Key AWS services

Amazon S3: Leverage Amazon S3 object storage and replication to provide durability and resilience of your data on AWS. It is available Regionally (resilient against events that impact an entire Availability Zone) and also supports cross-Regional replication for geographic isolation.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling: Maintain workload availability and automatically add or remove Amazon EC2 instances according to conditions you define. You can also use the dynamic and predictive scaling features of Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling to respond to changing demand as well as schedule the right number of Amazon EC2 instances based on predicted demand to scale faster.

Amazon Route 53: Use the 100% availability of Route 53's data plane to direct traffic based on latency, proximity, and workload health checks to enable a variety of low-latency, fault-tolerant architectures.

AWS Direct Connect: Connect your data centers to AWS over dedicated, private, and consistent connections using Direct Connect.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): Provision a logically isolated section of AWS where you can launch AWS resources.

Amazon CloudFront: You can cache your content in CloudFront's edge locations worldwide and reduce the workload on your origin by only fetching content from your origin when needed. You can use CloudFront's native origin failover capability to automatically serve your content from a backup origin when your primary origin is unavailable.

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ or Amazon Aurora: Use Amazon RDS or Aurora Multi-AZ deployments to provide enhanced availability for production database workloads. Amazon RDS synchronously replicates data from a primary instance to a secondary in a different AZ which runs on a fault-isolated and independent infrastructure. In case of infrastructure failure, Amazon RDS automatically fails over to the standby so that you can resume database operations. These database services can also be configured to asynchronously replicate your data to additional AWS Regions to support multi-Region architectures.

Amazon DynamoDB: Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for your tables over a sufficient number of servers to handle your throughput and storage requirements and your data that is stored is automatically replicated across multiple Availability Zones in an AWS Region. DynamoDB also supports Global Tables to give you the ability to store your data across multiple AWS Regions.

AWS Shield and AWS Shield Advanced: AWS Shield is a managed service that provides protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) exploits for workloads running on AWS. AWS Shield Advanced provides additional protections against more sophisticated and larger exploits for your workloads running on Amazon EC2, Elastic Load Balancing (ELB), Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, and Route 53.

AWS Lambda: AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. AWS Lambda is designed to use replication and redundancy to provide high availability for both the service itself and for the Lambda functions it operates. There are no maintenance windows or scheduled downtimes for either.

CloudWatch: Amazon CloudWatch is the principal monitoring service for AWS Cloud resources and the workloads that you run on AWS.

Amazon VPC Flow Logs: Amazon VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC. Amazon VPC Flow Logs can be monitored through CloudWatch.

Amazon Glacier: Amazon Glacier, is an extremely low-cost storage service optimized for infrequently used data, or cold data.

Amazon EBS snapshots, and Amazon RDS snapshots: Snapshots for both Amazon RDS and Amazon EBS allow point-in-time recovery of the data stored in them. They can be configured to run automatically or at a scheduled time.

AWS Backup: AWS Backup is a centralized backup service that simplifies and provides a cost-effective way for you to back up your workload data across AWS services in the AWS Cloud and on-premises. Storage volumes, databases, and file systems are backed up to a central place where you can configure and audit the AWS resources you are backing up, automate backup scheduling, set retention policies, and monitor recent backup and restore activity.