Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as Amazon EC2, is a web service that provides scalable computing capacity in the cloud. As one of the AWS foundational services, it enables users to create and manage virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud and can be used to do so.
When additional workspace is required, the visibility of the left sidebar can be toggled by clicking the Collapse View button (left sidebar hide/show icon) in the top-left corner of the CloudFormation Designer window. This provides additional space when it is required.
Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network (CDN) that caches and delivers content more quickly all over the world. Other services like S3 Transfer Acceleration and Global Accelerator improve transfer speed and performance, but they do not cache content, while Direct Connect is for making private connections.
Amazon Route 53 is a scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) that is used to translate human-readable domain names into IP addresses that computers can understand. These IP addresses can then be used by the computers. The DNS records pertaining to your domain names can be managed with its assistance.
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service offered by Amazon that was developed to gather specific information regarding the performance of applications, resources, and infrastructure. The other services do not place as much of an emphasis on advanced monitoring as CloudWatch does.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is the most important relational database service that AWS provides, although S3 and DynamoDB are also very popular database services.
When certain events take place in AWS CloudTrail, Amazon SNS can be utilized to send notifications to the appropriate recipients. The execution of a Lambda function or the transmission of an email are both examples of automated responses that can be triggered by these notifications.
