Overview

Services can be organized into 5 different categories:

• IaaS → Provide VMs, flexible, and rely on your management.
• Serverless computing → Pay per compute time, cloud-native architecture.
• Container-based computing → Abstract the OS from the system.
• PaaS → AWS manages infrastructure and configurations.
• Specialized Solutions → Fully managed, special use cases.

AWS Compute services are:

• EC2 → Resizable virtual machines → IaaS, VMs.
• Lightsail → Service to build apps/websites → IaaS, VMs.
• Elastic Container Services (ECS) → Container orchestration supporting docker (only for clusters, not for 1 container) → Container based.
• Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) → Managed Kubernetes-run containers → Container based.
• Elastic Container Registry (ECR) → Store/retrieve docker images → Container based.
• Lambda → Serverles compute, pay per use → Serverless.
• Fargate → Service to run containers without having to manage clusters/servers → Serverless.
• Elastic Beanstalk → Run/manage webapps → PaaS.
• Batch → Run batches in any scale.
• Outpost → AWS Services in your own data centers.
• VMware Cloud → Hybrid cloud without hardware. Offers interoperability with VMware-based data centers.
• EC2 Autoscaling → Supports availability, you define conditions to launch/destroy EC2 instances.