4 Great But Underrated AWS Services

And how to utilize them to improve your infrastructure

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Amazon Web Services are widely used in digital businesses these days. That is possible because everybody heard about services such as EC2, SQS, or S3. Those are used heavily in production systems and they work well. In 2020, AWS offers more than 175 services. You can imagine that it’s hard to remember all of them. As a result, while some of them can be very helpful, nobody talks about them.

So I prepared a list of four services on AWS that your team could benefit from.

1. CloudFormation

CloudFormation is a service that enables us to describe infrastructure as code. Infrastructure as code is a well-known practice to set out and manage IT infrastructure through the configuration files. With CloudFormation, we can define all required components and dependencies between them.

There are a few benefits to having everything in configuration files. First, it makes it possible to speed up the processes, as the task stays only within the code. No navigation between different services and connecting them through the user interface. Second, it adds more reliability and reduces human errors. The code can be reviewed by other engineers, and in case of mistake, the changes can be reverted…