ACL Access control list
ACM AWS Certificate Manager
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
ALB Application load balancer
Amazon SWF Amazon Simple Workflow Service
AMI Amazon Machine Image
ASG Auto Scaling group
AWS Amazon Web Services
AZ Availability zone
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
CAA Certification authority authorization
CDN Content delivery network
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CJIS Criminal justice information services
CLI Command-line interface
CNAME Canonical name record
CRR Cross-regional replication
CSA Cloud Security Alliance
CSM Cloud security model
CSV Comma-separated values
DBMS Database management system
DDL Data Definition Language
DDoS Distributed denial of service
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIACAP DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process
DML Data Manipulation Language
DMS Database Migration Service
DoD Department of Defense
EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud
ECS EC2 Container Service
EIP Elastic IP address
EKS Elastic Kubernetes Service
ELB Elastic load balancing
ENI Elastic Network Interface
ERP Enterprise resource planning
ETL Extract, transform, and load
FedRAMP Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FIFO First in, first out
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act
GPU Graphics processing unit
HA High availability
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS HTTP Secure
HVM Hardware virtual machine
IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
IAM Identity and Access Management
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
IoT Internet of Things
IP Internet Protocol
ISAE International Standard on Assurance Engagements
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations
JDBC Java Database Connectivity
JSON JavaScript Object Notation
KMS Key Management Service
LAMP stack Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack
MAC Media Access Control address
MFA Multifactor authentication
MPAA Motion Picture Association of America
MTCS Multi-Tier Cloud Security
MX Mail exchange record
NAPTR Name authority pointer record
NAT Network Address Translation
NFS Network File System
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLB Network load balancer
NS Name server record
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
OLAP Online analytical processing
OLTP Online transaction processing
PaaS Platform as a Service
PCI Payment Card Industry
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PIOPS Provisioned input/output operations per second
PTR Pointer record
PV Paravirtual
RDBMS Relational database management system
RDS Relational Database Service
REST Representational State Transfer
RPM Revolutions per minute
S3 Simple Shared Storage
S3-IA Simple Shared Storage Infrequent Access
S3-RR Simple Shared Storage Reduced Redundancy
SaaS Software as a Service
SAML Security Assertion Markup Language
SDK Software development kit
SES Simple Email Service
SMS Server Migration Service
SNS Simple Notification Service
SOA Start of authority record
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOC Service Organization Control
SPF Sender policy framework
SQL Structured Query Language
SQLi SQL injection
SQS Simple Queue Service
SSAE Standards for Attestation Engagements
SSD Solid-state drive
SSH Secure Shell
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SSO Single sign-on
STS Security Token Service
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP)
TDE Transparent Database Encryption
TLS Transport Layer Security
UDP User Datagram Protocol
VPC Virtual private cloud
VPG Virtual private gateway
VPN Virtual private network
WAF Web Application Firewall; Well-Architected Framework
webACL Web access control list
WORM Write once, read many
XML Extensible Markup Language
XSS Cross-site scripting
AAAA An IPv6 address record.
Amazon Athena A serverless, interactive query service that enables users to easily analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
Amazon Aurora Amazon’s relational database built for the cloud. It supports two open source RDBMS engines: MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Amazon CloudFront The global content delivery network (CDN) service of AWS.
Amazon CloudSearch A fully managed web service for search solutions.
Amazon CloudWatch A monitoring service for AWS cloud resources.
Amazon Cognito A service that lets you manage users of your web and mobile apps quickly.
Amazon DocumentDB A fully managed document database service.
Amazon DynamoDB Amazon’s NoSQL database.
Amazon ElastiCache A service that helps in deploying an in-memory cache or data store in the cloud.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service A fully managed web service that hosts Elasticsearch clusters in the AWS cloud.
Amazon EMR A managed hosted Hadoop framework in the cloud.
Amazon Glacier Amazon’s archival storage.
Amazon Glue A fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service.
Amazon GuardDuty A threat detection service.
Amazon Inspector Identifies the security vulneraries in your application.
Amazon Keyspaces A fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service.
Amazon Kinesis A service that allows you to ingest real-time data.
Amazon Lex A full service for building chatbots.
Amazon Lightsail A simple virtual private server (VPS) solution in the cloud.
Amazon Macie Classifies your data.
