Amazon Web Services terms starting with B

10 terms

1. basic monitoring Monitoring of AWS-provided metrics derived at a 5-minute frequency.
2. block A repetition/replication of the Early, Mid and Late Seral Treatment plots and a Control plot. See Repetition/replication.
3. block device A storage device that supports reading and (optionally) writing data in fixed-size blocks, sectors, or clusters.
4. block device mapping A mapping structure for every AMI and instance that specifies the block devices attached to the instance.
5. 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.
6. Border Gateway Protocol Autonomous System Number (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…
7. 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.
8. bucket A part of an excavator which digs, lifts, and carries dirt.
9. 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.
10. bundling A commonly used term for creating an Amazon Machine Image. It specifically refers to creating Amazon S3-backed AMIs.