Essential AWS Services Every Engineer Should Know AWS has 200+ services, but most production systems only use a small subset. In many setups, a request ends up ... (opens in new tab)

Essential AWS Services Every Engineer Should Know AWS has 200+ services, but most production systems only use a small subset. In many setups, a request ends up going through API Gateway, then an ALB, executes on Lambda or ECS, reads from DynamoDB, and gets cached in ElastiCache. Each service on its own is straightforward. Deciding where it actually fits is where things get tricky. EC2 and S3 are usually the starting point for a lot of people. But when things break, the fo...