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 |
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| BCP | Business Continuity Plan | |
C
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
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| 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 |
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| HA | Highly Availability | ensuring there is no SPOF |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive | |
I
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
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| 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 |
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| OAC | Origin Access Control | |
| OAC | Origin Access Identity | |
Q
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
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| 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 |
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| PITR | Point-In-Time Recovery | |
| PHI | Protected Health Information | |
V
| Abbr | Meaning | Desc |
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| 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 | |