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- AQUA for Amazon Red Shift - Advanced Query Accelerator (AQUA) for Amazon Redshift (AQUA) is a distributed and hardware-accelerated cache that enables Amazon Redshift to run up to ten times faster by automatically boosting certain types of queries. 🌐
- AWS Application Migration Service - A solution to automate lift-and-shift migrations by automatically converting source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. 🌐
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- AWS Artifact - AWS Artifact is a central resource for compliance-related information such as Service Organization Control (SOC) reports, Payment Card Industry (PCI) reports, and certifications from accreditation bodies, among others. 🌐
- AWS Backup - A tool to manage backups in a central fashion across an AWS estate (EBS, EFS, DynamoDB, RDS, etc). 🌐
- AWS Batch - Batch is an AWS capability for running long-lived batch processes that free up resources (and thus cost) once completed. 🌐
- AWS Budgets - A solution to set custom budgets to track AWS cost and usage and receive alerts via email or SNS notification when configured thresholds are exceeded. 🌐
- AWS Chat Bot - A service to monitor and interact with AWS resources in Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. 🌐
- AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) - An open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. 🌐
- AWS CodeBuild - AWS CloudBuild is a continuous integration solution. It's Amazon answer to Jenkins. 🌐 🌐
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- AWS CodeCommit - AWS CodeCommit is a SCM solution based on private Git repositories. It's AWS answer to private GitHub. 🌐
- AWS CodeDeploy - AWS Deploy is a solution to automate deployments to compute platforms such as EC2, Lambda and so on. 🌐
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- AWS CodePipeline - AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery solution. 🌐
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- AWS CodeStar - AWS CodeStar is a solution to manage, develop, build and deploy applications. 🌐
- AWS Compliance Centre - Compliance resources across the various geographies in which AWS operates. 🌐
- AWS Data Exchange - This service allows finding and subscribing to thierd party data in the cloud. Data is normally made available through a S3 bucket. 🌐
- AWS Data Pipeline - AWS Data Pipeline is a web service to process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources, at specified intervals. 🌐
- AWS DeepComposer - A service to learn machine learning through music, in a hands-on fashion (actually playing a keyboard). 🌐
- AWS Deeplens - AWS DeepLens is a computer vision (deep learning, model training, etc.) service. 🌐
- AWS Directory Service - AWS Directory Service is, essentially, Microsoft Active Directory on a managed basis with built-in integration with AWS products. 🌐
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- AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry - An AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project that integrates with the AWS ecosystem (EC2, ECS, EKS, etc.) and sends the resulting telemetry on CloudWatch and X-Ray for analysis and visualisation. 🌐
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- AWS Elemental Link - An appliance that connects a live video source, like a camera or video production equipment, to AWS Elemental MediaLive. 🌐
- AWS Glue - AWS Glue is a managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service based on Apache Spark. 🌐
- AWS Glue Elastic Views - A capability to create materialised views from multiple data sources using SQL and without the need of writing custom, application-level code. 🌐
- AWS Ground Station - A fully managed service to control satellite communications, process data, and scale operations withou building or managing ground station infrastructure. 🌐
- AWS IAM - AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows configuring access security (users, group, permissions, etc.) for AWS services and resources. 🌐
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- AWS IAM Access Analyzer - A command line tool that helps identify resources and accounts, such as Amazon S3 buckets or IAM roles, that are shared with an external entity in order to identify unintended access, which might pose a security risk. 🌐
- AWS Lake Formation - An accelerator to set up and secure a data lakes. It is based on the orchestration of AWS primitives such as S3, Redshift, Athena, EMR, and Apache Spark. 🌐
- AWS Local Zones - An AWS data centre capability that satisfies latency-sensitive applications by placing workloads and data closer to end-users. Only a handful of services are available compared to fully fledged AWS Regions, but more elaborate use cases can be addressed compared to AWS Edge Locations. 🌐
- AWS Network Firewall - A managed service to deploy rule-based network protections across multiple VPCs. 🌐
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- AWS Nitro Enclaves - A service to create highly isolated and secured VMs that can't even be accessed via SSH. 🌐
- AWS Panorama - A machine learning appliance and Software Development Kit (SDK) to bring computer vision (CV) to on-premises cameras to make predictions locally with high accuracy and low latency. 🌐
- AWS ParallelCluster - A management tool to facilitate the deployment and management of High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. 🌐
- AWS Proton - A template-driven service for container and serverless applications that abstracts away from the need to hand craft configuration for infrastructure provisioning, code deployments, monitoring, and updates. 🌐
- AWS RoboMaker - A service to simulate and deploy robotic applications at cloud scale, including Robot Operating System (ROS) to be used in the robots themselves. 🌐
- AWS SaaS Boost - A set of open source core software components to create AWS-based SaaS applications with capabilities such as tenant management, deployment automation, analytics dashboards, billing and metering, and an administrative web interface. 🌐
