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This article summarizes the essential AWS services you must know to build, deploy, secure, and scale modern applications.
Compute
- EC2 — VM instances with OS-level control.
- Lambda — Event-driven serverless compute.
- ECS/EKS/Fargate — Container orchestration and serverless container runtime.
Storage
- S3 — Object storage for binaries, logs, backups.
- EBS — Block-level storage for EC2.
- EFS — Distributed NFS file system.
Databases
- RDS — Managed SQL engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.).
- DynamoDB — Fully managed NoSQL key-value database.
- ElastiCache — Redis/Memcached for caching.
Networking
- VPC — Isolated cloud network environment.
- Route53 — DNS and traffic routing.
- API Gateway — REST/WebSock…
This article summarizes the essential AWS services you must know to build, deploy, secure, and scale modern applications.
Compute
- EC2 — VM instances with OS-level control.
- Lambda — Event-driven serverless compute.
- ECS/EKS/Fargate — Container orchestration and serverless container runtime.
Storage
- S3 — Object storage for binaries, logs, backups.
- EBS — Block-level storage for EC2.
- EFS — Distributed NFS file system.
Databases
- RDS — Managed SQL engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.).
- DynamoDB — Fully managed NoSQL key-value database.
- ElastiCache — Redis/Memcached for caching.
Networking
- VPC — Isolated cloud network environment.
- Route53 — DNS and traffic routing.
- API Gateway — REST/WebSocket interface for serverless and microservices.
Security
- IAM — Identity & access management.
- KMS — Encryption key management.
- Secrets Manager — Secure credential storage.
- Shield/WAF — DDoS and app-layer protection.
DevOps
- CodePipeline — CI/CD orchestration.
- CloudWatch — Monitoring and observability.
- CloudTrail — Full audit log for the AWS account.
Final Thoughts
Mastering these services provides a solid foundation for building scalable cloud-native applications on AWS.