Understanding AWS Services Terminology – Part 3

As we know AWS is a cloud computing service by Amazon. It is one of the most popular public cloud services in the market.

In the previous two posts (AWS Services Terminology – Part 1,   Part 2), we have discussed some of the popular and most used services of AWS.

In this post: Part-3 which is the last part of our three part AWS services series,  we are trying to cover a few more AWS services which are very useful for developers and Cloud professionals.

1. Amazon QuickSight:

• QuickSight helps to easily deliver insights to everyone within the organization.
• It is a cloud-powered business intelligence service by Amazon.
• Amazon QuickSight allows you to create and analyse visualizations of its customer’s data.
• It uses the In-Memory Calculation Engine (SPICE) to instantly perform data calculations and create graphs.
• QuickSight comes with pay-per-session pricing. So, you can allow everyone to access the data they need while paying only for what you use.

2. Amazon RDS (Rational Database Service):

• Amazon RDS is a managed SQL database service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
• It automates time-consuming administration tasks like hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups.
• It also comes with cost-efficiency and resizable capacity.
• Amazon RDS is available on six familiar database engines including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database, and SQL Server.

3. Amazon Redshift:

• Amazon Redshift is one of the most popular and fastest cloud data warehouses.
• It is a fully-managed, petabyte-scale cloud database warehouse, specially designed for large scale data storage and analysis.
• It makes data available for the users in real-time with the help of business intelligence tools.
• Each Redshift data warehouse contains a collection of computer resources or nodes organized in a cluster.
• Each cluster runs its own Redshift engine and contains at least one database.

4. Amazon Route 53

• It is a DNS(Domain Name System) service by AWS.
• It provides a very safe and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications.
• It will translate names into the numeric IP addresses.
• If you are using Route 53, you don’t need to maintain a separate DNS account.
• Route 53 connects user requests to infrastructure running in AWS.
• It can also be used to check the health status of DNS and route traffic to healthy endpoints.

5. Amazon S3(Simple Storage Service):

• It is a cloud storage service used for backup.
• All types of customer can use the S3 service. It doesn’t matter whether your business is small or big, you can use it to store and protect your data.
• Amazon S3 can be used for: websites, mobile applications, backup & restore, enterprise applications, loT devices, etc.
• It is one of the cheapest storage options available in AWS.
• The stored data can be retrieved anytime from anywhere.

6. AWS Security Hub:

• AWS Security Hub gives a complete view of your high-priority security alerts and compliance status across AWS.
• It integrates data using a standard finding format, so there is no need for time-consuming data conversion efforts.
• Security Hub runs automated, continuous account-level configuration and compliance checks based on industry standards.
• It does have an integrated dashboard to show you the current security and compliance status.

7. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES):

• Amazon SES is a high-scale inbound and outbound, pay-per-use email service.
• It is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service that allows you to build email functionality into an application.
• The configuration of SES is quick and it offers several email use cases like transactional, marketing, or mass email communications.
• Amazon SES is a very secure email service that permits you to send emails globally, at any scale.

8. SNS

• SNS stands for Simple Notification Service.
• This is a messaging service that sends messages to a large number of subscribers via email or SMS.
• SNS can be used for both – system-to-system and app-to-person communications.
• For system-to-system communications, it uses publish/subscribe patterns.
• A2P will help you to send messages to your subscribers using either a pub/sub pattern or direct-publish messages using a single API.

9. Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service)

• Amazon Simple Queue Service is a fully managed message queuing service, which can store messages while waiting for a computer to process them.
• It enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
• You can send, store, and receive messages between software without losing any messages, at any amount.
• SQS has 2 types of message queues: Standard Queue and SQS FIFO.
• With Amazon SQS it is possible to separate the components of the software to run separately, easing message by management between components.

10. Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

• Amazon VPC is a virtual cloud that allows you to use AWS resources in a virtual network.
• You will have complete control over your VPN, including the selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.
• It is easy to use Amazon VPN with a simple process of installation. It is also quite simple to back up the data and extend the network using cloud.
• You can use IPv4 and IPv6 in your VPC for safe and easy access to resources and applications.