AWS services explained in one line each

jchw wrote: post #3

Useful and interesting but some of them are either blank or, well: > After reading it over and over again, i still have no idea what it does. > Some quantum thing. It’s in preview so I have no idea what it is. > in preview so no idea.

Yes.. some of them I have absolutely no clue on what it does. They might serve some edgecase specific for that domain. There are a few services in preview which I cannot see for myself what it does.

I will try to update and correct services as soon as I have more info (or somebody can provide it to me)

Re: AWS services explained in one line each

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Post by detaro » Tue, May 26, 2020, 10:48 AM UTC

panpanna wrote: post #5

Well this was really useful. I didn't knew cloudfront was an Amazon product. I wonder what cloudflare people think of that.

> I wonder what cloudflare people think of that.

Because of the name? Cloudfront is older then Cloudflare afaik.

Re: AWS services explained in one line each

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Post by wegs » Tue, May 26, 2020, 10:51 AM UTC

superasn wrote: post #4

This can be a good cheat-sheet and no wonder there have been so many attempts at this(1). Maybe we're better off making this as github page where users can send pull requests and add/rewrite to these. (1) https://netrixllc.com/blog/aws-services-in-simple-terms/ (2) https://expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-english/

I'd prefer to see this integrated into the AWS UX.

For an external crowd-sourced version, I'd like to see something like this with a column for maturity, and whether it actually works.

The classic AWS services are rock-solid, and perfectly sufficient to build a business on. Many of the newer ones are.... much less so. A green checkmark, yellow question mark, and red land mine icon would go a long way towards letting me know what I should and shouldn't use.

Re: AWS services explained in one line each

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Post by unixhero » Tue, May 26, 2020, 10:52 AM UTC

Useful, but it contains factual errors: >S3 File storage. Not directly used for mounting, but you can directly download files from HTTP.

You most certainly can mount S3 buckets, and its done frequently in data pipelines throughout the industry[0].

>S3 Glacier Low cost storage system for backups and archives and such

Sure but it would be good to include why there is a tradeoff in price, why is it low cost? For Glacier its intention is to provide storage, but rarely fetch data, as it is very slow.

[0] https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

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Post by celsocrivelaro » Tue, May 26, 2020, 10:52 AM UTC

Thank you so much :-). I have no ideia about some services, even reading the doc.