Here we list out most of the common abbreviations/acronyms used in AWS and cloud computing.
I started learning AWS and came across a lot of acronyms, which I was not aware of, so I thought to put together the list here. As and when I learn the new one, I will add it here.
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AWS Amazon Web Services Amazon ES Amazon Elasticsearch Service AMI Amazon Machine Image API Application Programming Interface AI Artificial Intelligence ACL Access Control List ALB Application Load Balancer ARN Amazon Resource Name AZ Availability Zone ACM AWS Certificate Management ASG Auto Scaling Group AES Advanced Encryption System ADFS Active Directory Federation Service AVX Advanced Vector Extensions
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BYOL Bring Your Own License
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CDN Content Delivery Network CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check CLI Command Line Interface CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing CORS Cross Origin Resource Sharing CRR Cross Region Replication CI/CD Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
D DMS Database Migration Service DNS Domain Name System DDoS Distributed Denial of Service DoS Denial of Service DaaS Desktop as-a-Service
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EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud ECS EC2 Container Service ECR Elastic Container Registry EFS Elastic File System EI Elastic Inference ENA Elastic Network Adapter EKS Elastic Kubernetes Service EBS Elastic Block Store EMR Elastic MapReduce ELB Elastic Load Balancing EFA Elastic Fabric Adapter EIP Elastic IP EDA Electronic Design Automation ENI Elastic Network Interface ECU EC2 Compute Unit
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FIFO First In First Out FaaS Function as-a-Service
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HPC High-Performance Compute HVM Hardware Virtual Machine HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTPS HTTP Secure HDK Hardware Development Kit
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 KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine
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LB Load Balancer LCU Load Balancer Capacity Unit
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 O OLTP Online Transaction Processing OLAP Online Analytics Processing OCI Open Container Initiative
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PCI DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PVM Para Virtual Machine PV ParaVirtual PaaS Platform as a Service
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RAIDRedundant Array of Independent Disk
RDS Relational Database Service RRS Reduced Redundancy Storage RI Reserved Instance RAM Random-access Memory RIE Runtime Interface Emulator
S SSEServer Side Encryption
S3 Simple Storage Service S3 RTC S3 Replication Time Control SRR Same Region Replication SMS Server Migration Service SWF Simple Workflow Service SES Simple Email Service SNS Simple Notification Service SQS Simple Queue Service SES Simple Email Service SLA Service Level Agreement SSL Secure Socket Layer SOA Start of Authority SDK Software Development Kit SSH Secure Shell SAR Serverless Application Repository SRD Scalable Reliable Datagrams SSO Single Sign-On SAML Security Assertion Markup Language SaaS Software-as-a-Service SaaS Security-as-a-Service SCP Service Control Policies SCA Storage Class Analysis STS Security Token Service SNI Server Name Indication
T TTL Time To Live TLS Transport Layer Security TPM Trusted Platform Module TME Total Memory Encryption TPM Technical Program Manager TPS Transaction Per Second TCP Transmission Control Protocol
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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
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