Acronyms⚓︎
Networking/Infrastructure⚓︎
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| ACL | Access Control List |
| ASG | Autoscaling Group |
| AZ | Availability Zones |
| CIDR | Classless Inter-Domain Routing |
| DNS | Domain Name System |
| ECMP | Equal Cost Multi-Path Routing |
| EBS | Elastic Block Store |
| EFA | Elastic Fabric Adapter |
| EFS | Elastic File System |
| ENA | Elastic Network Adapter |
| ENI | Elastic Network Interface |
| FTPS | File Transfer Protocol over SSL |
| GW | Gateway |
| IGW | Internet Gateway |
| LB | Load Balancer |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| OU | Organizational Unit |
| VPC | Virtual Private Cloud |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VGW | Virtual Private Gateway |
| VM | Virtual Machine |
Security⚓︎
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| ACL | Access Control List |
| AD | Active Directory |
| ADFS | Active Directory Federation Services |
| CMS | Content Management System |
| CORS | Cross-Origin Resource Sharing |
| HSM | Hardware Security Module |
| IAM | Identity and Access Management |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IdP | Identity Provider |
| KMS | Key Management Service |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
| OAC | Origin Access Control |
| OAI | Origin Access Identity |
| PAAS | Platform as a Service |
| PHI | Protected Health Information |
| PII | Personally Identifiable Information |
| RA | Risk Assessment |
| SNI | Server Name Indication |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer |
| SFTP | Secure File Transfer Protocol |
| SG | Security Group |
| SAML | Security Assertion Markup Language |
| SASL | Simple Authentication and Security Layer |
| SCP | Service Control Policies |
| TLS | Transport Layer Security |
| VGW | Virtual Private Gateway |
Cloud Services⚓︎
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| ACM | AWS Certificate Manager |
| A2I | Amazon Augmented AI |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| DMS | AWS DB Migration Service |
| ECR | Elastic Container Registry |
| ECS | Elastic Container Service |
| EKS | Elastic Kubernetes Service |
| EMR | Elastic Map Reduce |
| RDS | Relational Database |
| S3 | Simple Storage Service |
| SES | Simple Email Service |
| SNS | Simple Notification Service |
| SQS | Simple Queue Service |
| SSM | Systems Manager |
| STS | Security Token Service |
Data Management/Analytics⚓︎
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| AOF | Append Only File |
| BI | Business Intelligence |
| CDC | Change Data Capture |
| CLS | Column Level Security |
| OLAP | Online Analytical Processing |
| OLTP | Online Transaction Processing |
| ETL | Extract, Translate, Load |
| MSK | Managed Streaming Kafka |
| MPI | Message Parsing Interface |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| NLP | Natural Language Processing |
| OAC | Origin Access Control |
| OAI | Origin Access Identity |
| RPO | Recovery Point Objective |
| RTO | Recovery Time Objective |
| SCT | AWS Schema Conversion Tool |
| SSML | Speech Synthesis Markup Language |
Miscellaneous⚓︎
| Acronym | Definition |
|---|---|
| AWS | Amazon Web Services |
| CDN | Content Delivery Network |
| CVE | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures |
| DAX | DynamoDB Accelerator |
| DDOS | Distributed Denial-of-Service |
| ELB | (Classic) Elastic Load Balancer |
| IAC | Infrastructure as Code |
| ICMP | Internet Control Message Protocol |
| IOT | Internet of Things |
| PPS | Packets Per Second |
| SRT | Shield Response Team |
| SSH | Secure Shell |
| TTL | Time to Live |