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1 Amazon Web ServicesGeneral ReferenceVersion Web Services General ReferenceAmazon Web Services : General ReferenceCopyright 2018 Amazon Web Services , Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights 's trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Amazon 's, in any mannerthat is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Amazon . All other trademarks notowned by Amazon are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored Web Services General ReferenceTable of ContentsAWS General Reference .. 1 AWS Regions and Endpoints .. 2 Alexa for 2 Amazon API Gateway .. 2 Application Auto 4 Amazon AppStream .. 5 AWS IoT 1-Click .. 6 AWS IoT 1-Click Projects API .. 6 AWS IoT 1-Click Devices API .. 6 AWS AppSync .. 6 AWS AppSync Control Plane.

2 6 AWS AppSync Data Plane .. 8 Amazon Aurora .. 8 Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility .. 8 Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility .. 9 AWS Auto Scaling .. 10 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling .. 11 AWS Batch .. 12 AWS Billing and Cost Management .. 13 AWS Cost Explorer .. 13 AWS Budgets .. 13 AWS Price List Service .. 13 AWS Certificate Manager .. 14 AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority .. 15 AWS Cloud9 .. 15 Amazon Cloud Directory .. 16 AWS CloudFormation .. 16 Amazon CloudFront .. 17 AWS CloudHSM .. 18 AWS CloudHSM Classic .. 19 Amazon CloudSearch .. 19 AWS CloudTrail .. 20 Amazon CloudWatch .. 21 Amazon CloudWatch Events .. 22 Amazon CloudWatch Logs .. 24 AWS CodeBuild .. 25 AWS CodeCommit .. 26 AWS CodeDeploy .. 27 AWS CodePipeline .. 28 AWS CodeStar .. 29 Amazon Cognito Identity .. 29 Amazon Cognito Your User Pools .. 30 Amazon Cognito Federated Identities.

3 30 Amazon Cognito Sync .. 31 Amazon Comprehend .. 32 AWS Config .. 33 AWS Config Rules .. 33 Amazon Connect .. 34 AWS Data Pipeline .. 35 AWS Database Migration Service .. 35 AWS Device Farm .. 36 Amazon DevPay .. 36 Version Web Services General ReferenceAWS Direct Connect .. 36 AWS Directory Service .. 37 Amazon DynamoDB .. 39 DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) .. 41 Amazon DynamoDB Streams .. 41 AWS Elastic Beanstalk .. 43 AWS Elastic Beanstalk Health Service .. 44 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2) .. 45 Amazon Elastic Container Registry .. 46 Amazon Elastic Container Service .. 47 Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes ( Amazon EKS) .. 48 Amazon Elastic File System .. 49 Elastic Load 49 Amazon Elastic Transcoder .. 51 Amazon ElastiCache .. 51 Amazon Elasticsearch Service .. 53 Amazon EMR .. 54 AWS Firewall Manager .. 55 Amazon GameLift .. 55 Amazon Glacier.

4 56 AWS Glue .. 57 AWS Greengrass .. 58 Amazon GuardDuty .. 59 AWS Health .. 60 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) .. 60 AWS Import/Export .. 61 AWS Import/Export Disk .. 61 Amazon Inspector .. 62 AWS IoT .. 62 AWS IoT Analytics .. 64 AWS Key Management Service .. 64 Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics .. 66 Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose .. 66 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams .. 67 Amazon Kinesis Video Streams .. 68 AWS Lambda .. 69 Amazon Lex .. 70 Model Building 70 Runtime 70 Amazon Lightsail .. 70 Amazon Macie .. 71 Amazon Machine Learning .. 71 Amazon Mechanical Turk .. 71 AWS Elemental MediaConvert .. 72 AWS Elemental MediaLive .. 73 AWS Elemental MediaPackage .. 73 AWS Elemental MediaStore .. 74 AWS Elemental MediaTailor .. 75 AWS Migration Hub .. 75 Amazon Mobile Analytics .. 75 Amazon MQ .. 76 AWS OpsWorks .. 76 AWS OpsWorks CM .. 76 AWS OpsWorks Stacks .. 77 AWS Organizations.

5 78 Amazon Pinpoint .. 79 Amazon Polly .. 79 Version Web Services General ReferenceAmazon QuickSight .. 80 Amazon Redshift .. 80 Amazon Rekognition .. 81 Amazon Relational Database Service ( Amazon RDS) .. 82 AWS Resource Groups .. 83 Amazon Route 53 .. 84 AWS Secrets Manager .. 85 AWS Server Migration Service .. 86 Amazon SageMaker .. 87 AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) .. 88 AWS Serverless Application Repository .. 89 AWS Service Catalog .. 90 AWS Shield Advanced .. 91 Amazon Simple Email Service ( Amazon SES) .. 91 Amazon Simple Notification Service ( Amazon SNS) .. 92 Amazon Simple Queue Service ( Amazon SQS) .. 93 Amazon SQS Legacy Endpoints .. 94 Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3) .. 95 Amazon Simple Storage Service Website Endpoints .. 99 Amazon Simple Workflow Service ( Amazon SWF) .. 100 Amazon SimpleDB .. 102 AWS Snowball .. 102 AWS Step Functions .. 104 AWS Storage Gateway.

