytics
    • Chatbot
    • AI/ML
    • IoT
    • Push Notifications
  • AWS AppSync
    • APIs (GraphQL)
  • Amazon API Gateway
    • APIs (RESTful)
  • Amazon Chime SDK
    • Audio, video , desktop sharing
  • Amazon Location Service
    • Geolocation
• Deliver
  • AWS Amplify
    • Deploy and host static and server-rendered web applications
  • AWS App Runner
    • Deploy and run containerized applications
• Test & Monitor
  • AWS Device Farm
    • Device and browser testing
  • AWS CloudWatch 
    • Monitor app performance
• Engage
  • Amazon Pinpoint
    • Marketing Campaigns
    • Transactional Messages
    • Bulk Communications

Developer Tools on AWS

Develop applications on AWS faster and easier 

All AWS Developer Tool Link

• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery 
• Infrastructure as code 
• SDKs
• CLI
• IDEs and IDE Toolkits
• Communication and Collaboration

Management and Governance on AWS

Business agility and governance control 

Divided into functionality

All AWS Management & Governance Services Link 

Enable builders for speed with built-in governance control.

• AWS Control Tower
• AWS Organisations
• AWS Well Architected Tool 
• AWS Budgets
• AWS License Manager

Provision resources and applications that meet your policies.

• AWS Cloud Formation
• AWS Service Catalog
• AWS OpsWorks
• AWS Marketplace

Operate your environment with speed and governance.

• Amazon Cloudwatch 
• Amazon Managed Grafana
• Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus 
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS Config
• AWS Systems Manager
• AWS Cost and Usage Report 
• AWS Cost Explorer
• AWS Managed Services
• AWS Service Management Connector 
• AWS X-Ray
• AWS Distro for Open Telemetry
• AWS Proton 
• Amazon DevOps Guru

AWS IoT

Unlock your IoT data and accelerate business growth

All AWS IoT Services Link

 Device software

• FreeRTOS
• AWS IoT Greengrass
• Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
• AWS IoT ExpressLink

Connectivity and control services

• AWS IoT Core 
• AWS IoT Device Defender 
• AWS IoT Device Management
• AWS IoT FleetWise

Analytics Services

• AWS IoT SiteWise
• AWS IoT Events 
• AWS IoT Analytics 
• AWS IoT TwinMaker 

Security, Identity, and Compliance on AWS

Secure your workloads and applications in the cloud    

All AWS Security Services Link        

Identity and access Management

• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to SSO)
• Amazon Cognito
• Amazon Verified Permissions
• AWS Directory Service
• AWS Resource Access Manager
• AWS Organizations

Detection and response

• Amazon GuardDuty
• Amazon Inspector
• AWS Security Hub
• Amazon Security Lake
• Amazon Detective
• AWS Config
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS IoT Device Defender
• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

Network and application protection

• AWS Firewall Manager
• AWS Network Firewall
• AWS Shield
• AWS Verified Access
• AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
• Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

Data protection

• Amazon Macie
• AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
• AWS CloudHSM
• AWS Certificate Manager
• AWS Payment Cryptography
• AWS Private Certificate Authority
• AWS Secrets Manager

Compliance

• AWS Artifact
• AWS Audit Manager

AWS Enterprise Solutions

This serves as the hub of AWS innovations where AWS finds ways to support the journey to cloud for customers , share community insights , and make impact in various ways.

All AWS Enterprise Services Link

Key programs include:

• Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA)
• AWS Enterprise Transformation
• AWS Migration Acceleration Program
• Innovation with AWS

To all AWS enthusiasts you can go above list once every morning to help you remember the wide scope of services and we hope it will be resourceful as the more services we are aware of the more better opportunity we can create for our direct customers and create innovative impact.  Happy Learning!