• Services grouped by scope
  • AZ scoped resources
  • Region scoped resources
  • Multiregion resources
  • Edge locations resources
• Serverless services
  • Compute
  • Data Stores
  • Integration

This page is just a listing of some core services, as an additional help to memorize them from different perspectives.

Services grouped by scope

AZ scoped resources

Failure zone = 3+ datacenters (Highly available)

• EBS Volumes
• NAT gateways
• EC2 Instances
• Redshift nodes
• RDS instances

Region scoped resources

Failure zone = 3+ AZ (Highly availabile + Fault Tolerant)

• S3 buckets
• DynamoDB tables
• SNS Topics
• VPC
• Cloudwatch resources

Multiregion resources

• S3 cross-region replication
• RDS Cross-Region read replica
• Dynamo DB Global table (on region by region basis)

Edge locations resources

• Route 53 hosted zone
• CloudFront distribution
• WAF filtering rule
• Lambda@Edge

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Serverless services

Basic advantages of a serverless approach:

• No infrastructure provisioning, no management
• Automatic scaling
• Pay for value
• Highly available and secure

Compute

• AWS Lambda
• AWS Fargate

Data Stores

• S3
• Aurora Serverless
• DynamoDB

Integration

• API Gateway
• SQS
• SNS
• StepFunctions
• AppSync