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.
