Difference between revisions of "AWS"

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the biggest on-demand cloud computing platforms. Amazon offers more than 90 services spanning a wide range including computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, mobile, developer tools, and tools for the Internet of Things, two of the most popular include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS). Others include: Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), AWS Config, Amazon Cloudwatch (monitoring) and AWS Cloudtrail (Auditing).

Amazon cloud environment can be managed from AWS page or using a AWS command line tool.

As of 2019, AWS has distinct operations in 22 geographical "regions":^[1] 7 in North America, 1 in South America, 5 in Europe, 1 In Middle-East and 8 in Asia Pacific.

For a complete list of AWS products you can visit wikipedia:List_of_Amazon_products_and_services#Amazon_Web_Services. Here we will introduce some of them:

SQS (2004)
AWS Bottlerocket Linux distribution for containers and Kubernetes
AWS Cloudformation, AWS Infrastructure as code service.
AWS Cloudtrail
Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB)
AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud^[2] and VPC Flowlogs since October 2015^[3]
- AWS Privatelink since November 2017 ^[4]
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
- AWS Glacier (08/2012), cold data solution
Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Elastic Container Registry (ECR), available since December 2015^[5] with tagging support from December 2018^[6]
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
AWS Elasticsearch
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)^[7]
AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), since May 5, 2018.^[8]
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) to provisioning and managing SSL/TLS certificates.^[9], available since June 2016.
AWS Systems Manager, since November 2017^[10]
AWS Elasticsearch, since October 2015^[11]
Amazon Cloudwatch (monitoring) and Cloudwatch Logs (since July 2014)^[12], which can stream logs to AWS Elasticsearch^[13]

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 * [[Amazon Cloudwatch]] (monitoring) and Cloudwatch Logs (since July 2014)<ref>https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/07/10/introducing-amazon-cloudwatch-logs/</ref>, which can stream logs to [[AWS Elasticsearch]]<ref>https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/CWL_ES_Stream.html</ref>
-* [[AWS Tag Editor]], https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/tag-editor.html
+* [[AWS Tag Editor]] (2014), https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsconsolehelpdocs/latest/gsg/tag-editor.html
 * [[AWS Management Console]]
 * [[AWS Command Line Tool (CLI)]]