AWS Roadmap

Today, we'll take a look at a brief AWS roadmap. Our goal is to focus on fundamentals then identify and learn the most commonly used services first and learn specialized services on a need to know basis.

Summary

Here a summary of the services we'll be discussing.

Fundamentals

• Regions and Availability Zones
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  • Private & Public Subnet
  • Internet & NAT Gateway
  • ACLs and Security Groups

Frontend

• CloudFront
• Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Amplify
• Cognito
• Elastic Beanstalk

Backend

Compute

• Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • Auto Scaling Groups
• Lambda
• Lightsail

Database

• Relational Database Service (RDS)
• Aurora
• DynamoDB
• ElastiCache

Networking & Delivery

• API Gateway
• Route 53
• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
  • Application Load Balancing (ALB)
  • Network Load Balancing (NLB)
• Certificate Manager (ACM)

Integration

• Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• EventBridge
• Step Functions

Containers

• Elastic Container Service (ECS)
• Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
• App Runner

Monitoring

• CloudWatch
  • Metrics
  • Alarms
  • Log Groups

DevOps

• Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• CodeBuild
• CodeDeploy
• CodePipeline

Data Engineering

• Athena
• Kinesis
• Redshift
• Glue
• Lake Formation

This only scratches the surface of what AWS is capable of! I hope this was helpful, you can find the complete roadmap here as well. As always, feel free to reach out anytime!