# Aws abbreviations
# A
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| ACM | AWS Certificate Manager | |
| ARN | Amazon Resource Name | |
| ALB | Application Load Balancing | L7 |
| ASG | Auto Scaling Groups | |
| AMI | Amazon Machine Image | |
| ACL | Access Control List | |
| ASR | Automatic Speech Recognition |
# B
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| BCP | Business Continuity Plan |
# C
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| CSP | Cloud Service Provider | |
| CLI | AWS Command Line Interface | |
| CDK | Cloud Development Kit | |
| CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing / supernetting | a method of assigning IP addresses improves the efficiency of address distribution |
| CFN | AWS CloudFormation | |
| CRR | Cross-Region Replication | |
| CORS | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing | |
| CGW | Customer Gateway |
# D
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Server | translates human friendly hostnames into the machine IP addresses |
| DR | Disaster Recovery | |
| DC | Data Center | |
| DAX | DynamoDB Accelerator | inmemory cache for DynamoDB |
| DX | Direct Connect |
# E
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| SES | Amazon Simple Email Service | Detail (opens new window) |
| ECR | Amazon Elastic Container Registry | Detail (opens new window) |
| ECS | Amazon Elastic Container Service | Detail (opens new window) |
| ELB | Elastic Load Balancing | Detail (opens new window) |
| EC2 | Elastic Compute Cloud | |
| EFS | Elastic File System | |
| EBS | Elastic Block Store | |
| ENI | Elastic Network interface | |
| EIP | Elastic IP | Detail (opens new window) |
| ETL | Extract, Transform and Load | |
| ECMP | Equal-cost multi-path routing |
# F
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| FIFO | First In First Out |
# H
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| HA | Highly Availability | ensuring there is no SPOF |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
# I
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| IAM | Identity and Access Management | |
| IOPS | input/output operations per second | |
| IaC | Infrastructure as Code | |
| IA | Infrequent Access | |
| IANA | Internet Assigned Numbers Authority | |
| IGW | Internet Gateway |
# K
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| KMS | Key Management Service |
# N
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| NACL | Network Access Control List | Firewall works at Subnet level |
| NAT | Network Address Translation | |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing |
# M
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| MFA | Multi-Factor Authentication | |
| MSK | Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka |
# O
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| OAC | Origin Access Control | |
| OAC | Origin Access Identity |
# Q
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| QLDB | Quantum Ledger Database |
# R
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| RTO | Recovery Point Objective | the maximum acceptable amount of data loss |
| RPO | Recovery Time Objective | the maximum amount of downtime your busines |
| RAM | Resource Access Manager |
# S
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| S3 | Simple Storage Service | Detail (opens new window) |
| SES | ||
| SLA | Service-level agreements | |
| SLD | Second Level Domain | |
| SDK | Software Development Kit | |
| SG | Security Group | |
| SPOF | Single point of failure | |
| SRR | Same-Region Replication | |
| SSE | Server-Side Encryption | |
| SSE-S3 | SSE with Amazon S3-Managed Keys | |
| SSE-KMS | SSE with KMS Keys stored in AWS KMS | |
| SSE-C | SSE with Customer-Provided Keys | |
| SSD | Solid-state drive | |
| SQS | Simple Queue Service | |
| SNS | Simple Notification Service | |
| SSML | Speech Synthesis Markup Language |
# T
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| TLD | Top Level Domain | |
| TTL | Time to live | |
| TGW | Transit Gateway |
# P
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| PITR | Point-In-Time Recovery | |
| PHI | Protected Health Information |
# V
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| VPC | Virtual Private Cloud | |
| VGW | Virtual Private Gateway |
# W
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
|---|---|---|
| WAF | Web Application Firewall | Protects your web app |
| WORM | Write Once Read Many |