Service Recognition
Other in-scope service recognition
A concise map for lower-frequency CLF-C02 offerings that should be recognized by their primary purpose without operational depth.
Key points
- Connect provides a cloud contact center; SES sends and receives email.
- CodeBuild builds code, CodePipeline automates delivery stages, and X-Ray traces distributed applications.
- WorkSpaces provides virtual desktops, Amazon AppStream 2.0 streams individual applications, and WorkSpaces Secure Browser provides managed browser access.
- Amplify supports web and mobile application development; IoT Core connects and manages device messaging.
- Recognition services include Comprehend for text insight, Polly for text-to-speech, Rekognition for image/video analysis, Textract for document extraction, Transcribe for speech-to-text, Translate for translation, and Amazon Q for AI assistance.
- AWS Control Tower establishes and governs a multi-account landing zone; AWS Service Catalog distributes administrator-approved product portfolios; Service Quotas shows and manages account quotas.
- AWS Systems Manager supports operational management, and its Parameter Store feature stores configuration values and SecureString parameters.
- Amazon API Gateway is a managed front door for APIs; AWS Directory Service provides managed directory capabilities; AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) shares supported resources across accounts.
- Amazon Macie discovers sensitive data in Amazon S3; AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery supports recovery of servers into AWS.
- AWS Compute Optimizer recommends rightsizing for supported resources based on utilization.
- AWS License Manager helps manage and track software licenses, including eligible BYOL usage.
- Amazon Detective helps investigate security findings and analyze their root cause.
Best-known use cases
- Identify an in-scope service from a plainly stated primary use case.
- Separate developer, end-user, business, IoT, AI, migration, and management categories.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Recognition coverage is not an instruction to memorize implementation details.
- Use the dedicated core references when a question requires a neighboring-service distinction.
Key takeaway
Know the primary verb or business outcome for long-tail services; do not infer deep configuration requirements.
Related services
- Amazon SageMaker AI and Amazon Lex
- Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and Amazon EventBridge
Relevant exam tasks
- D2.2 — Understand AWS Cloud security, governance, and compliance concepts.
- D2.3 — Identify AWS access management capabilities.
- D2.4 — Identify components and resources for security.
- D3.5 — Identify AWS network services.
- D3.6 — Identify AWS storage services.
- D3.7 — Identify AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) services and analytics services.
- D3.8 — Identify services from other in-scope AWS service categories.