AWS related Abbreviations & Acronyms

I started learning AWS and came across a lot of acronyms which I was not aware so thought to put together the list here. As and when I learn the new one, I will add it here.

Most of the following abbreviation/acronym is used in AWS and cloud computing term. Have you started learning Cloud Computing yet?

A

AWS	Amazon Web Services
Amazon ES	Amazon Elasticsearch Service
AMI	Amazon Machine Image
API	Application Programming Interface
AI	Artificial Intelligence
ACL	Access Control List
ARN	Amazon Resource Name
AZ	Availability Zone
ASG	Auto Scaling Group
AES	Advanced Encryption System
ADFS	Active Directory Federation Service

C

CDN	Content Delivery Network
CLI	Command Line Interface
CIDR	Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CORS	Cross Origin Resource Sharing
CI/CD	Continous Integration/Continous Deployment

D

DMS	Database Migration Service
DNS	Domain Name System
DDoS	Distritubed Denial of Service
DoS	Denial of Service
DaaS	Desktop as-a-Service

E

EC2	Elastic Compute Cloud
ECS	EC2 Container Service
EFS	Elastic File System
EBS	Elastic Block Store
EMR	Elastic MapReduce
ELB	Elastic Load Balancer
EIP	Elastic IP
ENI	Elastic Network Interface

F

FIFO	First In First Out
FaaS	Function as-a-Service

H

HPC	High-Performance Compute
HVM	Hardware Virtual Machine
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS	HTTP Secure

I

IAM	Identity & Access Management
iOT	Internet Of Things
S3 IA	S3 Infrequent Access
iSCSI	Internet Small Computer Storage Interface
IOPS	Input/Output Operation Per Second
IGW	Internet Gateway
ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
IP	Internet Protocol
IPSec	Internet Protocol Security
IaaS	Infrastructure-as-a-Service

J

JSON	JavaScript Object Notation

K

KMS	Key Management Service

L

LB	Load Balancer

M

MFA	Multi-Factor Authentication
MSTSC	Microsoft Terminal Service Client
MPP	Massive Parallel Processing
MITM	Man in the Middle Attack
MPLS	Multi Protocol Label Switching

N

NFS	Network File System
NS	Name Server
NAT	Network Address Translation

O

OLTP	Online Transaction Processing
OLAP	Online Analytics Processing

P

PCI DSS	Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
PV	ParaVirtual
PaaS	Platform as

R

RDS	Relational Database Service
RRS	Reduced Redundancy Storage
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disk
RAM	Random-access Memory

S

S3	Simple Storage Service
SMS	Server Migration Service
SWF	Simple Workflow Service
SNS	Simple Notification Service
SQS	Simple Queue Service
SES	Simple Email Service
SLA	Service Level Agreement
SSL	Secure Socket Layer
SSE	Server Side Encryption
SOA	Start of Authority
SDK	Software Development Kit
SSH	Secure Shell
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
Cell content	Cell content
SSO	Single Sign-On
SAML	Security Assertion Markup Language
SaaS	Software-as-a-Service
SaaS	Security-as-a-Service
STS	Security Token Service

T

TTL	Time To Live
TLS	Transport Layer Security
TPM	Trusted Platform Module
TPM	Technical Program Manager
TPS	Transaction Per Second
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol

V

VPC	Virtual Private Cloud
VM	Virtual Machine
VTL	Virtual Tape Library
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VLAN	Virtual Local Area Network
VDI	Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
VPG	Virtual Private Gateway

W

WAF	Web Application Firewall

Let me know if I miss anything.