Amazon Web Services terms starting with D

24 terms

  1. dashboard See definition for: digital dashboard
  2. 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…
  3. database engine The database software and version running on the DB instance.
  4. 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…
  5. DB compute class Size of the database compute platform used to run the instance.
  6. DB instance An isolated database environment running in the cloud. A DB instance can contain multiple user-created databases.
  7. DB instance identifier User-supplied identifier for the DB instance. The identifier must be unique for that user in an AWS region.
  8. DB parameter group A container for database engine parameter values that apply to one or more DB instances.
  9. DB security group A method that controls access to the DB instance. By default, network access is turned off to DB instances.
  10. DB snapshot A user-initiated point backup of a DB instance.
  11. Dedicated Instance An instance that is physically isolated at the host hardware level and launched within a VPC.
  12. default deny The default result from a policy in the absence of an allow or explicit deny.
  13. 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.
  14. deployment (1) The placement of force elements in battle positions to obtain a higher state of readiness.
  15. Description property A property added to parameters, resources, resource properties, mappings, and outputs, to help you to document AWS CloudFormation template elements.
  16. detailed monitoring Monitoring of AWS-provided metrics derived at a 1-minute frequency.
  17. dimension A name/value pair (for example, InstanceType=m1.small, or EngineName=mysql), that contains additional information to identify a metric.
  18. Disaster Recovery (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.
  19. 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.
  20. distributed cache A Hadoop feature that allow you to transfer files from a distributed file system to the local file system.
  21. Domain Name System (DNS) Hierarchical distributed database used for name/address translation and client-server rendezvous.
  22. DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) A standard that email senders use to sign their messages. ISPs use those signatures to verify that messages are legitimate.
  23. 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.
  24. 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…