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
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 | |