{"id":23897,"date":"2026-10-29T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/?p=23897"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:13:22","slug":"top-aws-services-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/top-aws-services-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 25 AWS Services Explained (and Which Ones Your Business Actually Needs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Key Takeaways:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS describes itself as offering over 200 fully featured services, but most businesses only need 8 to 15 of them to run a modern application.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The core AWS services fall into eight groups: compute, storage, databases, networking, application integration, security, monitoring, and AI.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFront, IAM, and Amazon CloudWatch are among the services nearly every AWS setup uses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several services have always-free monthly allowances, such as 1 million Lambda requests and 25 GB of DynamoDB storage.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right AWS services list for your business depends on your workload, team skills, and budget, not on how popular a service is.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><b>Quick Answer:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> AWS offers over 200 fully featured services, but most businesses use Amazon EC2 and AWS Lambda for compute, Amazon S3 for storage, Amazon RDS or DynamoDB for databases, Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 for delivery, IAM for security, and Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring. Most businesses start with 8 to 15 services and add more as they grow.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone who has opened the AWS console for the first time knows the feeling of scrolling through a never-ending menu, with names like EC2, EKS, ECS, EBS, and EFS sitting right next to each other, and wondering which of these the business actually needs and which ones are just going to add to the bill. If you are still getting familiar with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/what-is-aws\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what AWS is<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, understanding how its services fit together is a good place to start. Developers recommend one setup, a blog post recommends another, and decision-makers are left trying to understand what they are even paying for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So how many AWS services are there, and which ones really matter? Well, AWS is offering over 200 fully featured services, but the good news is that most businesses are running perfectly well on a small, carefully chosen set of them, so let\u2019s break it down group by group.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How Many AWS Services Are There?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS describes its platform as offering over 200 fully featured services, covering compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and AI, IoT, security, media and application development. The full catalogue is listed on the official <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/products\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS products page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and it keeps changing as new services launch and older ones are renamed or retired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the number is not what is deciding your cloud success. Most of those 200+ services are built for very specific needs like satellite data, media streaming, or quantum computing, while a typical web or mobile application is running on a much shorter AWS services list. This is why understanding the core AWS services first is extremely crucial, and if you are still deciding whether AWS is the right platform at all, our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS vs Azure vs Google Cloud decision guide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> compares all three in detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23906\" src=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-at-a-Glance.webp\" alt=\"Top 25 most used AWS services at a Glance\" width=\"1672\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-at-a-Glance.webp 1672w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-at-a-Glance-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-at-a-Glance-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-at-a-Glance-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-at-a-Glance-640x360.webp 640w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-at-a-Glance-400x225.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1672px) 100vw, 1672px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compute Services: Where Your Application Runs<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compute is the engine of every AWS setup, as this is where your code is actually running, and AWS is giving you several ways to run it depending on how much control you want, so let\u2019s take a look.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1. Amazon EC2<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EC2 provides virtual servers in the cloud, giving you full control over the operating system, software, and configuration. Businesses are using it for web applications, backend systems, legacy software, and anything that needs a traditional server.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You pay for the time instances run, and Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Spot Instances can lower the cost of steady or interruptible workloads.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2. AWS Lambda<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Lambda runs your code only when something triggers it, like an API call, a file upload, or a scheduled job, without you managing any servers. It is ideal for APIs, automation, background tasks, and event-driven apps.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lambda includes an always-free allowance of 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute each month, and beyond that you pay per request and per duration.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3. Amazon ECS<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon ECS runs containerised applications, and when paired with AWS Fargate, it removes the need to manage the underlying servers. It is a great fit for teams that are packaging their apps in Docker containers and want a simpler path than Kubernetes.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You are paying for the EC2 or Fargate resources your containers use.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4. Amazon EKS<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EKS is AWS\u2019s managed Kubernetes service, built for teams that are already using Kubernetes or running many microservices at scale.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> EKS charges a fee per cluster on top of the compute your workloads use, so it usually makes sense only once you need Kubernetes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5. Amazon Lightsail<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Lightsail is the simplest way to get started on AWS, bundling a virtual server, storage, and networking into easy plans. It suits small business websites, WordPress blogs, and simple apps.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lightsail uses predictable, bundled monthly pricing, which is helping small businesses avoid surprise bills.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why choosing the right compute service is affecting both your bill and how much your team is spending on server maintenance, and the reasons are not hard to see once you compare managing servers with paying only for what runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storage Services: Where Your Data Lives<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every application is producing files, backups, images, and logs, and AWS is offering different storage services depending on how that data is being accessed.