Glossary of Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Athena A serverless, interactive query service that enables users to easily analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
Amazon Aurora Amazon’s relational database built for the cloud. It supports two open source RDBMS engines: MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Amazon CloudFront The global content delivery network (CDN) service of AWS.
Amazon CloudSearch A fully managed web service for search solutions.
Amazon CloudWatch A monitoring service for AWS cloud resources.
Amazon Cognito A service that lets you manage users of your web and mobile apps quickly.
Amazon DocumentDB A fully managed document database service.
Amazon DynamoDB Amazon’s NoSQL database.
Amazon ElastiCache A service that helps in deploying an in-memory cache or data store in the cloud.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service A fully managed web service that hosts Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS cloud.
Amazon EMR A managed hosted Hadoop framework in the cloud.
Amazon Glacier Amazon’s archival storage.
Amazon Glue A fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service.
Amazon GuardDuty A threat detection service.
Amazon Inspector Identifies the security vulneraries in your application.
Amazon Keyspaces A fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service.
Amazon Kinesis A service that allows you to ingest real-time data.
Amazon Lex A full service for building chatbots.
Amazon Lightsail A simple virtual private server (VPS) solution in the cloud.
Amazon Macie Classifies your data.
Amazon MSK A fully managed Apache Kafka infrastructure.
Amazon Neptune A fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud.
Amazon Polly A fully managed service that converts text into lifelike speech.
Amazon QLDB A fully managed ledger database.
Amazon QuickSight A fully managed business analytics service.
Amazon Rekognition A fully managed image recognition service.
Amazon SageMaker A fully managed machine learning service.
Amazon VPC Flow Logs Used to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC.
archive Where data is stored in Amazon Glacier.
Auto Scaling A technology used by AWS to scale up and scale down EC2 instances.
AWS App Mesh Helps monitor, control, debug, and trace communications between services.
AWS Backup Centrally manages and automates backups across AWS services.
AWS Batch A service that enables users to efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS.
AWS CloudFormation A tool for deploying AWS resource stacks.
AWS CloudHSM A hardware-based key storage for regulatory compliance.
AWS CloudTrail A managed service that records AWS API calls.
AWS CodeBuild A fully managed build service that builds and compiles source code.
AWS CodeCommit A fully managed service through which you can host any private Git repository.
AWS CodeDeploy A fully managed service that automates code deployments to any instance.
AWS CodePipeline A fully managed continuous integration and continuous delivery service.
AWS Config A fully managed service that helps to track configuration change.
AWS Device Farm Service for testing mobile devices.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk A service used to run and manage web apps.
AWS Global Accelerator Improves the availability and performance of your applications for global users.
AWS Greengrass A managed service for running IoT applications in the AWS cloud.
AWS Lake Formation Quickly sets up data lakes in AWS.
AWS Lambda Enables you to run code without provisioning or managing any servers or infrastructure.
AWS Marketplace An online store where you can buy software that runs on AWS.
AWS Mobile Hub A web service for deploying mobile applications.
AWS OpsWorks A configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.
AWS Organizations Provides policy-based management for multiple AWS accounts.
AWS Outposts Runs AWS services on premises.
AWS Personal Health Dashboard It provides a personalized view of AWS service health.
AWS Secrets Manager Manages secrets in AWS.
AWS Shield Protects against DDoS attack.
AWS Step Functions The visual workflow service of AWS.
AWS Systems Manager Gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS.
AWS Trusted Advisor An online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment.
bucket Container for storing objects in Amazon S3.
Direct Connect Using Direct Connect you can establish private, dedicated network connectivity from your data center to AWS.
Directory Service Directory service built on Microsoft Active Directory in the cloud.
DLQ A dead-letter queue lets you set aside and isolate messages that can’t be processed correctly to determine why their processing didn’t succeed.
EC2 Image Builder Builds and maintains secure images.
EC2-Classic The original release of Amazon EC2.
Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse service.
EC2 Image Builder Builds and maintains secure images.
EC2-Classic The original release of Amazon EC2.
edge location Used to serve content to end users.
Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Provides persistent block storage for EC2 instances.
Elastic File System (EFS) Provides a shared file system for EC2.
fleet A collection of EC2 servers.
IG Internet gateway, a component of VPC that allows your VPC to communicate with the Internet.
instance An EC2 server is also referred to as an instance.
Snowball/Snowball Edge Amazon-owned network-attached storage (NAS) devices, used to ship customer data to AWS.