Overview of Core Services

Explore the core services, such as compute, storage, database, network, machine learning, security, and management and governance offered by AWS.

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The breadth of services offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of its defining characteristics, and AWS offers services across a wide range of categories, including compute, storage, databases, networking, machine learning, analytics, security, IoT, and more.

AWS services

A non-exhaustive list of some important services, organized in categories, are listed below:

  • Compute services: AWS provides a variety of compute services, including Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) for scalable virtual servers, AWS Lambda for serverless computing, and Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) for container orchestration.

  • Storage services: AWS offers scalable and durable storage solutions such as Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) for object storage, Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) for block storage, and Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) for file storage.

  • Database services: AWS provides managed database services like Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) for relational databases and Amazon DynamoDB for NoSQL databases.

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