.. _service_names:

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Service Names
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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``           |
+------------------------------------------+-----------------------+