AWS Solutions for the Public Sector

AWS offers over 125 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management.

Major categories include: Compute, Storage, Database, Network, and Analytics. Within those categories are some core, fundamental services of the AWS platform.

Compute

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2): Virtual servers in the cloud
• AWS Lambda: Run code without thinking about servers
• VMware Cloud on AWS: Build a hybrid cloud without custom hardware

Storage

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3): Scalable storage in the cloud
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS): EC2 block storage volumes
• Amazon Glacier: Low-cost archive storage in the cloud

Database

• Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS): Managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, and MariaDB
• Amazon Aurora: High performance managed relational database
• Amazon Redshift: Fast, simple, cost-effective data warehousing

Network

• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): Isolated cloud resources
• Amazon Direct Connect: Dedicated network connection to AWS
• Amazon CloudFront: Global content delivery network

Analytics

• Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR): Hosted Hadoop framework
• Amazon Kinesis: Analyze real-time video and data streams