Other Services

CloudFormation

• Declarative way of outlining AWS Infrastructure, for any resources
• CloudFormation creates any resources you want in the right order, with the exact configuration that you specify
• Benefits
  • Infrastructure as code
    • No resources are manually created, which is excellent for control
    • Changes to the infrastructure are reviewed through code
  • Cost
    • Each resources within the stack is tagged with an identifier so you can easily see how much a stack costs you
  • Productivity
    • Ability to destroy and re-create an infrastructure on the cloud on the fly
  • Don't re-invent the wheel
    • Leverage existing templates on the web!
    • Leverage the documentation
  • Supports all AWS resources
• Service Role
  • IAM role that allows CloudFormation to create/update/delete stack resources on your behalf
  • Give ability to users to create/update/delete the stack resources even if they don't have permissions to work with the resources in the stack
  • User must have iam:PassRole permissions

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Amazon Simple Email Service

• Fully managed service to send emails securely, globally and at scale
• Allows inbound/outbound emails
• Reputation dashboard, performance insights, anti-spam feedback
• Provides statistics such as email deliveries, bounces, feedback loop results, email open
• Supports DomainKeys Identified Mail and Sender Policy Framework
• Flexible IP deployment : shared, dedicated, and customer-owned IPs
• Send emails using your application using AWS Console, APIs, or SMTP

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Amazon Pinpoint

• Scalable 2 way marketing communications service
• Support email, SMS, push, voice and in-app messaging
• Ability to segment and personalize messages with the right content to customers
• Possibility to receive replies
• Scales to biliions of messages per day
• VS. Amazon SNS or Amazon SES
  • In SNS & SES, you managed each message's audience, content, and delivery schedule
  • In Amazon PinPoint, you create message templates, delivery schedules, highly-targeted segments, and full campaigns

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Systems Manager 

SSM Session Manager

• Allows you to start a secure shell on your EC2 and on-premises servers
• No SSH access, bastion hosts, or SSH keys needed
• No port 22 needed
• Support Linux, macOS, and Windows
• Send session log data to S3 or CloudWatch Logs

Run Command

• Execute a document or just run a command
• Run command across multiple instances
• No need for SSH
• Command Output can be shown in the AWS Console, sent to S3 bucket or CloudWatch Logs
• Send notifications to SNS about command status
• Integrated with IAM & CloudTrail
• Can be involved using EventBridge

Patch Manager

• Automates the process of patching managed instances
• OS updates, applications updates, security updates
• Supports EC2 instances and on-premises servers
• Support Linux, macOS, and Windows
• Patch on-demand or on a schedule using Maintenance Windows
• Scan instances and generate patch compliance report 

Maintenance Windows

• Defines a schedule for when to perform actions on your instances
• Maintenance Window contains
  • Schedule
  • Duration
  • Set of registered instances
  • Set of registered tasks

Automation

• Simplifies common maintenance and deployment tasks of EC2 instances and other AWS resources
• Automation Runbook - SSM Documents to define actions performed on your EC2 instances or AWS resources
• Can be triggered using :
  • Manually using AWS Console, AWS CLI or SDK
  • Amazon EventBridge
  • On a schedule using Maintenance Windows
  • By AWS Config for rules remediations

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Cost Explorer

• Visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time
• Create custom reports that analyze cost and usage data
• Analyze your data at a high level : total costs and usage across all accounts
• Or Monthly, hourly, resource level granularity
• Choose an optimal Savings Plan
• Forecast usage up to 12 months based on previous usage

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AWS Batch

• Fully managed batch processing at any scale
• Efficiently run 100,000s of computing batch jobs on AWS
• A "batch" job is a job with a start and an end
• Batch will dynamically launch EC2 instances of Spot Instances
• AWS Batch provisions the right amount of compute / memory
• You submit or schedule batch jobs and AWS Batch does the rest!
• Batch jobs are defined as Docker images and run on ECS
• Helpful for cost optimizations and focusing less on the infrastructure
• Batch vs Lambda
  • Lambda
    • Time Limit
    • Limited runtimes
    • Limited temporary disk space
    • Serverless
  • Batch
    • No time limit
    • Any runtime as long as it's packaged as a Docker image
    • Rely on EBS / instance store for disk space
    • Relies on EC2

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Amazon AppFlow

• Fully managed integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between Software-as-a-Service applications and AWS
• Sources : Salesforce, SAP, Zendesk, Slack, and ServiceNow
• Destinations : AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift or non-AWS such as SnowFlake and Salesforce
• Frequency : on a schedule, in response to events, or on demand
• Data transformation capabilites like filtering and validation
• Encrypted over the public internet or privately over AWS PrivateLink
• Don't spend time writing the integrations and leverages APIs immediately 

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AWS Amplify - web and mobile applications

• A set of tools and services that helps you develop and deploy scalable full stack web and mobile applications
• Authentication, Storage, API, CI/CD, PubSub, Analytics, AI/ML Predictions, Monitoring 
• Connect your source code from GitHub, AWS CodeCommit, Bitbucket, GitLab, or upload directly