Amazon Web Services terms starting with A

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  1. access control list (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…
  2. access identifiers See credentials.
  3. 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.
  4. access policy language A language for writing documents (that is, policies) that specify who can access a particular AWS resource and under what conditions.
  5. Account An account consists of an email address and a password, used to log into a mail server to retrieve or send mail.
  6. 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.
  7. Action Case, cause, suit or controversy disputed or contested before a court.
  8. administrative suspension Auto Scaling might suspend processes for Auto Scaling group that repeatedly fail to launch instances.
  9. alarm Alert, Locate, and Report Missiles.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Amazon EBS-backed AMI Instances launched from this type of AMI use an Amazon EBS volume as their root device.
  13. Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector See http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vmimport.
  14. Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) A service that provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/ebs.
  15. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (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.
  16. 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…
  17. Amazon Machine Image (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.
  18. Amazon Payments See http://payments.amazon.com.
  19. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) A web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
  20. Amazon Resource Name (ARN) A standardized way to refer to an AWS resource. For example: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/division_abc/subdivision_xyz/Bob.
  21. 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.
  22. Amazon S3-Backed AMI Instances launched from this type of AMI use the instance store as their root device.
  23. Amazon Simple Notification Service (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.
  24. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Reliable and scalable hosted queues for storing messages as they travel between computers. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/sqs.
  25. Amazon Simple Storage Service (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.
  26. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) A web service that enables you to create a virtual network for your AWS resources. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/vpc.
  27. Amazon Web Services (AWS) An infrastructure web services platform in the cloud for companies of all sizes. See Also http://aws.amazon.com.
  28. AMI (Amazon Machine Image) An AMI is a packaged environment that contains a configured Linux operating system...
  29. 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…
  30. authentication The process of validating the credentials of a person, computer process, or device.
  31. 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.
  32. 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…
  33. Availability Zone A distinct location within a region that is insulated from failures in other Availability Zones, and provides inexpensive, low-latency network…
  34. 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…
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. AWS Management Console A graphical interface to manage compute, storage, and other cloud resources. See Also http://aws.amazon.com/console.
  39. AWS Resources See resource.