A CTO’s Quick Look at Top 10 AWS Services
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3 min readMar 31, 2024
Here we go with quick glance at top 10 AWS services.
- EC2: The most commonly used compute service.
· Provides easy to use, scalable compute power to run application of any size.
· You can pay as go, or buy reserved instance for 1–3 years with reduced cost, or spot instance for cheap rate .
· Free tier: 12 months for specific size - S3 (Simple Storage Service)
· Easy to use file storage service
· Connects with various other AWS services with ease
· Usage examples: store profile picture of your user, host static website, build data lake
· Free tier: 12 months, 5 GB of S3 standard storage - SES (Simple Email Service)
· SES allows you to send emails to your customers
· Use cases: Automate transactional messages, email marketing, user notifications, bulk email
· Free tier: 3,000 mail charges free each month for the first 12 months - RDS (Relational Database Service)
· Set up, operate, backup and scale a relational database with ease
· Use cases: DB for your application
· Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQLServer, Aurora
· Free tier: 750hrs each month for one year, for specific size - BedRock
· Serverless way to build & scale GenAI apps with foundation models from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI & Amazon via a single API
· Use fine-tuning and RAG, build agents with ease
· Free tier: Not available, start with pay as you go model - CloudFront: A content delivery network (CDN) service.
· It delivers content with low latency and high transfer speeds.
· It’s keeps a copy of your content to nearby location & delivers fast response to user.
· Use cases: Delivery website, streaming & more
Free tier: Included in Always Free Tier
1 TB of data transfer out to the internet per month
10,000,000 HTTP or HTTPS Requests per month
2,000,000 CloudFront Function invocations per month
2,000,000 CloudFront KeyValueStore reads per month
Free SSL certificates
No limitations, all features available - Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service)
· Easy to use SMS, push notification, email
· SMS supported over 240 countries
· Free tier: First 1 million Amazon SNS requests per month are free, $0.50 per 1 million requests thereafter * - Amazon SageMaker
· Build, train, & deploy machine learning (ML) models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, & workflows
· Supports leading ML frameworks, toolkits, & programming languages
· Free tier: 2 Months, Amazon SageMaker is available for free, for 2 months, as part of the AWS Free Tier program. Users can get access to 250 hours per month of ml.t3.medium notebooks usage with the Free Tier. - AWS Lambda: Build serverless apps.
· It allows you to build and deploy your apps without needing to worry about managing servers.
· It’s auto scaling, meaning if traffic increases then it handles itself.
· Free tier: 1,000,000 requests free per month - Amazon ElastiCache: Fully managed, Redis & Memcached compatible service delivering realtime, cost-optimized performance for modern applications.
· It scales to hundreds of millions of operations per second with microsecond response time.
· Free tier: 750 hours/month for 12months. - [Bonus] Amazon DynamoDB:
· Serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database with single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.
· Use cases: App development, metadata store, gaming platform and retail app.
· Free tier: 25 GB & 200 million read/write operations/month
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