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AWS Compute Services

The Compute Services is a suite of services that form the backend resources of your applications.  Here is where you'll typically go to setup your server infrastructure or launch your applications using the fully managed services if you do not wish to manage and configure the servers yourself.

Listed below are services under the Compute category.  I have included a brief description of what they are so as to help understand how they can be used.

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
       - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a web service that provides secure and customizable compute capacity in the cloud. These are basically Virtual machines in the cloud.

ECS (Elastic Container Service)
       - Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high performance container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.

Elastic Beanstalk
       - AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, .Net, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker on familiar servers such as Apache, Nginx, Passenger, and IIS.
       - You can simply upload your code and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring.  At the same time, you retain full control over the AWS resources powering your application and can access the underlying resources at any given time.

Lambda
       - AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.  You pay only for the compute time you consume and there is no charge when your code is not running.  With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type of application or backend service with zero administration.  Just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability.  You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app using APIs.
       - This service enables a "Serverless" environment setup.

Lightsail
       - Your Lightsail instance is a virtual private server (also known as a virtual machine).  When you create your instance, you choose an image that has an operating system on it.  You can also choose an instance image that has an application or development stack on it, including the base OS.
       - This is an Out of the Box Cloud.

Batch
       - AWS Batch enables you to run computing workloads on the AWS cloud.  It is commonly used where Batch computing is required.  This is similar to traditional batch computing software however it takes away the daunting task of having to manage and configure the underlying infrastructure to run it.  This service can efficiently provision resources in response to jobs submitted in order to eliminate capacity constrains, reduce compute costs, and deliver results quickly.

ECR
       - Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.   

EKS
       - Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes clusters.  

Serverless Application Repository
       - AWS Serverless Repository is a managed repository for Serverless applications.  It enables teams, organizations, and individual developers to find, deploy, publish, share, and easily assemble Serverless architectures. 


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