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- AWS Shield - AWS Shield is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that is enabled by default in a standard form. Fore more advanced use cases, Amazon offers an advanced billable version. 🌐
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- AWS Solutions Constructs - AWS Trusted Advisor is a solution that analyses one's AWS environment to provide recommendations in terms of cost optimisation, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits. 🌐
- AWS Step Functions - AWS Step Functions helps organise AWS Lambda functions as a state machine-based, pictorial workflow. This helps provide a share "business process" view among different stakeholders. 🌐
- AWS Systems Manager - AWS Systems Manager is primarily an Ops monitoring and governance tool for compute and storage resources. 🌐
- AWS Transfer Family - A service that provides seamless file transfer in and out of Amazon S3 using SFTP, FTPS, and FTP. 🌐
- AWS Trusted Advisor - Vetted architecture patterns, available as an open-source extension of the AWS Cloud Development Kit, that can be assembled to create a production-ready workload. 🌐
- AWS VPN - A desktop VPN client for MacOS and Windows to connect to AWS VPCs. 🌐
- Top > Ingress and Egress > Layer 4 > Layer 4 Security > VPN
- AWS WAF - AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a HTTP-level application firewall to protect applications from attacks such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting. 🌐
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- AWS Wavelength - AWS infrastructure deployments that embed AWS compute and storage services within communications service providers (CSP) datacenters at the edge of the 5G network, so application traffic from 5G devices can reach application servers running in Wavelength Zones without leaving the telecommunications network. 🌐
- Amazon API Gateway - Amazon API Gateway offers typical endpoint management capabilities such as authentication, monitoring and so on. It supports mutual TLS (mTLS). 🌐
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- Amazon AppFlow - An integration service to securely transfer data between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, using a GUI. 🌐
- Amazon Athena - A serverless, interactive query service to analyse data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL without the need of undergoing an ingestion/ETL stage first. 🌐
- Amazon Braket - A development environment to explore and build quantum algorithms, test them on quantum circuit simulators, and run them on different quantum hardware technologies. 🌐
- Amazon CloudWatch - Amazon CloudWatch is AWS' de facto monitoring and management solution that is highly integrated with all of its services. 🌐
- Amazon CodeGuru - Automated code reviews. Initially centred on Java. 🌐
- Amazon Cognito - Amazon Cognito provides user sign-up, sign-in, and access control web and mobile application. It supports social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon, and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0. 🌐
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- Amazon Comprehend - Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NPL) service. 🌐
- Amazon Connect - Amazon Connect helps businesses create an end-to-end customer service capability including contact flows, telephony integration, human and non-human touch points, among others. 🌐
- Amazon Control Tower - A service to set up and govern a new, secure multi-account AWS environment. 🌐
- Amazon Database Migration Accelerator - A solution that brings together AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT), and AWS database experts to migrate away from traditional commercial databases such as Oracle and MS SQL Server. 🌐
- Amazon Detective - This service helps identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities by collecting log data from AWS resources and applying machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to produce inferences. 🌐
- Amazon Direct Connect - Amazon Direct Connect is a solution to integrate an on-premise network with AWS. 🌐
- Amazon Dynamo DB - Amazon DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL database service that supports key-value and document data structures. 🌐
- Amazon EMR - Amazon EMR provides BigData frameworks such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, HBase, Presto, and Flink in a managed basis. It is setup to interact with data stored in S3 and DynamoDB out-of-the-box. 🌐
- Amazon EMR Studio - A Jupyter Notebooks-based IDE for data engineers to develop, visualise, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. It also integrates tools such as Spark UI and YARN Timeline Service to simplify debugging. 🌐
- Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) - A block-storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and services built on top of it such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). 🌐
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- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) - A proprietary managed container orchestration service introduced by AWS before the advent of Kubernetes. 🌐
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- Amazon Elastic Transcoder - Amazon Elastic Transcoder is a scalable media (audio and video) encoding/decoding service. 🌐
- Amazon Elasticache - Amazon ElastiCache is a set of in memory data store and cache service that includes the likes of Memcached and Redis. 🌐
- Amazon EventBridge - A solutions that delivers a stream of real-time data from event sources, such as Zendesk, Datadog, or Pagerduty, and routes that data to targets like AWS Lambda. It also manages the serialisation/schema of events to facilitate conversion to language-level abstractions (e.g. objects in Java) 🌐
- Amazon FSx - A high-performance file system that is offered in a Windows File Server (i.e. using the SMB protocol) edition, and in a Lustre (a Linux high-performance distributed file system) edition. The latter can be linked to Amazon S3 buckets,to access and process data concurrently from both a high-performance file system and from the S3 API. 🌐
