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Specific AWS Services	Basics	Tips	Gotchas
ALB	📗	📘	📙
AMIs	📗	📘	📙
API Gateway	📗	📘	📙
Auto Scaling	📗	📘	📙
Batch	📗	📘
Certificate Manager	📗	📘	📙
CLB (ELB)	📗	📘	📙
CloudFront	📗	📘	📙
CloudFormation	📗	📘	📙
CloudWatch	📗	📘	📙
Device Farm	📗	📘	📙
DirectConnect	📗	📘
DynamoDB	📗	📘	📙
EBS	📗	📘	📙
EC2	📗	📘	📙
ECS	📗	📘
EKS	📗	📘	📙
EFS	📗	📘	📙
Elastic Beanstalk	📗	📘	📙
Elastic IPs	📗	📘	📙
ElastiCache	📗	📘	📙
EMR	📗	📘	📙
Fargate	📗	📘	📙
Glacier	📗	📘	📙
IoT	📗	📘	📙
Kinesis Firehose			📙
Kinesis Streams	📗	📘	📙
KMS	📗	📘	📙
Lambda	📗	📘	📙
Load Balancers	📗	📘	📙
Mobile Hub	📗	📘	📙
OpsWorks	📗	📘	📙
Quicksight	📗		📙
RDS	📗	📘	📙
RDS Aurora	📗	📘	📙
RDS Aurora MySQL	📗	📘	📙
RDS Aurora PostgreSQL	📗	📘	📙
RDS MySQL and MariaDB	📗	📘	📙
RDS PostgreSQL	📗	📘	📙
RDS SQL Server	📗	📘	📙
Redshift	📗	📘	📙
Route 53	📗	📘	📙
S3	📗	📘	📙
Security and IAM	📗	📘	📙
SES	📗	📘	📙
SNS	📗	📘	📙
SQS	📗	📘	📙
Step Functions	📗	📘	📙
WAF	📗	📘	📙
VPCs, Network Security, and Security Groups	📗	📘	📙

