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Acronyms⚓︎

Networking and Infrastructure⚓︎

Acronym Definition
ACL Access Control List
AZ Availability Zones
CDN Content Delivery Network
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
DNS Domain Name System
EBS Elastic Block Store
ECMP Equal cost multi-path routing
ENA Elastic Network Adapter
ENI Elastic Network Interface
EFS Elastic File System
IGW Internet Gateway
LB Load Balancer
NAT Network Address Translation
VPC Virtual Private Cloud
VPN Virtual Private Network
VGW Virtual Private Gateway

Compute and Container Services⚓︎

Acronym Definition
ASG Autoscaling group
ECS Elastic Container Service
ECR Elastic Container Registry
EKS Elastic Kubernetes Service
EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud
EMR Elastic Map Reduce
VM Virtual Machine

Databases and Data⚓︎

Acronym Definition
AOF Append Only File
CDC Change Data Capture
DAX DynamoDB Accelerator
DB Database
ETL Extract, Translate, Load
MPI Message Parsing Interface
RDS Relational Database
S3 Simple Storage Service
SQS Simple Queue Service
MSK Managed Streaming Kafka

Security and Access Control⚓︎

Acronym Definition
IAM Identity and Access Management
ACL Access Control List
KMS Key Management Service
TLS Transport Layer Security
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SNI Server Name Indication
SCP Service Control Policies
STS Security Token Service
SG Security Group
ACM AWS Certificate Manager
SSM Systems Manager

Identity and Authentication⚓︎

Acronym Definition
AD Active Directory
ADFS Active Directory Federation Services
IdP Identity Provider
OIDC OpenID Connect
SAML Security Assertion Markup Language

Monitoring and Management⚓︎

Acronym Definition
HA High Availability
HC Health Check
IAC Infrastructure as Code
RAM AWS Resource Access Manager
SES Simple Email Service
SNS Simple Notification Service
SQS Simple Queue Service
SSM Systems Manager

Content Delivery and Streaming⚓︎

Acronym Definition
CMS Content Management System
CDN Content Delivery Network
OAC Origin Access Control
OAI Origin Access Identity
HLS HTTP Live Streaming
SRT Shield Response Team

Encryption and Security⚓︎

Acronym Definition
HSM Hardware Security Module
SASL Simple Authentication and Security Layer

Compliance and Data Protection⚓︎

Acronym Definition
PHI Protected Health Information
PII Personally Identifiable Information
RA Risk Assessment
TLS Transport Layer Security

Development and APIs⚓︎

Acronym Definition
API Application Programming Interface
SDK Software Development Kit

Miscellaneous⚓︎

Acronym Definition
A2I Amazon Augmented AI
ARN Amazon Resource Name
CMS Content Management System
FTPS File Transfer Protocol over SSL
GW Gateway
GLB Gateway Load Balancer
ML Machine Learning
NLP Natural Language Processing
OS Operating System
OU Organizational Unit
PPS Packets Per Second
TTL Time to live