AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Glossary

Definitions and pro-tips for the SAA-C03 certification.

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Amazon API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service enabling developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. It handles tasks like authentication, authorization, request validation, and traffic management, simplifying API development and deployment for microservices and serverless applications.

Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service enabling analysis of data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. It is serverless, meaning no infrastructure is required, and you pay only for the data scanned during query execution, making it cost-effective for ad-hoc analysis of large datasets.

Amazon Aurora

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database engineered for high performance and availability. It delivers up to five times the throughput of standard MySQL while offering full compatibility with existing database applications. Aurora automatically scales storage and provides point-in-time recovery.

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to users globally with low latency. It leverages a global network of edge locations to cache content closer to the end-user.

Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service providing metrics, logs, and events for AWS resources and applications. It enables real-time monitoring, automated actions, and anomaly detection to optimize performance and troubleshoot issues.

Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito delivers secure user authentication, authorization, and management for web and mobile applications. It offers User Pools for managing user directories and Identity Pools for granting access to AWS resources. Cognito simplifies user sign-up, sign-in, and provides integration with social identity providers like Google and Facebook.

Amazon DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a serverless, key-value and document database service offering single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It is a fully managed NoSQL database designed for applications requiring consistent performance and scalability, supporting both document and key-value data models.

Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage)

Amazon EBS provides persistent block storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. These volumes act as virtual hard drives, offering various types optimized for different workloads. EBS volumes can be dynamically resized and backed up, providing flexibility and data durability for your applications running on AWS.

Amazon EBS Snapshots

Amazon EBS Snapshots are incremental backups of EBS volumes, stored in S3. They provide point-in-time recovery and disaster recovery capabilities. Snapshots are volume-level and can be shared between AWS accounts or regions.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

EC2 Auto Scaling automatically adjusts the number of Amazon EC2 instances in your application based on defined policies and health checks. This ensures high availability and optimal performance by scaling resources in response to changing demand, reducing operational overhead.

Amazon ECS

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service. It allows developers to easily run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of EC2 instances or using AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine for containers, simplifying container deployment and management.

Amazon EFS

Amazon Elastic File System delivers a fully managed, scalable, and elastic NFS file system for use with AWS compute services and on-premises resources. It provides concurrent access to files from thousands of EC2 instances, simplifying application migration and eliminating the need for file server management.

Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that simplifies deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes on AWS. It is fully compatible with upstream Kubernetes, enabling portability and leveraging existing Kubernetes tooling and expertise.

Amazon ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, in-memory data store and caching service. It supports both Redis and Memcached engines, providing low-latency access to frequently accessed data. ElastiCache improves application performance by reducing the load on relational databases and accelerating data retrieval.

Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce)

Amazon EMR is a managed cluster platform enabling big data processing using frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, and Presto. It simplifies cluster provisioning, configuration, and scaling, allowing developers to focus on data analysis rather than infrastructure management. EMR integrates with AWS data storage and analytics services.

Amazon EventBridge

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications using data from your own apps, integrated SaaS applications, and AWS services. It uses rules to route events to targets, enabling a decoupled, event-driven architecture that responds to state changes in real-time.

Amazon FSx

Amazon FSx provides fully managed file systems built on popular third-party technologies, offering native compatibility and feature sets. Currently, FSx supports Windows File Server and Lustre, enabling organizations to leverage existing skills and applications without compromising performance or manageability.

Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier is a low-cost archive storage service designed for infrequently accessed data. It provides durable and secure storage with retrieval times ranging from minutes to hours. Glacier offers different retrieval options – Expedited, Standard, and Bulk – each with varying costs and access speeds.

Amazon Kinesis

Amazon Kinesis is a platform for collecting, processing, and analyzing real-time, streaming data. It offers services like Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Firehose, and Kinesis Data Analytics, enabling applications to ingest, transform, and analyze data in motion with low latency.

Amazon Macie

Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect sensitive data in Amazon S3. It automatically identifies PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and alerts administrators to potential data exposure.

Amazon MQ

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that enables developers to migrate existing message-oriented middleware to the cloud. It ensures high availability and reliability for applications that require industry-standard messaging protocols like JMS, AMQP, and STOMP.

Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka)

Amazon MSK is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and run applications that utilize Apache Kafka to process real-time data streams. It removes the operational overhead of managing Kafka clusters on EC2 instances.

Amazon OpenSearch Service

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. It is primarily used for real-time application monitoring, log analytics, and full-text search capabilities across large datasets.

Amazon RDS

Amazon RDS is a managed database service supporting six database engines: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Amazon Aurora. It automates administrative tasks like patching, backup, and recovery, simplifying database management and improving reliability.

Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service)

Amazon RDS simplifies the setup, operation, and scaling of relational databases in the cloud. It supports multiple database engines, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server. RDS automates tasks like patching, backups, and recovery, reducing administrative overhead and improving database availability.

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service designed for complex analytical queries. Utilizing columnar storage and massively parallel processing (MPP), Redshift enables fast query performance on large datasets, supporting business intelligence and reporting applications.

Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is a scalable and highly available DNS web service. It translates human-readable domain names into IP addresses, enabling users to access internet applications. Route 53 offers advanced routing policies and health checking for improved application availability.

Amazon Route 53 Routing Policies

Route 53 routing policies define how DNS queries are answered. These policies control traffic distribution based on factors like simple round-robin, weighted distribution, latency, failover, or geographic location. Understanding these policies is crucial for high availability and optimal user experience.

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is object storage offering high scalability, data durability, and security. It stores data as objects within buckets, accessible via a web interface or API. S3 supports various storage classes optimized for frequency of access, impacting cost and retrieval times.

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Amazon S3 provides object storage with high scalability, data availability, security, and durability. It stores data as objects within buckets, offering various storage classes optimized for different access patterns and cost requirements, from frequent access to archival storage.

Amazon S3 Storage Classes

Amazon S3 Storage Classes provide different tiers of storage optimized for varying access patterns and cost requirements. These classes range from frequent access options like S3 Standard to infrequent access and archival solutions like Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive, offering granular control over storage costs.

Amazon SageMaker

Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. It removes the heavy lifting from each step of the ML lifecycle.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables application-to-application and application-to-person communication. It allows you to send messages to a large number of subscribers across multiple endpoints, including SMS, email, and HTTP, ensuring highly available and durable message delivery.

Amazon SQS

Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service enabling decoupled application components. It supports Standard queues (best-effort ordering, high throughput) and FIFO queues (strict ordering, lower throughput) for reliable message delivery.

Amazon SQS (Simple Queue Service)

Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service facilitating decoupled application components. It enables asynchronous communication, improving fault tolerance and scalability. SQS supports standard queues (best-effort ordering) and FIFO queues (first-in, first-out delivery), ensuring reliable message delivery.

Amazon SQS Extended Client Library

The Amazon SQS Extended Client Library automatically manages SQS message visibility timeouts, reducing the risk of message loss or duplicate processing. It handles timeout extensions and retries, ensuring reliable message delivery even during transient failures. This library is crucial for building robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant applications.

Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)

Amazon VPC provides a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud, allowing you to define a virtual network with complete control over its network configuration. This includes defining IP address ranges, subnets, route tables, and network gateways for enhanced security and isolation.

Auto Scaling Group (ASG)

An Auto Scaling Group (ASG) manages a collection of EC2 instances, automatically adjusting capacity based on defined policies. ASGs ensure high availability and application responsiveness by launching or terminating instances in response to demand, distributing them across Availability Zones for fault tolerance.

Availability Zone (AZ)

An Availability Zone is a physically distinct location within an AWS Region designed to provide fault tolerance. Each AZ operates independently, with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, ensuring high availability for applications deployed across multiple AZs within a region.

AWS Amplify

AWS Amplify is a complete framework and set of tools used to build scalable full-stack web and mobile applications. It provides a streamlined workflow for managing authentication, storage, and API integration, allowing developers to deploy front-end code directly to a managed hosting service.

AWS App Runner

AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs, at scale and pay-as-you-go. It handles the infrastructure, load balancing, and auto-scaling automatically from source code or images.

AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB)

AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) is a Layer 7 load balancer that distributes incoming HTTP and HTTPS traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances or containers. It provides advanced routing capabilities based on path, host, or query string parameters to optimize application performance and reliability.