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6. Amazon S3<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon S3 is object storage for virtually anything, including images, videos, documents, backups, static websites, and data lakes, and it is one of the most used AWS services across every industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You pay for storage, requests, and data transferred out, and moving rarely used data to cheaper storage classes, like the Glacier archive classes, can lower costs significantly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7. Amazon EBS<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EBS provides block storage volumes attached to EC2 instances, working like the hard drive of your virtual server.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You pay for the storage you provision, even if you are not using all of it, so unattached volumes and old snapshots are a common source of waste.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8. Amazon EFS<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EFS is a shared file system that many servers or containers can access at the same time, useful for content management systems and shared application files.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> EFS charges for the storage you are actually using, but it usually costs more per GB than S3, so it is best kept for data that truly needs file-system access.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Database Services: Where Your Business Data Is Managed<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing a database on your own is time-consuming, which is why AWS is offering managed databases that handle backups, patching, and scaling for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9. Amazon RDS<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon RDS runs managed relational databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server, and it is the default choice for most business applications that need structured data.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You pay for instance hours and storage, and Multi-AZ deployments add a standby instance for high availability, which increases the cost.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10. Amazon Aurora<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Aurora is AWS\u2019s own relational database, compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL, and it is built for higher performance and availability than standard RDS engines, with a serverless option that scales capacity up and down automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Aurora usually costs more than standard RDS at small scale, but its serverless option can save money for unpredictable workloads.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">11. Amazon DynamoDB<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database built for apps that need fast responses at any scale, like gaming, IoT, shopping carts, and user sessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> DynamoDB offers on-demand and provisioned capacity modes, and 25 GB of storage is always free each month.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12. Amazon ElastiCache<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon ElastiCache is an in-memory cache that speeds up applications by storing frequently used data closer to your app, reducing the load on your main database.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You pay for cache nodes or serverless usage, but a well-placed cache can lower database costs, so the two are worth evaluating together.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"background: #EEF2FE; border: 1px solid #DBE2FB; border-radius: 14px; padding: 28px 32px; margin: 38px 0;\">\n<p style=\"color: #1b3fae; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.3; font-weight: bold; margin: 0 0 10px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Not Sure Which AWS Services Your App Needs?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b5563; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0 0 22px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Share your product idea or current setup, and our AWS-certified team will map out the right services for your workload and budget.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block; background: #2563EB; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; padding: 13px 26px; border-radius: 8px;\" href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/contact\">Get a Free AWS Consultation \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Networking and Content Delivery Services<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Networking is deciding how your users are reaching your application and how secure and fast that connection is, and four services are doing most of the work here.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13. Amazon VPC<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon VPC creates your own private, isolated network inside AWS, where you control IP ranges, subnets, and traffic rules, and almost every serious AWS setup is starting with a properly designed VPC.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The VPC itself is free, but components like NAT Gateways are charged per hour and per GB processed, and public IPv4 addresses are charged hourly, which often surprises new teams.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">14. Amazon CloudFront<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that delivers websites, images, videos, and APIs from locations close to your users, making apps load faster around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> CloudFront includes an always-free allowance of 1 TB of data transfer out and 10 million requests each month.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15. Amazon Route 53<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Route 53 is AWS\u2019s DNS service, connecting your domain name to your application and routing users to healthy resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You pay a small monthly fee per hosted zone plus per-query charges, with domain registration billed separately.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">16. Elastic Load Balancing<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elastic Load Balancing spreads incoming traffic across multiple servers or containers, keeping your app available even when one of them fails.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Load balancers are charged per hour plus usage, so running one for a low-traffic test environment is often an unnecessary expense.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Application Integration Services<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As applications are growing, different parts of the system need to talk to each other reliably, and these services are making that possible without building everything from scratch.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">17. Amazon API Gateway<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon API Gateway creates, publishes, and secures APIs, and it is commonly paired with Lambda to build serverless backends for web and mobile apps.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> API Gateway charges per API call and data transfer, and usage is covered by Free Tier credits for new accounts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18. Amazon SQS<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SQS is a message queue that lets different parts of your application pass tasks to each other, so a spike in orders or uploads does not crash the system.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> SQS charges per request, with an always-free monthly allowance that covers many small workloads.