AWS FAQs (original) (raw)

Select from the following list of Product and Technical FAQs. Browse through these FAQs to find answers to commonly raised questions. If you're a new customer of one of the services below, we encourage you to read through the relevant articles.

Compute

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling FAQ

Amazon EC2 Container Registry FAQ

Amazon EC2 Container Service FAQ

Amazon EC2 Windows FAQ

Amazon EC2 FAQ

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) FAQ

Amazon Lightsail FAQ

AWS Batch FAQ

AWS Data Exchange FAQ

AWS Elastic Beanstalk FAQ

AWS Fargate FAQ

AWS Lambda FAQ

AWS Outposts FAQ

AWS Serverless Application Repository FAQ

VMware Cloud on AWS FAQ

Storage

Amazon EBS FAQ

Amazon EFS FAQ

Amazon FSx for Lustre FAQ

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server FAQ

Amazon S3 FAQ

AWS Backup FAQ

AWS DataSync FAQ

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery FAQ

AWS Snowball FAQ

AWS Snowball Edge FAQ

AWS Snowmobile FAQ

AWS Storage Gateway FAQ

AWS Transfer for SFTP FAQ

Database

Amazon Aurora FAQ

Amazon RDS FAQ

Amazon DynamoDB FAQ

Amazon ElastiCache FAQ

Amazon Redshift FAQ

Amazon Neptune FAQ

AWS Database Migration Service FAQ

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) FAQs

Amazon Timestream FAQs

Migration

AWS Application Discovery Service

AWS Application Migration Service FAQ

AWS Migration Hub FAQ

AWS Server Migration Service FAQ

Networking & Content Delivery

Amazon VPC FAQ

Amazon CloudFront FAQ

Amazon Route 53 FAQ

Amazon API Gateway FAQ

AWS App Mesh FAQ

AWS Direct Connect FAQ

Elastic Load Balancing FAQ

Developer Tools

Management Tools

Amazon CloudWatch FAQ

AWS Auto Scaling FAQ

AWS CloudFormation FAQ

Amazon CloudTrail FAQ

Amazon Config FAQ

AWS License Manager FAQ

AWS OpsWorks FAQ

Amazon Service Catalog FAQ

AWS Systems Manager FAQ

AWS Trusted Advisor FAQ

AWS Management Console FAQ

AWS Managed Services

Media Services

Amazon Kinesis Video Streams FAQ

Amazon Elastic Transcoder FAQ

AWS Elemental MediaConvert FAQ

AWS Elemental MediaLive FAQ

AWS Elemental MediaPackage FAQ

AWS Elemental MediaStore FAQ

AWS Elemental MediaTailor FAQ

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Polly FAQ

Amazon Rekognition FAQ

Satellite

AWS Ground Station FAQ

Machine Learning

Amazon Forecast FAQ

Amazon Kendra FAQ

Amazon Personalize FAQ

Analytics

Amazon Athena FAQ

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) FAQ

Amazon CloudSearch FAQ

Amazon Kinesis FAQ

Amazon MSK FAQ

Amazon OpenSearch Service FAQ

Amazon Redshift FAQ

Amazon QuickSight FAQ

AWS Data Pipeline FAQ

AWS Glue FAQ

AWS Lake Formation FAQ

Security, Identity, & Compliance

AWS Identity and Access Management FAQ

AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS SSO) FAQ

Amazon Cloud Directory

AWS Certificate Manager FAQ

AWS CloudHSM FAQ

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Directory Service FAQ

AWS Key Management Service FAQ

AWS Organizations FAQ

AWS Shield FAQ

AWS WAF FAQ

AWS Artifact FAQ

Mobile Services

AWS Amplify FAQ

AWS AppSync FAQ

AWS Device Farm FAQ

AR & VR

Amazon Sumerian FAQ

Application Integration

AWS Step Functions FAQ

Cloud Financial Management

AWS Application Cost Profiler FAQ

Customer Engagement

Amazon Pinpoint FAQ

Amazon SES FAQ

Business Productivity

Amazon Chime FAQ

Amazon WorkDocs FAQ

Amazon WorkMail FAQ

Desktop & App Streaming

Amazon WorkSpaces FAQ

Amazon AppStream 2.0 FAQ

Internet of Things

AWS IoT Analytics FAQ

AWS IoT Button FAQ

AWS IoT Device Management FAQ

Game Development

Amazon GameLift

Amazon Lumberyard

Payments & Billing

AWS Billing FAQ

Amazon FPS FAQ

Amazon DevPay FAQ

Support

AWS Support FAQ

Customer Enablement Services

AWS IQ FAQ

Cloud computing concepts FAQs

The Cloud Computing Concepts Hub is the centralized place where you can browse or search for informative articles about cloud computing. You'll find easy-to-understand info about broad topics such as "What is machine learning?" and "What is data science?" These articles are intended to help you up-level your understanding of frequently asked cloud computing topics.

