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AWS cloud sandbox

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    • The AWS cloud sandbox provides a real AWS environment where you learn through hands-on practice. This article details levels of support, limits, and restrictions to AWS services in the sandbox. 

    Tip: See our AI sandboxes article for a list of supported services in the AWS AI cloud sandbox. See Cloud sandboxes: getting started for specific instructions on how to start and sign in to the sandbox of your choice.

    Global restrictions

    The AWS cloud sandbox is compatible with a variety of tools and services within AWS. While we strive to offer you the most comprehensive training opportunity possible, there are some limits to what we can provide in a sandbox environment.

    We enforce the following restrictions on our AWS sandbox. If you don’t have access to perform an action in the sandbox, you’ll be notified according to our Hands-on Playground and labs abuse protocol.

    Regions

    Actions in the AWS cloud sandbox are restricted to us-east-1 and us-west-2 only.

    User permissions

    The cloud_user role is provided for use in sandbox and lab environments.

    Billing

    Users cannot access purchasing or billing permissions, including access to cost data or budgets.

    Supported AWS services

    Reference the table below to determine whether an AWS service is supported in the sandbox and to see additional limits and restrictions.

    Note: This list is subject to change. We reserve the right to add, remove, or modify support for cloud services at any time.

    Service name Level of support
    Analytics
    Amazon Athena Supported
    Amazon CloudSearch Not supported
    Amazon DataZone (Preview) Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon EMR

    Conditionally supported:

    • Allowed instance types: m4.large and m5.large
    Amazon FinSpace Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Kinesis Supported
    Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Supported
    Amazon OpenSearch Service

    Conditionally supported:

    • Allowed instance types: t2 or t3 micro, small, or medium instance types
    • Max seven instances
    OpenSearch Serverless Will not support
    Amazon QuickSight Will not support
    Amazon Redshift

    Conditionally supported:

    • Allowed instance types: ra3.large
    • Max two nodes in a cluster

    Not supported:

    • Redshift Serverless
    AWS Clean Rooms (Preview) Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Data Exchange Will not support
    AWS Data Pipeline Not supported
    AWS Glue

    Conditionally supported:

    Limits

    • Jobs count - Maximum 3 jobs
    • Jobs total DPU usage - Maximum 4 DPU (total across all jobs, not per job)
    • Job runs DPU hours - Maximum 6 DPU hours used in all job runs across all jobs
    • Sessions - Max 10 DPU hours across all sessions

    Restrictions

    • Sessions disabled
    AWS Lake Formation Not supported/potential to support
    Application Integration
    Amazon AppFlow Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon EventBridge Supported
    Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Will not support
    Amazon MQ Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Supported
    Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Supported
    AWS Step Functions Supported
    Blockchain
    AWS Managed Blockchain Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) Not supported/potential to support
    Business Applications
    Alexa for Business Will not support
    Amazon Chime Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Chime SDK Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Connect Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Honeycode Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Pinpoint Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Simple Email Service (SES)

    Conditionally supported:

    • Max 19 email delivery attempts in a single lab
    • Can only send emails to:
      • Accounts with the domain @example.com
      • Test emails with the SES simulator
      • Yourself (use the exact same email in from and to fields)
    Amazon WorkDocs Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon WorkMail Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Supply Chain (preview) Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Wickr Not supported/potential to support
    Cloud Financial Management
    AWS Budgets Will not support
    AWS Cost and Usage Report
    AWS Cost Explorer
    Reserved Instance (RI) Reporting
    Savings Plans
    Marketplace Subscriptions
    Compute
    Amazon EC2

    Conditionally supported:

    • Allowed instance types: t2, t3, t3a, t4g in micro, small, and medium sizes
    • Max volume size of 100 GB
    • No more than nine concurrent instances (includes stopped instances, excludes terminated instances)
    • Default tenancy only
    • Monitored for appropriate use
    Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
    Amazon EC2 Image Builder
    Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Will not support
    Amazon Lightsail Will not support
    AWS App Runner Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Auto Scaling Supported
    AWS Batch Supported
    AWS Compute Optimizer Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk Supported
    AWS Lambda

    Conditionally supported:

