Below is an example categorization of the listed AWS services with a concise description for each. Many services could arguably fit in multiple categories, but this breakdown should serve as a helpful starting point.
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1. COMPUTE
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• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
– Scalable virtual servers in the cloud.
• Amazon Lightsail
– Simplified VPS (virtual private server) service with easy setup.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
– Easily deploy and manage applications (supports Java, .NET, PHP, etc.).
• AWS Lambda
– Serverless compute service to run code without managing servers.
• AWS Fargate
– Serverless compute engine for containers (ECS and EKS).
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
– Container orchestration platform for running and managing Docker containers.
• Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
– Managed Kubernetes service for container orchestration.
• Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
– Automatically scale EC2 capacity based on demand.
• Elastic Load Balancing
– Distribute incoming traffic across multiple targets (EC2, containers, IPs).
• AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS)
– High-performance computing environment (often integrated with EC2, Batch, and HPC solutions).
• EC2 Image Builder
– Automate the creation of secure and up-to-date EC2 AMIs.
• Amazon File Cache
– Caching service to accelerate data access for compute.
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2. STORAGE & CONTENT DELIVERY
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• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
– Object storage with virtually unlimited scalability.
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
– Persistent block-level storage for use with EC2.
• Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
– Scalable, fully managed NFS file system for Linux-based workloads.
• Amazon FSx (FSx for Windows File Server, Lustre, NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS)
– Managed file storage solutions for various file-system types.
• AWS Backup
– Centralized backup service for AWS and on-prem resources.
• AWS Snowball / AWS Snowcone
– Physical data transport solutions for large-scale data transfer.
• AWS Storage Gateway
– Hybrid storage service for on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.
• Amazon CloudFront
– Global content delivery network (CDN) for low-latency content distribution.
• AWS DataSync
– Simplifies and accelerates moving data between on-prem and AWS storage.
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3. DATABASES
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• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
– Managed relational database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server).
• Amazon Aurora
– High-performance, MySQL-/PostgreSQL-compatible relational database.
• Amazon DynamoDB
– Serverless NoSQL key-value database with single-digit millisecond performance.
• Amazon DocumentDB
– Managed document database service compatible with MongoDB workloads.
• Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
– Managed Cassandra-compatible database service.
• Amazon Timestream
– Time-series database for IoT and operational applications.
• Amazon ElastiCache (Redis, Memcached)
– In-memory data stores for caching and real-time workloads.
• Amazon Neptune
– Managed graph database service.
• Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
– Transparent, immutable ledger database.
• Amazon MemoryDB
– Redis-based in-memory database, durable storage for microsecond read latency.
• AWS Database Migration Service
– Migrate databases to AWS with minimal downtime.
• AWS Mainframe Modernization
– Tools and resources to migrate/modernize mainframe applications and data.
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4. NETWORKING & CONTENT DELIVERY
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• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
– Provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud.
• AWS Direct Connect
– Dedicated network connection from on-premises to AWS.
• AWS PrivateLink
– Secure, private connectivity to AWS services and VPCs.
• AWS Global Accelerator
– Improves global application availability and performance using AWS backbone.
• AWS Transit Gateway
– Hub-and-spoke model for connecting VPCs and on-prem networks.
• AWS VPN
– Managed site-to-site and client VPN services.
• Amazon VPC Lattice
– Service networking layer to securely connect services across multiple VPCs.
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5. SECURITY, IDENTITY & COMPLIANCE
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• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
– Fine-grained access control and identity management for AWS.
• AWS IAM Identity Center (Successor to AWS Single Sign-On)
– Centralized access management for AWS accounts and applications.
• AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
– Create and control encryption keys.
• AWS Artifact
– On-demand access to AWS compliance reports and agreements.
• AWS Audit Manager
– Automate evidence collection for audits.
• AWS CloudHSM
– Dedicated hardware security modules in AWS Cloud.
• AWS Directory Service
– Managed Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS Cloud.
• AWS Network Firewall
– Managed network firewall service for VPCs.
