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Overview of Core Services

Explore AWS core services including compute, storage, databases, networking, machine learning, and security. Understand fault isolation boundaries that help design resilient systems by containing faults within zones, regions, or globally. This lesson aids in grasping AWS service categories and principles for building reliable cloud infrastructures.

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The breadth of services offered by AWS is one of its defining characteristics. The services span across a wide range of categories, including compute, storage, databases, networking, machine learning, analytics, security, IoT, and more.

AWS services

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of some important services, organized into categories:

  • Compute services: AWS provides a variety of compute services, including Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) for scalable virtual servers, AWS Lambda for serverless computing, and Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) for container orchestration.

  • Storage services: AWS offers scalable and durable storage solutions such as Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) for object ...