Understanding AWS Services Terminology – Part 3

Namrata Joshi

6 years ago

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.