Amazon MSK A fully managed Apache Kafka infrastructure.
Amazon Neptune A fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud.
Amazon Polly A fully managed service that converts text into lifelike speech.
Amazon QLDB A fully managed ledger database.
Amazon QuickSight A fully managed business analytics service.
Amazon Rekognition A fully managed image recognition service.
Amazon SageMaker A fully managed machine learning service.
Amazon VPC Flow Logs Used to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC.
API Gateway A fully managed service to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
archive Where data is stored in Amazon Glacier.
Auto Scaling A technology used by AWS to scale up and scale down EC2 instances.
AWS App Mesh Helps monitor, control, debug, and trace communications between services.
AWS Backup Centrally manages and automates backups across AWS services.
AWS Batch A service that enables users to efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS.
AWS CloudFormation A tool for deploying AWS resource stacks.
AWS CloudHSM A hardware-based key storage for regulatory compliance.
AWS CloudTrail A managed service that records AWS API calls.
AWS CodeBuild A fully managed build service that builds and compiles source code.
AWS CodeCommit A fully managed service through which you can host any private Git repository.
AWS CodeDeploy A fully managed service that automates code deployments to any instance.
AWS CodePipeline A fully managed continuous integration and continuous delivery service.
AWS Config A fully managed service that helps to track configuration change.
AWS Device Farm Service for testing mobile devices.
AWS Elastic Beanstalk A service used to run and manage web apps.
AWS Global Accelerator Improves the availability and performance of your applications for global users.
AWS Greengrass A managed service for running IoT applications in the AWS cloud.
AWS Lake Formation Quickly sets up data lakes in AWS.
AWS Lambda Enables you to run code without provisioning or managing any servers or infrastructure.
AWS Marketplace An online store where you can buy software that runs on AWS.
AWS Mobile Hub A web service for deploying mobile applications.
AWS OpsWorks A configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet.
AWS Organizations Provides policy-based management for multiple AWS accounts.
AWS Outposts Runs AWS services on premises.
AWS Personal Health Dashboard It provides a personalized view of AWS service health.
AWS Secrets Manager Manages secrets in AWS.
AWS Shield Protects against DDoS attack.
AWS Step Functions The visual workflow service of AWS.
AWS Systems Manager Gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS.
AWS Trusted Advisor An online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment.
bucket Container for storing objects in Amazon S3.
Direct Connect Using Direct Connect you can establish private, dedicated network connectivity from your data center to AWS.
Directory Service Directory service built on Microsoft Active Directory in the cloud.
DLQ A dead-letter queue lets you set aside and isolate messages that can’t be processed correctly to determine why their processing didn’t succeed.
EC2 Image Builder Builds and maintains secure images.
EC2-Classic The original release of Amazon EC2.
edge location Used to serve content to end users.
Elastic Block Storage (EBS) Provides persistent block storage for EC2 instances.
Elastic File System (EFS) Provides a shared file system for EC2.
fleet A collection of EC2 servers.
IG Internet gateway, a component of VPC that allows your VPC to communicate with the Internet.
instance An EC2 server is also referred to as an instance.
instance store Local storage in EC2 server.
inventory List of Glacier archives.
network access control list (NACL) This acts as a firewall at the subnet level.
point of presence (POP) This is also known as an edge location.
Redshift Amazon Redshift is a fully managed petabyte-scale data warehouse service.
region An AWS region is a unique geography in the world where AWS data centers are hosted.
root user Owner of the AWS account.
root volume Instance root device contains the image that is used to boot the instance.
Route 53 Domain Name System (DNS) web service.
route table Table consisting of routes that determine where the traffic is directed.
security group Firewall for EC2 instance.
Serverless Application Repository A managed repository for serverless applications.
service level agreement (SLA) This is a commitment between a service provider and a client.
Snowball/Snowball Edge Amazon-owned network-attached storage (NAS) devices, used to ship customer data to AWS.
Snowmobile Exabyte-scale data transfer service.
SRV A service record locator.
storage gateway A service that helps to seamlessly integrate on-premise storage with AWS cloud storage.
subnet Logical subdivision of an IP network.
TXT A text record.
vault Like a safe deposit box or locker in Amazon Glacier where archives are stored.
VPN CloudHub Used to create multiple AWS hardware VPN connections.