This document provides guidelines for using AWS Simple Icons including: - Always check for the most recent icon set and label all icons - Represent non-AWS technologies like servers with a gray icon - Use direct lines and whitespace in diagrams and label all icons - Product icons can represent a service at a more general level

1. AWS Simple Icons v2.1
Usage Guidelines
Check to make sure you have the most recent
set of AWS Simple Icons.
This version was last updated 4/18/2013 (v2.1) Find
the most recent set at
aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/
Always use Icon labels – Be sure to always
include a label below the icon or on the group in
Arial. The only exception is in complex diagrams,
you have the option to create a key.
Non-AWS Technology – Any server or other non-
AWS technology in an architecture diagram should
be represented with they grey server (see Slide 8).
Creating diagrams – Try to use direct lines (rather
than ‘criss-cross’), use adequate whitespace, and
remember to label all icons.
Product Icons – The first icon in most service sets is
a product icon. This should be used to represent the
service on a more general level when you will not be
going into as much depth.
Traditional
Server
Amazon EC2
18
April

2. Compute and Networking
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon Elastic MapReduce Auto Scaling Elastic Network Instance
Amazon EC2 Instance Instances AMI
DB on
Instance
Instance with
CloudWatch
Elastic IP
Amazon EMR Cluster HDFS Cluster Auto Scaling
Elastic Network
Instance

3. Compute and Networking
Amazon Route 53 Elastic Load Balancing AWS Direct Connect
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
Route 53 Hosted Zone Route Table
Elastic Load
Balancing
AWS Direct Connect
Amazon VPC Router
Internet
Gateway
Customer
Gateway
VPN
Gateway
VPN
Connection

4. Storage and Content Delivery
Amazon Simple Storage Service
Amazon Elastic Block Store
AWS Import/Export
AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon S3 Bucket
Bucket with
Objects
Object AWS Import/ Export
AWS Storage GatewayVolume SnapshotAmazon EBS

5. Storage and Content Delivery
Amazon Glacier
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Glacier Glacier Archive Glacier Vault
CloudFront Download
Distribution
Edge LocationStreaming
Distribution

6. Database
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Relational Database Service
TableDynamoDB Item Items Attribute Attributes
Amazon RDS
RDS DB
Instance
RDS DB Instance
Standby
(Multi-AZ)
RDS DB
Instance Read
Replica
MySQL DB
Instance
Oracle DB
Instance
MS SQL
Instance

7. Database
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon Redshift
Amazon SimpleDB
ElastiCache
ElastiCache
Cache Node
DomainAmazon SimpleDB
Amazon Redshift

8. Deployment & Management
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon CloudWatch
AWS Identity and Access Management
Elastic Beanstalk Application Deployment
IAM IAM Add-on STS
AWS
CloudFormation
Template Stack
CloudWatch Alarm
AWS Data Pipeline
OpsWorks
OpsWorks
AWS Data Pipeline

9. App Services
Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon Simple Notification Service
Amazon Simple Email Service
Amazon SES Email
Amazon SNS Email Notification HTTP Notification Topic
Amazon
CloudSearch
SDF metadata

10. App Services
Amazon Simple Queue Service
Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Amazon Simple Workflow
Amazon SQS Queue Message Amazon SWF Decider Worker
Amazon Elastic
Transcoder

11. Non-Service Specific
User UsersInternetClient Mobile Client Multimedia
Corporate
Data Center
Traditional Server Disk Generic Database Tape Storage
AWS Cloud
AWS Management
Console
Virtual Private Cloud Forums

12. On-Demand Workforce
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Human Intelligence
Tasks (HIT)
Assignment/
Task
RequesterWorkers
Amazon
Mechanical Turk
Mechanical Turk vs. Amazon Mechanical Turk
Do not use simple "Mechanical Turk" to refer to Amazon Mechanical Turk. Use
Amazon Mechanical Turk to describe the entire system, Amazon Mechanical
Turk website for the worker website, and Amazon Mechanical Turk web
service to describe the product.

13. SDKs
Java Python PHP .NET Ruby nodeJS
iOS Android AWS Toolkit for
Visual Studio
AWS Toolkit
for Eclipse
Tools for Windows
PowerShell
CLI

14. Groups
Auto scaling Group Availability Zone Region Security Group
Elastic Beanstalk
Container EC2 Instance Contents VPC Subnet Server Contents

15. Groups
Virtual Private Cloud AWS Cloud Corporate Data center

16. Example 1: 2-Tier Auto-scalable Web Application Architecture in 1 AZ
Auto scaling Group
Availability Zone #1
www.example.com
Security Group
Security Group
Root Volume
Data Volume
media.example.com
Elastic Load
Balancing
Amazon
S3 Bucket
Logs
Amazon
EBS Snapshot
CloudFront
Distribution
EC2 Instance
Web App
Server