• AWS Private Certificate Authority
– Private CA to issue and manage certificates within an organization.
• AWS Shield
– Managed DDoS protection service.
• AWS WAF
– Web application firewall to protect web applications or APIs.
• AWS Security Hub
– Unified security and compliance center across AWS accounts.
• AWS Firewall Manager
– Central security policy management for WAF, Shield, and VPC security groups.
• Amazon Detective
– Investigative service to analyze and identify security issues or suspicious activities.
• Amazon GuardDuty
– Threat detection service continuously monitoring for malicious activity.
• Amazon Inspector / Amazon Inspector Classic
– Automated security assessments for EC2, container images, and Lambda functions.
• Amazon Macie
– Data security and data privacy service (discovers and protects sensitive data in S3).
• AWS Security Incident Response
– Framework and tools for handling security incidents in AWS.
• AWS Verified Access
– Zero-trust network access (ZTNA) for securely accessing corporate apps.
• AWS Health Dashboard
– Personalized view of AWS service health.
• AWS Payment Cryptography
– Cryptographic services for payment-related data security and compliance.
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6. MANAGEMENT & GOVERNANCE
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• Amazon CloudWatch
– Monitoring service for AWS resources and applications.
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs
– Collect, store, and analyze log files from AWS and on-prem sources.
• AWS CloudTrail
– Monitors and records API activity, enabling governance, compliance, and auditing.
• AWS Config
– View, track, and audit the state of AWS resources.
• AWS Systems Manager
– Centralized operational hub for AWS resources, automates operational tasks.
• AWS Auto Scaling
– Monitor applications and automatically adjust capacity to maintain performance.
• AWS CloudFormation
– Infrastructure as code; model, provision AWS resources.
• AWS OpsWorks (Stacks, for Chef Automate, for Puppet Enterprise)
– Configuration management services using Chef or Puppet.
• AWS Service Catalog
– Create and manage catalogs of IT services for organization use.
• AWS Control Tower
– Setup and governance for a multi-account AWS environment.
• AWS Organizations
– Central management of multiple AWS accounts (billing consolidation, governance).
• AWS License Manager
– Track and manage software licenses from vendors.
• AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)
– Share AWS resources across different AWS accounts.
• AWS Resource Explorer
– Search and discover AWS resources across AWS Regions and accounts.
• AWS Resource Groups
– Organize and group AWS resources for easier management.
• AWS Launch Wizard
– Guides you to size, configure, and deploy third-party applications on AWS.
• AWS Managed Services
– Offers ongoing management of AWS infrastructure under an enterprise support model.
• AWS Usage Report / AWS Cost and Usage Report
– Provides detailed cost and usage data.
• AWS Budgets
– Set custom cost and usage budgets and get alerts when thresholds are exceeded.
• AWS Cost Explorer
– Visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time.
• AWS Well-Architected Tool
– Review and measure workloads using AWS best practices.
• AWS Trusted Advisor
– Provides best practice guidance (cost, performance, security).
• AWS Health Dashboard
– Health information on running AWS resources (part of AWS Management Console).
• AWS Resilience Hub
– Central location to define, validate, and track resilience targets.
• Amazon DevOps Guru
– ML-powered insights for operational data to improve application availability.
• AWS Support
– Technical support (Basic, Developer, Business, Enterprise).
• AWS User Notifications
– Centralized management of notifications for AWS services.
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7. DEVELOPER TOOLS
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• AWS CodeCommit
– Secure, private Git repositories.
• AWS CodeBuild
– Fully managed continuous integration (CI) build service.
• AWS CodeDeploy
– Automated application deployments to EC2, on-prem servers, or Lambda.
• AWS CodePipeline
– Continuous delivery (CD) and release automation.
• AWS CodeArtifact
– Secure artifact management for software packages.
• Amazon CodeGuru
– ML-powered code reviews and application performance recommendations.
• Amazon CodeWhisperer
– AI-powered coding companion and autocomplete for developers.
• AWS Cloud9
– Web-based IDE for writing, running, and debugging code.
