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AWS Services Commonly Used by DevOps Engineers

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a wide range of services that are valuable for DevOps engineers. These services can help streamline and automate various aspects of the software development and deployment lifecycle. Here are some AWS services commonly used by DevOps engineers:

📍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 ECR ( Elastic Container Registry): A fully managed Docker container registry to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.
📍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 CodeDeploy: 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: This 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.

Do look out for other articles in this series that will explain the various other aspects of AWS Services

  1. Identity and Access Management Service (IAM)

  2. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)

  3. Simple Storage Service (S3)

  4. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

  5. Route 53

  6. AWS Cloud-Watch

  7. AWS Lambda

  8. AWS CloudFront (Content Delivery Network)

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