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.