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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