Amazon Web Services

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1. 100-continue A method that enables a client to see if a server can accept a request before actually sending it.
2. access control list (ACL) (ACL) In Windows-based systems, a list of access control entries (ACE) that apply to an entire object, a set of the object's properties, or an individual…
3. access identifiers See credentials.
4. access key rotation A method to increase security by changing the AWS access key ID. This method enables you to retire an old key at your discretion.
5. access policy language A language for writing documents (that is, policies) that specify who can access a particular AWS resource and under what conditions.
6. Account An account consists of an email address and a password, used to log into a mail server to retrieve or send mail.
7. account activity A web page showing your month-to-date AWS usage and costs. The account activity page is located at http://aws.amazon.com/account-activity.
8. Action Case, cause, suit or controversy disputed or contested before a court.
9. administrative suspension Auto Scaling might suspend processes for Auto Scaling group that repeatedly fail to launch instances.
10. alarm Alert, Locate, and Report Missiles.
11. allow An allow results from a statement that has effect=allow, assuming any stated conditions are met. Example: Allow requests received before 1:00 p.m.
12. Amazon CloudWatch A web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics, and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics. See Also http://aws.
13. Amazon EBS-backed AMI Instances launched from this type of AMI use an Amazon EBS volume as their root device.
14. Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector See http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vmimport.
15. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) (EBS) A service that provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/ebs.
16. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) (EC2) A web service that enables you to launch and manage Linux/UNIX and Windows server instances in Amazon's data centers. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/ec2.
17. Amazon Elastic MapReduce A web service that makes it easy to process large amounts of data efficiently. Amazon EMR uses Hadoop processing combined with several AWS products to do…
18. 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.
19. Amazon Payments See http://payments.amazon.com.
20. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) (RDS) A web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
21. Amazon Resource Name (ARN) (ARN) A standardized way to refer to an AWS resource. For example: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/division_abc/subdivision_xyz/Bob.
22. Amazon Route 53 A web service you can use to create a new DNS service or to migrate your existing DNS service to the cloud. See Also http //aws.amazon.com/route53.
23. Amazon S3-Backed AMI Instances launched from this type of AMI use the instance store as their root device.
24. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) (SNS) A web service that enables applications, end-users, and devices to instantly send and receive notifications from the cloud. See Also http://aws.amazon.
25. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) (SQS) Reliable and scalable hosted queues for storing messages as they travel between computers. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/sqs.
26. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) (S3) Storage for the internet. You can use it to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/s3.
27. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) (VPC) A web service that enables you to create a virtual network for your AWS resources. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/vpc.
28. Amazon Web Services (AWS) (AWS) An infrastructure web services platform in the cloud for companies of all sizes. See Also http://aws.amazon.com.
29. AMI (Amazon Machine Image) An AMI is a packaged environment that contains a configured Linux operating system...
30. 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…
31. authentication The process of validating the credentials of a person, computer process, or device.
32. Auto Scaling A web service designed to launch or terminate instances automatically based on user-defined policies, schedules, and health checks. See Also http://aws.
33. Auto Scaling group A representation of multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances that share similar characteristics, and that are treated as a logical grouping for the…
34. Availability Zone A distinct location within a region that is insulated from failures in other Availability Zones, and provides inexpensive, low-latency network…
35. 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…
36. AWS CloudFormation A service for writing or changing templates that create and delete related AWS resources together as a unit. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation.
37. AWS Consolidated Billing A billing option that lets you get a single bill for multiple AWS accounts. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/consolidated-billing.
38. AWS Identity and Access Management A web service that enables Amazon Web Services customers to manage users and user permissions within AWS. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/iam.
39. AWS Management Console A graphical interface to manage compute, storage, and other cloud resources. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/console.
40. AWS Resources See resource.
41. basic monitoring Monitoring of AWS-provided metrics derived at a 5-minute frequency.
42. block A repetition/replication of the Early, Mid and Late Seral Treatment plots and a Control plot. See Repetition/replication.
43. block device A storage device that supports reading and (optionally) writing data in fixed-size blocks, sectors, or clusters.
44. block device mapping A mapping structure for every AMI and instance that specifies the block devices attached to the instance.
45. bootstrap action A user-specified default or custom action that runs a script or an application on all nodes of a job flow before Hadoop starts.
46. Border Gateway Protocol Autonomous System Number (BGP ASN) (BGP ASN) A unique identifier for a network, for use in BGP routing. Amazon EC2 supports all 2-byte ASN numbers in the range of 1 - 65334, with the exception of…
47. Breach 1. The breaking or violating of a law, right or duty, either by an act or omission. 2. The failure to carry out any condition of a contract.
48. bucket A part of an excavator which digs, lifts, and carries dirt.
49. bucket owner Just as Amazon is the only owner of the domain name Amazon.com, only one person or organization can own a bucket in Amazon S3.
50. bundling A commonly used term for creating an Amazon Machine Image. It specifically refers to creating Amazon S3-backed AMIs.
