AWS Beginner's Key Terminologies

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Amazon VPC

Amazon VPC (networking & content delivery) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to launch AWS resources into a virtual network that you've defined. This virtual network closely resembles a traditional network that you'd operate in your own data center, with the benefits of using the scalable infrastructure of AWS. Https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 20 social mentions

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AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions (application integration) AWS Step Functions is a web service that coordinates the components of distributed applications as a series of steps in a visual workflow. Https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/.

#Workflow Automation #Automation #Workflows 58 social mentions

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Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS(application integration) Amazon Simple Queue Service is a reliable and scalable hosted queues for storing messages as they travel between computers. Https://aws.amazon.com/sqs.

#Stream Processing #Data Integration #Web Service Automation 65 social mentions

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Amazon SNS

Amazon SNS (application integration) Amazon Simple Notification Service is a web service that applications, users, and devices can use to instantly send and receive notifications from the cloud. Https://aws.amazon.com/sns/.

#Web Push Notifications #Push Notifications #Cloud Hosting 55 social mentions

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Amazon S3

Amazon S3 (storage) Amazon S3 is storage for the internet. You can use it to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web. Https://aws.amazon.com/s3.

#Cloud Hosting #Object Storage #Cloud Storage 173 social mentions

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Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53 (networking & content delivery) Amazon Route 53 is a web service you can use to create a new DNS service or migrate your existing DNS service to the cloud. A reliable and cost-effective way to route end users' traffic to internet application Https://aws.amazon.com/route53/.

#Cloud Computing #Domain Name Registrar #Domain Names 45 social mentions

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Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift (analytics) Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. With Amazon Redshift, you can analyze your data using your existing business intelligence tools. Https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/.

#Big Data #Databases #Relational Databases 26 social mentions

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Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS (database) Amazon Relational Database Service is a web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks. Https://aws.amazon.com/rds.

#Databases #NoSQL Databases #Relational Databases 68 social mentions

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Amazon QuickSight

Amazon QuickSight (analytics) Amazon QuickSight is a fast, cloud-powered business analytics service that you can use to build visualizations, perform analysis, and quickly get business insights from your data. Https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/.

#Business Intelligence #Data Dashboard #Machine Data Analytics 17 social mentions

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Amazon Elasticsearch Service

Elasticsearch (analytics) An open-source, real-time distributed search and analytics engine used for full-text search, structured search, and analytics. OpenSearch was developed by the Elastic company. Amazon OpenSearch Service (OpenSearch Service) is an AWS-managed service for deploying, operating and scaling OpenSearch in the AWS Cloud. Https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/.

#Elastic Search #Search As A Service #Hosted Search 11 social mentions

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AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda (Compute) AWS Lambda is a web service that you can use to run code without provisioning or managing servers. You can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service with zero administration. You can set up your code to automatically start from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app. Run code without thinking about servers, and pay only for the compute time you consume. Https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #Business & Commerce 251 social mentions

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Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis (analytics) Amazon Kinesis is a platform for streaming data on AWS. Kinesis offers services that simplify the loading and analysis of streaming data. Https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/.

#Stream Processing #Data Management #Analytics 23 social mentions

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AWS Identity and Access Management

AWS IAM (Security, Identity, and Compliance) AWS Identity and Access Management is a web service that Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can use to manage users and user permissions within AWS. Https://aws.amazon.com/iam.

#Identity And Access Management #Identity Provider #SSO 52 social mentions

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Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty (Security, Identity, and Compliance) Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and anomalous behavior to protect your AWS accounts, workloads, Kubernetes clusters, and data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The GuardDuty service monitors for activity such as unusual API calls, unauthorized deployments, and exfiltrated credentials that indicate a possible account reconnaissance or compromise. Https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/.

#Cyber Security #Security & Privacy #Web Security 13 social mentions

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AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate (Compute) AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers. Https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/.

#Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #DevOps Tools 46 social mentions

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AWS Elastic Load Balancing

Elastic Load Balancing (networking & content delivery) Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) is a web service that improves an application's availability by distributing incoming traffic between two or more EC2 instances. Achieve fault tolerance for any application by ensuring scalability, performance, and security. Https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/.

#Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Network & Admin 22 social mentions

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk (Compute) AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a web service for deploying and managing applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications. Https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/.

#Cloud Hosting #Cloud Computing #Backend As A Service 37 social mentions

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Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache (database) Amazon ElastiCache is a web service that simplifies deploying, operating and scaling an in-memory cache in the cloud. The service improves the performance of web applications by providing information retrieval from fast, managed, in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases. Https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/.

#Databases #NoSQL Databases #Key-Value Database 12 social mentions

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Amazon EKS

Amazon EKS (Compute) Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is a managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to stand up or maintain your own Kubernetes control plane. Https://aws.amazon.com/eks/.

#Cloud Computing #Developer Tools #DevOps Tools 56 social mentions

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Amazon Elastic File System

Amazon EFS (storage) Amazon Elastic File System is a file storage service for EC2 instances. Amazon EFS provides an interface that you can use to create and configure file systems. Amazon EFS storage capacity grows and shrinks automatically as you add and remove files. Https://aws.amazon.com/efs/.

#File Management #Work Collaboration #Project Management 22 social mentions

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Amazon EC2

*Amazon EC2 *(Compute) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a web service for launching and managing Linux/UNIX and Windows Server instances in Amazon data centers. Https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 63 social mentions

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DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB (database) Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. Https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/.

#Databases #NoSQL Databases #Relational Databases 104 social mentions

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Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito (Security, Identity, and Compliance) Amazon Cognito lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily Https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/.

#Identity Provider #SAML #Identity And Access Management 64 social mentions

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Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch (management & governance) Amazon CloudWatch is a web service that you can use to monitor and manage various metrics, and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics. Observability of your AWS resources and applications on AWS and on-premises Https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/.

#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Application Performance Monitoring 54 social mentions

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AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail (management & governance) AWS CloudTrail is a web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements that the AWS service returns. Track user activity and API usage. Https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/.

#API Tools #APIs #Data Integration 13 social mentions

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Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront (networking & content delivery) Amazon CloudFront is an AWS content delivery service that helps you improve your websites and applications' performance, reliability, and availability. Fast, secure, and programmable content delivery network (CDN). Https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/.

#CDN #Cloud Computing #Content Distribution 69 social mentions

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AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation (management & governance) AWS CloudFormation is a service that helps you model and set up your AWS resources so that you can spend less time managing those resources and more time focusing on your applications that run in AWS. Model and provision all your cloud infrastructure resources. Https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment 113 social mentions

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Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena (analytics) Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that you can use to analyze data in Amazon S3 using ANSI SQL. Athena is serverless, so there's no infrastructure to manage. Athena scales automatically and is simple to use, so you can start analyzing your datasets within seconds. Https://aws.amazon.com/athena/.

#Data Analysis #ETL #Business Intelligence 20 social mentions

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Amazon API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway (networking & content delivery) Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that developers can use to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/.

#API Tools #APIs #Web Service Automation 95 social mentions