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">19. Amazon SNS<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SNS sends notifications and messages, from push notifications and SMS to alerts between services.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> SNS is billed per message and delivery type, and SMS messages are priced by destination country, so they can add up quickly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security and Identity Services<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security on AWS follows a shared responsibility model, where AWS protects the infrastructure, but your team is responsible for access, configuration, and data, and these three services are the foundation of that.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">20. AWS IAM<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls who can access which AWS resources and what they can do, and setting it up correctly from day one is one of the most important security steps a business can take.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> IAM is available at no additional charge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">21. Amazon Cognito<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Cognito adds sign-up, sign-in, and user management to your web and mobile apps, including social logins and multi-factor authentication.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Cognito is priced by monthly active users, with a free allowance on its entry tier.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">22. AWS WAF<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS WAF is a web application firewall that protects your apps from common attacks like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and bad bots.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> WAF charges per web ACL, per rule, and per million requests inspected.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For businesses in regulated industries, getting these three right is not optional, and our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/cloud-security-services\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cloud security services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are helping teams build secure foundations from the start.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitoring and Management<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">23. Amazon CloudWatch<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon CloudWatch collects logs, metrics, and alarms from your AWS resources, helping your team spot problems before customers do and understand how the app is performing in real time.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Basic metrics are free, but log ingestion, storage, and custom metrics are charged, and verbose logging is a common hidden cost.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI and Machine Learning Services<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI is now shaping a lot of cloud decisions, and AWS is offering two main services depending on whether you want to use existing models or build your own.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">24. Amazon Bedrock<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Bedrock gives you access to foundation models from companies like Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI, OpenAI, and Amazon\u2019s own Nova family through a single API, helping businesses add chatbots, AI agents, content generation, and document processing without managing AI infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bedrock is generally priced per token processed, and prices vary by model, so testing a few models on your real use case helps control costs. If you are building AI agents that connect to your business tools, our guide on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/what-is-model-context-protocol\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Model Context Protocol (MCP)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explains how that layer works.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25. Amazon SageMaker AI<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SageMaker AI is for building, training, and deploying your own machine learning models, used by data science teams working on predictions, recommendations, and custom AI.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cost note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You pay for the instances used for training and hosting, and endpoints left running when idle keep billing, so shutting them down is extremely crucial.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And that is not all, as services like Amazon Athena and Amazon Redshift for analytics, AWS CloudTrail for audit logs, and AWS Amplify for frontend hosting are also worth knowing once your needs are growing. For deciding where your AI should actually run, our guide on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/on-device-ai-vs-cloud-ai\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on-device AI vs cloud AI<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explains the trade-offs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Services List by Category: Quick Summary<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is the complete list of AWS services covered above in one place, along with their most common business use.<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>#<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>AWS Service<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Category<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Best Business Use<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EC2<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compute<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full-control servers and legacy apps<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Lambda<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compute<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">APIs, automation, event-driven tasks<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon ECS<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compute<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Containerised apps<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EKS<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compute<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kubernetes at scale<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Lightsail<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compute<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simple websites and small apps<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon S3<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storage<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Files, backups, static sites<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EBS<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storage<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Server disk storage<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon EFS<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storage<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shared file systems<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon RDS<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Database<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relational business data<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Aurora<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Database<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High-performance relational data<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">11<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon DynamoDB<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Database<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast NoSQL at any scale<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon ElastiCache<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Database<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caching