Amazon Web Services terms starting with I

16 terms

  1. Identity and Access Management (IAM) A service that is used to authenticate access to the various services of AWS. IAM allows users to securely control access to their infrastructure and…
  2. Image To image a hard drive is to make an identical copy of the hard drive, including empty sectors.
  3. Import/Export A storage and content delivery service that accelerates the rate it takes to move large amounts of data into and out of AWS using storage devices that are…
  4. Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) A cloud computing service model that delivers computing, storage and network resources to users via the cloud.
  5. instance Area of the game that is for you and your party alone.
  6. instance family A general instance type grouping using either storage or CPU capacity.
  7. instance group A Hadoop cluster contains one master instance group that contains one master node, a core instance group containing one or more core node and an optional…
  8. instance store Disk storage that is physically attached to the host computer for an EC2 instance, and therefore has the same lifespan as the instance.
  9. instance store-backed AMI Instances launched from this type of AMI use an instance store volume as the root device.
  10. instance type A specification that defines the memory, CPU, storage capacity, and hourly cost for an instance.
  11. Internet gateway Connects a network to the Internet. You can route traffic for IP addresses outside your VPC to the Internet gateway.
  12. Internet Service Provider (ISP) A company that provides subscribers with access to the Internet. Many ISPs are also mailbox providers.
  13. intrinsic function A special action in a template that assigns values to properties not available until runtime.
  14. IP Address A string of four numbers separated by periods used to represent a computer on the Internet.
  15. issuer Issuer means any person who issues or proposes to issue any security. Corporations, for example, may issue stock to the public, limited partnerships may…
  16. item A column of information in an attribute table, for example, a single attribute of a record in an INFO data file.