This decade is fully occupied with cloud services. SaaS products are booming like never before. Everything is possible on the cloud. Most of the startups are using cloud services to create MVPs and build their startups. These are the highly used AWS services by all companies nowadays.
Introduction
Amazon Web Services is well known for providing its cloud services. AWS is the cheapest cloud service provider in the market. People are taking advantage of such managed services. They like to pay only for the usage of the service. As a developer, we should know such services. It will help you to deploy and publish your product. So, that your SaaS app starts serving the purpose. Ok, let’s take a look at the services.
1. AWS EC2
The most basic and core service of AWS. Also, it is the first service that AWS launched in the past. Most of the other AWS services use this service at its core. EC2 provides computing services. It comes in various categories like t2.micro, x1.32xlarge, and many more.
Users can customize the CPU, Memory, and the storage. This service will charge you for the basic hours it is running. It also provides an option to autoscale and scale down the instances on demand.
Best For:
- Website Hosting
- Backend server hosting
- Batch processes and Databases
2. AWS RDS
RDS means Relation Database Service. It provides a database solution for relational databases. Databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle can be hosted on it. This service is fully designed for database operations like periodical backups, database recovery, scaling, and optimizations.
Users can handle various admin tasks as well. This service is only dedicated to relational databases. The underlying tech invoices ec2 instances to meet your demands
Best for-
- Heavy database workloads
- High throughput with millions of read and writes
- Store large data at scale
3. AWS S3
S3 stands for Simple Storage Service. One of my favorite services is to store literally any type of data. It is designed to save and retrieve data efficiently. It can also be integrated with other AWS services seamlessly. S3 is highly used in the SaaS community.
Best for:
- Large files
- Can save any type of data
- Use to store media files
- Big data analysis
4. AWS EKS
EKS stands for Elastic Kubernetes Service. It is a one-stop solution to manage Kubernetes on AWS cloud. This service automates the deployments and provides autoscaling. User can create multiple clusters and nodes based on the requirements.
Best for:
- Highly available apps
- Huge workload
- Can be use microservices
5. AWS Aurora Serverless
It is an on-demand relational database service. Users will have to pay only for the usage time. This service is used to host relational databases like MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc. Aurora Serverless automatically scales up/down and stops the database as per the need. When the DB is in the ideal state, the service stops the instance, reducing the cost.
Best for:
- Apps having inconsistent traffic
- Use for API services like finance, which are called once a month
- Use for unpredictable workloads
- cheap database
6. AWS Cloudfront
Cloudfront is used for CDN i.e. Content Delivery Network. To reduce latency and provide high performance, CloudFront is the best option. It is integrated with EC2, S3 other AWS services. It increases the performance of your app by connecting with the nearest servers.
AWS is spread worldwide. So, when the user requests any content, it will choose the nearest AWS server to deliver the requested content to the user. Thereby increasing the performance of the application.
Best for:
- To optimize website performance
- Reduce application latency
- Efficient media streaming
7. AWS Lambda
It is a serverless computing service. This lambda service is triggered by various methods like HTTP/HTTPS calls and other AWS applications. Lambda will only charge you for the amount of time it was alive. Thus making cost-effective solutions for tasks like corn jobs, event-based applications, and API servers.
Best for:
- API Servers
- Event-driven apps
- Microservices
- Cron Jobs
8. AWS VPC
VPC means Virtual Private Cloud. It is your private network. Organizations can set up their private network and connect devices on top of it. It increases the security of your applications by only whitelisting several IP addresses.
Public internet won’t have access to your organizational network.
Best for:
- For creating multi-tier applications
- Restrict public internet to access the organization’s internal network
- Can be used to build a hybrid cloud
9. AWS SQS
Simple Queue Service is used for queuing tasks. It is a replacement for RabbitMQ technically. SQS is a highly available service and can handle millions of publishers and subscribers at scale. SQS provides zero downtime, which makes it a great choice for queuing tasks.
Best for:
- Applications having webhook capture mechanism
- Used in distributed systems
- Async communication-based apps
10. AWS CloudFormation
Cloudformation is nothing but IaC (Infrastructure as Code). It is similar to Terraform. With cloud formation, you can simply deploy AWS architecture using JSON/YAML files. AWS uses this code to generate your infrastructure as per the specifications.
Best for:
- Large and distributed systems
- Automate deployments
- Systems having complex architecture
- Can be used for disaster recovery
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