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- Amazon FinSpace - A managed data management and analytics service to store, catalogue, and prepare financial industry data from internal data stores like portfolio, actuarial, and risk management systems as well as historical securities prices from stock exchanges. 🌐
- Amazon GameLift - Amazon GameLift is a platform to run multi-player game server backend software. It integrates with the likes of Unreal and Unity but also provides support for bespoke programming. 🌐
- Amazon GuardDuty - Amazon GuardDuty is a paid threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious or unauthorized behaviour (e.g. unusual API calls) to help protect AWS accounts and workloads. 🌐
- Amazon Kendra - A search service that uses nature language thanks to machine learning. 🌐
- Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) - A serverless (pay-per-use), wire-compatible Cassandra service that allows using existing Cassandra Query Language (CQL) code, Apache 2.0-licensed Cassandra drivers, and standard developer tools. 🌐
- Amazon Kinesis - Amazon Kinesis is a real-time collection, processing, and analysis solution for video and data streams. 🌐
- Amazon Lex - Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces (namely chatbots). 🌐
- Amazon Lightsail - Amazon Lightsail may be thought as AWS' response to traditional fixed-price virtual server offerings such as those provided by the likes of Digital Ocean. Underneath, the same EC2 infrastructure is used but management and billing are simpler. 🌐
- Amazon Location - A managed service to add maps, points of interest, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to applications without compromising on data security, user privacy, or cost. It provides an API across LBS data providers such as Esri and HERE. 🌐
- Amazon MQ - A managed service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ. 🌐
- Amazon MSK - Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. 🌐
- Amazon MWAA - Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow. 🌐
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- Amazon Macie - Amazon Macie automatically discovers sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII), stored in S3 buckets. 🌐
- Top > Transversal > Security > Security Dimensions > Privacy and Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
- Amazon Neptune - A managed graph database service that supports query languages such as Apache TinkerPop, Gremlin, and SPARQL. 🌐
- Amazon Nimble Studio - An end-to-end, SaaS solution to produce visual effects, animation, and interactive content entirely, from storyboard sketch to final deliverable. 🌐
- Amazon OpsWorks - AWS OpsWorks is essentially a managed Chef or Puppet solution. 🌐
- Amazon Personalize - This service uses machine learning to create recommendations for websites and applications similarly to Netflix or Amazon's own product recommendations. 🌐
- Amazon Pinpoint - A campaign and engagement solution that provides email, SMS, and mobile push message capabilities. 🌐
- Amazon Polly - Amazon Polly is a text-to-speech service that aims to achieve human-like voice. 🌐
- Amazon QuickSight - A Business Intelligence (BI) service to build visualizations and perform ad-hoc analysis from data. 🌐
- Amazon QuickSight Q - A machine learning (ML) powered capability that uses natural language processing to answer business questions upon data. 🌐
- Amazon Red Shift - Amazon Redshift is a data warehousing solution (analytics, business intelligence, etc) for big data sets stored using a column-oriented DBMS principle. Its current implementation is based on PostgreSQL. 🌐
- Amazon Rekognition - Amazon Rekognition provides out-of-the-box image and video analysis (identification of text, people, objects, etc.) capabilities. 🌐
- Amazon Route 53 - Amazon Route 53 is AWS' de facto DNS service. 🌐
- Amazon S3 - Amazon S3 is a the de facto blob storage solution in AWS. Volumes in S3 are called Buckets. 🌐
- Amazon SAM - The Amazon Serverless Application Model (SAM) allows defining complete serverless applications (e.g. DynamoDB tables, APIs, etc.) in a declarative manner. It is an extension to CloudFormation. 🌐
- Amazon SWF - Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) helps build, run, and scale background jobs that have parallel or sequential steps. It is more appropriate for non-Lambda use cases. 🌐
- Amazon Storage Gateway - Amazon Storage Gateway is a solution that allows replicating files to Amazon storage (S3, Glacier, EBS) by means of an appliance that customers deploy on premise. 🌐
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- Amazon Transcribe - Amazon is a speech recognition (speech-to-text) service. 🌐
- Amazon Translate - Amazon Translate provides language translation capabilities using a neural network machine. 🌐
- Amazon VPC - Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is AWS' capability to configure custom (and potentially segregated) logical networks including IP ranges, subnets, route tables and so on. 🌐
- Amazon WorkMail - Amazon WorkMail is a email and calendar solution similar to Outlook 365 or Google Mail/Calendar that offers both a web-based interface and fat client support (i.e. IMAP.) 🌐
- Amazon WorkSpaces - Amazon WorkSpaces is a remote desktop solution (VDI) that supports both Windows and Linux. 🌐
- AppStream - Amazon AppStream is similar to a remote desktop solution (VDI) except that it is able to project discrete applications directly rather than entire desktops. Applications are also typically launched directly on the web browser without the need of a fat client. 🌐
- CloudFormation - AWS CloudFormation is a solution to orchestrate resources (e.g. scaling) using a declarative approach. In essence, CloudFormation is Amazon's realisation of the Infrastructure as Code paradigm. 🌐
- Gateway Load Balancer - A solution to manage (distribute traffic, scale, etc.) multiple third-party network virtual appliances from the AWS marketplace. 🌐
- Serverless Bot Framework - A template that includes Lambda functions, Amazon Lex, and other resources to build an end-to-end chatbot experience. 🌐
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