• AWS App Runner
– Quickly run containerized web apps and APIs at scale.
• Amazon DevOps Guru
– (Listed in Management & Governance) Also relevant to developer workflows: identifies operational issues.
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8. APPLICATION INTEGRATION
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• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)
– Pub/sub messaging service.
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
– Fully managed message queues.
• Amazon EventBridge (formerly CloudWatch Events)
– Serverless event bus to connect applications and services.
• Amazon MQ
– Managed message broker service for RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ.
• AWS Step Functions
– Coordinate distributed applications using visual workflows.
• AWS AppSync
– Serverless GraphQL API for application data retrieval and updates.
• AWS App Mesh
– Service mesh to standardize communication across microservices.
• AWS Cloud Map
– Service discovery for dynamic resource naming/registration.
• AWS Fault Injection Service
– Chaos engineering service to improve resilience of applications.
• AWS AppFabric
– Integrates and secures SaaS applications used across an organization.
• AWS Clean Rooms
– Collaborate and analyze data with multiple parties without moving or combining data sets directly.
• AWS Data Pipeline
– Process and move data across different AWS compute and storage services.
• AWS Glue
– Data integration, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service.
• Amazon Data Firehose
– Part of Amazon Kinesis for data ingestion to S3, Redshift, Elasticsearch, etc.
• Amazon DataZone
– Data management, governance, and cataloging service for analytics and ML.
• AWS Launch Wizard
– (Listed in Management & Governance) Also assists in deploying multi-tier applications.
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9. MIGRATION & TRANSFER
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• AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
– Automates lift-and-shift migrations to AWS.
• AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS)
– Quickly recover on-premises, cloud-based, or colocation workloads on AWS.
• AWS Migration Hub
– Tracks and manages application migrations across AWS and partner solutions.
• CloudEndure (Disaster Recovery, Migration)
– Solutions for continuous block-level replication and automated machine conversion.
• AWS Transfer Family
– Fully managed SFTP, FTP, and FTPS service for file transfers to S3.
• AWS Direct Connect
– (Listed in Networking) Also used for migration requiring dedicated network connections.
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10. ANALYTICS & BIG DATA
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• Amazon Athena
– Interactive query service to analyze data in S3 using SQL.
• Amazon EMR
– Managed big data platform for Hadoop, Spark, and other frameworks.
• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams & Kinesis Video Streams
– Real-time data and video streaming services.
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
– (Mentioned in Application Integration) Also for streaming data delivery.
• Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
– Run real-time stream processing applications using Apache Flink.
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
– Managed Apache Kafka for streaming data pipelines.
• AWS Data Exchange
– Catalog and exchange data sets from third-party providers.
• AWS Clean Rooms
– (Also in Application Integration) Collaborative analytics while preserving data privacy.
• AWS Entity Resolution
– Service for matching and linking related data records across multiple data sets.
• Amazon QuickSight
– Business intelligence service for dashboards and visualizations.
• Amazon FinSpace
– Data analytics service for financial services industry.
• Amazon DataZone
– (Also referenced in Application Integration) Data management and governance.
• Amazon Lookout for Metrics
– ML-based anomaly detection in metrics.
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11. MACHINE LEARNING & AI
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• Amazon SageMaker
– Build, train, and deploy ML models at scale.
• Amazon Bedrock
– Service to quickly build and scale generative AI applications.
• Amazon Comprehend / Comprehend Medical
– NLP service to find insights from text (medical version for medical text).
• Amazon Forecast
– Time-series forecasting service using ML.
• Amazon Fraud Detector
– Detect potentially fraudulent activities with ML.
• Amazon Lookout for Vision
– Detect anomalies in images using computer vision.
• Amazon Personalize
– Real-time personalized recommendations (similar to Amazon.com’s product recommendations).
• Amazon Polly
– Text-to-speech service.
• Amazon Rekognition
– Image and video content analysis, facial recognition, object detection.
• Amazon Textract
– Extract text and data from scanned documents.
• Amazon Transcribe
– Automatic speech recognition service.
