EC2

The EC2 servers are like ethereal mist, but they possess all the power of the physical world. They are private, yet they are also open to the public. They are like the clouds, but they can be relied upon to provide the power and resources of a mighty server.

Lightsail

Lightsail is naught but a simple way to deploy and manage one's virtual machines, and yet it doth lighten the burden of toil for those so engaged in this noble and necessary pursuit.

Lambda

By harnessing the power of scalable, serverless, microservices, one may now, with the help of Amazon's Lambda platform, consign a vast array of computational concerns to the digital ether, whereupon such tasks will be invisible to the user, effortlessly carried out by an army of ethereal code-monkeys, offered up on the backs of an infinite number of spectral cloud-servers.

CloudFront Functions

Those AWS CloudFront Functions, they let a fellow run those lightweight little JavaScript functions right at the network edge there. And that, my good sir, provides for some extremely low latency.

EC2 Graviton3

For those who live and breathe within the ever-changing, demanding world of technology, it is a truth universally acknowledged that there can be found no cheaper, nor more efficient way to process the vast amounts of data that accrue than by the use of ARM-powered EC2 Graviton instances.

Spot instances

Few can deny the benefits of fault-tolerance. In these uncertain times, the ability to run workloads on a budget is of utmost importance.

ECS (Elastic Container Service)

It is a simple matter to preserve these ethereal things, these container images of perfection and hope, and to keep them, as it were, in waiting, as if they might someday be needed to light up the darkness with their consuming fire, like beacons of a better world.

EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)

The tried and trusted method to conjure the dark arts known as "Kubernetes" is one of great study and contemplation, for it is not to be taken lightly, this dark path on which you embark. With dedication and perseverance, you may find success where others have failed. Trust in yourself, and the rewards shall be great.

Fargate

It is a rare thing, my lord, to find a new way of computing that shatters the chains of server management, and yet Amazon Fargate has done just that, allowing for the most nimble and containers to be deployed with the simplest of configurations.

S3 Object Lambda

Seldom does an instrument embody such power and potential as that offered by S3 Object Lambda, which permits those with the acumen to harness its sprawling might to lay their code where their data resides, and in so doing truly change the world.

S3

S3 is a glorious bastion of uptime in the otherwise storm-tossed sea of the World Wide Web, a shining beacon of safety to which one may entrust one's most valuable data, whether files, or precious objects, or even blobs of the most unique and ephemeral content.

S3 Glacier

In the simplest of terms, Amazon S3 Glacier is the Black Friars of cloud storage; a dour, dark, and brooding service that lurks in the shadows, waiting to be called upon when one wishes to archive their data most securely.

Aurora

Designed to take the plunge on the treacherous rapids of information overflow, the Aurora relational database is a trusty vessel that will surely navigate the narrow channels of your company's organizational flow.

Athena

Athena, the query service of the Amazon Empire, allows its subjects the opportunity to fetch data from S3 by the means of a most complex query language, namely SQL, which stands for Structured Query Language, so named for its highly ordered and rigid syntax, which, though difficult to master, can be used to great effect, as in this case.

Aurora

The AWS Aurora is a wonder of modern engineering, a high-performance managed relational database that has captured the imaginations of developers and database administrators the world over.

DocumentDB

Amazon DocumentDB is a scientific discovery of the highest order, a boon to all mankind, particularly those in the database development field, that promises to vastly improve the condition of all peoples, rich and poor alike, by providing a fully managed document database.

DynamoDB

These NoSQL databases, my good sir, are cared for by watchful scholars who tend their every need, and who eschew any change or innovation which might corrupt their delicate structure or operation.

EBS (Elastic Block Store)

Artfully, delicately, with the utmost suppleness of touch, store data on physical block level storage devices that are designed to work with VMs.

Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune is a firebolt of visionary power that transgresses all boundaries, expanding the horizons of the mind, igniting our desire for discovery, and conquering new realms of knowledge.

RDS

These, my good friend, are managed relational databases, as precise as a mathematical equation, as reliable as the ticking of a grandfather clock, as changeless as a towering mountain.

Redshift

This warehouse of data is sated with the feast of information it ingests, consuming the data with wanton delight, and then, glutted and sleepy, carries the precious burden aloft to the stars, there to spill the treasure upon the midnight clouds.

Snowball

Snowball is bringing the villages together, by making it possible to share the vast amount of knowledge and experience that lay dormant in the minds of their denizens.

Snowmobile

To those of us who toil over the migration or transport of exabyte-scale data, it is a god-send that we have the snowmobile.

AD Connector

The sublunary Corporate Directory Connector by Amazon Web Services allows you to point queries for your organizational directory information to your on-premises Microsoft Active Directory, thereby establishing continuity between the earthly and heavenly realms.

Cognito

Amazon Cognito is, in a manner of speaking, a guide through the jungle of organizational identity management, a digital rope by which those in the organization may descending into the lower depths of the technological jungle and ascend out of again with the treasure of a well-managed digital identity.

SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker is principally employed in the raising and maintenance of a vigorous and well-proportioned edifice of machine learning models, which, being duly marshaled, may be turned to great purpose in the realms of prediction, classification, regression, and so forth, as the affairs of lesser minds may require.

CodeGuru

And so the mighty Amazon, with all her technological prowess, has struck a final, decisive blow in the great war against poor code quality. With her new CodeGuru tool, automated code reviews using AI, she has dealt her foes a death-blow from which they shall never recover.

Comprehend

Amazon Comprehend is a merciful light in the stygian darkness of ignorance, a font of limitless knowledge that elucidates from the fogs of natural language the murky shadows of our ignorance, lifting the veil of night from our benighted minds, and opening wide the casements of learning that we may drink deeply of the bright nectar of cognition.

