AWS in Plain English

AWS in Plain English
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Hey, have you heard of the new AWS services:
ContainerCache, ElastiCast and QR72? Of course not, I
just made those up.
But with 50 plus opaquely named services, we decided
that enough was enough and that some plain english
descriptions were needed.
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Run an App Services

No matter what you do with AWS you'll
probably end up using these services as
everything else interacts with them.
EC2
Should have
been called
Amazon Virtual
Servers
Use this to
Host the bits of
things you think of
as a computer.
It's like
http://www.linode.com","It's
handwavy, but EC2 instances
are similar to the virtual
private servers you'd get at
Linode, DigitalOcean or
Rackspace.
IAM
Should have
been called
Users, Keys and
Certs
Use this to
Set up additional users, set up new AWS Keys and
policies.
S3
Should have
been called
Amazon
Unlimited FTP
Server
Use this to
Store images and other assets for websites. Keep
backups and share les between services. Host
static websites. Also, many of the other AWS
services write and read from S3.
S3 in Plain English # (/aws-s3-in-plain-english)
S3 Buckets of Objects # (/aws-s3-buckets-of-objects)
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VPC
Should have
been called
Amazon Virtual
Colocated Rack
Use this to
It's like
Overcome
If you're familar with
objections that "all networking: VLANs
our stu is on the
internet!" by
adding an
additional layer of
security. Makes it
appear as if all of
your AWS services
are on the same
little network
instead of being
small pieces in a
much bigger
network.
Lambda
Should have
been called
AWS App Scripts
Use this to
Run little self contained snippets of JS, Java or
Python to do discrete tasks. Sort of a combination
of a queue and execution in one. Used for storing
and then executing changes to your AWS setup or
responding to events in S3 or DynamoDB.
Lambda in Plain English # (/aws-lambda-in-plain-english)
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Web Developer
Services
If you're setting up a web app, these are
mostly what you'd end up using. These are
similar to what you'd nd in Heroku's Addon
Marketplace.
API Gateway
Should have
been called
API Proxy
Use this to
It's like
Proxy your apps
3Scale
API through this so
you can throttle
bad client trac,
test new versions,
and present
methods more
cleanly.
RDS
Should have
been called
Amazon SQL
Use this to
Be your app's
Mysql, Postgres,
and Oracle
database.
It's like
Heroku Postgres
Use this to
Buy a new domain
and set up the
DNS records for
that domain.
It's like
DNSimple, GoDaddy, Gandi
Route53
Should have
been called
Amazon DNS +
Domains
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SES
Should have
been called
Amazon
Transactional
Email
Use this to
Send one-o
emails like
password resets,
notications, etc.
You could use it to
send a newsletter
if you wrote all the
code, but that's
not a great idea.
It's like
SendGrid, Mandrill, Postmark
Use this to
Make your
websites load
faster by
spreading out
static le delivery
to be closer to
where your users
are.
It's like
MaxCDN, Akamai
Cloudfront
Should have
been called
Amazon CDN
CloudSearch
Should have
been called
Amazon Fulltext
Search
Use this to
It's like
Pull in data on S3
Sphinx, Solr, ElasticSearch
or in RDS and then
search it for every
instance of
'Jimmy.'
DynamoDB
Should have
been called
Amazon NoSQL
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Use this to
Be your app's
massively scalable
key valueish store.
It's like
MongoLab
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Elasticache
Should have
been called
Amazon
Memcached
Use this to
Be your app's
Memcached or
Redis.
It's like
Redis to Go, Memcachier
Elastic Transcoder
Should have
been called
Amazon
Beginning Cut
Pro
Use this to
Deal with video weirdness (change formats,
compress, etc.).
SQS
Should have
been called
Amazon Queue
Use this to
Store data for
future processing
in a queue. The
lingo for this is
storing
"messages" but it
doesn't have
anything to do
with email or SMS.
SQS doesn't have
any logic, it's just a
place to put things
and take things
out.
It's like
RabbitMQ, Sidekiq
WAF
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Should have
been called
AWS Firewall
Use this to
Block bad
requests to
Cloudfront
protected sites
(aka stop people
trying 10,000
passwords against
/wp-admin)
It's like
Sophos, Kapersky
Mobile App
Developer Services
These are the services that only work for
mobile developers.
Cognito
Should have
been called
Amazon OAuth as
a Service
Use this to
Give end users (non AWS) - the
ability to log in
with Google,
Facebook, etc.
It's like
OAuth.io
Device Farm
Should have
been called
Amazon Drawer
of Old Android
Devices
Use this to
It's like
Test your app on a MobileTest, iOS emulator
bunch of dierent
IOS and Android
devices
simultaneously.
Mobile Analytics
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Should have
been called
Spot on Name,
Amazon Product
Managers take
note
Use this to
Track what people
are doing inside of
your app.
It's like
Flurry
SNS
Should have
been called
Amazon
Messenger
Use this to
It's like
Send mobile
UrbanAirship, Twilio
notications,
emails and/or SMS
messages
Ops and Code