• Amazon Translate
– Natural and accurate language translation.
• Amazon CodeWhisperer
– (Also in Developer Tools) AI coding companion.
• AWS DeepRacer
– Reinforcement learning for autonomous racing car models.
• AWS DeepComposer
– ML-enabled keyboard for generating music with AI.
• Amazon Augmented AI (A2I)
– Human review workflows for ML predictions.
• Amazon IVS (Interactive Video Service)
– Live, low-latency video streaming, can incorporate ML-based features.
• Amazon Kendra
– Intelligent search service powered by ML.
• Amazon Monitron
– ML system for predictive maintenance using sensors and analytics.
• Amazon HealthLake / HealthImaging / HealthOmics
– Specialized ML solutions for healthcare data, imaging, and genomics.
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12. INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) & ROBOTICS
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• AWS IoT Core
– Connect IoT devices and route data to AWS services.
• AWS IoT Analytics
– Analytics for large volumes of IoT data.
• AWS IoT Device Defender
– Security management for IoT fleets.
• AWS IoT Device Management
– Onboard, organize, monitor, and manage IoT devices remotely.
• AWS IoT Events
– Detect and respond to events from IoT sensors and applications.
• AWS IoT Greengrass
– Local compute, messaging, data caching for IoT devices.
• AWS IoT SiteWise
– Collect, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment.
• AWS IoT FleetWise
– Collect and organize vehicle data for analytics.
• AWS IoT TwinMaker
– Build digital twins of real-world systems.
• FreeRTOS
– Microcontroller operating system for IoT devices.
• AWS RoboMaker
– Develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications.
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13. CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT & BUSINESS APPS
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• Amazon Connect
– Cloud contact center service.
• Amazon Pinpoint & End User Messaging
– Targeted push notifications, email, and SMS messaging campaigns.
• Amazon Chime / Amazon Chime SDK
– Real-time communications platform (video, voice, chat).
• Amazon WorkDocs
– Secure enterprise document storage and collaboration.
• Amazon WorkMail
– Secure business email and calendaring.
• Amazon AppFlow
– Integration service to securely transfer data between SaaS apps and AWS services.
• Amazon WorkSpaces / WorkSpaces Secure Browser / Thin Client
– Managed DaaS (Desktop as a Service).
• AWS Chatbot
– Interact with AWS services via Slack or Amazon Chime channels.
• AWS IQ
– Connects customers with AWS Certified third-party experts for consulting.
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14. MEDIA SERVICES
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• AWS Elemental MediaConnect
– Transport high-quality live video.
• AWS Elemental MediaConvert
– File-based video transcoding.
• AWS Elemental MediaLive
– Broadcast-grade live video encoding.
• AWS Elemental MediaPackage
– Prepare and protect video for internet delivery.
• AWS Elemental MediaStore
– Video origination and storage service.
• AWS Elemental MediaTailor
– Server-side ad insertion for video streams.
• Amazon Elastic Transcoder
– Media transcoding in the cloud.
• Amazon IVS (Interactive Video Service)
– (Also in ML & AI) Live, interactive video streaming.
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15. MIGRATION-ASSIST / APP DISCOVERY
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• AWS Application Discovery Service
– Collect usage and configuration data from on-premises data centers.
• AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
– (Also in Migration & Transfer) Simplified lift-and-shift migrations.
• AWS Launch Wizard
– (Also in Management & Governance) Helps deploy enterprise applications easily.
• AWS Application Recovery Controller
– Improves resilience and availability by monitoring multi-AZ or multi-Region architectures.
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16. BLOCKCHAIN & LEDGER
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• Amazon Managed Blockchain
– Create and manage blockchain networks using Hyperledger Fabric or Ethereum.
• Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
– (Also in Databases) Immutable, cryptographically verifiable ledger database.
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17. QUANTUM COMPUTING
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• Amazon Braket
– Quantum computing service to test and run quantum algorithms on different hardware technologies.
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18. GAME DEVELOPMENT
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• Amazon GameLift Servers
– Managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling session-based multiplayer games.
