Core AWS services
AWS services are divided into various groups based on their use. The following table describes a number of services provided by AWS with their purpose. As AWS continuously evolves its service catalog, there may be periodic additions to this list:
Group | AWS service | Purpose |
Compute | Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) | Provides scalable compute capacity (virtual servers). |
EC2 Container Service | Highly scalable and high performance container management service. Supports Docker and runs on a managed cluster of EC2 instances. | |
Lightsail | Provides template-based computing. It is also called Virtual Private Servers (VPS). It makes it possible to quickly launch virtual machines from templates rather than selecting individual components in EC2. | |
Elastic Beanstalk | Developers can quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud. Developers just have to upload their application and the rest is taken care of by Elastic Beanstalk. | |
Lambda | Allows us to run code without actually spinning servers. Such code... |