and speed<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">13<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon VPC<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Networking<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Private, secure network<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">14<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon CloudFront<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Networking<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast global content delivery<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">15<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Route 53<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Networking<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DNS and domain routing<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">16<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elastic Load Balancing<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Networking<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Traffic distribution<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">17<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon API Gateway<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Integration<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Building and securing APIs<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SQS<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Integration<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Message queues<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">19<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SNS<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Integration<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notifications and alerts<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">20<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS IAM<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Access control<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">21<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Cognito<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">User sign-up and login<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">22<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS WAF<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Security<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Web attack protection<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">23<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon CloudWatch<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitoring<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Logs, metrics, and alarms<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">24<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon Bedrock<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generative AI with ready models<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">25<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amazon SageMaker AI<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Custom machine learning<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which AWS Services Does Your Business Actually Need?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the part most AWS services explained articles are skipping, but it is the most important one, because the right set of services depends on what you are building and at what stage, so let\u2019s take a look at the most common scenarios.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Small Business Website or Blog:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Amazon Lightsail, or Amazon S3 with CloudFront for static sites, along with Route 53 for your domain. This keeps costs predictable and management simple.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Startup MVP:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and Cognito for a serverless backend, or Amazon ECS with RDS if your team prefers containers, plus CloudWatch from day one. This lets you launch quickly and pay mostly for actual usage, which is why our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/mvp-development-services\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MVP development services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> often start with a serverless setup.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Growing SaaS or Mobile App:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Amazon ECS or EKS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, SQS, and WAF, all inside a well-designed VPC. This supports more users without slowing down.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>AI-Powered Product:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Amazon Bedrock for generative AI features, S3 for your data, Lambda for orchestration, and SageMaker AI only if you need custom models. Our generative AI development services are helping businesses pick the right path here.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Business Moving From On-Premises:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> EC2, RDS, EBS, VPC, and IAM are usually the first services in a migration, before modernising to containers or serverless later, and our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/cloud-migration-services\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cloud migration services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cover this journey end to end.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23905\" src=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-Decision-Guide-Infographic.webp\" alt=\"Which AWS services do you need? a decision guide\" width=\"1832\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-Decision-Guide-Infographic.webp 1832w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-Decision-Guide-Infographic-1024x480.webp 1024w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-Decision-Guide-Infographic-768x360.webp 768w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-Decision-Guide-Infographic-1536x720.webp 1536w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-Decision-Guide-Infographic-640x300.webp 640w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Services-Decision-Guide-Infographic-400x188.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1832px) 100vw, 1832px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The common thread across each and every scenario is that IAM, CloudWatch, and cost monitoring are needed from the start, no matter how small the setup is.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Cost Notes: What Is Really Driving Your Bill<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS follows a pay-as-you-go model, which means you are paying for what you use, but a lot of businesses are discovering that the bill is coming from places they did not expect, resulting in costs from:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Servers and databases running 24\/7 even when nobody is using them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data transfer out to the internet and between regions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NAT Gateways, load balancers, and public IPv4 addresses in test environments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unattached EBS volumes and old snapshots.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CloudWatch logs that nobody is reading.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Idle SageMaker endpoints and oversized instances.