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Acronyms

  • ACM - AWS Certificate Manager
  • ACL - Access Control Lists
  • AMI - Amazon Machine Image
  • AZ - Availability Zones
  • AWS KMS(Key Management Service)
  • CMK (Customer Master Key)
  • CDN - Content Delivery Network
  • CLB - Classic Load Balancer
  • DNS - Domain Name Systems
  • EFS - Elastic File Service
  • EBS - Elastic Block Storage
  • ELB - Elastic Load Balancer
  • EC2 – Elastic Compute Cloud
  • HA (High Availability)
  • HSM - hardware security module
  • IAM - Identity and Access Management
  • iSCSI – (EYE-skuz-ee - Internet Small Computer Systems Interface)
  • NAT (Network Address Translation)
  • NACL - Network Access Control Lists
  • NFS (Network File System)
  • OLTP (Online transaction processing)
  • OLAP ( Online Analytical Processing)
  • PCI-DSS compliance - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
  • RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Drives, or Redundant Array of Independent Disks
  • RTMP - Real Time Messaging Protocol
  • SSD - Solid State Drive
  • S3 - Simple Storage Service
  • S3-IA (Infrequently Accessed)
  • S3-RRS (Reduced Redundancy Storage)
  • SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security)
  • TTL (Time To Live)
  • VPC - Virtual Private Cloud
  • VTL - Gateway Virtual Tape Library
  • A (Host address)
  • AAAA (IPv6 host address)
  • ALIAS (Auto resolved alias)
  • CNAME (Canonical name for an alias)
  • MX (Mail eXchange)
  • NS (Name Server)
  • PTR (Pointer)
  • SOA (Start Of Authority)
  • SRV (location of service)
  • TXT (Descriptive text)