Service	AWS	Google Cloud	Google Internal	Microsoft Azure	Other providers	Open source “build your own”	Openstack
Virtual server	EC2	Compute Engine (GCE)		Virtual Machine	DigitalOcean	OpenStack	Nova
PaaS	Elastic Beanstalk	App Engine	App Engine	Web Apps	Heroku, AppFog, OpenShift	Meteor, AppScale, Cloud Foundry, Convox
Serverless, microservices	Lambda, API Gateway	Functions		Function Apps	PubNub Blocks, Auth0 Webtask	Kong, Tyk	Qinling
Container, cluster manager	ECS, EKS, Fargate	Container Engine, Kubernetes	Borg or Omega	Container Service		Kubernetes, Mesos, Aurora	Zun
Object storage	S3	Cloud Storage	GFS	Storage Account	DigitalOcean Spaces	Swift, HDFS, Minio	Swift
Block storage	EBS	Persistent Disk		Storage Account	DigitalOcean Volumes	NFS	Cinder
SQL datastore	RDS	Cloud SQL		SQL Database		MySQL, PostgreSQL	Trove (stores NoSQL as well)
Sharded RDBMS		Cloud Spanner	F1, Spanner	Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Hyperscale (Citus)		Crate.io, CockroachDB
Bigtable		Cloud Bigtable	Bigtable			HBase
Key-value store, column store	DynamoDB	Cloud Datastore	Megastore	Tables, DocumentDB		Cassandra, CouchDB, RethinkDB, Redis
Memory cache	ElastiCache	App Engine Memcache		Redis Cache		Memcached, Redis
Search	CloudSearch, Elasticsearch (managed)			Search	Algolia, QBox, Elastic Cloud	Elasticsearch, Solr
Data warehouse	Redshift	BigQuery	Dremel	SQL Data Warehouse	Oracle, IBM, SAP, HP, many others	Greenplum
Business intelligence	QuickSight	Data Studio 360		Power BI	Tableau
Lock manager	DynamoDB (weak)		Chubby	Lease blobs in Storage Account		ZooKeeper, Etcd, Consul
Message broker	SQS, SNS, IoT	Pub/Sub	PubSub2	Service Bus		RabbitMQ, Kafka, 0MQ
Streaming, distributed log	Kinesis	Dataflow	PubSub2	Event Hubs		Kafka Streams, Apex, Flink, Spark Streaming, Storm
MapReduce	EMR	Dataproc	MapReduce	HDInsight, DataLake Analytics	Qubole	Hadoop
Monitoring	CloudWatch	Stackdriver Monitoring	Borgmon	Monitor		Prometheus(?)
Tracing	X-Ray	Stackdriver Trace		Monitor (Application Insights)	DataDog, New Relic, Epsagon	Zipkin, Jaeger, Appdash
Metric management			Borgmon, TSDB	Application Insights		Graphite, InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, Grafana, Riemann, Prometheus
CDN	CloudFront	Cloud CDN		CDN	Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare, Limelight Networks	Apache Traffic Server
Load balancer	CLB/ALB	Load Balancing	GFE	Load Balancer, Application Gateway		nginx, HAProxy, Apache Traffic Server
DNS	Route53	DNS		DNS		bind
Email	SES				Sendgrid, Mandrill, Postmark
Git hosting	CodeCommit	Cloud Source Repositories		Visual Studio Team Services	GitHub, BitBucket	GitLab
User authentication	Cognito	Firebase Authentication		Azure Active Directory		oauth.io
Mobile app analytics	Mobile Analytics	Firebase Analytics		HockeyApp	Mixpanel
Mobile app testing	Device Farm	Firebase Test Lab		Xamarin Test Cloud	BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, Testdroid
Managing SSL/TLS certificates	Certificate Manager				Let's Encrypt, Comodo, Symantec, GlobalSign
Automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding	Transcribe (ASR), Lex (NLU)	Cloud Speech API, Natural Language API		Cognitive services	AYLIEN Text Analysis API, Ambiverse Natural Language Understanding API	Stanford's Core NLP Suite, Apache OpenNLP, Apache UIMA, spaCy
Text-to-speech engine in the cloud	Polly				Nuance, Vocalware, IBM	Mimic, eSpeak, MaryTTS
Image recognition	Rekognition	Vision API		Cognitive services	IBM Watson, Clarifai	TensorFlow, OpenCV
OCR (Text recognition)	Textract (documents), Rekognition (photographs)	Cloud Vision API		Computer Vision API		Tesseract
Language Translation	Translate	Translate		Translator Text API		Apertium
File Share and Sync	WorkDocs	Google Docs		OneDrive	Dropbox, Box, Citrix File Share	ownCloud
Machine Learning	SageMaker, DeepLens, ML	ML Engine, Auto ML		ML Studio	Watson ML
Data Loss Prevention	Macie	Cloud Data Loss Prevention		Azure Information Protection

