The Cloud Elements

Periodic Table of AWS Services

Explore 123 AWS services by category, pricing model, common use cases, infrastructure support, service relationships, and curated architecture patterns.

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud — Resizable virtual servers
AWS App Runner — Run web apps and APIs from code or containers
AWS Elastic Beanstalk — Deploy and scale web applications
Amazon Lightsail — Simple virtual private servers
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling — Scale EC2 capacity automatically
AWS Compute Optimizer — Compute resource recommendations
AWS Device Farm — Test apps on real devices
AWS Verified Access — Zero trust access to private apps
Amazon Simple Storage Service — Object storage
AWS Lambda — Run code without servers
AWS Batch — Batch computing at scale
AWS Backup — Centralized backup management
Amazon FSx — Managed high-performance file systems
AWS DataSync — Automated data transfer
AWS Transfer Family — Managed SFTP, FTPS, and FTP
Amazon Elastic Block Store — Block storage for EC2
Amazon Elastic File System — Elastic file system
Amazon Elastic Container Service — Container orchestration
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service — Managed Kubernetes
AWS Fargate — Serverless containers
Amazon Elastic Container Registry — Container registry
AWS Database Migration Service — Database migration and replication
Amazon DocumentDB — MongoDB-compatible document database
Amazon Neptune — Managed graph database
Amazon MemoryDB — Redis-compatible in-memory database
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) — Managed Cassandra-compatible database
Amazon Timestream — Time series database
Amazon DynamoDB — Serverless NoSQL
Amazon Relational Database Service — Managed relational DB
Amazon Aurora — MySQL/Postgres-compatible DB
Amazon ElastiCache — In-memory caching
Amazon S3 Glacier — Archival storage
AWS Storage Gateway — Hybrid storage bridge
Amazon API Gateway — Managed APIs
AWS Step Functions — Serverless workflows
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow — Managed Apache Airflow workflows
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink — Real-time stream processing
Amazon OpenSearch Service — Search, observability, and analytics
Amazon DataZone — Data catalog and governance
AWS Lake Formation — Data lake governance
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka — Managed Apache Kafka
Amazon Redshift — Data warehouse
Amazon Athena — Query S3 with SQL
Amazon EMR — Managed big data
Amazon Kinesis — Real-time streaming
AWS Glue — Serverless ETL
Amazon Data Firehose — Load streaming data into destinations
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud — Isolated virtual network
Amazon CloudFront — Global CDN
Amazon Route 53 — DNS & routing
Elastic Load Balancing — Load balancing
Amazon Bedrock — Foundation models
Amazon SageMaker AI — Build & train ML models
Amazon Q — Generative AI assistant
Amazon Nova — Foundation models for text, image, and video
Amazon Textract — Extract text and data from documents
Amazon Transcribe — Speech-to-text
Amazon Translate — Machine translation
Amazon Comprehend — NLP & text analytics
Amazon Rekognition — Image & video analysis
Amazon Simple Notification Service — Pub/sub messaging
Amazon Simple Queue Service — Message queues
Amazon EventBridge — Event bus
Amazon MQ — Managed message broker
AWS AppSync — Managed GraphQL APIs
Amazon AppFlow — SaaS application data integration
AWS Direct Connect — Dedicated network link
AWS Transit Gateway — Network transit hub
AWS WAF — Web app firewall
AWS Identity and Access Management — Identity & access
Amazon Cognito — User auth & identity
AWS Key Management Service — Key management
AWS Secrets Manager — Store secrets & keys
Amazon GuardDuty — Threat detection
AWS Security Hub — Security posture
Amazon Inspector — Vulnerability management
Amazon Macie — Sensitive data discovery
Amazon Detective — Security investigation
AWS Shield — DDoS protection
AWS Certificate Manager — TLS certificate management
AWS IAM Identity Center — Workforce identity access
Amazon Verified Permissions — Fine-grained app authorization
AWS Global Accelerator — Global traffic acceleration
AWS PrivateLink — Private service connectivity
AWS Client VPN — Managed client VPN
AWS Site-to-Site VPN — Site-to-site encrypted tunnels
Amazon VPC Lattice — Application networking service
Amazon CloudWatch — Metrics & logs
AWS CloudTrail — API audit logging
AWS CloudFormation — Infra as code
AWS Organizations — Multi-account mgmt
AWS Config — Resource compliance
AWS Systems Manager — Operational control
AWS Control Tower — Multi-account landing zones
AWS Trusted Advisor — Best practice checks
AWS Service Catalog — Governed product catalogs
AWS AppConfig — Application configuration rollout
AWS Cost Explorer — Analyze AWS costs and usage
AWS Budgets — Cost and usage budget alerts
AWS Audit Manager — Continuous audit evidence collection
AWS Resource Access Manager — Share AWS resources across accounts
AWS Private Certificate Authority — Private certificate authorities
AWS Firewall Manager — Central firewall policy management
AWS Network Firewall — Managed network firewall
Amazon Security Lake — Centralized security data lake
AWS IoT Core — Connect and manage IoT devices
Amazon Connect — Cloud contact center
Amazon Simple Email Service — Scalable email sending
AWS Clean Rooms — Collaborate on data without sharing raw data
Amazon Polly — Text-to-speech
Amazon Lex — Conversational AI bots
Amazon Kendra — Enterprise search
AWS Cloud Map — Cloud resource discovery
AWS Cloud WAN — Managed global WAN
AWS CloudShell — Browser-based shell
AWS CodeArtifact — Managed artifact repositories
AWS CodeCommit — Git repositories
AWS CodeBuild — Build & test code
AWS CodePipeline — CI/CD pipelines
AWS CodeDeploy — Automated deploys
AWS Cloud Development Kit — IaC in real languages
AWS X-Ray — Distributed tracing
AWS Amplify — Full-stack app builder