• Amazon Lumberyard
– Free, cross-platform 3D game engine with integration to AWS.
• Amazon IVS
– (Also in Media Services) Often used in gaming contexts for live streaming.
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19. AR/VR
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• Amazon Lumberyard
– (Also in Game Development) Supports VR development as part of the 3D engine.
(No separate VR engine service from AWS currently in the list beyond Lumberyard’s capabilities.)
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20. SATELLITE
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• AWS Ground Station
– Fully managed ground station as a service to control satellite communications.
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21. HYBRID & EDGE
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• AWS Outposts
– On-premises servers and storage, fully managed and supported by AWS.
• AWS Private 5G
– Private cellular networks for enterprise environments.
• VMware Cloud on AWS
– Integrated hybrid cloud service for VMware software-defined data centers on AWS.
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22. SERVERLESS APPLICATIONS
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• AWS Serverless Application Repository
– Discover, deploy, and publish serverless applications.
• AWS Step Functions
– (Also in Application Integration) Orchestrates serverless workflows.
• Amazon API Gateway
– Creates, publishes, and manages APIs (HTTP, REST, WebSocket).
• AWS AppSync
– (Listed in Application Integration) GraphQL for serverless data interactions.
• AWS Fault Injection Service
– (Also in Application Integration) Chaos engineering in serverless apps.
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23. OBSERVABILITY & MONITORING
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• Amazon CloudWatch
– (Listed in Management & Governance) Metrics and logs.
• AWS X-Ray
– Traces and analyzes requests across distributed applications.
• Amazon DevOps Guru
– (Also in Mgmt & Governance) Proactive operational insights.
• AWS Compute Optimizer
– Recommends optimal AWS compute resources for workloads to reduce costs and improve performance.
• AWS Health Dashboard
– (Also in Security & Identity, Management) Real-time AWS health status.
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24. COST MANAGEMENT
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• AWS Budgets
– (Listed in Management & Governance) Track spending, set thresholds.
• AWS Cost Explorer
– (Listed in Management & Governance) Analyze cost and usage patterns.
• AWS Cost and Usage Report
– Provides the most granular level of billing data.
• AWS Marketplace
– Find, buy, and deploy software and services that run on AWS.
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25. MISCELLANEOUS / SPECIALIZED
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• AWS B2B Data Interchange
– Data interchange platform for B2B transactions.
• AWS Clean Rooms
– (Also in Analytics / App Integration) Collaborative data analysis.
• Amazon Application Recovery Controller
– (Also in Migration & Transfer) Monitor and control multi-region failover.
• AWS SimSpace Weaver
– Large-scale spatial simulation platform.
• AWS Telco Network Builder
– Service for building, running, and operating telecom networks in the cloud.
• AWS Payment Cryptography
– (Listed in Security, Identity & Compliance) Compliance and cryptography for payment data.
• Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
– Managed OpenShift (Kubernetes) clusters on AWS.
• Amazon Q Business / Amazon Q Developer
– (Likely references to Amazon’s Q (quantum) environment or internal naming—details vary.)
• AWS Wickr
– Secure, end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration platform.
• Amazon SimpleDB
– Non-relational data store (legacy, largely supplanted by DynamoDB).
• AWS Fault Injection Service
– (Also in App Integration) For chaos engineering experiments.
• Amazon DataZone
– (Listed in Analytics) Governance, data catalog, and data management.
• AWS Support
– (Also in Management & Governance) Technical support tiers for AWS.
• AWS HPC (within HPC solutions)
– Suite of HPC services (Amazon FSx for Lustre, NICE DCV, AWS Batch, EFA for HPC on EC2, etc.).
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Note:
• Many services appear in more than one category because they have multiple uses))
• Quick descriptions here are meant to be high-level. Each service has far more depth and features than can be covered in one or two lines))
• Some services are closely intertwined (e.g., AWS Step Functions is often used with AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, etc.)))
• Categorization sometimes overlaps (e.g., a service may be part of both “management” and “developer tools”).