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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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 |
| 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 |
B
| BYOL |
Bring Your Own License |
C
| 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 |
E
| EC2 |
Elastic Compute Cloud |
| ECS |
EC2 Container Service |
| ECR |
Elastic Container Registry |
| EFS |
Elastic File System |
| EI |
Elastic Interference |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
L
| 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
| NFS |
Network File System |
| NS |
Name Server |
| NAT |
Network Address Translation |
| NVMe |
Non-Volatile Memory Express |
O
| OLTP |
Online Transaction Processing |
| OLAP |
Online Analytics Processing |
| OCI |
Open Container Initiative |
P
| PCI DSS |
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard |
| PVM |
Para Virtual Machine |
| PV |
ParaVirtual |
| PaaS |
Platform as a Service |
R
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 |
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 |
