AWS Global, Regional, AZ, Hybrid, Serverless, Managed Services

Today we will look into some AWS services and group them for a better understanding

1 Global Services

2 Regional Services

3 AZ(Availability-Zone) Services

4 Hybrid Services

5 Serverless Services

6 Managed Services

Global Services

AWS services whose control planes and data planes don’t exist independently in each Region. Because their resources are not Region-specific, they are commonly referred to as global. (AWS)

Examples are?

AWS IAM, AWS Organizations, AWS Account Management, Route 53, AWS Network Manager, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Shield Advanced, AWS Global Accelerator.

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Regional Services

AWS Regional Services are a group of AWS services that are designed to improve the performance and availability of your applications in specific geographic regions around the world.

You can find more about which services are offered in which region in the following link

AZ(Availability-Zone) Services

Availability Zones are distinct locations within an AWS Region that are engineered to be isolated from failures in other Availability Zones. They provide inexpensive, low-latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same AWS Region.

Then there are local zones?

A Local Zone is an extension of an AWS Region that is geographically close to your users. You can extend any VPC from the parent AWS Region into Local Zones.

some services are?

EBS volumes, Instances etc

for local zones?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

Note regional services are also zoned-tied services due to the nature that they can be replicated in the specific region but in that region, you can use them in other AZ other than the AZ in which you created it.

Hybrid Services

AWS hybrid cloud services deliver a consistent AWS experience wherever you need it – from the cloud to on-premises, and at the edge. Select from the broadest set of computing, networking, storage, security, identity, data integration, management, monitoring, and operations services to build hybrid architectures that meet your specific requirements and use cases.?

Examples are

AWS Outposts, AWS Wavelength, AWS Snow

you can read more in this link

Serverless Services

Serverless is the native architecture of the cloud that enables you to shift more of your operational responsibilities to AWS, increasing your agility and innovation.

Examples are

AWS Lambda (FaaS), AWS Fargate, AWS Step Functions, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, etc.

you can find more in this link

Managed Services

AWS Managed Services (AMS) helps enterprises adopt AWS at scale and operate more efficiently and securely. AWS execute operational best practices on behalf of the customer through specialized automation, skills, and experience that are contextual to their environment and applications.

Services are?

some are fully managed some are managed by both customer and aws like patching in EC2 and security in the cloud?

Amazon RDS, Beanstalk, Cloud Fomation etc.

you can find more in this?

That's it for this post. I hope you find this useful.?

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