appendix
Appendix
Services covered in this book, arranged by AWS service category
| Category |
Service |
Chapter(s) |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute | EC2 | 2, 3, 15, 16 | Provision and launch virtual machine instances |
| Storage | Simple Storage Service (S3) | 6, 7 | Easily accessible object storage |
| Glacier | 18 | Low-cost but less-accessible long-term object storage | |
| Storage Gateway | 18 | Hybrid cloud storage service | |
| Databases | Relational Database Service (RDS) | 4 | Managed SQL database engines |
| DynamoDB | 20 | Managed NoSQL database | |
| Redshift | 20 | Petabyte-scale data warehousing | |
| ElastiCache | 20 | In-memory managed data store | |
| Networking | VPC | 14 | Logically isolated virtual cloud network |
| CloudFront | 17 | Content delivery network | |
| Direct Connect | 18 | Dedicated connections between AWS and on-premises networks | |
| Route 53 | 5 | DNS service | |
| Elastic Load Balancer | 15 | EC2-integrated load balancing | |
| Migration | Snowball | 18 | Offline data-transport solution |
| Management tools | CloudWatch | 11 | Resource-monitoring service |
| Security | IAM | 8 | Identity and access management |
| Certificate Manager | 17 | Managed SSL/TLS certificates | |
| WAF and Shield | 20 | Web application firewall and DDoS protection | |
| Developer tools | CodeBuild | 20 | Cloud-based building and testing |
| CodeDeploy | 20 | Automated code deployments | |
| CodePipeline | 20 | Integrated continuous delivery service | |
| API Gateway | 20 | Controlled API access |