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) is the primary service for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS. It minimizes time and risk by automatically converting source serversβ€”whether physical, virtual, or cloud-basedβ€”into run-able instances of Amazon EC2, ensuring minimal downtime during the transition process.

AWS Artifact

AWS Artifact is a self-service portal that provides on-demand access to AWS compliance reports and select online agreements. It allows users to download security and compliance documentation, such as SOC and PCI reports, to verify that AWS services meet the regulatory requirements of their industry.

AWS Backup

AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that centralizes and automates the backup of data across various AWS services. It provides a unified console to create backup policies, schedule backups, and monitor recovery points for EBS volumes, RDS databases, DynamoDB tables, and EFS file systems.

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation provides infrastructure as code, allowing users to define and provision AWS resources through declarative templates. These templates automate infrastructure creation, updates, and deletion, ensuring consistency and repeatability across environments. It supports rollback capabilities and version control for reliable deployments.

AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail records API calls made to your AWS account, providing an audit trail of user activity and changes to resources. Logs capture details like the identity of the caller, the time of the event, and the source IP address, supporting security analysis, compliance, and troubleshooting.

AWS CloudWatch

AWS CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service providing metrics, logs, and events for AWS resources and applications. It enables real-time monitoring, automated actions, and anomaly detection, facilitating performance optimization and troubleshooting within the AWS environment.

AWS CloudWatch Alarms

AWS CloudWatch Alarms monitor specified metrics for AWS resources and trigger actions when metric values cross defined thresholds. These actions include sending notifications via SNS, auto-scaling resources, or executing automated remediation tasks. Alarms are essential for proactive monitoring and automated incident response.

AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service. It automates the software release process by building, testing, and deploying code based on defined stages and actions. CodePipeline supports multiple source providers and deployment targets.

AWS Config

AWS Config continuously monitors and records the configuration of your AWS resources. It provides a detailed history of resource changes, allowing you to assess, audit, and evaluate configurations against desired standards. This supports governance and compliance requirements.

AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower is a service that provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It automates the creation of a 'Landing Zone' based on AWS best practices for security and compliance.

AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer is a tool for visualizing, analyzing, and managing AWS costs and usage. It provides detailed reports and recommendations to identify cost optimization opportunities, forecast future spending, and track cost allocation across various AWS services and resources.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) facilitates secure and efficient migration of databases to AWS. It supports homogeneous migrations (e.g., Oracle to Oracle) and heterogeneous migrations (e.g., Oracle to Aurora). DMS minimizes downtime by continuously replicating data changes during the migration process.

AWS Direct Connect

AWS Direct Connect establishes a dedicated network connection between your on-premises infrastructure and AWS, bypassing the public internet. This provides consistent network performance, enhanced security, and potentially reduced bandwidth costs for hybrid cloud deployments.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that allows developers to quickly deploy and scale web applications without managing the underlying infrastructure. It automatically handles capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and health monitoring based on the chosen application platform.

AWS Fargate

AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containerized applications, compatible with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). It eliminates server management by automatically scaling and patching the underlying infrastructure, allowing developers to focus solely on application code.

AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB)

AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is a service that simplifies the deployment and scaling of third-party virtual appliances, such as firewalls or intrusion detection systems. It acts as a single entry and exit point for all traffic, ensuring consistent inspection across multiple availability zones.

AWS Global Accelerator

AWS Global Accelerator is a service that directs end-user traffic to optimal endpoints based on network conditions, improving application availability and performance. It utilizes the AWS global network and provides static Anycast IP addresses for consistent access points worldwide, reducing latency and enhancing resilience.

AWS Glue

AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service designed to discover, prepare, and integrate data for analytics. It provides a data catalog, automatically generates ETL code, and executes ETL jobs efficiently. Glue supports various data sources and formats, simplifying data warehousing and data lake implementations.

AWS GuardDuty

AWS GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior. It analyzes VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail event logs, and DNS logs using machine learning and threat intelligence to identify potential security threats in real-time.

AWS IAM Roles

AWS IAM Roles are identities granting temporary access to AWS services without requiring long-term credentials. They are assumed by users, applications, or AWS services to perform specific actions. Roles enhance security by eliminating the need to embed access keys directly into code or distribute them to users.

