AWS Services Summary:

All the services in AWS are summarized with one liners below for quick reference:

N/W and Content Delivery:
    VPC ; Availability Centers are physical Data centers and VPC is virtual data center. Multiple VPCs in a region.
    Route53 ; Domain names are registered under the route53 service of aws.
    CloudFront ; It is a part of CDN, it consists of all the edge locations which will cache the assets giving faster accessibility to the users
    Direct Connect : It is a dedicated line to the data center from the office for seemless accessibility.

Storage:
    S3 - Simple Storage Services; Virtual Disk in the cloud to store objects (docs/files/text files/movies etc). Not to install a DB, an application, a computer game. This is an object based storage. For installing a DB, application or a computer game we need a block based storage.
    Galcier; Glacier is used to archieve files from S3, It is used when we dont need instant access.
    EFS - Elastic File System; EFS is a block based storage.
    Storage Gateway; It allows users to connect S3 to an on premise data center or to the head quarters. It is a virtual machine installed on premis. 

Compute :
    EC2 Elastic Cloud Compute; Virtual machines in the cloud that run on AWS.
    EC2 Container service; allows applications to run on a managed cluster of EC2 instances (i.e., virtual machines)
    Elastic BeanStalk; Used to deploy the code onto AWS. It will check the code for any errors.
    Lambda; It runs the code without any managed servers. Can run code of virtually any application or backend service
    LightSail; Choose a configuration from the menu and launch a virtual machine preconfigured with SSD based storage, DNS management, and a static IP addres.

Databases :
    RDS; Relational Databases; MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc all come under this section.
    DynamoDB; Non Relational Databases; NoSQL database and can be scalable very vastly.
    Redshift; Amazon warehousing solution; BigData in the warehouse; Query is not directly run on the database instead run on a copy in the redshift.
    Elasticache; Way of caching data in the cloud, usually done on data which is most frequently used.
   
Security and Identity:
    IAM - Identity And Access Management;  Used to sign in to AWS, setup permissions, groups etc.,
    Inspector; Its an agent installed on the virtual machine and inspects the virtual machine and does security reporting.
    Certificate Manager; This gives free SSL certificates for the domain names.
    Directory Service; This is a way of using MS AD with AWS.
    WAF - Web Application Firewall; Firewall gives N/W protection, this gives application level protection.
    Artifacts; Place to get documentation.

Migration Services:
    Snowball; Appliance used to store data and send back to amazon.
    Snowball Edge; Similar to Snowball but with compute capability like a data center.
    DMS - Database Migration Services; DMS will help migrate the data with no downtime.
    SMS - Server Migration Services; Exactly like DMS but for migrating VMWare.

Analytics:
    Athena; Allows SQL queries on S3, Turning Flat files into searchable data bases.
    Ealstic Map Reduce; Used for big data processing and based on Hadoop, Apache Spark etc
    Cloud Search; Similar to elastic, search engine for website or application.
    Elastic Search; This service uses open source.
    Kinesis; Way of analyzing and streaming real time data, analyzing market, social media tweets etc.
    Data Pipeline; It is a service used to move data from place to place. Ex:- from S3 to DynamoDB.
    Quick Sight; This is a business analytics tool used for creating rich dashboards for the data.
   

   
Management Tools:
    Cloud Watch; This is imp for SysOps certification; Used for monitoring performance of AWS environment especially EC2.
    Cloud Formation; It is a way of turning physical infrastructure into code, Using this we can provision production environment using one script.
    Cloud Trial; Auditing AWS resources.
    Opswork; A way of automating deployments using shift.
    Config; Config manager automatically monitors environment and gives warnings if the config might break.
    Trusted Advisor; Designed by the AWS solutions architecture team. They make series of recommendations; Security, Cost optimization, series of recommendations which is automated by scanning the env.
   
Application Services:
    Step Functions; Visualizing whats going on inside the application basically what micro services it is using.
    SWF - Simple Workflow Service; A way of coordinating automated tasks and manual tasks.
    API Gateway; Door for the Apps to access the back end data things like Lambda etc.,
    AppStream; It is a way of streaming desktop applications to the users.
    Elastic Transcoder; Used for changing the video format to suit all different devices based on resolution, size etc.,
   
Developer Tools:
    CodeCommit; It is a GitHub, GitHub is place to store code.
    CodeBuild; It is a way to compile code.
    CodeDeploy; Way of deploying in an automated fashion.
    CodePipeLine; Way of keeping versions of the code.
   
Mobile Services:
    Mobile Hub; This lets to add, configure and design features for mobile apps which includes, user auth, data storage, push notifications, back end logic, content delivery and anlytics.
    Cognito; Used for signing up using gmail credentials. Used in IOS with AWS.
    Device Farm; Helps improve the mobile apps by quickly and securing the apps on hundreds of real smart phones.
    Mobile Analytics; This app helps in analyzing the app usage data in a cost effective manner.
    Pinpoint; Helps in engage and understand with the application users. For Ex:- Helps in creating targeted marketing campaigns.

Business Productivity:
    WorkDocs; Used for storing important word documents in the cloud. In the back end using S3 with extra security added.
    Workmail; This is like exchange for AWS. A way of sending and receiving the emails.
   
iOT- Internet of Things:
    This is a way of having millions of devices keeping keeping track of them using the iOT gateway.
   
Desktop & AppStreaming:
    WorkSpaces; Workspace is a way of having desktop on the cloud.
    AppStream; It is a way of streaming desktop applications to the users.
   
Artificial Intelligence:
    Alexa; Alexa is amazons voice service in the cloud, can be communicated to alexa using echo.
    Polly; It is the most advanced text to speech service on the planet. Can use 47 voices and available in 24 languages.
    Machine Learning; This allows to predict data based on the previous performance.
    Rekognition; This service will recognize an uploaded picture and tells the details in the picture(objects, nature, humans, animals, gender etc.,)

Messaging:
    SNS - Simple Notification Services; this is a way of notifying either by email, text message.
    SQS; This is a way of decoupling applications, it is a queue system.
    SES - Simple Email Serice; A way of sending and receiving emails.



FYI: Regions --> Two or more Availability Zones inside regions --> Each Availability Zone is a data center/centers
Edge Location is a content delivery location. They are CDN end points for CloudFront.
CDN : Way to cache media files in the cloud. From the second user the cached filed is fetched from the edge location.