Cloud Computing terms starting with E

20 terms

  1. EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) EC2 stands for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. Using EC2 you can launch instances (specific packages of dedicated compute resources) that look and feel…
  2. EC2 compute unit An AWS standard for compute CPU and memory. This measure enables you to evaluate the CPU capacity of different EC2 instance types.
  3. EC2 instance In Amazon EC2, this is simply an instance. Other AWS services use the term EC2 instance to distinguish these instances from other types of instances they…
  4. Elastic Block Store (EBS) Offers block level storage volumes for EC2 users. With Amazon EBS, users can decrease the risk of running into component failures as its feature…
  5. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) A web service that is central to Amazon’s cloud computing platform. It allows users to ‘rent’ from its resizable computing capacity and possibly…
  6. elastic IP address A fixed (static) IP address that you have allocated in Amazon EC2 or Amazon VPC and then attached to an instance.
  7. Elastic Load Balancing A web service that improves an application's availability by distributing incoming traffic between two or more EC2 instances. See Also http://aws.amazon.
  8. Elastic MapReduce (EMR) Allows any AWS user to process large amounts of data using a hosted Hadoop framework. This feature runs on the EC2 and S3 infrastructure.
  9. elastic network interface An additional network interface that can be attached to an instance. ENIs include a primary private IP address, one or more secondary private IP…
  10. ElastiCache Provides in-memory caching for web applications. Users can use this feature to retrieve information from in-memory caches faster than getting information…
  11. endpoint In clinical trials, an event or outcome that can be measured objectively to determine whether the intervention being studied is beneficial.
  12. endpoint port Amazon RDS: The port number used by a DB instance.
  13. ephemeral store See instance store>/a>.
  14. epoch The date from which time is measured. For most Unix environments, the epoch is January 1, 1970.
  15. eventual consistency The method through which AWS products achieve high availability, which involves replicating data across multiple servers in Amazon's data centers.
  16. eventually consistent read See consistent read.
  17. explicit deny An explicit deny results from a statement that has effect=deny, assuming that any stated conditions are met. Example: Deny all requests from Antarctica.
  18. explicit launch permission An Amazon Machine Image launch permission granted to a specific AWS account.
  19. exponential backoff A strategy that incrementally increases the wait between retry attempts in order to reduce the load on the system and increase the likelihood that…
  20. External Cloud A cloud computing environment that is external to the boundaries of the organization.