What is a SQL database?

What are AI Agents?

What is Enterprise AI?

What is AI Coding?

What is Text to Speech (TTS)?

What is Contact Management?

What is Container Orchestration?

What is Continuous Testing?

What is Distributed Tracing?

What is Operational Intelligence?

What is RAG?

What is SaaS Integration?

What is Transfer Learning?

What is a Transformer in AI?

What is Video Transcoding?

What is Cloud Management?

What is Customer Data Platform (CDP)?

What is a Data Catalog?

What is Full Stack Development?

What is Application Integration?

What is Business Analytics?

What is Unit Testing?

What is AIOps?

What is MLOps?

What is GPU?

What is Data Migration?

What is Advanced Analytics?

What is Predictive Maintenance?

What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

What is Public Cloud?

What is API Key?

What is Conversational AI?

What is IT Infrastructure?

What is Framework?

What is Apache Flink?

What is Cloud Migration?

What is Reinforcement Learning?

What is OSI Model?

What is Data Backup?

What is CPU?

What is Materialized View?

What is Zero ETL?

What is SMTP?

What is Data Masking?

What is Dynamic DNS?

What is ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)?

What is generative AI?

What is headless cms?

What is automated reasoning?

What is AJAX?

What is ICMP?

What is Interactive Voice Response?

What is an Event Listener?

What is GPT?

What is Apache Iceberg?

What is CIAM?

What is SDK?

What is Dead Letter Queue?

What is Architecture Diagramming?

What is Geospatial Data?

What is a Bot?

What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

What is SDLC?

What is a Hypervisor?

What are Log Files?

What is Structured Data?

What is a Data Mesh?

What is a Data Pipeline?

What is Data Sharing?

What is a Data Store?

What is a Private Cloud?

What is Data Integration?

What is a Workflow?

What is a Web Application?

What is Edge Computing?

What is Document Search?

What is Operational Analytics?

What is Data Cleansing?

What is Elasticsearch?

What is No Code Machine Learning?

What is 5G?

What is Cybersecurity?

What is MQTT protocol?

What is Audio to Text Converter?

What is Batch Processing?

What is Block Storage?

What is an Instance in Cloud Computing?

What is Containerization?

What is Data Management?

What is Data Mart?

What is Database Sharding?

What is Digital Twin Technology?

What is Django?

What is End User Computing?

What is Enterprise Software?

What is Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)?

What is LAMP Stack?

What is Logistic Regression?

What is Cloud Native?

What is Data Analytics?

What is Data Modeling?

What is Data Visualization?

What is CIS benchmarks?

What is cloud bursting?

What is data strategy?

What is facial recognition?

What is mobile cloud computing?

What is JavaScript?

What is disaster recovery?

What is java runtime environment?

What is multi-factor authentication (MFA)?

What is data preparation?

What is blockchain technology?

What is compute?

What is data science?

What is a forecast?

What is IoT (Internet of Things)?

What is Java?

What is a data warehouse?

What is computer networking?

What is a VPN?

What is an API?

What is speech to text?

What is web hosting?

What is version control?

What is serverless?

What is root cause analysis?

What is a relational database?

What is Redis?

What is Presto?

What is PostgreSQL?

What is object storage?

What is MySQL?

What is Kubernetes (k8s)?

What is face recognition?

What is ELK?

What is Cryptography?

What is Log Analytics?

What is Debugging?

What is Distributed computing?

What is Flutter?

What is boosting?

What is data architecture?

What is ISV?

What is Text Classification?

What is Valkey?

What is Application Migration?

What is AGI?

What is CAF?

What is Configuration Management?

What are Autoregressive Models?

What is Data Augmentation?

What is Embeddings in Machine Learning?

What is IDP?

What is LangChain?

What is Neural Radiance Fields?

What is RNN?

What is RLHF?

What are Cloud Containers?

What is Developer Tools?

What is a Serverless Database?

What is Serverless Computing?

What is Supercomputing?

What is Synthetic Data?

What is s Cloud Server?

What is Real-Time Data Streaming?

What is Apache HBase?

What is Apache Kafka?

What is Boilerplate Code?

What is Code Quality?

What is GAN?

What is Cognitive Search?

What is Apache Spark?

What is Prompt Engineering?

What is Cloud Networking?

What is Remove Monitoring and Management?

What is Cloud Infrastructure?

What is Intelligent Automation?

What is Stable Diffusion?

What is Dedicated Server?

What is Incident Management?

What are Large Language Models?

What are Foundational Models?

What is Cloud Hosting?

What is Interoperability?

What is Service Mesh?

What is Data Governance?

What is SMS?

What is Business Intelligence?

What is a Vector Database?

What is Computer Vision?

What is BGD (Border Gateway Protocol)?

What is CORS?

What is Simulation Infrastructure Manager?

What is RTT in Networking?

What is Genomic Data?

