As one of the leading cloud computing platforms, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide range of services to its customers. These services are designed to help businesses and organizations of all sizes build, deploy and manage their applications.
With such a vast range of offerings, it can be overwhelming to determine which services to use. To make the decision easier, we have put together a list of the top 10 most used AWS services in 2023.
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is the most widely used storage service in the AWS cloud. It offers scalable, highly available, and low-cost storage for a variety of data, including objects, files, and backups.
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a scalable computing service that provides on-demand access to virtual machines (VMs). It allows customers to easily provision computing resources as needed and quickly scale up or down as demand changes.
Amazon RDS
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed database service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud. It supports popular database engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that speeds up the delivery of static and dynamic web content, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images.
Amazon VPC
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides a secure, isolated virtual network for customers to launch AWS resources in. It enables customers to have complete control over their virtual networking environment.
Amazon SNS
Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a flexible, fully managed publish-subscribe messaging service for decoupling and scaling microservices, serverless applications, and distributed systems.
Amazon Lambda
Amazon Lambda is a serverless computing service that lets customers run code without having to provision or manage servers. It allows customers to build and run applications and services without having to think about infrastructure.
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale.
Amazon SES
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service for businesses and developers.
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze big data.
Each of these services offers unique benefits and can be leveraged to meet the specific needs of a business or organization. By taking advantage of these services, businesses and organizations can build, deploy, and manage their applications and workloads in the cloud with ease and confidence.
At SSI, we can assist with the analysis, roadmap, implementation, and optimization of any AWS service you feel will meet your infrastructure needs.
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