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AWS-Acronyms

A
AWSAmazon Web Services
Amazon ESAmazon Elasticsearch Service
AMIAmazon Machine Image
APIApplication Programming Interface
AIArtificial Intelligence
ACLAccess Control List
 ARN Amazon Resource Name
AZAvailability Zone
ASGAuto Scaling Group
AESAdvanced Encryption System
ADFSActive Directory Federation Service
C
CDNContent Delivery Network
CLICommand Line Interface
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CORS Cross Origin Resource Sharing
CI/CDContinuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
D
DMSDatabase Migration Service
DNSDomain Name System
DDoSDistributed Denial of Service
DoSDenial of Service
DaaSDesktop as-a-Service
E
EC2Elastic Compute Cloud
ECSEC2 Container Service
EFSElastic File System
EBSElastic Block Store
EMRElastic MapReduce
ELBElastic Load Balancer
 EIPElastic IP
ENIElastic Network Interface
F
FIFOFirst In First Out
FaaSFunction as-a-Service
H
HPCHigh-Performance Compute
HVMHardware Virtual Machine
 HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
 HTTPS HTTP Secure
I
IAMIdentity & Access Management
iOTInternet Of Things
S3 IAS3 Infrequent Access
iSCSIInternet Small Computer Storage Interface
IOPSInput/Output Operation Per Second
 IGW Internet Gateway
 ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
 IPInternet Protocol
 IPSecInternet Protocol Security
IaaSInfrastructure-as-a-Service
J
JSONJavaScript Object Notation
K
KMSKey Management Service
L
LBLoad Balancer
M
MFAMulti-Factor Authentication
MSTSCMicrosoft Terminal Service Client
MPP Massive Parallel Processing
MITMMan in the Middle Attack
MPLSMulti Protocol Label Switching
N
NFSNetwork File System
NSName Server
 NAT Network Address Translation
O
OLTPOnline Transaction Processing
OLAPOnline Analytics Processing
P
PCI DSSPayment Card Industry Data Security Standard
PVParaVirtual
PaaSPlatform as
R
RDSRelational Database Service
RRSReduced Redundancy Storage
RAIDRedundant Array of Independent Disk
RAMRandom-access Memory
S
S3Simple Storage Service
SMSServer Migration Service
SWFSimple Workflow Service
SNSSimple Notification Service
SQSSimple Queue Service
SESSimple Email Service
SLAService Level Agreement
SSLSecure Socket Layer
SSEServer Side Encryption
SOAStart of Authority
SDKSoftware Development Kit
SSHSecure Shell
SOAPSimple Object Access Protocol
Cell contentCell content
SSOSingle Sign-On
SAMLSecurity Assertion Markup Language
SaaSSoftware-as-a-Service
SaaSSecurity-as-a-Service
STSSecurity Token Service
T
TTLTime To Live
TLSTransport Layer Security
TPMTrusted Platform Module
TPMTechnical Program Manager
TPSTransaction Per Second
TCPTransmission Control Protocol
V
VPCVirtual Private Cloud
VMVirtual Machine
VTLVirtual Tape Library
VPNVirtual Private Network
VLANVirtual Local Area Network
VDIVirtual Desktop Infrastructure
VPGVirtual Private Gateway
W
WAFWeb Application Firewall