The document provides usage guidelines for AWS Simple Icons as of version 15.9, emphasizing the importance of using icon labels and direct lines in architectural diagrams. It includes details on how to represent non-AWS technologies and a breakdown of various AWS services categorized by functions like storage, compute, analytics, and application services. Additionally, it mentions the correct terminology for referencing Amazon Mechanical Turk and outlines SDKs available for different programming languages.

1. AWS Simple Icons
v15.9
AWS Simple Icons: Usage Guidelines
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This version was last updated 1/28/2014
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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. These are often also referred to as
Console icons. These 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
May
cluster

2. Networking Analytics
Compute
Storage & Content Delivery
Developer Tools Management Tools Security & Identity
Application Services
Mobile Services Database Enterprise Applications
S3 CloudFront EFS Glacier
Storage
Gateway
API Gateway AppStream CloudSearch
Elastic
Transcoder
SES SQS SWF
Device Farm
Mobile
Analytics
Cognito SNS RDS DynamoDB ElastiCache RedShift WorkSpaces WorkDocs WorkMail
Lambda
EC2 Container
Service
Elastic
Beanstalk
EC2 VPC
Direct
Connect
Route 53 EMR Data Pipeline Kinesis
Machine
Learning
Elastic Load
Balancing
QuickSight
Elasticsearch
Service
CodeCommit CodeDeploy CodePipeline CloudWatch
Cloud
Formation
CloudTrail Config OpsWorks
Service
Catalog
Identity &
Access
Management
Directory
Service
Trusted
Advisor
Cloud HSM
Key
Management
Service
Web App
Firewall
Snowball
Simple DB
Database
Migration
Service
IOT
IoT
Hubs
Mobile Hub

3. Compute

4. Compute
EC2 EC2 Container
Service
Lambda Elastic
Beanstalk
Instance
Instances
AMI
DB on
Instance
Instance With
Cloud Watch
Elastic IP
Optimized
Instance
Application
Deployment
EC2 Container
Registry
Elastic Load
Balancing
Spot
Instance
Spot Fleet

5. Networking

6. Networking
Direct Connect Route 53
VPC
Router
Internet
Gateway
Customer
Gateway
VPN
Gateway
VPN Gateway
VPN Peering
Hosted Zone
Route Table

7. Analytics

8. Analytics
Data Pipeline Kinesis
EMR
Cluster
HDFS
Cluster
EMR Engine
EMR Engine
MapR M3
EMR Engine
MapR M5
EMR Engine
MapR M5
Kinesis
Enabled App
Machine Learning QuickSight Elasticsearch
Kinesis Streams
Kinesis Firehose
Kinesis Analytics

9. Developer Tools

10. Developer Tools
CodeDeploy CodePipeline
CodeCommit

11. Management Tools

12. Management Tools
CloudFormation CloudTrail
CloudWatch
Cluster
Config
OpsWorks
Template
Stack
Service Catalog
Layers Instances Apps
Deployments Monitoring Resources Permissions
Stack

13. Security & Identity

14. Security & Identity
Directory Service Trusted Advisor
Identity & Access Management
AWS Security
Token Service
Data Encryption
Key Key
Permissions
Role
Add-On Encrypted
Data
Long-Term
Security Credential
Temporary Security
Credential
MFA Team
AWS Security Token
Service (Alternate)
Cloud HSM
Key Management
Service
Web App Firewall

15. Storage & Content Delivery

16. Storage & Content Delivery
Glacier
S3
Bucket
Bucket with
Objects
Object
Cloud Front Storage Gateway EFS
Glacier
Archive
Glacier Vault
Download
Distribution
Streaming
Distribution
Edge
Location
Virtual Tape
Library
Non-Cached
Volume
Cached
Volume
Amazon Elastic
Block Store
Volume
Snapshot
AWS Import/Export
Snowball

17. Application Services

18. Application Services
API Gateway AppStream CloudSearch
SDF Metadata
Elastic
Transcoder
SES
Email
SQS
Queue
Message
SWF
Worker
Decider

19. Application Services

20. Application Services
Cognito Device Farm Mobile Analytics SNS
Email
Notification
HTTP
Notification
Topic

21. Database

22. Database
RDS DynamoDB ElastiCache RedShift
RDS DB
Instance
RDS DB Instance
Standby (Multi-AZ)
RDS DB Instance
Read Replica
MySQL DB
Instance
Oracle DB
Instance
MS SQL
Instance
SQL Slave
PIOP
SQL Master
Email
Notification
Item
Items
Attribute
Attributes
Global Secondary
Index
CacheNode
Redis
MemCached
Solid State
Disks
DW1 Dense
Compute
DW2 Dense
Compute
Postgre SQL
Instance
MySQL Instance
Alternate
MS SQL Instance
Alternate
Oracle DB
Instance Alternate

23. Database (Continued)
Simple DB Database
Migration
Service

24. Internet of Things (IOT)

25. Internet of Things (IOT)
IOT Thing
Lightbulb
IOT Thing House
IOT Thing Factory
IOT Thing
Bicycle
IOT Thing
Car
IOT Thing
Bank
IOT Thing Police
Emergency
IOT Thing
Door Lock
IOT Thing
Cart
IOT Thing
Coffee Pot
IOT Thing
Travel
IOT Thing
Thermostat
AWS IoT Generic IOT
Thing
IOT Thing
Windfarm
IOT Thing
Utility
IOT Thing
Camera
IOT Thing Medical
Emergency
IOT
Sensor
IOT
Servo
IOT
Actuator
IOT Desired
State
IOT
Shadow
IOT
Certificate
IOT
Action
IOT
Rule
IOT
Policy
IOT
Simulator
IOT Reported
State
IOT
Topic
IOT MQTT
Protocol
IOT HTTP
Protocol
IOT HTTP/2
Protocol
IOT Hardware
Board

26. Enterprise Applications

27. Enterprise Applications
WorkDocs WorkMail WorkSpaces

28. Hubs

29. Hubs
Mobile Hub

30. Non-Service Specific
user users
Internet
client mobile client multimedia
corporate
data center
traditional server disk generic database tape storage
AWS cloud
AWS Management
Console
virtual private cloud forums
AWS Simple Icons: Non-Service Specific

31. On-Demand Workforce
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Human
Intelligence Tasks
(HIT)
assignment/
task
Requester
workers
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.
AWS Simple Icons: On-Demand Workforce

32. SDKs
Java Python (boto) PHP .NET Ruby Node.js
iOS Android AWS Toolkit
for Visual
Studio
AWS Toolkit
for Eclipse
AWS Tools for
Windows
PowerShell
AWS CLI
AWS Simple Icons: SDKs
JavaScript

33. Groups
Auto Scaling group Availability Zone region security group
Elastic Beanstalk
container EC2 instance contents server contents
VPC subnet
AWS Simple Icons: Groups

34. Groups
virtual private cloud AWS cloud corporate data center
AWS Simple Icons: Groups

35. 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
AWS Simple Icons: Example 1