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What relevant services are there?
In the list below taken mainly from Wikipedia, I use strikethrough green to indicate that where we might use the service is as far as I can tell not relevant to us (or we would only use it indirectly). I use blue to indicate a distant future usage. I to create new or enhanced functionality. I use orange to indicate we might replace something we are already using or add to a list of products we are evaluating. I use green blue to indicate where we might use the service to create new or enhanced functionality.a speculative future usage. I use strikethrough to indicate that the service is as far as I can tell not relevant to us (or we would only use it indirectly).
Compute
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is an IaaS service providing virtual servers controllable by an API, based on the Xen hypervisor. Equivalent remote services include Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine and Rackspace; and on-premises equivalents such as OpenStack or Eucalyptus.
- Amazon Elastic Beanstalk provides a PaaS service for hosting applications, equivalent services include Google App Engine or Heroku or OpenShift for on-premises use.
- Amazon Lambda (AWS Lambda) runs code in response to AWS internal or external events such as http requests, transparently providing the resource required.[40] Lambda is tightly integrated with AWS but similar services such as Google Cloud Functions and open solutions such as OpenWhisk are becoming competitors.
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