To Nha Notes | Oct. 20, 2023, 2:44 p.m.
The most popular and relevant theory suggests that services with the Amazon prefix work on their own (standalone services), whereas the ones with the AWS prefix support other services (utility services) and are not intended to be used on their own. AWS Lambda, for example, is triggered by other services. However, as services evolve over time with new capabilities, you may find exceptions where this distinction no longer holds true.
Popular serverless services from AWS.
| Category | Service |
| Analytics | Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, Amazon QuickSight |
| App building | AWS Amplify |
| API building | Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync |
| Application integration | Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon API Gateway, AWS AppSync |
| Compute | AWS Lambda |
| Content delivery | Amazon CloudFront |
| Database | Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora Serverless |
| Developer tools | AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodePipeline |
| Emails | Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) |
| Event-driven architecture | Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS Lambda |
| Governance | AWS Well-Architected Tool, AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Systems Manager |
| High volume event streaming | Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose |
| Identity, authentication, and security | AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Cognito, AWSSecrets Manager, AWS WAF, Amazon Macie |
| Machine learning | Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Translate, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon DevOps Guru |
| Networking | Amazon Route 53 |
| Object store | Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) |
| Observability | Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, AWS CloudTrail |
| Orchestration | AWS Step Functions |
| Security | AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Cognito, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store |