.. _service_names: ============= Service Names ============= Since many places of ``boto`` leans on ``service_name``, the following is a mapping of ``service_name`` to AWS service: +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | "Human" Service Name | ``service_name`` | +==========================================+=======================+ | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | ``ec2`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Auto Scaling | ``ec2`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon CloudFront | ``cloudfront`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon DynamoDB | ``dynamodb`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon SimpleDB | ``simpledb`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) | ``rds`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon ElastiCache | ``elasticache`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Redshift | ``redshift`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Elastic MapReduce | ``emr`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Kinesis | ``kinesis`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | AWS Data Pipeline | ``datapipeline`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | AWS Elastic Beanstalk | ``elasticbeanstalk`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | AWS CloudFormation | ``cloudformation`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | AWS OpsWorks | ``opsworks`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | AWS CloudTrail | ``cloudtrail`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) | ``iam`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon CloudSearch | ``cloudsearch`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Elastic Transcoder | ``elastictranscoder`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) | ``swf`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) | ``sqs`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) | ``sns`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) | ``ses`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon CloudWatch | ``cloudwatch`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Route 53 | ``route53`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | ``ec2`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | AWS Direct Connect | ``directconnect`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Elastic Load Balancing | ``ec2`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) | ``s3`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Glacier | ``glacier`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | AWS Import/Export | ``importexport`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | AWS Storage Gateway | ``storagegateway`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | Amazon Mechanical Turk | ``mechanicalturk`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+ | AWS Support | ``support`` | +------------------------------------------+-----------------------+