Top 20 AWS Services Every DevOps Engineer Should Know ⭐
AWS provides a wide range of services to help DevOps engineers build, deploy, and manage applications efficiently. Here are the top 20 AWS services that every DevOps engineer should be familiar with:
📍Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud): This is where you launch virtual servers, often called instances, to run your applications.
📍Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service): Use it for scalable storage and to host static websites or store data.
📍AWS Lambda: Execute code in response to events without the need to manage servers.
📍Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service): A managed database service for popular database engines like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more.
📍Amazon Route 53: AWS’s domain name system (DNS) web service to route traffic to your applications.
📍Amazon Elastic Beanstalk: A Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for deploying and managing applications easily.
📍Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service): For running, stopping, and managing Docker containers.
📍Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service): A managed Kubernetes service to orchestrate containers.
📍AWS Code Deploy: Automates application deployments to different compute services.
📍AWS CodePipeline: A Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) service to build, test, and deploy code.
📍Amazon CloudWatch: Provides monitoring and observability for AWS resources and applications.
📍AWS CloudFormation: Lets you define and provision infrastructure as code using templates.
📍AWS Elastic Load Balancing: Distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets.
📍AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): Manages user and group permissions within AWS.
📍AWS CloudTrail: Logs all API calls made on your account, helping with security and compliance.
📍Amazon Cloud Front: A content delivery network (CDN) to distribute content globally with low latency.
📍Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud): Allows you to create isolated networks within AWS.
📍AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A service for deploying and scaling web applications.
📍AWS Step Functions: Coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows.
📍AWS Config: Provides a detailed inventory of your AWS resources and tracks changes to configurations over time.
