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Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable fully managed elastic NFS file system for AWS compute instances.

Introducing AWS Transfer for SFTP, a fully managed SFTP service for Amazon S3. AWS Transfer for SFTP enables you to easily move your file transfer workloads that use the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to AWS without needing to modify your applications or manage any SFTP servers.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.

AWS Transfer Family enables fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS and FTP to move large amounts of data into AWS.

Try Azure File Storage for managed file shares that use standard SMB 3.0 protocol. Share data with on-premises and cloud servers, integrate with apps, and more.

The broadest selection of relational and NoSQL purpose-built databases, fully managed, high performance, and ready to scale.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

Learn more about Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra compatible database service.

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance cloud Storage Area Network (SAN).

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a fully managed, open-source cloud database service that allows you to easily operate and scale your relational database of choice, including Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Connect Active Directory to AWS resources or set up a new directory on AWS for your directory-aware workloads.

Amazon Neptune is a fast, fully managed database service powering graph use cases such as identity graphs, knowledge graphs, and fraud detection.

Amazon SQS fully managed message queuing makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that simplifies setup and operation of open-source message brokers on AWS.

Amazon Aurora is a global-scale relational database service built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility.

A fully-managed, cloud-native directory from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, and highly available document database that is MongoDB compatible.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) provides a fully managed container service solution that’s easy to use, scalable, secure, and reliable.

Amazon MemoryDB is a Redis OSS-compatible, durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance.

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed game backend service that manages and scales your cloud infrastructure.

Amazon SimpleDB is a simple database storage solution that allows developers to simply store & query data items via web services requests, saving time.

Use Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB) to build with Scalable Blockchain Network at scale without any specialized infrastructure investment.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

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

Unlock fast and scalable search, monitoring, and analysis for log analytics and website search by deploying and running OpenSearch and ALv2 Elasticsearch.

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

Long-term, secure, durable Amazon S3 object storage classes for data archiving, starting at $1 per terabyte per month.

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure

AWS CodeCommit is a managed source control repository that makes it easier for teams to securely collaborate on code with contributions encrypted in transit and at rest.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that helps you distribute your static and dynamic content quickly and reliably with high speed performance, security, and developer ease-of-use.

Run AWS infrastructure and services on premises for a truly consistent hybrid experience.

Amazon API Gateway helps you build HTTP, REST, and WebSocket APIs with a fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, manage, monitor, and secure APIs.

Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a highly resilient, secure cloud service that provides database discovery, schema conversion, data migration, and ongoing replication to and from a wide range of databases and analytics systems.

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a unified tool to manage your AWS services directly from the command line.

Amazon SWF is a cloud process flow management application that gives developers tools to coordinate applications across multiple machines.

Run complex, performance-intensive and latency-sensitive applications in the cloud—without any code change.

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.

AWS Secrets Manager allows you to rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle.

AWS Compute Optimizer recommends more efficient AWS compute resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance.

IBM Cloud File Storage is flash-backed, durable and fast NFS-based cloud data storage on IBM Cloud.

AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that make it possible to run low latency applications closer to end users or on-premises installations in a specific geography.

The easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models.

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Amazon QuickSight is a cloud-native, serverless, business intelligence (BI) with native machine learning (ML) integrations and usage-based pricing, allowing insights for all users.

AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service that links your network directly to AWS to deliver consistent, low-latency performance.

Build and test code with automatic scaling, and pay only for the build minutes you use.

Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool to make heterogeneous database migrations predictable. Learn more about the supported conversions and how to download today.

Amazon SNS is a managed messaging service for communication, allowing messaging between decoupled microservices applications or directly to users with SMS texts, mobile push, and email.

AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport service that uses secure devices to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. Snowball addresses challenges like high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns to migrate data as efficiently as possible.

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, integrate, and modernize the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process.

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

Build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models for any use case with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows.

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud domain name system (DNS) service. Enables to customize DNS routing policies to reduce latency.