AWS Inspector

AWS Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans AWS workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. It assesses EC2 instances, container images in ECR, and Lambda functions, providing a prioritized list of security findings to help improve your security posture.

AWS KMS

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that facilitates the creation and control of cryptographic keys used to encrypt your data. KMS supports symmetric and asymmetric keys, integrating with various AWS services to protect data at rest and in transit, enhancing security posture.

AWS KMS Customer Managed Keys

AWS KMS Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) provide users with complete control over their encryption keys. Customers create, own, and manage these keys, including defining access policies and rotation schedules. CMKs are used to encrypt data across various AWS services, enhancing data security and compliance.

AWS Lake Formation

AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it easy to set up a secure data lake on Amazon S3. It simplifies the process of ingesting, cleaning, and cataloging data, while providing fine-grained access control for data analysts and scientists.

AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that executes code in response to events. It automatically manages the underlying infrastructure, scaling resources as needed. Developers upload code as functions, and Lambda handles provisioning, patching, and administration, enabling a pay-per-use billing model.

AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB)

AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) is a high-performance Layer 4 load balancer capable of handling millions of requests per second with ultra-low latency. It operates at the connection level, making it ideal for TCP, UDP, and TLS traffic where static IP addresses are required.

AWS Organizations

AWS Organizations centralizes management and governance of multiple AWS accounts. It enables consolidated billing, automated policy enforcement via Service Control Policies (SCPs), and simplified account creation. Organizations facilitates a multi-account strategy for security, compliance, and resource isolation within a single AWS environment.

AWS Parameter Store

AWS Parameter Store, a capability of Systems Manager, provides secure, hierarchical storage for configuration data and secrets management. It allows you to store parameters such as database strings or license codes and reference them dynamically in your applications.

AWS PrivateLink

AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and third-party services without exposing traffic to the public internet. It uses VPC Endpoints to route traffic over the AWS internal network, significantly reducing attack surfaces and improving security for sensitive data.

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager securely stores and manages sensitive information like database credentials, API keys, and other secrets. It automates rotation, tracking, and retrieval of these credentials, reducing the risk of exposure and simplifying security management for applications and services.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN

AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a managed service that creates a secure, encrypted tunnel between an on-premises network and an AWS VPC over the public internet. It uses IPsec to ensure data confidentiality and integrity while providing a reliable connection for hybrid cloud architectures.

AWS Snowball

AWS Snowball is a data transport solution used to migrate petabytes of data into and out of AWS using physical hardware devices. It is ideal for environments with limited network bandwidth where online transfers would take an impractical amount of time.

AWS Snowball Edge

AWS Snowball Edge is a data transport solution that uses physical hardware devices to migrate petabytes of data into and out of AWS. It combines storage and compute capabilities, allowing you to process data locally at the edge before transferring it back to the cloud.

AWS Snowcone

AWS Snowcone is a small, ruggedized, and secure data transport device designed for edge computing and small-scale data migration. It is smaller than Snowball Edge and is ideal for environments with limited space or power, providing local storage and compute for data collection.

AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions is a serverless orchestration service that allows you to coordinate multiple AWS services into serverless workflows. It simplifies the development of complex applications by visually modeling state transitions and handling error conditions, improving reliability and maintainability.

AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service enabling on-premises applications to seamlessly utilize AWS cloud storage. It offers four gateway types: File, Volume, Tape, and Cached, providing access to scalable, durable, and cost-effective storage without application modifications.

AWS Systems Manager

AWS Systems Manager provides a unified interface for managing your AWS and on-premises infrastructure. It offers capabilities for automation, patching, configuration management, and remote command execution, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing manual effort across hybrid environments.

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store provides secure, hierarchical storage for configuration data management and secrets management. It allows applications to retrieve parameters such as database strings or license keys without hardcoding them directly into the application source code.

AWS Transfer Family

AWS Transfer Family is a fully managed service that enables the transfer of files directly into and out of Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS via SFTP, FTPS, and FTP. It allows organizations to maintain existing file transfer workflows while leveraging the scalability of cloud storage.

