DJames617 Amazon API Gateway
API Gateway is a managed front door for HTTP, REST, and WebSocket APIs.
AWS Services
Shared AWS service pages.
Core service explanations reused across certifications, with exam-level links back to the relevant guides.
Amazon Athena
Athena runs serverless SQL queries against data in S3 using table metadata from a catalog.
Amazon Bedrock
Bedrock provides managed access to foundation models and tools for building generative AI applications.
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
Foundation-model safety control feature for filtering and constraining GenAI inputs and outputs.
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Managed retrieval augmented generation feature for grounding model responses in selected data sources.
Amazon CloudFront
CloudFront caches and delivers content from edge locations near users.
Amazon CloudWatch
CloudWatch is the operational telemetry service for metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards, events, and observability signals.
Amazon Comprehend
Managed natural-language processing service.
Amazon Data Firehose
Firehose delivers streaming data to destinations with minimal management.
Amazon DynamoDB
DynamoDB is a managed NoSQL key-value and document database built around access patterns and partition keys.
Amazon EC2
EC2 gives you virtual machines. It is flexible, but you own more of the operating system and scaling work.
Amazon Ec2 Auto Scaling
Amazon Ec2 Auto Scaling is an AWS service that appears in one or more current certification blueprints.
Amazon ECS
Container orchestration service for running containers on AWS-managed or customer-managed capacity.
Amazon EFS
Elastic shared file storage for Linux workloads across multiple compute resources.
Amazon Elastic Container Registry
Managed container image registry for storing and scanning container images.
Amazon EventBridge
EventBridge routes events between AWS services, SaaS partners, and custom applications using buses and rules.
Amazon FSx
Managed file systems for workloads that need specific file-system engines.
Amazon GuardDuty
Threat-detection service that analyzes events and logs for suspicious AWS account and workload activity.
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Kinesis Data Streams ingests and stores streaming records for custom consumers with replay.
Amazon Q Business
Generative AI assistant service for enterprise knowledge and workflows.
Amazon Q Developer
AI-assisted development service for code suggestions, review support, troubleshooting assistance, and developer productivity.
Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora
RDS manages relational database engines. Aurora is AWS-designed relational database technology with managed replication and high-performance options.
Amazon Redshift
Redshift is a managed data warehouse for analytics at scale.
Amazon Rekognition
Managed image and video analysis service.
Amazon Route 53
Route 53 provides DNS hosting, health checks, and traffic routing policies.
Amazon S3
S3 stores objects in buckets. It is not a block device, file system, or relational database.
Amazon SageMaker AI
SageMaker AI supports the ML lifecycle: data prep, training, tuning, model registry, deployment, and monitoring.
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store
SageMaker capability for storing, sharing, and serving ML features.
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
SageMaker data-labeling capability for creating labeled training datasets.
Amazon SageMaker Model Registry
SageMaker capability for tracking model versions, approval status, and deployment metadata.
Amazon SNS
SNS is a pub/sub notification service for fanout to subscribers.
Amazon SQS
SQS is a managed queue for decoupling producers and consumers through asynchronous messages.
Amazon Translate
Managed neural machine translation service.
Amazon VPC
A VPC is the network boundary for subnets, routing, gateways, endpoints, and network-level controls.
AWS Backup
AWS Backup centralizes backup policies, vaults, retention, and restore workflows across supported AWS services.
AWS Budgets
Cost-management service for defining budgets and alerts for cost, usage, reservation, or Savings Plans thresholds.
AWS CloudFormation
CloudFormation provisions AWS infrastructure from templates and tracks resources as stacks.
AWS CloudTrail
CloudTrail records AWS API activity for audit, investigation, and governance.
AWS Config
AWS Config records resource configuration history and evaluates rules against desired configuration.
AWS Cost Explorer
Cost and usage analysis tool for visualizing AWS spend and usage trends.
AWS Glue
Glue is a serverless data integration service for cataloging, ETL, crawlers, and jobs.
AWS Identity and Access Management
IAM is the policy engine for AWS API authorization. It answers who can call which API against which resource under which conditions.
AWS Key Management Service
KMS creates and controls cryptographic keys used by AWS services and applications.
AWS Lake Formation
Governance service for building and managing secure data lakes on AWS.
AWS Lambda
Lambda runs code in response to events without managing servers. Your code must fit the runtime, timeout, event, and concurrency model.
AWS Organizations
Organizations centrally manages multiple AWS accounts, OUs, consolidated billing, and service control policies.
AWS Secrets Manager
Secrets Manager stores, retrieves, and can rotate secrets such as database credentials and API keys.
AWS Security Hub
Security posture and findings aggregation service for AWS accounts.
AWS Serverless Application Model
Framework and CLI for building, testing, and deploying serverless applications.
AWS Step Functions
Step Functions orchestrates workflows as state machines with retries, branching, parallel steps, and service integrations.
AWS Systems Manager
Systems Manager centralizes operational management for instances, automation, patching, parameters, sessions, and inventory.
AWS Trusted Advisor
Best-practice check service for cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service limits.
Elastic Load Balancing
ELB distributes traffic across targets. ALB handles Layer 7 HTTP features; NLB handles Layer 4 high-performance TCP/UDP/TLS.
SageMaker Clarify
SageMaker capability for bias detection and explainability analysis.
SageMaker Model Cards
SageMaker feature for documenting model details, intended use, risk, and evaluation information.
SageMaker Model Monitor
SageMaker capability for monitoring model quality and data drift after deployment.