Learn how customers run Kubernetes on Amazon EKS with detailed case studies and videos.

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service provider that allows developers to send email from within any application.

AWS Graviton processors deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads, optimized for a range of general-purpose, compute, memory, and storage-intensive workloads.

Backblaze B2 provides unlimited data storage in the cloud at 1/5th the cost of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Implement customer identity and access management (CIAM) that scales to millions of users with Amazon Cognito, fully managed authentication service.

AWS Batch allows developers, scientists, and engineers to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of batch and machine learning computing jobs on AWS.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service for running code without having to provision or manage servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech to text capability to their applications

AWS Lake Formation makes it easier to centrally govern, secure, and globally share data for analytics and machine learning.

AWS CloudHSM provides total access management control and protection for your encryption keys with secure and compliant hardware security modules (HSMs).

Amazon AppFlow is an integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between SaaS applications and AWS services without code.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define.

Collect streaming data, create a real-time data pipeline, and analyze real-time video and data streams, log analytics, event analytics, and IoT analytics.

SFTPCloud is a scalable and highly-available service for creating secure, managed SFTP and FTP servers powered by the cloud storage of your choice.

AWS App Mesh is an application networking service mesh that lets you more easily monitor and control communications across services.

Lower TCO. Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud to get the HA/DR and security of SQL Server combined with the flexibility and hybrid connectivity of Azure.

AWS Transit Gateway connects virtual private cloud and on-premises networks through a central hub. It acts as a highly scalable cloud router so you can easily add to your network.

AWS VPN establishes encrypted connections for hybrid connectivity networks with AWS Site-to-Site VPN and remote workforce access with AWS Client VPN.

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that simplifies traffic management and improves performance by up to 60%.

Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) provides industry-leading scalability.Fully managed object storage service to store and access any amount of data from anywhere.

Discover, deploy, and publish serverless applications for common use cases including Alexa Skills, chatbots, IoT, web and mobile back-ends, data processing, and more.

CloudEndure, an AWS Company, provides disaster recovery and cloud migration to AWS from any physical, virtual, or cloud-based infrastructure.

Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure.

AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications securely on AWS.

AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network—connecting your cloud and on-premises resources.

AWS CodeDeploy makes it easier for you to rapidly release new features, avoid downtime during application deployment, and handle the complexity of updating your applications.

Web file access system for your Active Directory users and Windows file system. External access to internal folders. Web access to existsing SMB shares. Qucik WFH (work form home) solution.

Azure Archive Storage provides a low cost means of delivering durable, highly available, secure cloud storage and data management for rarely accessed data.

Amazon GameLift provides reliable and scalable game server hosting to easily deploy and manage game servers while focusing on creating engaging gameplay.

Learn about high-performance block storage for Azure Virtual Machines. Explore cost-effective options with cloud Ultra, SSD, and HDD disks.

Amazon WorkMail provides secure, managed business email and calendaring with support for existing desktop and mobile email client applications.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security, and compliance.

SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL Backups made easy with SQLBackupAndFTP. All Backup types, Encryption, Compression, Scheduling, Email notifications, Sending to Folder, FTP or Cloud

Store application data on durable, high-performance block volumes where data stored is persistent meaning volumes can be connected, detached and moved as needed, even beyond the lifespan of the current compute instance.

Pure Cloud Block Store™ helps reduce your cloud storage costs with superior data reduction and enterprise-grade data services.

IBM Cloud Object Storage is a scalable and resilient managed data service on IBM Cloud, offering an alternative to block and file storage.

The IOS XE based Cisco® Catalyst® 8000V Edge Software (Catalyst 8000V) sets the standard for virtual network services with maximum SDWAN & IPSec performance in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, bringing the world's most popular networking platform to AWS.

Active@ Disk Image can do a backup and clone the full hard drive.

BDRSuite provides the simplest yet efficient Backup and Recovery solution for VMware, Hyper-V, and Physical Servers, for all types of businesses.