What are AWS decision guides?

Decision guides are designed to provide you with a detailed overview of the services offered by AWS, and structured guidance on how to choose the services that might be right for your use cases. Decision guides can also help you articulate and consider the criteria that will inform your choices. AWS offers services across many technology categories, and choosing the right service for your workload can be challenging. Decision guides simplify this process by organizing services into categories and providing structured frameworks for evaluation.

Some guides cover an entire service category, such as compute or databases, and help you choose among multiple options. Others compare two or three specific services head-to-head when you've narrowed your choices and need to understand the detailed differences.

Who should use decision guides?

Decision guides are useful for the following audiences:

• Technical decision makers — CTOs, solutions architects, and engineering leads evaluating and selecting AWS services for their organizations.

• Developers — Software engineers choosing between services for specific implementation requirements.

• Cloud practitioners — People getting started with AWS who need guidance on which services to use for common workloads.