# Guided examples for calling Amazon Web Services services using the Amazon SDK for C\$1\$1
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If you are new to Amazon or the Amazon code examples, we recommend you start with [Getting started on code examples](getting-started-code-examples.md).

Source code that shows how to work with Amazon services using the Amazon SDK for C\$1\$1 is available in the [Code examples](cpp_code_examples.md) chapter of this guide or directly in the [Amazon Code Examples Repository](https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/tree/main/cpp/example_code) on GitHub. 

This section selects several Amazon services and guides you through the examples using them. The following guided examples are a subset of what is available on Github.


**Service examples with additional explanation (see [Amazon Code Examples Repository](https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/tree/main/cpp/example_code) for full list)**  

| Service | Summary of what the service provides to your program | 
| --- | --- | 
| [Amazon CloudWatch](examples-cloudwatch.md) | Collects and monitors metrics for Amazon resources you are using | 
| [Amazon DynamoDB](examples-dynamodb.md) | A NoSQL database service | 
| [Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud](examples-ec2.md) (Amazon EC2) | Secure, resizable compute capacity | 
| [Amazon Simple Storage Service](examples-s3.md) (Amazon S3) | Data storage and retrieval (objects into buckets) | 
| [Amazon Simple Queue Service](examples-sqs.md) (Amazon SQS) | Message queuing service to send, store, and receive messages between software components | 

There are also examples that show how to use [Asynchronous methods](async-methods.md).

To propose a new code example to the Amazon documentation team, see [Contributing guidelines](https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples/tree/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) on GitHub to create a new request. The team prefers to create code examples that show broad scenarios rather than individual API calls.

**Using the Code Examples on Windows**

If you are building the examples on Windows with SDK version 1.9, see [Troubleshooting Amazon SDK for C\$1\$1 build issues](troubleshooting-cmake.md).