An overview of recent ATLAS results

The ATLAS experiment at the LHC collider has been successfully taking data since the end of 2009, both in proton-proton collisions at center of mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, and in heavy ion collisions. The ATLAS detector has been designed to cover a wide range of physics topics, from the search for the Higgs boson, precision measurements of Standard Model physics, heavy flavor physics, and to maximize the potential for the discovery of new physics. In this presentation, some of the most important recent ATLAS results will be given for the Standard Model measurements, for the searches for supersymmetry and exotica, and for the heavy ion results. All of the results concerning the properties of the newly discovered Higgs boson are presented in a separate contribution by IlyaTsukerman \cite{higgs} in these proceedings.