Other Services

Amazon AppStream 2.0 streams individual desktop applications (Windows or Linux) to a web browser. Used for delivering apps to users without installation.

Amazon WorkSpaces provides full virtual desktops (Windows or Linux) — accessible from any device. Pay monthly or hourly. Used by enterprises to deliver desktops without managing on-prem VDI.

AWS Systems Manager (SSM) provides operational management — inventory, patching, automation, run command, session manager, parameter store — across EC2 and on-prem servers.

Both SSM Session Manager (no port required, browser/CLI) and EC2 Instance Connect (browser-based SSH using IAM) eliminate the need to manage SSH keys / open SSH/RDP ports.

AWS Storage Gateway integrates on-prem environments with AWS storage. Variants: S3 File Gateway, FSx File Gateway, Volume Gateway (iSCSI), Tape Gateway. Local cache + cloud backend.

AWS Backup is a managed centralized backup service for EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, FSx, EC2, Storage Gateway. Policies define retention and cross-region copy. Far simpler than per-service backups.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (formerly CloudEndure DR) provides continuous replication of on-prem (or other cloud) servers to AWS. RPO seconds, RTO minutes. Pay only for staging until failover.

AWS Migration Hub provides a single place to track the progress of application migrations across multiple AWS migration tools (Application Migration Service, Database Migration Service, etc.).

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN, formerly CloudEndure Migration) is the recommended service for lift-and-shift server migration to AWS — replicates VMs/physical servers as EC2 instances.

AWS DMS migrates data between databases (homogeneous and heterogeneous). For heterogeneous (e.g., Oracle → PostgreSQL), use AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) to convert schema first.

AWS DataSync is a managed online data transfer service — moves data between on-prem (NFS, SMB, HDFS, object storage) and AWS storage (S3, EFS, FSx). Built-in encryption, validation, scheduling.

AWS DeepRacer is a 1/18th-scale fully autonomous racing car for getting started with reinforcement learning (RL) — comes with a virtual simulator, league competitions, and integrates with SageMaker. (Amazon SageMaker is the general-purpose ML platform; Bedrock is for foundation models / generative AI; Q Developer is the AI coding assistant.)

AWS IoT family includes IoT Core (broker / device gateway), IoT Greengrass (edge runtime), IoT Device Management (registry, OTA updates), IoT Analytics, IoT SiteWise (industrial), IoT FleetWise (vehicles).

AWS Outposts is a fully managed rack of AWS infrastructure delivered to the customer's data center, providing EC2, EBS, RDS, EKS, etc. on-prem with the same APIs as the cloud.

Amazon GameLift is a managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated multiplayer game servers. Used by game studios for matchmaking, server hosting, and scaling.

Amazon Managed Blockchain provides managed blockchain networks for Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum — for use cases like supply chain, financial transactions, decentralized apps.

Amazon QLDB is a centralized, fully managed ledger database — immutable, cryptographically verifiable, with a built-in journal. Used for audit trails, supply chain history, financial transactions.

AWS License Manager streamlines license management for software vendor licenses (Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM, etc.) — across AWS and on-prem. Helps avoid over-deployment.

Amazon Braket is a managed quantum computing service — gives access to quantum hardware from D-Wave, IonQ, Rigetti, and a quantum simulator.

Amazon AppFlow integrates SaaS applications (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Zendesk, etc.) with AWS services with no code. Schedule or event-trigger based, with data transformation.

Amazon SES is a cost-effective, scalable email service — sending and receiving emails for marketing, notifications, and transactional. SNS is for pub/sub messaging; Pinpoint is multi-channel (email, SMS, push) marketing.

Amazon Pinpoint is a multi-channel customer engagement platform — email, SMS, push, voice, in-app — with segmentation, A/B testing, analytics. SES is just email.

AWS Amplify is a development platform for full-stack web/mobile apps with auth (Cognito), API (AppSync/API Gateway), storage (S3), hosting, and CI/CD — designed for frontend developers.

Amazon WorkMail is a managed business email and calendaring service compatible with Microsoft Outlook and IMAP clients. (SES is for transactional/marketing email; Connect is for contact-center; Chime was for communications but ended support in Feb 2026 — Chime SDK remains for embedding voice/video into apps.)

Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and messaging to web/mobile applications. (The Chime end-user app ended support in Feb 2026, but the Chime SDK remains an active service. Amazon Connect is a managed contact center, WorkMail is email.)

Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) is the AWS service for sending and receiving email at scale. SNS sends notifications via topic-based pub/sub (email is one of many channels), Connect is a contact center, and WorkMail is a business email/calendar product — none of those match the SES use case.

AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL API service with real-time subscriptions and offline sync, integrating with DynamoDB, Lambda, RDS, and OpenSearch. API Gateway provides REST and WebSocket APIs, not GraphQL. Amplify is a developer toolkit for building front-ends (and uses AppSync under the hood for GraphQL).

Amazon WorkSpaces is full Desktop-as-a-Service — users get a complete Windows or Linux desktop. WorkSpaces Secure Browser (formerly WorkSpaces Web) is a lighter service that delivers only a managed, isolated browser session — used to give users secure access to internal web apps without provisioning a full desktop.