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 * **Amazon Athena:** It's a query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
 
-S3 File Gateway -> Provides your applications a file interface to seamlessly store files as objects in Amazon S3, and access them using industry-standard file protocols. Useful for migrating on-premises file data to Amazon S3, while maintaining fast local access to recently accessed data.
+* **S3 File Gateway:** Provides your applications a file interface to seamlessly store files as objects in Amazon S3, and access them using industry-standard file protocols. Useful for migrating on-premises file data to Amazon S3, while maintaining fast local access to recently accessed data.
 
-DynamoDB -> Autoscaling and DynamoDB Streams:
+* **DynamoDB:** Autoscaling and DynamoDB Streams:
 
 DynamoDB Streams captures a time-ordered sequence of item-level modifications in any DynamoDB table and stores this information in a log for up to 24 hours. Applications can access this log and view the data items as they appeared before and after they were modified, in near-real time.
 
-Amazon Aurora -> Relational database (RDBMS) built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. You can also use Aurora Serverless, that enables you to run your database in the cloud without worrying about database capacity management.
+* **Amazon Aurora:** Relational database (RDBMS) built for the cloud with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. You can also use Aurora Serverless, which enables you to run your database in the cloud without worrying about database capacity management.
 
-Amazon SQS -> Fully managed message queue and topic services that scale almost infinitely and provide simple, easy-to-use APIs
+* **Amazon SQS:** Fully managed message queue and topic services that scale almost infinitely and provide simple, easy-to-use APIs
 
-Amazon MQ -> Managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Amazon MQ is suitable for enterprise IT pros, developers, and architects who are managing a message broker themselves–whether on-premises or in the cloud–and want to move to a fully managed cloud service without rewriting the messaging code in their applications.
+* **Amazon MQ:** Managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Amazon MQ is suitable for enterprise IT pros, developers, and architects who are managing a message broker themselves–whether on-premises or in the cloud–and want to move to a fully managed cloud service without rewriting the messaging code in their applications.
 
-AWS Lambda is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It is designed to enable developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers. It executes code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code.
+* **AWS Lambda:** It is an event-driven, serverless computing platform provided by Amazon as a part of Amazon Web Services. It is designed to enable developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers. It executes code in response to events and automatically manages the computing resources required by that code.
 
-Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. APIs act as the "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your backend services. Using API Gateway, you can create RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs that enable real-time two-way communication applications. API Gateway supports containerized and serverless workloads, as well as web applications.
+* **Amazon API Gateway:** Fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. APIs act as the "front door" for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your backend services. Using API Gateway, you can create RESTful APIs and WebSocket APIs that enable real-time two-way communication applications. API Gateway supports containerized and serverless workloads, as well as web applications.
 
-Amazon Cognito is an identity platform for web and mobile apps. It’s a user directory, an authentication server, and an authorization service for OAuth 2.0 access tokens and AWS credentials. With Amazon Cognito, you can authenticate and authorize users from the built-in user directory, from your enterprise directory, and from consumer identity providers like Google and Facebook.
+* **Amazon Cognito:** Identity platform for web and mobile apps. It’s a user directory, an authentication server, and an authorization service for OAuth 2.0 access tokens and AWS credentials. With Amazon Cognito, you can authenticate and authorize users from the built-in user directory, from your enterprise directory, and from consumer identity providers like Google and Facebook.
 
-Machine Learning -> Polly, Rekognition, Transcribe
+Machine Learning -> Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. 
 
-X-ray -> see trace requests; detailed information about request/response
+Amazon Rekognition is a service that makes it easy to add powerful visual analysis to your applications. Rekognition Image lets you easily build powerful applications to search, verify, and organize millions of images. Rekognition Video lets you extract motion-based context from stored or live-stream videos and helps you analyze them.
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+Rekognition Image is an image recognition service that detects objects, scenes, activities, landmarks, faces, dominant colors, and image quality. Rekognition Image also extracts text, recognizes celebrities, and identifies inappropriate content in images. It also allows you to search and compare faces.
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+, Transcribe
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+* **X-ray:** see trace requests; detailed information about request/response
 Helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors.
 
-Amazon EventBridge - Serverless Event Bus to build event-driven apps at scale. It provides real-time access to changes in data in AWS services, your own applications, and software as a service (SaaS) applications without writing code. EventBridge also automatically ingests events from over 200 AWS services without requiring developers to create any resources in their account.
+* **Amazon EventBridge:** Serverless Event Bus to build event-driven apps at scale. It provides real-time access to changes in data in AWS services, your own applications, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications without writing code. EventBridge also automatically ingests events from over 200 AWS services without requiring developers to create any resources in their account.
 
-AWS Database Migration Services -> Cloud service that makes it possible to migrate relational databases, data warehouses, NoSQL databases, and other types of data stores. To migrate to a different database engine, you can use DMS Schema Conversion. This service automatically assesses and converts your source schemas to a new target engine.
+* **AWS Database Migration Services:** Cloud service that makes it possible to migrate relational databases, data warehouses, NoSQL databases, and other types of data stores. To migrate to a different database engine, you can use DMS Schema Conversion. This service automatically assesses and converts your source schemas to a new target engine.
 
-AWS DataSync -> transfer to S3, Amazon EFS, or Amazon FSx to and from AWS; good for migrate data, archive cold data, replicate data
+* **AWS DataSync:** transfer to S3, Amazon EFS, or Amazon FSx to and from AWS; good for migrate data, archive cold data, replicate data
 
-AWS Backup -> Service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services like S3, EC2, RDS, etc. It includes dashboards to track backup activities such as backup, copy, and restore jobs. It also provides a centralized console, automated backup scheduling, backup retention management, and backup monitoring and alerting.
+* **AWS Backup:** Service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services like S3, EC2, RDS, etc. It includes dashboards to track backup activities such as backup, copy, and restore jobs. It also provides a centralized console, automated backup scheduling, backup retention management, and backup monitoring and alerting.
 
-AWS Kinesis -> Family of services for processing and analyzing real-time streaming data at a large scale. Collect terabytes of data per day from application and service logs, clickstream data, sensor data, and in-app user events to power live dashboards, generate metrics, and deliver data into data lakes.
+* **AWS Kinesis:** Family of services for processing and analyzing real-time streaming data at a large scale. Collect terabytes of data per day from application and service logs, clickstream data, sensor data, and in-app user events to power live dashboards, generate metrics, and deliver data into data lakes.
 
 ## Conclusion