    • Max 2048 MB memory per function
    • Max 10 total functions

    Durable functions in Lambda are not supported.
    AWS Local Zones Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Outposts Will not support
    AWS Serverless Application Repository Not supported/potential to support
    AWS SimSpace Weaver Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Wavelength Not supported/potential to support
    VMWare Cloud on AWS Not supported/potential to support
    Containers
    Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Supported
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Supported
    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)

    Conditionally supported:

    • Clusters must use standard support versions
    • Extended support versions not permitted due to cost
    AWS App2Container Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Copilot Supported (developer tool)
    AWS Fargate

    Conditionally supported:

    • Max four running tasks at once
    • Max 2048 allocated CPU per instance
    • Max 4096 allocated memory per instance
    Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS Will not support
    Customer Enablement
    Managed Services Will not support
    Support Will not support
    Database
    Amazon DocumentDB Supported
    Amazon DynamoDB Supported
    Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)

    Conditionally supported:

    • Allowed node types: t2 or t3 small or medium
    • Max nine clusters
    Amazon ElastiCache

    Conditionally supported:

    • Allowed instance types: t2 or t3 micro, small, or medium
    • Max nine nodes across all clusters
    Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) Supported
    Amazon MemoryDB for Redis Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Neptune Supported
    Amazon RDS

    Conditionally supported:

    Limits

    • Allowed instance types: t3 or t4g micro, small, or medium
    • Max storage size of 50 GB

    Restrictions

    • Cannot use provisioned IOPS
    Amazon Timestream Supported
    Developer Tools
    Amazon CodeCatalyst (preview) Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon CodeGuru Supported
    AWS Cloud Control API Supported
    AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Supported (developer tool)
    AWS Cloud9 Not supported
    AWS CloudShell Supported
    AWS CodeArtifact Supported
    AWS CodeBuild

    Conditionally supported:

    • Allowed instance types: small or medium general instances
    AWS CodeCommit Not supported
    AWS CodeDeploy Supported
    AWS CodePipeline Supported
    AWS CodeStar Supported
    AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) Supported (developer tool)
    AWS Device Farm Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Fault Injection Simulator

    Conditionally supported:

    • Max 20 minutes action time per lab/sandbox
    AWS Tools and SDKs Supported (developer tool)
    AWS X-Ray Supported
    Amazon CodeWhisperer Will not support
    End-User Computing
    Amazon AppStream 2.0 Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon WorkSpaces Family Not supported/potential to support
    Front-End Web and Mobile
    Amazon API Gateway Supported
    Amazon Location Service Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Amplify Supported
    AWS AppSync Not supported/potential to support
    Internet of Things
    AWS IoT Core Supported
    AWS IoT FleetWise Not supported/potential to support
    AWS IoT SiteWise Not supported/potential to support
    AWS IoT TwinMaker Not supported/potential to support
    AWS IoT Greengrass Supported
    AWS IoT 1-Click Supported
    AWS IoT Analytics Not supported
    AWS IoT Button Will not support
    AWS IoT Device Defender Not supported/potential to support
    AWS IoT Device Management Not supported/potential to support
    AWS IoT Events Not supported/potential to support
    AWS IoT RoboRunners Not supported/potential to support
    FreeRTOS Not supported/potential to support
    Machine Learning
    Amazon Augmented AI Conditionally supported (see SageMaker entry)
    Amazon Bedrock Conditionally supported in AWS AI cloud sandbox
    Amazon Comprehend

    Conditionally supported:

