AWS Service Category

Service

Category

Commodity

(Own Rating)

LVC

(Relevant)

Database

DynamoDB

Scalable NoSQL Data Store

No

Elastic Cache

In-Memory Cache

Yes

RDS

Relational Database

Yes

Red Shift

Petabyte-Scale Data Warehouse

Yes

Storage & CDN

S3

Scalable Storage

No

+

EBS

Network Attached Block Device

Yes

Cloud Front

Content Delivery Network

No

Glacier

Archive Storage

No

Storage Gateway

Integrates On-Premises IT with Cloud Storage

No

Import Export

Ship Large Datasets

No

Analytics

Elastic MapReduce

Managed Hadoop Framework

Yes

Kinesis

Real-Time Data Stream Processing

No

Data Pipeline

Orchestration for Data-Driven Workflows

No

Compute & Networking

EC2

Virtual Servers

Yes

+

VPC

Virtual Private Network

No

+

ELB

Elastic Load Balancing

No

+

Work Spaces

Virtual Desktops

No

Auto Scaling

Automatically Scale Up and Down

No

+

Direct Connect

Dedicated Network Connection to AWS

No

Route 53

Scalable Domain Name System

Yes

Deployment & Management

Cloud Formation

Templated AWS Resource Creation

No

Cloud Watch

Resource and Application Monitoring

No

Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Application Container

No

IAM

Identity and Access Management (Secure Access Control)

No

Cloud Trail

User Activity Logging

No

Ops Works

DevOps Application Management Service

Yes

Cloud HSM

Hardware-Based Key Storage for Compliance

No

App Service

Cloud Search

Managed Search Service

Yes

Elastic Transcoder

Scalable Media Transcoding

No

SES

Email Sending Service

No

SNS

Push Notification Service

No

SQS

Message Queue Service

No

SWF

Workflow Service for Coordinating App Components

No

App Stream

Low-Latency Application Streaming

No