Overview of Core Services

Explore AWS’s core services, such as compute, storage, database, network, machine learning, security, management, and governance.

One of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) defining characteristics is the breadth of its services, which span a wide range of categories, including compute, storage, databases, networking, machine learning, analytics, security, IoT, and more.

AWS services

A non-exhaustive list of some important services, organized in categories, is listed below:

  • Compute services: AWS provides various 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 storage, Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) for ...