Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing arm of Amazon, offering 200+ services covering compute, storage, databases, AI, networking, security, and more.
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53 APIsAWS IAM Access Analyzer API analyzes IAM resource policies for over-privileged access or external access — proactively surfaces security risks.
Amazon Chime SDK API embeds real-time audio/video calling and chat into apps (meetings, messaging, PSTN calls).
Amazon CloudFront is the AWS CDN and edge service — accelerates static and dynamic content delivery, a standard for web performance.
Amazon CloudSearch is AWS's managed search service (gradually superseded by OpenSearch Service).
CloudWatch Application Insights API auto-detects application problems — intelligently identifies anomalies (slow SQL queries, memory leaks), reducing manual alarm configuration.
AWS Cognito Identity Pools API issues temporary AWS credentials to frontend apps — identity federation, guest users, direct AWS resource access.
Amazon Cognito User Pools deliver managed user signup, login, password reset, and MFA for applications.
Amazon Connect Contact Lens API uses AI to analyze Amazon Connect calls in real time — sentiment, keywords, compliance detection, auto-summary.
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles API merges contact-center customer info with multi-source CRM data into unified profiles.
Amazon Connect Participant Service API enables Amazon Connect chat participants (agents and customers) to exchange messages, attachments, and status.
Amazon Connect API manages cloud contact center — phone queues, IVR flows, agent management, real-time and historical reports.
Amazon Detective API automatically analyzes AWS logs (VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty) for security investigations — visualizes attack chains.
Amazon DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL key-value database from AWS — high-performance, auto-scaling, zero-ops.
Amazon ECS is the AWS container orchestrator — run Docker containers on EC2 or Fargate without managing Kubernetes yourself.
Amazon EBS Direct API provides low-level access to EBS snapshot contents — read blocks, compute incremental diffs, build custom backup/restore tools.
Amazon EC2 API provisions and manages virtual machine instances — the core IaaS service in AWS.
Amazon ECR Public API is AWS's public container image registry (Docker Hub-like) — public read with controlled push.
Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) API creates and manages NFS file systems — concurrent read/write across EC2/containers sharing files.
Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) API creates and manages Kubernetes clusters with AWS-managed control plane.
Amazon OpenSearch Service API (formerly Elasticsearch Service) manages hosted OpenSearch/Elasticsearch clusters — search, log aggregation, observability.
EMR on EKS API runs Spark/Hive/Presto big-data jobs on Kubernetes (EKS) clusters — containerized EMR experience.
Amazon GameLift API hosts dedicated game servers for multiplayer online games — auto-scaling, player matchmaking, low-latency global deployment.
Amazon S3 Glacier API provides ultra-low-cost archive storage — long-term retention, compliance archive, DR backup; retrieval has minutes-to-hours latency.
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose API auto-buffers and delivers streaming data to S3/Redshift/OpenSearch/Splunk — no code required.
Amazon Managed Blockchain API provides fully managed blockchain network services — supports Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum, enterprise-grade private/consortium chains.
Amazon Rekognition is image and video analysis — object detection, face recognition, text extraction, and content moderation.
Amazon RDS offers managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB, and Aurora with automated backups, patching, and scaling.
Amazon Route 53 is the AWS managed DNS service with domain registration, intelligent routing policies, and health checks.
Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) API programmatically sends emails (transactional, marketing, bulk) — pay per send.
Amazon SNS is the AWS pub/sub service — fans out messages to email, SMS, HTTP, Lambda, SQS, and more.
Amazon SQS is AWS-managed distributed message queue — at-least-once Standard queues and exactly-once FIFO queues.
Amazon S3 is AWS object storage — massive, durable file storage with global access, the de facto standard for internet applications.
Amazon Textract is a document OCR and structured extraction service — recognizes forms, tables, and signatures far beyond traditional OCR.
Amazon Translate is the AWS neural machine translation service supporting 70+ language pairs for text and documents.
AWS Application Auto Scaling API auto-scales non-EC2 AWS resources — DynamoDB throughput, ECS service, Aurora replicas, and more.
AWS Auto Scaling API auto-adjusts EC2 instance count to match load — scaling policies, health checks, lifecycle hooks, multi-AZ distribution.
AWS App Runner is a simplified container/source-code deployment service — deploy directly from GitHub or ECR, with auto HTTPS, scaling, and zero infrastructure management.
AWS Application Discovery Service API collects on-prem server inventory and performance data — supports cloud migration planning (capacity assessment, dependency analysis).
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) API issues and manages SSL/TLS certificates — free public certificates, private CA management, auto-renewal, AWS service integration.
AWS CodeDeploy API automates application deployment to EC2/Lambda/ECS — rolling, blue-green, and automated rollback.
AWS Compute Optimizer API analyzes historical EC2/EBS/Lambda/ECS usage and recommends better instance types/configs for cost savings or performance gains.
AWS Config API records AWS resource configuration history — compliance audit, change tracking, and rule-based auto-alerts.
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) API migrates and continuously syncs data between databases — heterogeneous migration (Oracle to PostgreSQL), CDC real-time sync.
AWS DataSync API efficiently migrates and syncs data between sources (NFS, SMB, HDFS, object storage) and AWS storage (S3, EFS, FSx).
AWS Device Farm API runs mobile app and web automation tests on real phones/tablets/browsers — supports iOS/Android with thousands of devices.
AWS Directory Service API provides managed Microsoft Active Directory or integrates on-prem AD with AWS services.
AWS EC2 Instance Connect API temporarily pushes SSH public keys to EC2 instance authorized_keys — SSH access without long-lived keys.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk API is a simplified application deployment platform — upload code, auto-configures full EC2/RDS/Load Balancer infrastructure.
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) API actively injects faults into AWS resources for chaos engineering — terminate instances, add latency, simulate AZ failure.
AWS Glue DataBrew API is a visual data preparation tool — clean, transform, and enrich data; complete ETL prep without code.
AWS IoT Greengrass API deploys AWS Lambda and ML models to edge devices (IoT gateways, industrial equipment) for local data processing.
AWS Lambda API creates, updates, and invokes serverless functions — the core of the AWS serverless ecosystem.
AWS CodeArtifact API provides managed artifact repositories — store private npm, Maven, PyPI, NuGet packages and proxy public sources.