Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Overview
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com.
Amazon Web Services’ offerings are accessed over HTTP, using Representational State Transfer (REST) and SOAP protocols.
AWS discovery shows the state and configuration of your cloud based on Amazon techonologies. The discovery of these low-level infrastructure services are supported:
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EC2 (Compute)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud. You define your virtual Amazon EC2 environment with the operating system, services, databases, and application platform stack required for your hosted application. Amazon EC2 provides a full management console and APIs to manage your compute resources.
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ECR
Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully managed Docker container registry that allows you to easily store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.
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ECS
Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a container management service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run applications on a managed cluster of Amazon EC2 instances.
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ELB
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) supports two types of load balancers: Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers. It automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. This increases the fault tolerance of your applications.
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RDS (Relational database)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a web service that provides capacity for MySQL or Oracle deployments in the cloud, while managing time consuming tasks like backup, scaling, and patching.
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S3 Bucket
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is cloud storage for the Internet. To upload your data, you first create a bucket in one of the AWS Regions. You can then upload any number of objects to the bucket.
For more information about the preceding services, refer to https://aws.amazon.com/.
For communication with AWS, discovery uses Amazon SDK and IAM service for the authentication.