What is CIDR?

What is Push Notification Service?

What is CSP Network Automation?

What is Video Conferencing?

What is Hyperparameter Training?

What is a Computer Chip?

What is a Data Cloud?

What is Low Code?

What is Pub/Sub Messaging?

What is SLA (Service Level Agreement)?

What is Repo?

What is KVM?

What is Streaming data?

What is DevSecOps?

What is Virtualization?

What is Anomaly Detection?

What is Security Analytics?

What is Predictive Analytics?

What is SIP Trunking?

What is Deep Learning?

What is a Database?

What is Latency?

What is Linear Regression?

What is Load Balancing?

What is Monte Carlo Simulation?

What is .Net?

What is Natural Language Processing (NLP)?

What is Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)?

What is Overfitting?

What is Routing?

What is Sentiment Analysis?

What is SQL?

What is SRE?

What is XML?

What is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)?

What is a SSL and TLS Certificate?

What is Data Visualization?

What is IDE?

What is Open Source?

What is Service Oriented Architecture?

What is feature engineering?

What is GRC?

What is Scrum?

What is machine translation?

What is endpoint security?

What is a wide area network (WAN)?

What is web hosting?

What is a content delivery network (CDN)?

What is machine learning (ML)?

What is middleware?

What is NAS (Network Attached Storage)?

What is a neural network?

What is OCR (Optical Character Recognition)?

What is Python?

What is RESTful API?

What is text analysis?

What is DNS (Domain Name Service)?

What is IT disaster recovery?

What is DDOS?

What is data labeling?

What is continuous integration?

What is computer vision?

What is cloud storage?

What is caching?

What is big data?

What is a full stack developer?

What is a data lake house?

What is a chatbot?

What is a CDN?

What are NoSQL databases?

What are microservices?

What is SSO (Single Sign On)?

What is VPS (Virtual Private Server)?

What is Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)?

What is ETL?

What is Grid Computing?

What is Quantum Computing?

What is Cloud File Storage?

What is Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)?

What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?

What is Hybrid Cloud?

What is a Data Center?

What is Data Mining?

Cloud comparison tool FAQs

The Cloud Comparison Tool features content that helps readers understand common use cases for when to use one cloud solution or another. Compare and contrast cloud solutions and learn the nuances of different use cases that work best for your situation.

Kafka vs Redis

ACID vs BASE Database

Cassandra vs HBase

Data Science vs AI

Dedicated Server vs VPS

IPv4 vs IPv6

RabbitMq vs Redis

Docker Images vs Containers

MariaDB vs PostgreSQL

Supervised vs Unsupervised Machine Learning

Kafka vs Spark

VDI vs VPN

Public vs Private Cloud

NFS vs CIFs

Redis vs MongoDB

Web Server vs Application Server

SQL vs MySQL

XML vs HTML

Linear vs Logistic Regression

YAML vs JSON

Business Intelligence vs Machine Learning

Docker vs VM

Throughput vs Latency

Incremental vs Differential vs Other Backups

ETL vs ELT

APT vs APT-GET

Monlithic vs Microservice

Frontend vs Backend

MariaDB vs MySQL

Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning

Machine Learning vs Deep Learning

SSL vs TLS

JSON vs XML

SSD vs HDD

Containers vs Virtual Machines

Data Lake vs Data Warehouse vs Data Mart

LAN vs WAN

Logical vs Physical Data Model

Monitoring vs Observability

Demand vs Reserved Instances

Terraform vs K8s

ALB vs NLB vs GLB

Structured vs Unstructured Data

Deep Learning vs Neural Networks

Graph vs Relational Databases

NFS vs iSCSI

SaaS vs On-premises

Kafka vs Redis

Type 1 vs Type 2 Hypervisors

Agile vs DevOps

SOA vs Microservices

Block vs File vs Object Storage

Microservices vs APIs

MongoDB vs PostgreSQL

Microprocessors vs Microcontrollers

Cassandra vs MongoDB

Relational vs. Non-relational Databases

Web Apps vs. Native Apps vs. Hybrid

GPU vs CPU

OLAP vs OLTP

AWS Seller of Record FAQs

The Seller of Record (SoR) content helps Customers understand their billing, payment, tax regulations and contracting party for each jurisdiction. See FAQs for your specific Seller of Record below. For more information about SoRs, see Finding the seller of record.

› AWS Australia FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in Australia.
› AWS SBL FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in Brazil.
› AWS Canada FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in Canada.
› AWS India FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in India.
› AWS Japan FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in Japan.
› AWS Malaysia FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in Malaysia.
› AWS New Zealand FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in New Zealand.

› AWS Singapore FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in Singapore.
› AWS South Africa FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in South Africa
› AWS South Korea FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in South Korea.
› AWS Turkey FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in Türkiye.
› AWS Europe FAQs - this page provides additional information for customers located in Europe, the Middle East, or Africa (other than South Africa).