AWS Snowball User Guide
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/ebs.
Amazon EBS-backed AMI A type of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) (p. 112) whose instance (p. 136)s use
an Amazon EBS (p. 110) volume (p. 158) as their root device. Compare this
with instances launched from instance store-backed AMI (p. 136)s, which use the
instance store (p. 136) as the root device.
Amazon Elastic Container
Registry (Amazon ECR)
A fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to
store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. Amazon ECR is integrated
with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) (p. 111) and AWS Identity
and Access Management (IAM) (p. 118).
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/ecr.
Amazon Elastic Container
Service (Amazon ECS)
A highly scalable, fast, container (p. 125) management service that makes it
easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster (p. 124) of EC2
instance (p. 129)s.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/ecs.
Amazon ECS service A service for running and maintaining a specified number of task (p. 156)s
(instantiations of a task definition (p. 156)) simultaneously.
Amazon EC2 VM Import
Connector
See https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import.
Amazon Elastic Compute
Cloud (Amazon EC2)
A web service that enables you to launch and manage Linux/UNIX and Windows
server instance (p. 136)s in Amazon's data centers.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/ec2.
Amazon Elastic File System
(Amazon EFS)
A file storage service for EC2 (p. 111) instance (p. 136)s. Amazon EFS is easy
to use and provides a simple interface with which you can create and configure
file systems. Amazon EFS storage capacity grows and shrinks automatically as you
add and remove files.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/efs/.
Amazon EMR (Amazon EMR) A web service that makes it easy to process large amounts of data efficiently.
Amazon EMR uses Hadoop (p. 134) processing combined with several AWS
products to do such tasks as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine
learning, scientific simulation, and data warehousing.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder A cloud-based media transcoding service. Elastic Transcoder is a highly scalable
tool for converting (or transcoding) media files from their source format into
versions that will play on devices like smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/.
Amazon ElastiCache A web service that simplifies deploying, operating, and scaling an in-memory
cache in the cloud. The service improves the performance of web applications by
providing information retrieval from fast, managed, in-memory caches, instead of
relying entirely on slower disk-based databases.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
(Amazon ES)
An AWS managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling Elasticsearch, an
open-source search and analytics engine, in the AWS Cloud. Amazon Elasticsearch
Service (Amazon ES) also offers security options, high availability, data durability,
and direct access to the Elasticsearch APIs.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service.
Amazon GameLift A managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling session-based
multiplayer games.
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