Amazon EC2

17 terms

Amazon EC2 terms

  1. Amazon Machine Image (AMI) (AMI) An encrypted machine image stored in Amazon Elastic Block Store or Amazon Simple Storage Service. AMIs are like a template of a computer's root drive.
  2. AMI (Amazon Machine Image) An AMI is a packaged environment that contains a configured Linux operating system...
  3. array An Array is a single server type used for horizontal scaling. It may be a single worker slave task plugged into our Grid system to scale based on the…
  4. AWS (Amazon Web Services) AWS is short for Amazon Web Services. In addition to selling books and variety of other consumer products, Amazon also offers a variety of web services…
  5. compute unit A compute unit is measurement tool used to compare and contrast different virtual servers (instances).
  6. deployment (1) The placement of force elements in battle positions to obtain a higher state of readiness.
  7. EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) EC2 stands for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. Using EC2 you can launch instances (specific packages of dedicated compute resources) that look and feel…
  8. explicit launch permission An Amazon Machine Image launch permission granted to a specific AWS account.
  9. group (also referred to as a Technology Center or TC) - a unit of several Group Art Units in the mechanical, electrical, chemical or design area, managed by one…
  10. instance Area of the game that is for you and your party alone.
  11. launch permission An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) attribute that allows users to launch an AMI.
  12. public access The access privilege in an access control list (ACL) that includes Depositor access and No Access and that allows reading, writing, and copying public…
  13. public AMI An Amazon Machine Image that all AWS accounts have permission to launch.
  14. reservation A collection of EC2 instances started as part of the same launch request.
  15. security group A named set of allowed inbound network connections for an instance. (Security groups in Amazon VPC also include support for outbound connections.
  16. shared AMI An AMI that users other than the owner have launch permissions for.
  17. SSH Key When you launch an image through AWS, you will specify a particular SSH Key to associate with that image.

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