6 105 AWS Support .. 106 AWS Systems Manager .. 106 Amazon Transcribe .. 107 Amazon Translate .. 108 Amazon VPC .. 108 AWS WAF .. 109 Amazon WorkDocs .. 110 Amazon WorkMail .. 110 Amazon WorkSpaces .. 111 AWS X-Ray .. 112 AWS Security Credentials .. 114 AWS Account Root User Credentials vs. IAM User Credentials .. 114 AWS Tasks That Require AWS Account Root User Credentials .. 115 Understanding and Getting Your Security Credentials .. 115 Email and Password (Root User) .. 116 IAM User Name and Password .. 116 Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) .. 117 Access Keys (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key) .. 117 Key Pairs .. 118 AWS Account Identifiers .. 118 Finding Your AWS Account ID .. 119 Finding Your Account Canonical User ID .. 119 Best Practices for Managing AWS Access Keys .. 120 Remove (or Don't Generate) Account Access Key .. 120 Use Temporary Security Credentials (IAM Roles) Instead of Long-Term Access Keys.

7 121 Manage IAM User Access Keys Properly .. 122 More Resources .. 122 Managing Access Keys for Your AWS Account Root User .. 123 Creating, Disabling, and Deleting Access Keys for Your AWS Account Root User .. 123 AWS Security Audit Guidelines .. 124 When Should You Perform a Security Audit? .. 125 General Guidelines for 125 Review Your AWS Account Credentials .. 125 Version Web Services General ReferenceReview Your IAM Users .. 125 Review Your IAM Groups .. 126 Review Your IAM Roles .. 126 Review Your IAM Providers for SAML and OpenID Connect (OIDC) .. 126 Review Your Mobile Apps .. 126 Review Your Amazon EC2 Security Configuration .. 127 Review AWS Policies in Other Services .. 127 Monitor Activity in Your AWS Account .. 127 Tips for Reviewing IAM Policies .. 128 More Information .. 129 Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) and AWS Service Namespaces .. 130 ARN Format .. 130 Example 131 Alexa for 131 Amazon API Gateway.

8 131 AWS AppSync .. 131 AWS Artifact .. 132 Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling .. 132 AWS Batch .. 132 AWS Certificate Manager .. 133 AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority .. 133 AWS Cloud9 .. 133 Amazon Cloud Directory .. 133 AWS CloudFormation .. 134 Amazon CloudFront .. 134 Amazon CloudSearch .. 134 AWS CloudTrail .. 134 Amazon CloudWatch .. 135 Amazon CloudWatch Events .. 135 Amazon CloudWatch Logs .. 135 AWS CodeBuild .. 136 AWS CodeCommit .. 136 AWS CodeDeploy .. 136 Amazon Cognito Your User Pools .. 136 Amazon Cognito Federated Identities .. 136 Amazon Cognito Sync .. 137 AWS Config .. 137 AWS CodePipeline .. 137 AWS CodeStar .. 137 AWS Direct Connect .. 138 AWS Directory Service .. 138 Amazon DynamoDB .. 138 AWS Elastic Beanstalk .. 138 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2) .. 139 Amazon Elastic Container Registry ( Amazon ECR) .. 139 Amazon Elastic Container Service ( Amazon ECS).

9 140 Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes ( Amazon EKS) .. 140 Amazon Elastic File System .. 140 Elastic Load Balancing (Application Load Balancer) .. 140 Elastic Load Balancing (Network Load Balancer) .. 141 Elastic Load Balancing (Classic Load Balancer) .. 141 Amazon Elastic Transcoder .. 141 Amazon ElastiCache .. 142 Amazon Elasticsearch Service .. 142 Amazon Glacier .. 142 Amazon GuardDuty .. 142 AWS Health / Personal Health Dashboard .. 143 Version Web Services General ReferenceAWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) .. 143 AWS IoT .. 144 AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) .. 144 Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose (Kinesis Data Firehose) .. 144 Amazon Kinesis Data Streams (Kinesis Data Streams) .. 144 Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics (Kinesis Data Analytics) .. 145 Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (Kinesis Video Streams) .. 145 AWS Lambda (Lambda) .. 145 Amazon Macie.

10 146 Amazon Machine Learning ( Amazon ML) .. 146 AWS Elemental MediaConvert .. 146 AWS Elemental MediaLive .. 146 AWS Elemental MediaPackage .. 147 AWS Elemental MediaStore .. 147 AWS Elemental MediaTailor .. 147 AWS Mobile Hub .. 147 Amazon MQ .. 148 AWS Organizations .. 148 Amazon Pinpoint .. 148 Amazon Polly .. 149 Amazon Redshift .. 149 Amazon Relational Database Service ( Amazon RDS) .. 149 AWS Resource Groups .. 150 Amazon Route 53 .. 150 AWS Secrets Manager .. 150 AWS Serverless Application Repository .. 151 Amazon Simple Email Service ( Amazon SES) .. 151 Amazon Simple Notification Service ( Amazon SNS) .. 151 Amazon Simple Queue Service ( Amazon SQS) .. 151 Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3) .. 152 Amazon Simple Workflow Service ( Amazon SWF) .. 152 AWS Step Functions .. 152 AWS Storage Gateway .. 153 AWS Systems Manager .. 153 AWS Trusted Advisor .. 153 AWS WAF .. 154 Paths in ARNs.