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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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AWS App Mesh

GARetiring$$$

Service mesh product listed in "Services in Sunset" with a published sunset date and AWS-provided migration path to Amazon ECS Service Connect.

Lifecycle: GA stage - Retiring (announced end date)
Availability / regions: Commercial (aws)
Typical use cases: mTLS/service-to-service authtraffic shaping and retries for microservicesstandardizing observability across servicesmesh-based policy enforcement.
Cost signal: $$$ control plane + sidecars + traffic; costs scale with service count and throughput

Notes: Sunset date Sep 30, 2026; migration called out in lifecycle table.

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AWS Global Accelerator

GAActive$$$

Networking service that improves availability and performance by routing traffic over the AWS global network to optimal endpoints.

Lifecycle: GA stage - Active
Availability / regions: Global service (commercial partitions)
Typical use cases: Global anycast front doormulti-region failoverlatency reduction for global appsDDoS hardening front end.
Cost signal: $$$ accelerator hours + data transfer

Notes: Listed among global endpoints guidance.

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AWS Private 5G

RetiredRetiredN/A (retired)

Private 5G offering listed as having reached full shutdown on May 20, 2025.

Lifecycle: Retired/Discontinued stage - Retired (no longer available)
Availability / regions: N/A (full shutdown)
Typical use cases: Legacy private cellular deploymentsmigration to alternate private wireless solutionsdecommission planningdevice/program wind-down.
Cost signal: N/A (retired)

Notes: Listed as full shutdown May 20, 2025.

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AWS PrivateLink

GAActive$$$

Private connectivity service enabling access to services across VPCs without traversing the public internet.

Lifecycle: GA stage - Active
Availability / regions: Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases: Private SaaS accesscross-account service exposureVPC endpoint architecturesregulatory network isolation.
Cost signal: $$$ endpoint hours + data processing

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AWS Transit Gateway

GAActive$$$$

Network hub service for connecting VPCs and on-prem networks at scale with centralized routing.

Lifecycle: GA stage - Active
Availability / regions: Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases: Hub-and-spoke multi-VPC networkson-prem integrationshared services VPC modelslarge enterprise routing domains.
Cost signal: $$$$ attachment hours + data processing at scale

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Amazon API Gateway

GAActive$$

Managed API front door for building and operating APIs with authorization, throttling, and integration to backends.

Lifecycle: GA stage - Active
Availability / regions: Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases: Serverless REST APIsmicroservice API gatewaysAPI key and usage plan managementrequest validation and throttling.
Cost signal: $$ per-request; can rise with high traffic and caching

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Amazon CloudFront

GAActive$$$

CDN service with global edge network for content delivery, security, and performance optimization.

Lifecycle: GA stage - Active
Availability / regions: Global service (commercial partitions)
Typical use cases: Static content accelerationvideo distributionAPI accelerationDDoS-resilient front door for apps.
Cost signal: $$$ data transfer + requests; egress-heavy workloads dominate

Notes: Treated as global/edge service in regional guidance.

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Amazon Route 53

GAActive$$

DNS and routing service listed as a global AWS service for endpoints purposes (global behavior).

Lifecycle: GA stage - Active
Availability / regions: Global service (commercial partitions)
Typical use cases: Public DNS zoneslatency/weighted routinghealth checks and failoverdomain registration and routing policies.
Cost signal: $$ hosted zones + queries; can rise with very high QPS

Notes: Global service concept referenced in AWS global services/region guidance.

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Amazon VPC

GAActive$$

Virtual network service providing isolation, subnets, routing, and security controls for AWS resources.

Lifecycle: GA stage - Active
Availability / regions: Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases: Network segmentationprivate subnets for databasesmulti-tier application networksVPC peering/transit architectures.
Cost signal: $$ VPC itself; costs mainly from NAT, endpoints, traffic

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Elastic Load Balancing

GAActive$$$

Managed load balancing across targets for scalable and fault-tolerant application traffic distribution.

Lifecycle: GA stage - Active
Availability / regions: Commercial (aws); regional availability varies
Typical use cases: Layer 7/4 load balancingblue/green deploymentscontainer ingressmulti-AZ high availability for services.
Cost signal: $$$ LCU/GB processing + always-on traffic

Notes: Also listed among core region-launch services on the AWS Services by Region page.

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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.