# AWS 40 AWS terms explained simply, ordered from basic to advanced. Start at the top if the topic is new to you. ## Basic - [Amazon Bedrock](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-bedrock/): A single AWS service to call AI models from Anthropic, Meta, Amazon and others. - [Amazon CloudFront](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-cloudfront/): AWS's CDN: copies of your content kept close to users all over the world. - [Amazon CloudWatch](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-cloudwatch/): The dashboard and alarm system that watches everything running in your AWS account. - [Amazon DynamoDB](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-dynamodb/): A key-value database that answers in milliseconds no matter how big the table gets. - [Amazon EC2](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-ec2/): Virtual computers you rent by the hour, in any size, and switch off when done. - [Amazon Lightsail](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-lightsail/): The simple corner of AWS: a ready-made server for a flat monthly price. - [Amazon RDS](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-rds/): A ready-made relational database that AWS keeps patched, backed up and running. - [Amazon Route 53](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-route-53/): AWS's DNS service: it turns your domain name into the address of your servers. - [Amazon S3](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-s3/): A giant online drawer for files, rented by the gigabyte. - [AWS account and billing](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-account-and-billing/): What an AWS account is, how you get charged, and how to avoid a surprise bill. - [AWS Amplify](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-amplify/): A shortcut for building and publishing web and mobile apps on AWS. - [AWS Lambda](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-lambda/): Run a piece of code only when something happens, with no server to manage. - [IAM](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/iam/): The rulebook that says who can do what in your AWS account. - [Regions and Availability Zones](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/regions-and-availability-zones/): Where AWS physically lives: cities worldwide, each split into separate data centers. ## Intermediate - [Amazon API Gateway](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-api-gateway/): The front door of your API: it receives requests and passes them to your code. - [Amazon Athena](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-athena/): Run SQL directly on files sitting in S3, with no database to set up. - [Amazon Cognito](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-cognito/): Sign-up, login and passwords for your app, handled by AWS instead of you. - [Amazon EBS](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-ebs/): The virtual hard drive of an EC2 instance, kept alive even when the instance stops. - [Amazon ECR](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-ecr/): A private warehouse on AWS for your container images, ready to be deployed. - [Amazon ECS and Fargate](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-ecs-and-fargate/): AWS runs your containers; with Fargate you never see the servers at all. - [Amazon ElastiCache](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-elasticache/): A managed in-memory cache that keeps hot data close so apps answer instantly. - [Amazon EventBridge](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-eventbridge/): A switchboard that routes "something happened" messages to whoever cares. - [Amazon OpenSearch Service](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-opensearch-service/): Managed search engine on AWS, for site search boxes and digging through logs. - [Amazon Redshift](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-redshift/): AWS's data warehouse: SQL over huge tables, built for analysis rather than apps. - [Amazon SageMaker](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-sagemaker/): The AWS workshop for building, training and serving machine learning models. - [Amazon SNS](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-sns/): One message in, many copies out: a megaphone for systems. - [Amazon SQS](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-sqs/): A waiting line for messages between programs, so none of them gets lost. - [Amazon VPC](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-vpc/): Your own private slice of the AWS network, with walls you draw yourself. - [AWS Backup](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-backup/): One place to schedule, keep and restore backups of your AWS data. - [AWS CloudFormation](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-cloudformation/): Describe your AWS infrastructure in a text file; AWS builds it exactly like that. - [AWS CloudTrail](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-cloudtrail/): The logbook of an AWS account: who did what, when, and from where. - [AWS Glue](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-glue/): AWS's service for finding, describing and cleaning up data, with no servers to run. - [AWS KMS](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-kms/): AWS's vault for encryption keys: you use them, but they never leave. - [AWS Organizations](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-organizations/): One place to group, govern and pay for many AWS accounts at once. - [AWS Secrets Manager](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-secrets-manager/): A locked vault for passwords and API keys, so they never live in your code. - [AWS Shield](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-shield/): AWS's protection against DDoS attacks, on by default for everyone. - [AWS WAF](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-waf/): A filter in front of your website that reads each request and blocks the bad ones. ## Advanced - [Amazon EKS](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-eks/): Kubernetes with the hard part, the control plane, run by AWS. - [AWS CDK](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-cdk/): Describe your AWS infrastructure in a real programming language instead of YAML. - [AWS Step Functions](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-step-functions/): A flowchart that runs: it chains steps, retries failures and remembers where it was.