Types of AWS Services - AZ, Region, Global

This article was originally published on bmf-tech.com.

Overview

A note on the classification of representative AWS services.

AZ Services

• Subnet (does not span multiple AZs)
• NAT
• Network ACL
• EC2 Instance
• RDS Instance
• Elastic Cache
• Elastic File System
• Elastic Load Balancing
• EBS Volume
• Redshift

Region Services

• VPC (can span multiple AZs)
• Security Group
• VPC Endpoints
• VPC Peering
• Elastic IP
• Auto Scaling
• S3
• Glacier
• Snapshot (EBS/RDS)
• AMI
• DynamoDB
• SQS
• SNS
• CloudSearch
• CloudWatch
• Lambda
• API Gateway

Global Services

• IAM (Users, Groups, Policies, Roles)
• Route53
• CloudFront
• CloudTrail
• WAF
• STS