diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b74c860..2ae8fc6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -37,11 +37,12 @@ The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services - [Disclaimer](#disclaimer) - [License](#license) -**List of Tables** +**Figures and Tables** -- [Service Matrix](#service-matrix) -- [AWS Product Maturity and Releases](#aws-product-maturity-and-releases) -- [Storage Durability, Availability, and Price](#storage-durability-availability-and-price) +- [Tools and Services Market Landscape](#tools-and-services-market-landscape): A selection of third-party companies/products +- [Service Matrix](#service-matrix): How AWS services compare to alternatives +- [AWS Product Maturity and Releases](#aws-product-maturity-and-releases): AWS product releases +- [Storage Durability, Availability, and Price](#storage-durability-availability-and-price): A quantitative comparison Why an Open Guide? ------------------ @@ -204,6 +205,16 @@ General Information - ๐Ÿ•[OpsWorks](https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/): Management of your deployments using Chef. While Chef is popular, it seems few people use OpsWorks, since it involves going in on a whole different code deployment framework. - [AWS in Plain English](https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english) offers more friendly explanation of what all the other different services are. +### Tools and Services Market Landscape + +There are now enough cloud and โ€œbig dataโ€ enterprise companies and products few can keep up with the market landscape. (See the [Big Data Evolving Landscape โ€“ 2016](https://practicalanalytics.co/2016/02/09/big-data-evolving-landscape-2016/) for one attempt at this.) + +Weโ€™ve assembled a landscape of a few of the services. This is far from complete, but tries to emphasize services that are popular with AWS practitioners โ€” services that specifically help with AWS, or a complementary, or tools almost anyone using AWS must learn. + +![Popular Tools and Services for AWS Practitioners](figures/aws-market-landscape.png) + +๐Ÿšง *Suggestions to improve this figure? Please [file an issue](CONTRIBUTING.md).* + ### Common Concepts - ๐Ÿ“’ The AWS [**General Reference**](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/Welcome.html) covers a bunch of common concepts that are relevant for multiple services. diff --git a/figures/aws-market-landscape.png b/figures/aws-market-landscape.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1cec447 Binary files /dev/null and b/figures/aws-market-landscape.png differ