    • No custom classifiers
    • No custom entity Recognizers
    • No custom endpoints
    Amazon Comprehend Medical
    Amazon DevOps Guru Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Elastic Inference Will not support
    Amazon Forecast Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Fraud Detector Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon HealthLake Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Kendra Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Lex Supported
    Amazon Lookout for Equipment Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Lookout for Metrics Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Lookout for Vision Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Monitron Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Omics Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Personalize Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Polly Supported
    Amazon Rekognition Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon SageMaker Conditionally supported in AWS AI cloud sandbox
    Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Will not support
    Amazon Textract Not supported
    Amazon Transcribe Supported
    Amazon Translate Will not support
    AWS DeepComposer Not supported/potential to support
    AWS DeepLens Not supported/potential to support
    AWS DeepRacer Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Inferentia Will not support
    AWS Panorama Not supported/potential to support
    Management and Governance
    Amazon CloudWatch Supported
    Amazon Managed Grafana Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Chatbot Not supported/potential to support
    AWS CloudFormation Supported
    AWS CloudTrail Supported
    AWS Config Supported
    AWS Control Tower Will not support
    AWS Launch Wizard Not supported/potential to support
    AWS License Manager Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Managed Services Will not support
    AWS Management Console Supported
    AWS Management Console Mobile Application Will not support
    AWS OpsWorks Supported
    AWS Organizations Will not support
    AWS Personal Health Dashboard Will not support
    AWS Proton Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Resilience Hub Not supported/potential to support
    Resource Groups and Tag Editor Supported
    AWS Service Catalog Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Service Management Connector Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Systems Manager

    Conditionally supported:

    • Cannot use custom inventories
    AWS Trusted Advisor Not supported/potential to support
    AWS User Notifications

    Conditionally supported:

    • us-east-1 only
    AWS Well-Architected Tool Not supported/potential to support
    Media Services
    Amazon Elastic Transcoder Supported
    Amazon Interactive Video Service Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Supported
    Amazon Nimble Studio Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Elemental Appliances and Software Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Elemental MediaConnect Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Elemental MediaConvert Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Elemental MediaLive Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Elemental MediaPackage Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Elemental MediaStore Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Elemental MediaTailor Supported
    Migration and Transfer
    AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Application Discovery Service Supported
    AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Supported
    AWS DataSync Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Mainframe Modernization Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Migration Hub Supported
    Server Migration Service Deprecated
    AWS Transfer Family Not supported/potential to support
    Migration Evaluator (formerly TSO Logic) Will not support
    Networking and Content Delivery
    Amazon CloudFront Supported
    Amazon Route 53

    Conditionally supported:

    • Route 53 Profiles, Recovery, and Domains not supported
    Amazon VPC Supported
    AWS App Mesh Supported
    AWS Cloud Map Supported
    AWS Cloud WAN Will not support
    AWS Direct Connect Will not support
    AWS Global Accelerator Will not support
    AWS Private 5G Will not support
    AWS PrivateLink Will not support
    AWS Transit Gateway Will not support
    AWS Verified Access (preview) Not supported/potential to support
    AWS VPN Not supported/potential to support
    Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Supported
    Quantum Technologies
    Amazon Braket Not supported/potential to support
    Robotics
    AWS RoboMaker Not supported/potential to support
    Satellite
    AWS Ground Station Not supported/potential to support
    Security, Identity, and Compliance
    Amazon Cognito Supported
    Amazon Detective Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon GuardDuty Supported
    Amazon Inspector Supported
    Amazon Macie Will not support
    Amazon Security Lake (preview) Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Verified Permissions (preview) Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Artifact Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Audit Manager Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Certificate Manager

    Conditionally supported

    • Exportable certificates not supported
    AWS CloudHSM Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Directory Service Supported
    AWS Firewall Manager Not supported/potential to support
    AWS IAM Access Analyzer Will not support
    AWS IAM Identity Center

    Conditionally supported:

    • Cannot modify cloud_user or admin role
    • Cannot create account alias
    • Cannot use or set up SSO/MFA
    • Cannot modify Password Policy
    • Cannot modify the STS global endpoint token version
    AWS Identity and Access Management Supported
    AWS Key Management Service (KMS) Supported
    AWS Network Firewall Supported
    AWS Resource Access Manager Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Secrets Manager Supported
    AWS Security Hub

    Conditionally supported:

    Limits

    • Use allowed on individual account only

    Restrictions

    • Cannot accept invitations to join as a member
    • Cannot create or invite new members
    AWS Shield Not supported/potential to support
    AWS WAF Supported
    Storage
    Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Supported
    Amazon FSx

    Conditionally supported:

    • Cannot use FileCache
    Amazon S3 Glacier Not supported/potential to support
    Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Supported
    AWS Backup

    Conditionally supported:

    • Cannot create legal holds
    AWS Snow Family Will not support
    AWS Storage Gateway Not supported/potential to support
    AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Not supported/potential to support

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