51. canned access policy A standard access control policy that you can apply to a bucket or object. Options include: private, public-read, public-read-write, and…
52. Canonical Name Record (CNAME) (CNAME) A type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS) that specifies that the domain name is an alias of another, canonical domain name.
53. canonicalization The process of converting data into a standard format that a service such as Amazon S3 can recognize.
54. Capacity Your ability to make your mortgage payments on time. This depends on your income and income stability (job history and security), your assets and savings…
55. capacity planning The process of determining which one of the 12 million potential configuration options on AWS a user should choose to optimize operations.
56. Cascading Cascading is an open-source Java library that provides a query API, a query planner, and a job scheduler for creating and running Hadoop MapReduce…
57. certificate Digital signature combining data verification and encryption key. See PKI Digital Signature.
58. chargeable resources Features or services whose use incurs fees. Although some AWS products are free, others include charges.
59. Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block (CIDR) An Internet protocol address allocation and route aggregation methodology. See Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIDR_notation.
60. CloudFormation Allows developers and systems administrators to easily create and manage a group of related AWS resources by provisioning and updating them in an…
61. CloudWatch A tracking service which allows developers and administrators to minitor resource utilization, application performance, and operational health.
62. cluster compute instance A type of instance that provides a great amount of CPU power coupled with increased networking performance, making it well suited for High Performance…
63. cluster placement group A logical cluster compute instance grouping to provide lower latency and high-bandwidth connectivity between the instances.
64. co-branding Running a business logo on a site or service that another company provides. Co-branding with Amazon Simple Pay, for example, is merely adding an…
65. compute unit A compute unit is measurement tool used to compare and contrast different virtual servers (instances).
66. condition A health problem with certain characteristics or symptoms.
67. conditional parameter See mapping.
68. consistency model The method a service uses to achieve high availability. For example, it could involve replicating data across multiple servers in a data center.
69. consistent read When data is written or updated successfully, all copies of the data are updated in all AWS regions.
70. Console A scroll-shaped projecting bracket that supports a horizontal member.
71. Consolidated Billing See AWS Consolidated Billing.
72. Content Distribution Network (CDN) (CDN) A large distributed system of servers deployed in data centers all across the internet.
73. cooldown period Amount of time during which Auto Scaling does not allow the desired size of the Auto Scaling group to be changed by any other notification from a…
74. core node An EC2 instance that runs Hadoop map and reduce tasks and stores data using the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
75. credentials Also called access credentials or security credentials. In authentication and authorization, a system uses credentials to identify who is making a call…
76. customer gateway A router or software application on your side of a VPN tunnel that is managed by Amazon VPC.
77. dashboard See definition for: digital dashboard
78. Data Pipeline A web service offered by Amazon which enables you to process and move data between different AWS services such as computing, storage and on-premise data…
79. database engine The database software and version running on the DB instance.
80. database name The name of a database hosted in a DB instance. A DB instance can host multiple databases, but databases hosted by the same DB instance must each have a…
81. DB compute class Size of the database compute platform used to run the instance.
82. DB instance An isolated database environment running in the cloud. A DB instance can contain multiple user-created databases.
83. DB instance identifier User-supplied identifier for the DB instance. The identifier must be unique for that user in an AWS region.
84. DB parameter group A container for database engine parameter values that apply to one or more DB instances.
85. DB security group A method that controls access to the DB instance. By default, network access is turned off to DB instances.
86. DB snapshot A user-initiated point backup of a DB instance.
87. Dedicated Instance An instance that is physically isolated at the host hardware level and launched within a VPC.
88. default deny The default result from a policy in the absence of an allow or explicit deny.
89. delete marker An object with a key and version ID, but without content. Amazon S3 inserts delete markers automatically into versioned buckets when an object is deleted.
90. deployment (1) The placement of force elements in battle positions to obtain a higher state of readiness.
91. Description property A property added to parameters, resources, resource properties, mappings, and outputs, to help you to document AWS CloudFormation template elements.
92. detailed monitoring Monitoring of AWS-provided metrics derived at a 1-minute frequency.
93. dimension A name/value pair (for example, InstanceType=m1.small, or EngineName=mysql), that contains additional information to identify a metric.
94. Disaster Recovery (DR) (DR) An architecture is a prevention mechanism that scales up immediately and enable a rapid failover in case of a failure in users’ critical IT systems.
95. discussion forums A place where AWS users can post technical questions and feedback to help accelerate their development efforts and to engage with the AWS community.
96. distributed cache A Hadoop feature that allow you to transfer files from a distributed file system to the local file system.
97. Domain Name System (DNS) (DNS) Hierarchical distributed database used for name/address translation and client-server rendezvous.
98. DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) (DKIM) A standard that email senders use to sign their messages. ISPs use those signatures to verify that messages are legitimate.
99. Donation button An HTML-coded button to provide an easy and secure way for US-based, IRS-certified 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations to solicit donations.
100. Dynamo DB A NoSQL database service offered by Amazon that allows guaranteed throughput and low latency, making it suitable for users interested in gaming, ad tech…