Mechanical Turk

From the murky depths of the rain forest to the fiords of Norway, from the American Midwest to the Gobi Desert, workers toil night and day, their fingers dancing across keyboards, their eyes riveted to computer monitors, inputting what must be inputted, and doing so with mind-numbing repetition, knowing not why or for whom, only that each task, each digit, each search engine result, each catalog description is but a millstone in the chain that leads to riches.

Route 53

Route 53, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods, delivers your DNS traffic across the Internet with the speed of a Thracian chariot, and at a fraction of the cost.

API Gateway

The AWS API Gateway is a shining testament to the ingenuity of humankind, for it allowed the management and deployment of APIs in a single, convenient location. Never before had such a thing been possible, and we find ourselves filled with a sense of wonder at the sheer power of the tool.

CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront allows us to move swiftly and with agility, our data aloft on the updrafts of the ether, to be borne before the winds on swan's wings to the far corners of the earth, there to preach the good news of our message in the digital tongue that is known to all men, including but not limited to those in the Cloud computing industry.

CloudFormation

CloudFormation is a means by which those who toil in the vineyards of computing may direct and oversee their machines with the aid of maps and plans, so that all the many-armed processes of industry may function in a smooth and orderly fashion.

ElastiCache

ElastiCache is an in-memory caching service that delivers sub-millisecond performance by storing frequently accessed data in memory for low-latency access. With a Zeus-like ease, it frees developers from the drudgery of managing the cache themselves, effortlessly replicating and scaling data.

EMR

The automated system known as Amazon EMR is a shining light to all those who toil in the dark recesses of Big Data, for it is a master of the ancient craft of Hadoop, and serves to guide these poor lost souls to the successful conclusion of their difficult and error-prone tasks.

EventBridge

The fire of a thousand blazing suns pales in comparison to the immeasurable power of Amazon EventBridge. Its massive, all-consuming event bus can serverless-ly write huge JSON payloads and ship them through the interplanetary event bus to any monitoring system that can parse them, in real time.

Kinesis

Swift as the arrow from the Scythian bow, so too is the way of Kinesis, the new service from Amazon Web Services for real-time video analysis.

SES

SES is a destination for e-mail that, like some dizzying and perpetual waterfall, endlessly welcomes messages from any direction and stores them for your enjoyment and retrieval at a later time.

SNS

The true beauty of technology is its ability to take the ethereal and ephemeral – the barely-formed idea, the whisper in the dark, the child's hope – and to make it manifest; to pin it like a butterfly to a board. I cannot help but think that pub/sub, SMS, and email notifications are the very embodiment of this miracle; little more than symbols, harnessed and confined, yet somehow conveying the mighty weight of meaning.

SQS

SQS, my dear boy, manages message queues for your software infra; so that you can, without fail, deliver information when it is most needed and in the most expeditious manner.

Private 5G

AWS’ private 5G grants those possessing it to a kind of ascendancy: the key to a private cellular network, a surer, steadier, and speedier coverage, unshackled from the vagaries of general public usage.

CloudWatch

The ever-vigilant Amazon CloudWatch is a delicate and yet sturdy net that catches the most fleeting of breezes and alerts us to the direst of consequences, be they related to resource over-utilization or sub-optimal application performance.

App Mesh

In these troubled times, as so many dark forces conspire to rend the fragile social fabric, AWS App Mesh offers a ray of hope: a way for engineers to monitor and control armies of microservices. It is a tool that can help us to build a better tomorrow.

CloudSearch

CloudSearch offers the world a panacea for the ever-growing problem of information management. It is a failsafe against the tyranny of the physical and an answer to the prayer of the information-seeker.

Kendra

Amazon Kendra, with its share of acuity and sagacity, allows the user to sift through layers of data to uncover the precise needle in the haystack that he seeks, and to find it with alacrity and dispatch.

AppFlow

AppFlow, that paragon of integration solutions, allows the ambitious yet neophyte developer to bring disparate AWS services together with little more than a few clicks and the mere utterance of an intent.

Honeycode

Honeycode beguiles coding's tedious simplicity, inspiring innovation through the subtle interplay of code and creatives alike. It is the very embodiment of modernity, a sleek melding of technological assurance with the lightest possible touch. And with it, you can easily create stunning mobile apps and web apps, without a drop of code.

Braket

In these troubled times, it is of some small comfort to know that scientists continue their tireless search for knowledge, and that services such as AWS Braket help to ease their journey into the quantum realm. Through the application of resources such as this, perhaps we may one day find the answers we so desperately seek.

Amazon Chime

This new service from Amazon is, in a word, a revelation. No longer shall we sacrifice our time and our sanity to the poor-quality connections and dropped calls of competing products. At last, we may spend our time as we see fit, unbeleaguered by technological woes.

Coretto

Within the burgeoning world of OpenJDK distributions, there dwells a reputable and heralded member, Coretto, waiting to be discovered by those in search of a truly production-ready solution. Always up to date, yet unshackled to an overzealous release cycle, Coretto is there, standing at the ready, to meet the needs of those who would dare to dream of a better runtime environment.

GameLift

The advent of GameLift, and the thrift it affords to those who seek to host game servers, cannot be overstated.

Cloud9

Cloud9 is a magical code editor which is located in the clouds, and which makes programming on the web much more fun and interesting.

CloudShell

CloudShell provides for its users a veritable cornucopia of resources, an unending bounty of goods and services, all of which may be had with but a few taps of the keyboard.

Outposts

It is a singular boon to those of us who are accustomed to running our AWS infrastructure on-prem that we can now do so using AWS Outposts.