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Components of Amazon Web Services
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2):
An IaaS service providing virtual servers controllable by an
API, based on the Xen hypervisor.
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AmazonElasticMapReduce (EMR):
Provides a PaaS service deliveringHadoop for runningMapReduce
queries framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of EC2 and Amazon S3.
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Amazon Machine Learning:
A service that assists developers of all skill levels to use machine learning
technology.
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Amazon Kinesis:
A cloud-based service for real-time data processing over large, distributed data
streams. It streams data in real time with the ability to process thousands of data streams on a per-
second basis.
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Amazon QuickSight:
A business analytics service that provides visualizations and ad-hoc analysis by
connecting to AWS or non-AWS data sources.
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Amazon Lambda (LAMBDA):
Runs code in response to AWS internal or external events such as http
requests transparently providing the resource required
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Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3):
Provides scalable object storage accessible from a Web Service
interface.
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Amazon Glacier:
Provides long-term storage options (compared to S3).Intended for archiving data.
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Amazon Redshift:
Provides petabyte-scale data warehousing with column-based storage and multi-
node compute.
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Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS):
Provides scalable database servers with MySQL, Oracle,
SQL Server, and PostgreSQL support.
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Amazon DynamoDB:
Provides a scalable, low-latency NoSQL online Database Service backed by
SSDs.
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AWS Data Pipeline:
Provides reliable service for data transfer between different AWS compute and
storage services (e.g., Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon EMR).
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Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM):
An implicit service, the authentication infrastructure
used to authenticate access to the various services.
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AWS Key Management Service (KMS):
A managed service to create and control encryption keys.
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Amazon Aurora:
Provides a MySQL-compatible relational database engine that has been created
specifically for the AWS infrastructure that claims faster speeds and lower costs that are realized in
larger databases.
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Amazon QuickSight:
An analytics service that makes it easy to build visualizations, perform ad-hoc
analysis, and quickly get business insights from data.
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AWS CloudFormation:
A service to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources,
provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.
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