AWS Decision Guides

Decision guides provide structured comparisons and guidance to help you evaluate AWS services, understand the criteria that inform your choices, and select the best options for your workloads.

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Decision guides by technology

Browse all decision guides organized by AWS technology category.

Analytics

Build your modern data architecture on AWS. This guide helps you break down data silos by connecting your data lake and data warehouses, and put data in the hands of everyone in your organization.

Compute

Choose the right AWS compute service for your modern app development. Whether you need virtual machines, containers, or serverless functions, this category helps you match your workload requirements to the right service.

Front-End Web & Mobile

Build your web or mobile app on AWS. This guide helps you explore business requirements and guides you through the architecture and hosting decisions you'll need to make.

Machine Learning

Choose AWS services for AI and machine learning workloads. ML provides tools to learn from data, identify patterns, and make predictions. Use these guides to choose the right service for generative AI, model training, or ML inference.

Management & Governance

Choose AWS monitoring, observability, governance, and cost management services. These guides help you select the tools that are the best fit for maintaining visibility into workload health and optimizing cloud spending.

Migration & IoT

Choose the right tools for migrating workloads to AWS or building IoT solutions. AWS offers tools for diverse migration strategies and purpose-built IoT services for device connectivity, data ingestion, and edge inference.

Networking & Content Delivery

Choose the networking and content delivery services that fit your needs. This guide helps you ask the right questions about connectivity, security, and performance for your network architecture.

Security, Identity, & Compliance

AWS offers tools and services across five domains to help you achieve and maintain robust security. Use these guides to choose services for protecting workloads, managing identities, and meeting compliance requirements.

Serverless & Application Integration

Choose the right serverless and integration services for your workloads. These guides help you evaluate serverless compute, API, and data services, as well as messaging, event-driven, and workflow services.

Storage & Databases

Choose the right AWS storage or database service for your data. AWS offers block, file, object, and cache storage options, plus purpose-built databases for relational, key-value, document, graph, and other data models.