Deployment Services
These are for automating how you manage
and deploy your code onto other services.
CodeCommit
Should have
been called
Amazon GitHub
Use this to
It's like
Version control
Github, BitBucket
your code - hosted
Git.
Code Deploy
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Should have
been called
Not bad
Use this to
It's like
Get your code
Heroku, Capistrano
from your
CodeCommit repo
(or Github) onto a
bunch of EC2
instances in a sane
way.
CodePipeline
Should have
been called
Amazon
Continuous
Integration
Use this to
Run automated
tests on your code
and then do stu
with it depending
on if it passes
those tests.
It's like
CircleCI, Travis
EC2 Container Service

Should have
been called
Amazon Docker
as a Service
Use this to
Put a Dockerle into an EC2 instance so you can
run a website.
Elastic Beanstalk
Should have
been called
Amazon Platform
as a Service
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Use this to
Move your app
hosted on Heroku
to AWS when it
gets too
expensive.
It's like
Heroku, BlueMix, Modulus
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Enterprise /
Corporate Services
Services for business and networks.
AppStream
Should have
been called
Amazon Citrix
Use this to
Put a copy of a
Windows
application on a
Windows machine
that people get
remote access to.
It's like
Citrix, RDP
Use this to
Pay your Telco +
AWS to get a
dedicated leased
line from your
data center or
network to AWS.
Cheaper than
Internet out for
Data.
It's like
A toll road turnpike bypassing
the crowded side streets.
Direct Connect
Should have
been called
Pretty spot on
actually
Directory Service
Should have
been called
Pretty spot on
actually
Use this to
Tie together other apps that need a Microsoft
Active Directory to control them.
WorkDocs
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Should have
been called
Amazon
Unstructured
Files
Use this to
Share Word Docs
with your
colleagues.
It's like
Dropbox, DataAnywhere
Use this to
Give everyone in
your company the
same email
system and
calendar.
It's like
Google Apps for Domains
WorkMail
Should have
been called
Amazon
Company Email
Workspaces
Should have
been called
Amazon Remote
Computer
Use this to
Gives you a standard windows desktop that you're
remotely controlling.
Service Catalog
Should have
been called
Amazon Setup
Already
Use this to
Give other AWS users in your group access to
preset apps you've built so they don't have to read
guides like this.
Storage Gateway
Should have
been called
S3 pretending it's
part of your
corporate
network
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Use this to
Stop buying more storage to keep Word Docs on.
Make automating getting les into S3 from your
corporate network easier.
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Big Data Services

Services to ingest, manipulate and massage
data to do your will.
Data Pipeline
Should have
been called
Amazon ETL
Use this to
Extract, Transform and Load data from elsewhere
in AWS. Schedule when it happens and get alerts
when they fail.
Elastic Map Reduce

Should have
been called
Amazon
Hadooper
Use this to
Iterate over
massive text les
of raw data that
you're keeping in
S3.
It's like
Treasure Data
Glacier
Should have
been called
Really slow
Amazon S3
Use this to
Make backups of your backups that you keep on
S3. Also, beware the cost of getting data back out
in a hurry. For long term archiving.
Kinesis
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Should have
been called
Amazon High
Throughput
Use this to
It's like
Ingest lots of data Kafka
very quickly (for
things like
analytics or people
retweeting Kanye)
that you then later
use other AWS
services to
analyze.
RedShift
Should have
been called
Amazon Data
Warehouse
Use this to
Store a whole bunch of analytics data, do some
processing, and dump it out.
Machine Learning
Should have
been called
Skynet
Use this to
Predict future behavior from existing data for
problems like fraud detection or "people that
bought x also bought y."
SWF
Should have
been called
Amazon EC2
Queue
Use this to
Build a service of
"deciders" and
"workers" on top
of EC2 to
accomplish a set
task. Unlike SQS logic is set up
inside the service
to determine how
and what should
happen.
It's like
IronWorker
Snowball
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Should have
been called
AWS Big Old
Portable Storage
Use this to
It's like
Get a bunch of
Shipping a Network Attached
hard drives you
Storage device to AWS
can attach to your
network to make
getting large
amounts
(Terabytes of Data)
into and out of
AWS
AWS Management
Services
AWS can get so dicult to manage that they
invented a bunch of services to sell you to
make it easier to manage.
CloudFormation
Should have
been called
Amazon Services
Setup
Use this to
Set up a bunch of connected AWS services in one
go.
CloudTrail
Should have
been called
Amazon Logging
Use this to
Log who is doing what in your AWS stack (API
calls).
CloudWatch
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Should have
been called
Amazon Status
Pager
Use this to
Get alerts about
AWS services
messing up or
disconnecting.
It's like
PagerDuty, Statuspage
Cong
Should have
been called
Amazon
Conguration
Management
Use this to
Keep from going insane if you have a large AWS
setup and changes are happening that you want
to track.
OpsWorks
Should have
been called
Amazon Chef
Use this to
Handle running your application with things like
auto-scaling.
Trusted Advisor
Should have
been called
Amazon
Pennypincher
Use this to
Find out where you're paying too much in your
AWS setup (unused EC2 instances, etc.).
Inspector
Should have
been called
Amazon Auditor
!
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Use this to
Scans your AWS
setup to
determine if
you've setup it up
in an insecure way
It's like
Alert Logic
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