Serverless Developer Guide
Networking & content delivery
• Amazon CloudFront - content delivery network, serving and caching assets in storage
• Amazon Route 53 - DNS registry/service
• Amazon API Gateway - HTTP & WebSocket connections and integrations
• Amazon Virtual Private Cloud - private networking between services in the cloud
Front-end web & mobile
• AWS Amplify - open-source client libraries to build cloud powered mobile and web apps on AWS 
with authentication, data store, pub/sub, push notiﬁcations, storage, API built on AppSync
• AWS AppSync - managed GraphQL API
Application integration
• AWS Step Functions - orchestration service; useful when you have workﬂows with more than 
one state, need to branch, or run tasks in parallel. The Step Functions service acts as the state 
model for your application.
• Amazon EventBridge - integration with AWS & 3rd party services through events
• Amazon Simple Queue Service - simple queue service; buﬀering requests
• Amazon Simple Notiﬁcation Service - simple notiﬁcation system, publish/subscribe topics, and 
sending a limited number of SMS/email messages
• AWS IoT Core - bi-directional communication for Internet-connected devices (such as sensors, 
actuators, embedded devices, wireless devices, and smart appliances) to connect to the AWS 
Cloud over MQTT, HTTPS, and LoRaWAN
• Amazon Simple Email Service - simple email system, bulk email sending service
Database & storage
• Amazon DynamoDB - scalable no SQL key/value store
• Amazon Simple Storage Service - ﬁle storage
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