control planes and data planes

• Control planes provide the administrative APIs used to create, read/describe, update, delete, and list (CRUDL) resources
• The data plane is what provides the primary function of the service

Both works together for a service to work but AWS separates them for perfomance and availability

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-fault-isolation-boundaries/control-planes-and-data-planes.html