Amazon Web Services edit  

A subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides infrastructure and platform cloud services, including virtual machines and storage infrastructure services and plus database, analytics, real time data processing and data pipeline platform services, with services available in 16 geographical regions. Launched to support internal Amazon.com services in July 2002, with the first launch of a public service in November 2004, and now comfortably the largest cloud services provider.

Vendor Information

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Infrastructure Services

Amazon EC2Virtual servers - https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)Docker based container service - https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS)Kubernetes as a service - https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
AWS FargateProvisioning of containers on ECS or EKS without managing servers or clusters - https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/
Amazon EBSBlock storage, used to provide local storage for virtual machine - https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/

Storage Services

Amazon Elastic File SystemNetwork storage, mountable on multiple machines over NFS - https://aws.amazon.com/efs/
Amazon S3Highly scalable and resilient object storage, including local cost archival storage (Amazon Glacier)

Compute Services

AWS LambdaService for executing arbitrary code in response to a triggers - https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/
AWS BatchService for executing arbitrary batch jobs, including support for Apache Spark - https://aws.amazon.com/batch/

Database Services

Amazon EMRHadoop service, with support for a range of Hadoop technologies including HBase, Hive, Hue, Livy, Mahout, Oozie, Phoenix, Presto, Pig, Spark, Sqoop and Zeppelin
Amazon Relational Database ServiceRelational database service, with support for Amazon Aurora (a MySQL/PostgreSQL compatible database), PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server - https://aws.amazon.com/rds/
Amazon RedshiftA MPP analytical database, with support for columnar storage and the ability to query data in Amazon S3 as external tables (Redshift Spectrum) - https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/
Amazon ElasticacheRedis or Memcached service - https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/
Amazon DynamoDBA NoSQL key-value store service - https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/
Amazon DocumentDBA (MongoDB compatible) NoSQL document store service - https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/
Amazon CloudsearchAmazon search service - https://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/
Amazon ElasticSearch ServiceElasticsearch service - https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/
Amazon NeptuneGraph and RDF database service with support for TinkerPop Gremlin and RDF SPARQL - https://aws.amazon.com/neptune/
Amazon Timestream (Preview)Time series database service - https://aws.amazon.com/timestream/

Analytics Services

Amazon AthenaSQL query service over data in Amazon S3 - https://aws.amazon.com/athena/
Amazon QuicksightWeb based analytics and visualisation tool - https://quicksight.aws/

Streaming Data Services

Amazon KinesisSuite of services relating to the processing and analytics of streaming data - https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/
Amazon Kinesis StreamsStreaming data storage and publish service - https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/streams/
Amazon Kinesis FirehoseStreaming data movement, with support for basic transformation including routing, splitting and batching - https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/firehose/
Amazon Kinesis AnalyticsSQL over data streams for transformation or analytics - https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/analytics/
Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) (public preview)Fully managed, highly available, and secure Apache Kafka service - https://aws.amazon.com/msk/

Data Integration Services

AWS Data PipelinesData ingestion as a service - https://aws.amazon.com/datapipeline/
AWS Glue (Preview)Service for integrating data, with support for automating data discovery, conversion, mapping, and job scheduling - https://aws.amazon.com/glue/

Machine Learning Services

Amazon RekognitionService for searching and analysing images - https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/
Amazon Machine LearningMachine learning service - https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/
Amazon SageMakerService for building, training and deploying machine learning at scale - https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/

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