Service	Original release	Availability	CLI Support	HIPAA Compliant	PCI-DSS Compliant
🐥X-Ray	2016-12	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥Lex	2016-11	Preview
🐥Polly	2016-11	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥Rekognition	2016-11	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥Athena	2016-11	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥Batch	2016-11	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥Database Migration Service	2016-03	General		✓	✓
🐥Certificate Manager	2016-01	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥IoT	2015-08	General	✓	✓	✓¹³
🐥WAF	2015-10	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥Data Pipeline	2015-10	General	✓
🐥Elasticsearch	2015-10	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥Aurora	2015-07	General	✓	✓³	✓³
🐥Service Catalog	2015-07	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥Device Farm	2015-07	General	✓
🐥CodePipeline	2015-07	General	✓	✓
🐥CodeCommit	2015-07	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥API Gateway	2015-07	General	✓	✓¹	✓
🐥Config	2015-06	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥EFS	2015-05	General	✓	✓	✓
🐥Machine Learning	2015-04	General	✓
Lambda	2014-11	General	✓	✓	✓
ECS	2014-11	General	✓	✓	✓
EKS	2018-06	General	✓¹²	✓	✓
KMS	2014-11	General	✓	✓	✓
CodeDeploy	2014-11	General	✓	✓
Kinesis	2013-12	General	✓	✓	✓¹¹
CloudTrail	2013-11	General	✓	✓	✓
AppStream	2013-11	Preview		✓
CloudHSM	2013-03	General	✓	✓	✓
Silk	2013-03	Obsolete?
OpsWorks	2013-02	General	✓	✓	✓
Redshift	2013-02	General	✓	✓	✓
Elastic Transcoder	2013-01	General	✓
Glacier	2012-08	General	✓	✓	✓
CloudSearch	2012-04	General	✓
SWF	2012-02	General	✓	✓	✓
Storage Gateway	2012-01	General	✓	✓	✓
DynamoDB	2012-01	General	✓	✓	✓
DirectConnect	2011-08	General	✓	✓	✓
ElastiCache	2011-08	General	✓	✓¹⁴	✓¹⁴
CloudFormation	2011-04	General	✓	✓	✓
SES	2011-01	General	✓	✓
Elastic Beanstalk	2010-12	General	✓	✓	✓
Route 53	2010-10	General	✓	✓	✓
IAM	2010-09	General	✓		✓
SNS	2010-04	General	✓	✓	✓
EMR	2010-04	General	✓	✓	✓
RDS	2009-12	General	✓	✓²	✓⁹
VPC	2009-08	General	✓	✓	✓
Snowball	2015-10	General	✓	✓	✓¹⁵
Snowmobile	2016-11	General		✓	✓
CloudWatch	2009-05	General	✓	✓	✓
CloudFront	2008-11	General	✓	✓⁴	✓
Fulfillment Web Service	2008-03	Obsolete?
SimpleDB	2007-12	❗Nearly obsolete	✓		✓
DevPay	2007-12	General
Flexible Payments Service	2007-08	Retired
EC2	2006-08	General	✓	✓^5,6,7	✓^6,7,10
SQS	2006-07	General	✓	✓	✓
S3	2006-03	General	✓	✓⁸	✓
Alexa Top Sites	2006-01	General ❗HTTP-only
Alexa Web Information Service	2005-10	General ❗HTTP-only

	Durability (per year)	Availability “designed”	Availability SLA	Storage (per TB per month)	GET or retrieve (per million)	Write or archive (per million)
Glacier	Eleven 9s	Sloooow	–	$4	$50	$50
S3 IA	Eleven 9s	99.9%	99%	$12.50	$1	$10
~~S3 RRS~~	~~99.99%~~	~~99.99%~~	~~99.9%~~	~~$24 (first TB)~~	~~$0.40~~	$5
S3 Standard	Eleven 9s	99.99%	99.9%	$23	$0.40	$5
EBS	99.8%	Unstated	99.99%	$25/$45/$100/$125+ (sc1/st1/gp2/io1)
EFS	“High”	“High”	–	$300
EC2 d2.xlarge instance store	Unstated	Unstated	–	$25.44	$0	$0

The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services

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Scope

Legend

General Information

When to Use AWS

Which Services to Use

Tools and Services Market Landscape

Common Concepts

Service Matrix

AWS Product Maturity and Releases

Footnotes

Compliance

Getting Help and Support

Restrictions and Other Notes

Related Topics

Learning and Career Development

Certifications

Managing AWS

Managing Infrastructure State and Change

AWS Configuration Management

AWS Console

Command-Line tools

APIs and SDKs

Boto

General Visibility

Managing Servers and Applications

AWS vs Server Configuration

Philosophy

Server Configuration Management

Containers and AWS

Visibility

Tips for Managing Servers

Security and IAM

Security and IAM Basics

Security and IAM Tips

Security and IAM Gotchas and Limitations

S3

S3 Basics

S3 Tips

S3 Gotchas and Limitations

Storage Durability, Availability, and Price

EC2

EC2 Basics

EC2 Alternatives and Lock-In

EC2 Tips

EC2 Gotchas and Limitations

CloudWatch

CloudWatch Basics

CloudWatch Alternatives and Lock-In

CloudWatch Tips

CloudWatch Gotchas and Limitations

AMIs

AMI Basics

AMI Tips

AMI Gotchas and Limitations

Auto Scaling

Auto Scaling Basics

Auto Scaling Tips

Auto Scaling Gotchas and Limitations

EBS

EBS Basics

EBS Tips

EBS Gotchas and Limitations

EFS

EFS Basics

EFS Tips

EFS Gotchas and Limitations

Load Balancers

Load Balancer Basics

Load Balancer Tips

Load Balancer Gotchas and Limitations

CLB

CLB Basics

CLB Tips

CLB Gotchas and Limitations

ALB

ALB Basics