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Compute & Containers
EC2: Hundreds of instance types (general purpose, compute/memory/storage/GPU optimized, bare metal). Per-second billing. Spot Instances save up to 90%.
Lambda: Serverless functions. Supports Node, Python, Java, Go, Ruby, .NET, custom runtimes.
ECS (Fargate): Serverless containers -- pay per vCPU/memory per second. Windows containers supported.
EKS: Managed Kubernetes. $0.10/hr. Fargate for serverless pods. EKS Anywhere for on-prem.
Elastic Beanstalk: Simple PaaS for web apps. Supports Java, .NET, PHP, Node, Python, Ruby, Go, Docker.
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AI/ML, Storage & Databases
AI/ML: Bedrock (Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral, Amazon models), SageMaker (end-to-end ML), Amazon Q (AI assistant).
Storage: S3 (11 9s durability, 12+ storage classes), EBS (block), EFS (NFS), S3 Glacier (archive).
Databases: RDS (MySQL, PG, Oracle, SQL Server, MariaDB, Aurora), DynamoDB (NoSQL, single-digit ms), ElastiCache (Redis/Memcached), Redshift (data warehouse).
Networking, Security & Management
Networking: VPC, CloudFront (600+ PoPs), Route 53 (DNS), Global Accelerator, Direct Connect.
Security: IAM (fine-grained policies), GuardDuty (threat detection), Security Hub, KMS/CloudHSM, WAF, Shield (DDoS), Detective, Macie, Cognito. 140+ compliance certs.
Management: CloudFormation/CDK (IaC), CloudWatch (monitoring), CloudTrail (audit), Organizations (multi-account), Control Tower (governance), CodePipeline/CodeBuild/CodeDeploy (CI/CD).
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