Top 25 AWS services explained in 2 mins or less:

Compute:

1 EC2
↳ Cloud virtual servers to run apps with full control over operating system.

2 Lambda
↳ Serverless compute that runs code in response to events without managing servers.

3 ECS
↳ Managed container orchestration service for running Docker containers.

4 EKS
↳ Managed Kubernetes service that runs and scales containerized apps.

5 Auto Scaling
↳ Automatically adjust compute capacity based on demand.

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Storage:

6 S3
↳ Durable object storage for files, backups, media & static content.

7 EBS
↳ Persistent block storage volumes attached to EC2 instances.

8 EFS
↳ Fully managed shared file system accessible by different EC2 instances.

9 FSx
↳ Managed high-performance file systems - Windows File Server.

10 Snowball
↳ Using physical device to transfer large amounts of data into or out of AWS.

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Networking:

11 VPC
↳ Logically isolated virtual network where you define IP ranges, subnets & routing.

12 Route 53
↳ Scalable DNS service that routes users to apps.

13 ELB
↳ Distributes incoming traffic across different servers for high availability.

14 CloudFront
↳ Global content delivery network (CDN) that caches content at edge locations.

15 Direct Connect
↳ Dedicated private network connection from on-premises to AWS.

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Databases:

16 RDS
↳ Managed relational database service supporting engines like MySQL & PostgreSQL.

17 DynamoDB
↳ Fully managed NoSQL key-value database with low latency.

18 Aurora
↳ High-performance relational database compatible with MySQL & PostgreSQL.

19 Redshift
↳ Fully managed data warehouse for large-scale analytics.

20 ElastiCache
↳ In-memory caching service (Redis or Memcached) to reduce database load.

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Security:

21 IAM
↳ Manages users, roles & permissions for AWS resources.

22 KMS
↳ Managed service for creating & controlling encryption keys.

23 Cognito
↳ User authentication & identity service for web and mobile apps.

24 GuardDuty
↳ Threat detection service that monitors AWS accounts & workloads.

25 WAF
↳ Web application firewall that filters harmful web traffic.

(That’s 80% of the services you need to know.)
What else should make this list?

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