Head in the Cloud

My journey to work in cloud technology

Breadth of Knowledge at this point

September 26, 2017 · AWS

So many AWS services and features, and more coming out every year at re:invent. Here's a tally on what I know and what I want to know. The analogy of an iceberg's above / below water ratio comes to mind.

Use Regularly

  • EC2 - Elastic Cloud Compute
  • S3 - Simple Storage Service
  • EFS - Elastic File Service (NFS)
  • RDS - Relational Database Service
  • VPC - Virtual Private Cloud
  • CloudFront (CDN)
  • Route 53 (DNS)
  • CodeCommit
  • CloudWatch
  • IAM
  • Simple Notification Service
  • WorkDocs
  • WorkSpaces

Experimented With

  • LightSail Elastic Beanstalk Glacier
  • DynamoDB
  • CloudFormation
  • CloudTrail
  • Config
  • OpsWorks
  • Trusted Advisor
  • Inspector
  • Directory Service
  • AppStream 2.0

Want to Learn

  • EC2 Container Service (Docker)
  • Lambda
  • Storage Gateway
  • ElastiCache
  • Direct Connect
  • Certificate Manager
  • WAF & Shield
  • Kinesis
  • Step Functions
  • SWF
  • API Gateway
  • Elastic Transcoder
  • Simple Queue Service
  • Simple Email Service
  • WorkMail
  • Amazon Chime

For Fun

  • Glacier
  • Redshift
  • CodeStar
  • CodeBuild
  • CodeDeploy
  • CodePipeline
  • Lex
  • Amazon Polly
  • Rekognition

Extra

  • Batch
  • AWS Migration Hub
  • Application Discovery Service
  • Database Migration Service
  • Server Migration Service
  • Snowball
  • Service Catalog
  • Managed Services
  • Artifact
  • Amazon Macie
  • CloudHSM
  • Athena
  • EMR
  • CloudSearch
  • Elasticsearch Service
  • Data Pipeline
  • QuickSight
  • AWS Glue
  • Machine Learning
  • AWS IoT
  • AWS Greengrass
  • Amazon Connect
  • Amazon Gamelift
  • Mobiler Hub
  • Cognito
  • Device Farm
  • Mobile Analytics
  • Pinpoint