- EC2 - First service, spin up a box on the web
- Elastic Beanstalk - adds a layer of automation for EC2 by configuring the environment with it (Ruby, Docker, Go, PHP, etc)
- Lambda - used for event scheduling
- Simple Workflow Service (SWF) - build, run, and scale background jobs that have parallel or sequential steps
Lambda
- http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-scheduled-events.html
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/scheduling-ssh-jobs-using-aws-lambda/
Connect to EC2 instance
aws ec2 get-console-output --instance-id <instance-id>