AWS Glossary
Your guide to common AWS terms and services.
A service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity (virtual servers) in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.
An object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. You can store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere.
A web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources. You use IAM to control who is authenticated (signed in) and authorized (has permissions) to use resources.
A serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers.
A service that lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.
A key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It's a fully managed, multi-region, multi-active, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications.