AWS Essentials for a Developer

For a developer working with AWS, several essential services come into play, facilitating various aspects of development, deployment, scaling, monitoring, and management. Here's a list of some key AWS services that developers commonly leverage:

1. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud):
   • Provides scalable computing capacity in the cloud.
   • Developers can launch virtual servers (EC2 instances) to run their applications, host websites, or perform various computing tasks.
2. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service):
   • Offers scalable object storage in the cloud.
   • Developers can store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web, making it ideal for hosting static assets, backups, media files, and more.
3. Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service):
   • Managed database service supporting several popular database engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora.
   • Simplifies database administration tasks such as setup, patching, backups, and scaling, allowing developers to focus on application development rather than database management.
4. AWS Lambda:
   • Allows developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers.
   • Ideal for building serverless applications, event-driven architectures, and executing code in response to triggers from various AWS services.
5. Amazon API Gateway:
   • Facilitates the creation, management, and deployment of secure and scalable APIs.
   • Developers can expose their backend services as APIs, enabling integration with other AWS services or external applications.
6. AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management):
   • Manages user access to AWS resources securely.
   • Developers can create and manage AWS users, groups, roles, and permissions to control access to resources and services within their AWS account.
7. Amazon CloudWatch:
   • Provides monitoring and observability for AWS resources and applications.
   • Developers can monitor metrics, set alarms, store and analyze log files, and gain insights into the performance and health of their applications and infrastructure.
8. AWS CloudFormation:
   • Enables infrastructure as code (IaC) by automating the provisioning and management of AWS resources.
   • Developers can define infrastructure components using templates, allowing for repeatable and consistent deployments.
9. Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) or Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service):
   • Managed container orchestration services for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Docker containers.
   • Developers can run and manage containerized applications with ease, leveraging the scalability and flexibility of container-based architectures.
10. Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service) or Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service):
    • Messaging and queuing services for building distributed systems and decoupled architectures.
    • Developers can use SQS for reliable message queuing between distributed components and SNS for event-driven communication and notifications.

These services represent a foundation for many development workflows on AWS, but the specific services and configurations you use will depend on your application requirements, architecture, and use cases.