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why using AWS Budgets and Cost Explorer from day one, right-sizing resources, and committing to Savings Plans for steady workloads is making a real difference. New AWS customers are also getting up to $200 in Free Tier credits, while startups can apply for AWS Activate credits, and our guide on AWS Activate credits for startups explains how to get them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23904\" src=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Cost-Optimization_-Hidden-Cost-Drivers-and-Savings.webp\" alt=\"The hidden cost drivers on your AWS Bill\" width=\"1778\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Cost-Optimization_-Hidden-Cost-Drivers-and-Savings.webp 1778w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Cost-Optimization_-Hidden-Cost-Drivers-and-Savings-1024x510.webp 1024w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Cost-Optimization_-Hidden-Cost-Drivers-and-Savings-768x382.webp 768w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Cost-Optimization_-Hidden-Cost-Drivers-and-Savings-1536x765.webp 1536w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Cost-Optimization_-Hidden-Cost-Drivers-and-Savings-640x319.webp 640w, https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AWS-Cost-Optimization_-Hidden-Cost-Drivers-and-Savings-400x199.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1778px) 100vw, 1778px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #EEF2FE; border: 1px solid #DBE2FB; border-radius: 14px; padding: 28px 32px; margin: 38px 0;\">\n<p style=\"color: #1b3fae; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.3; font-weight: bold; margin: 0 0 10px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Is Your AWS Bill Higher Than It Should Be?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b5563; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0 0 22px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our AWS experts are reviewing your current setup and finding the services, sizes, and settings that are quietly increasing your costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block; background: #2563EB; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; padding: 13px 26px; border-radius: 8px;\" href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/contact\">Request an AWS Cost Review\u00a0\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Choose and Manage AWS Services the Right Way<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Choosing services is only the first step, as how you set them up and run them is deciding your performance, security, and costs over time. A few habits are helping businesses get it right, resulting in:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting with managed and serverless services wherever possible to reduce maintenance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Designing the VPC and IAM setup properly before launching anything.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automating deployments with infrastructure as code and CI\/CD pipelines.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tagging every resource by project and environment to track costs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reviewing architecture and costs every quarter as usage changes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is where having an experienced partner is saving a lot of time and money, especially for teams without in-house cloud experts. Our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/aws-services\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS consulting services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/devops-solutions\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">DevOps solutions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are helping businesses plan, build, and run on AWS, and if you are comparing options, our guide on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/blog\/how-to-choose-an-aws-consulting-partner\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">how to choose an AWS consulting partner<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> covers what to look for.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Final Thoughts<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS is offering over 200 services, but the businesses getting the most value out of it are not the ones using the most services; they are the ones using the right ones. For most companies, a well-chosen set of compute, storage, database, networking, security, and monitoring services covers everything needed to launch and scale, with AI services like Bedrock being added as the product grows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The smartest approach is starting with your workload, your team\u2019s skills, and your budget, picking the core AWS services that fit them, and then keeping a close eye on costs from beginning until completion. And if you need a helping hand along the way, our AWS team is always here to guide you.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #EEF2FE; border: 1px solid #DBE2FB; border-radius: 14px; padding: 28px 32px; margin: 38px 0;\">\n<p style=\"color: #1b3fae; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.3; font-weight: bold; margin: 0 0 10px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Ready to Build or Scale on AWS?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #4b5563; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0 0 22px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From picking the right services to running them cost-effectively, our AWS-certified team is helping businesses build cloud setups that grow with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"display: inline-block; background: #2563EB; color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; padding: 13px 26px; border-radius: 8px;\" href=\"https:\/\/dianapps.com\/contact\">Talk to Our AWS Team\u00a0\u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<style>.elementor-23898 .elementor-element.elementor-element-2932a52{text-align:left;}.elementor-23898 .elementor-element.elementor-element-2932a52 > .elementor-widget-container{margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}.elementor-23898 .elementor-element.elementor-element-0b767d1 .elementor-tab-title{border-width:1px;border-color:#00000014;}.elementor-23898 .elementor-element.elementor-element-0b767d1 .elementor-tab-content{border-width:1px;border-bottom-color:#00000014;}.elementor-23898 .elementor-element.elementor-element-0b767d1 > .elementor-widget-container{margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;}<\/style><div class=\"porto-block elementor elementor-23898\">\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-27707ca elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"27707ca\" data-element_type=\"section\">\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0163611\" data-id=\"0163611\" data-element_type=\"column\">\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03a2969 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"03a2969\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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The exact number keeps changing as AWS launches new services and retires or renames older ones, but most businesses only use 8 to 15 of them regularly.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-1202\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1202\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What are the most used AWS services?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1202\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1202\"><p>The most used AWS services include Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon VPC, AWS IAM, and Amazon CloudWatch, as they cover the compute, storage, database, delivery, security, and monitoring needs of nearly every application.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 id=\"elementor-tab-title-1203\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1203\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-toggle-title\" tabindex=\"0\">What are the core AWS services every business should know?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1203\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1203\"><p>The core AWS services are EC2 and Lambda for compute, S3 for storage, RDS and DynamoDB for databases, VPC, CloudFront and Route 53 for networking, IAM for security, and CloudWatch for monitoring. 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