Basics of Amazon Web Services(AWS)

What

This post has short information about various components of Amazon Web Services

So that you could quickly lookup what each services does without going into details

AWS management console web interface to manage stuff
EC2 virtual server where software can be installed
BeanStalk upload code and run website automatically
VPC virtual private cloud, simulates network virtually
Direct connect connect company’s data center to AWS
Route 53 highly available DNS web service
S3 highly availble and cheap storage, can store anyting
Glacier storage for data archive or backup
CloudFront CDN localized
RDS relational db
DynamoDb noSQL db
Redshift data warehouse for reporting
ElastiCache in memory cache
CloudWatch monitoring service for alerts,metrics
CloudFormation terraform like Paas Service
CloudTrail logging for API requests
Config logs config settings for AWS
IAM identity management and auth
KMS key management systems, encryption
SNS simple notification, pub sub on cloud
SES simple email
SQS simple queue service, message queue bus
Regions geographic region with a cluster of data centers
Zones one of more data center in a region
Regions (R1,R2..) > Zones (Z1, Z2,..) provide isolation & no single point of failure