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AWS Services Catalog

A report-backed catalog of AWS services shaped for quick browsing. The page preserves category, stage, lifecycle status, region and partition limitations, retirement notes, and notable caveats from the research report instead of flattening them into a generic spreadsheet.

Single source of truthInventory verified as of April 14, 2026
Tracked services
Full inventory currently on the page

111

Active today
Services marked Active in the report

68

Lifecycle watch
Deprecated, retiring, or retired entries

40

Limited or preview
Needs extra regional or stage validation

4

How to read the labels
Stage and status come directly from the normalized report model.

Stage

GA

Generally available according to the research report's normalized lifecycle model.

Preview

Public preview or other pre-GA availability called out in the report.

Retired/Discontinued

No longer offered as an active AWS service or capability in the report snapshot.

Status

Active

Available for normal use in the report snapshot.

Region-limited

Available, but only in the explicitly listed regions or partitions.

Deprecated

Still available, but AWS guidance in the report points learners toward alternatives.

Retiring

AWS has published an end date or support cutoff in the report sources.

Retired

Already shut down or unavailable to customers in the report snapshot.

Current view
The catalog is narrowed by your current search or focus.
Category: Database

Services shown

9

Categories shown

1

Watchouts in view

3

Category

Database

9 services3 watchouts

Amazon Aurora

GAActive$$$$

High-performance relational database compatible with MySQL/PostgreSQL, designed for cloud-scale durability and availability.

Lifecycle
GA stage - Active
Availability / regions
Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases
High-throughput transactional appsmulti-AZ relational HAserverless/bursty relational workloadsanalytics integrations (zero-ETL patterns).
Cost signal
$$$$ DB compute/storage + HA/replication

Amazon Cloud Directory

GADeprecated$$$

Hierarchical directory service listed in "Services in Maintenance," meaning no new onboarding; existing customers can continue under maintenance support model.

Lifecycle
GA stage - Deprecated (still available but discouraged)
Availability / regions
Commercial (aws)
Typical use cases
Directory-backed authorization graphsorganizational hierarchy modelinglegacy directory synchronization patternsmetadata catalogs with relationships.
Cost signal
$$$ stateful directory storage + ops; scale-driven
Notes: Maintenance entry dated Oct 7, 2025.

Amazon DynamoDB

GAActive$$$

Fully managed NoSQL key-value/document database designed for high scale and low-latency access patterns.

Lifecycle
GA stage - Active
Availability / regions
Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases
High-scale user/session storesevent-sourcing state tablesIoT device stateshopping cart and personalization state.
Cost signal
$$$ RCU/WCU + storage; can spike with throughput and global tables

Amazon ElastiCache

GAActive$$$

Managed in-memory caching service for accelerating applications using Redis/Valkey and Memcached patterns.

Lifecycle
GA stage - Active
Availability / regions
Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases
Read-through cachingsession storesleaderboardsrate limiting and queues.
Cost signal
$$$ always-on nodes + replication; can be costly for large clusters

Amazon Neptune

GAActive$$$$

Managed graph database service for running graph workloads using popular graph models and query patterns.

Lifecycle
GA stage - Active
Availability / regions
Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases
Knowledge graphsfraud ring detectionnetwork/IT topology graphsrecommendation and relationship queries.
Cost signal
$$$$ stateful DB clusters + storage; graph queries can be heavy

Amazon RDS

GAActive$$$$

Managed relational database service that automates provisioning, patching, backups, and scaling across multiple engines.

Lifecycle
GA stage - Active
Availability / regions
Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases
Managed MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQL ServerHA relational databasesread replicasquick database provisioning for apps.
Cost signal
$$$$ always-on DB compute/storage + HA options
Notes: RDS Custom for Oracle is separately retiring.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle

GARetiring$$$$$

Managed "custom" Oracle database offering: AWS states end of support Mar 31, 2027 and provides prescriptive migration guidance to self-managed Oracle on EC2.

Lifecycle
GA stage - Retiring (announced end date)
Availability / regions
Commercial (aws)
Typical use cases
Managed Oracle with deeper OS/DB customization requirementsregulated Oracle workloads requiring bespoke controlstransitional platform before self-managed EC2 migrationlift-and-shift for Oracle admins.
Cost signal
$$$$$ enterprise Oracle workloads + always-on DB compute/storage; often high licensing/IO
Notes: AWS recommends migration window Mar 31, 2026-Mar 31, 2027; unusable after Mar 31, 2027.

Amazon RDS on VMware

RetiredRetiredN/A (retired)

Hybrid RDS offering listed as having reached full shutdown on May 1, 2022.

Lifecycle
Retired/Discontinued stage - Retired (no longer available)
Availability / regions
N/A (full shutdown)
Typical use cases
Legacy on-prem RDS managementmigration to cloud RDS/Auroratransition planning for VMware-based DB opsdecommissioning.
Cost signal
N/A (retired)
Notes: Full shutdown date May 1, 2022.

Amazon Timestream

GAActive$$$

Time-series database service for storing and querying time-stamped data from IoT/app telemetry.

Lifecycle
GA stage - Active
Availability / regions
Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases
IoT telemetry storageinfrastructure metricsapplication performance time-seriesindustrial sensor analytics.
Cost signal
$$$ ingest/query volume; retention tiers
Notes: Timestream for LiveAnalytics is listed as maintenance (Jun 20, 2025) and reflects lifecycle changes for that capability/variant.
Methodology snapshot
This page stays intentionally close to the source report.

Every catalog entry is populated from the uploaded AWS services research report. The page does not invent alternative maturity labels or hide lifecycle exceptions.

When the report flags source conflicts, retirement windows, region limits, or replacement guidance, that note is surfaced directly on the service card so learners can make safer architecture choices.