AWS Transit Gateway

AWS Transit Gateway simplifies network architecture by acting as a central hub for connecting multiple VPCs and on-premises networks. It eliminates the complexity of managing numerous VPC peering connections, offering centralized routing and improved network management capabilities.

AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor is an online service analyzing your AWS environment against best practices. It provides recommendations across five categories: Cost Optimization, Performance, Security, Fault Tolerance, and Service Limits. These checks help improve efficiency, reduce risk, and ensure optimal resource utilization within your AWS infrastructure.

AWS WAF

AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) protects web applications from common web exploits, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). It filters malicious traffic based on customizable rules and managed rule sets, safeguarding application availability, security, and resource consumption.

AWS X-Ray

AWS X-Ray is a distributed tracing service that helps developers analyze and debug production applications, particularly those built using microservices. It provides end-to-end visibility into requests as they traverse multiple services, identifying performance bottlenecks and errors across a complex architecture.

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EC2 Instance Metadata

EC2 Instance Metadata is a dynamic, locally accessible data source providing information about the instance itself. This includes details like instance ID, AMI ID, region, and IAM role, accessed via the 169.254.169.254 endpoint. It is crucial for secure credential retrieval.

EC2 Placement Groups

EC2 Placement Groups are a logical grouping of EC2 instances within a single Availability Zone to influence the physical placement of those instances. Strategies include Cluster (low latency), Spread (reduced risk of simultaneous failure), and Partition (isolated hardware groups for large distributed workloads).

EC2 Spot Instances

EC2 Spot Instances are spare AWS computing capacity available at significant discounts compared to On-Demand pricing. They are ideal for fault-tolerant or flexible applications, but AWS can reclaim the capacity with a two-minute notification, making them unsuitable for stateful or critical workloads.

Elastic Beanstalk

Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering simplifying the deployment and management of web applications and services. It supports multiple languages and frameworks, automatically handling infrastructure provisioning, load balancing, and auto-scaling.

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, improving application availability and scalability. ELB monitors the health of targets and routes traffic only to healthy instances, ensuring fault tolerance and optimal performance.

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S3 Bucket Policy

An S3 Bucket Policy is a resource-based policy defining access permissions for an S3 bucket and its objects. Policies are written in JSON and grant or deny access to specific principals, controlling actions like object reads, writes, and deletions. It’s crucial for managing data security and access control.

S3 Cross-Region Replication

S3 Cross-Region Replication automatically copies objects between S3 buckets in different AWS Regions. This feature enhances data durability, supports disaster recovery strategies, and enables compliance with data residency regulations. Replication can be configured for entire buckets or specific object prefixes.

Security Group

Security Groups act as virtual firewalls for EC2 instances, controlling inbound and outbound traffic at the instance level. They are stateful, meaning that if inbound traffic is permitted, corresponding outbound traffic is automatically allowed, simplifying rule configuration and enhancing security.

Serverless Architecture

Serverless architecture is a cloud computing model where the cloud provider fully manages the underlying infrastructure, dynamically allocating resources as needed. Developers focus solely on writing and deploying code without provisioning or maintaining servers. This results in reduced operational overhead and cost optimization based on actual usage.

Service Control Policies (SCPs)

Service Control Policies (SCPs) are organization-level policies used to manage permissions across all accounts in an AWS Organization. They define the maximum available permissions for an account, ensuring that specific actions are blocked even if IAM policies allow them.

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

SNS is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service enabling event-driven architectures. It allows applications to publish messages to topics, which are then distributed to subscribed endpoints, including SQS queues, Lambda functions, and email addresses, facilitating real-time communication.

Simple Queue Service (SQS)

SQS is a fully managed message queuing service facilitating decoupled application components. It reliably stores and delivers messages, enabling scalability and resilience in distributed systems. SQS supports standard and FIFO queues, offering varying levels of message ordering and delivery guarantees.

SNS

Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service enabling decoupling of microservices, system notifications, and event-driven architectures. It supports message delivery via topics and subscriptions to various endpoints, including SQS, Lambda, and HTTP/S.

SQS

SQS is a fully managed message queuing service enabling decoupled application components. It supports standard queues (best-effort ordering, high throughput) and FIFO queues (strict ordering, lower throughput). Messages are stored reliably until processed, improving system resilience.