There are many names, use Ctrl / Cmd + F to search. Get to know and familiarize yourself with these names will sometimes help you get through some questions in certification exams, especially when you were only intimidated by a service you don’t recognize (this happens frequently for Solution Architect Professional exams).
- EC2 = Virtual Machines
- AMI = VM Images
- VPC = Virtual Networks that Resides in a Region
- S3 = File Store
- Glacier = File Archive
- Snowball = Hard Drive to Transfer Data Because Internet Is Not Quick Enough
- Snowball Edge = Standalone Mini-Cloud You Can Take to Where AWS Is Not Present (Yet)
- Snowball Mobile = A Truck Full of Snowballs to Transfer All Your Data Assets
- DynamoDB = Serverless NoSQL Database
- RDS = Managed Relational Database
- Aurora = Cloud-native Database Compatible with MySQL / PostgreSQL
- Neptune = Managed Graph Database
- DMS = Managed Database Migration, Syncing and Schema Conversion
- Beanstalk = PaaS
- CloudFront = CDN with AWS Service Integrations
- CloudTrail = Service API Logging
- CloudWatch = Metrics & Application Logging
- ElastiCache = Managed Redis / Memcached
- EBS = SAN
- EFS = NAS
- FSx = NAS for Windows
- Storage Gateway = A File Server Backed By S3
- ECS = Managed Docker Image Store
- ECS = Managed Docker Runtime Clusters
- EKS = Managed K8s Master Nodes
- EventBridge = Event Bus for AWS and SaaS Services
- CodeCommit = Managed Source Code Store
- CodeBuild = Serverless Build Service
- CodeDeploy = Managed Deployment Service
- CodePipeline = Managed CI Pipeline
- Fargate = Serverless ECS and EKS
- IAM = Account & Permissions
- X-ray = Application Performance Monitoring
- SQS = Serverless Message Queue
- Kinesis = Message Queue
- Kinesis Data Stream = Message Queue
- Kinesis Firehose = Message Queue that Save to Files
- Redshift = Managed Data Warehouse based on PostgreSQL
- Route 53 = DNS with AWS Service Integrations
- Athena = Serverless Presto
- Glue = Serverless SparkSQL
- Lambda = Serverless Programming Runtime / FaaS
- API Gateway = Serverless API Gateway
- SMS = Agentless Server Migration
- Direct Connect = Dedicated Connection
- AppSync = Managed GraphQL
- WorkSpaces = Desktop-as-a-Service
- CloudFormation = Infrastructure as Code
- Config = Resource Configuration Monitoring
- Personal Health Dashboard = Monitor Status of Services That Will Impact You
- Cognito = Managed OpenID Provider & User Info Store & Facebook / Google / Amazon ID Integration
- Directory Service = Managed Active Directory
- KMS = Key Management & Operations
- SageMaker = Managed Jupyter Notebook
- IoT
- FreeRTOS = IoT Operating System
- Greengrass = OS
