Amazon Web Services terms starting with C

26 terms

  1. 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…
  2. Canonical Name Record (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.
  3. canonicalization The process of converting data into a standard format that a service such as Amazon S3 can recognize.
  4. 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…
  5. capacity planning The process of determining which one of the 12 million potential configuration options on AWS a user should choose to optimize operations.
  6. 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…
  7. certificate Digital signature combining data verification and encryption key. See PKI Digital Signature.
  8. chargeable resources Features or services whose use incurs fees. Although some AWS products are free, others include charges.
  9. Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block An Internet protocol address allocation and route aggregation methodology. See Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIDR_notation.
  10. CloudFormation Allows developers and systems administrators to easily create and manage a group of related AWS resources by provisioning and updating them in an…
  11. CloudWatch A tracking service which allows developers and administrators to minitor resource utilization, application performance, and operational health.
  12. 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…
  13. cluster placement group A logical cluster compute instance grouping to provide lower latency and high-bandwidth connectivity between the instances.
  14. 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…
  15. compute unit A compute unit is measurement tool used to compare and contrast different virtual servers (instances).
  16. condition A health problem with certain characteristics or symptoms.
  17. conditional parameter See mapping.
  18. 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.
  19. consistent read When data is written or updated successfully, all copies of the data are updated in all AWS regions.
  20. Console A scroll-shaped projecting bracket that supports a horizontal member.
  21. Consolidated Billing See AWS Consolidated Billing.
  22. Content Distribution Network (CDN) A large distributed system of servers deployed in data centers all across the internet.
  23. 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…
  24. core node An EC2 instance that runs Hadoop map and reduce tasks and stores data using the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
  25. credentials Also called access credentials or security credentials. In authentication and authorization, a system uses credentials to identify who is making a call…
  26. customer gateway A router or software application on your side of a VPN tunnel that is managed by Amazon VPC.