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AAD
Access Analyzer
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/
2019/12/introducing-aws-identity-and-access-management-
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See credentials.
access key
access key ID
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A method to increase security by changing the AWS access key
ID. You can use this method to retire an old key at your
discretion.
account
account activity
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ACL
ACM
ACM PCA
ACM Private CA
action
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active trusted key groups
A list showing each of the trusted key groups, and the IDs of the
public keys in each key group, that are active for a distribution in
Amazon CloudFront. CloudFront can use the public keys in these
key groups to verify the signatures of CloudFront signed URLs
and signed cookies.
administrative suspension
alarm
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Scaling policy if the value of the metric crosses a threshold value
over a predetermined number of time periods.
allow
See also https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/appstream/.
Amazon Athena
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/athena/.
Amazon Aurora
See also https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/.
Amazon Chime
See also https://aws.amazon.com/chime/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-directory/.
Amazon CloudFront
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Amazon CloudSearch
Amazon CloudWatch
A web service that you can use to monitor and manage various
metrics, and con gure alarm actions based on data from those
metrics.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch.
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custom log les. You can send your existing log les to
CloudWatch Logs and monitor these logs in near-real time.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch.
Amazon Cognito
A web service that makes it easy to save mobile user data, such
as app preferences or game state, in the AWS Cloud without
writing any backend code or managing any infrastructure.
Amazon Cognito o ers mobile identity management and data
synchronization across devices.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/.
Amazon Comprehend
See also https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/medical/.
Amazon Connect
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A service solution that o ers easy, self-service con guration and
provides dynamic, personal, and natural customer engagement
at any scale.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/connect/.
Amazon Corretto
See also https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/.
Amazon Detective
See also https://aws.amazon.com/detective/.
A managed database service that you can use to set up, operate,
and scale MongoDB-compatible databases in the cloud.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/.
Amazon DynamoDB
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A fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and
predictable performance with seamless scalability.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/.
A software library that helps you protect your table data before
you send it to Amazon DynamoDB.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/.
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instances launched from instance store-backed AMIs, which use
the instance store as the root device.
Amazon EC2
See also https://aws.amazon.com/ec2.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/autoscaling.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/ebs.
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/ec2.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/ecr.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/ecs.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/efs/.
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A managed service that simpli es running Kubernetes on AWS
without your needing to stand up or maintain your own
Kubernetes control plane.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/eks/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/.
Amazon ElastiCache
See also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/.
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also o ers security options, high availability, data durability, and
direct access to the OpenSearch API.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service.
Amazon EMR
See also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce.
Amazon EventBridge
A serverless event bus service that you can use to connect your
applications with data from a variety of sources and routes that
data to targets such as AWS Lambda. You can set up routing
rules to determine where to send your data to build application
architectures that react in real time to all of your data sources.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/.
Amazon Forecast
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/forecast/.
Amazon GameLift
See also https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/.
Amazon GuardDuty
See also https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/.
Amazon Inspector
See also https://aws.amazon.com/inspector.
Amazon Kinesis
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/streams/.
Amazon Lightsail
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/lookout-for-equipment/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/lookout-for-vision/.
Amazon Lumberyard
See also https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/.
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An encrypted machine image stored in Amazon Elastic Block
Store (Amazon EBS) or Amazon Simple Storage Service. AMIs
function similar to a template of a computer's root drive. They
contain the operating system and can also include software and
layers of your application, such as database servers, middleware,
and web servers.
See also http://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/.
Amazon Macie
See also http://aws.amazon.com/macie/.
See also http://aws.amazon.com/managed-blockchain/.
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A fully managed and secure data visualization service that you
can use to instantly query, correlate, and visualize operational
metrics, logs, and traces from multiple data sources.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/grafana/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/prometheus/.
Amazon ML
See also https://aws.amazon.com/mobileanalytics.
Amazon Monitron
See also https://aws.amazon.com/monitron/.
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Amazon MQ
See also https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/.
Amazon Neptune
A managed graph database service that you can use to build and
run applications that work with highly connected datasets.
Neptune supports the popular graph query languages Apache
TinkerPop Gremlin and W3C’s SPARQL, enabling you to build
queries that e ciently navigate highly connected datasets.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/neptune/.
Amazon Personalize
See also https://aws.amazon.com/personalize/.
Amazon Polly
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Amazon QuickSight
See also https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/.
Amazon Rekognition
See also https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/.
Amazon Redshift
See also https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/.
A web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a
relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-e cient,
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resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database
and manages common database administration tasks.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/rds.
Amazon Route 53
See also https://aws.amazon.com/route53.
Amazon S3
Storage for the internet. You can use it to store and retrieve any
amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/s3.
Amazon S3 Glacier
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A secure, durable, and low-cost storage service for data
archiving and long-term backup. You can reliably store large or
small amounts of data for signi cantly less than on-premises
solutions. S3 Glacier is optimized for infrequently accessed data,
where a retrieval time of several hours is suitable.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/security-hub/.
Amazon Silk
See also https://aws.amazon.com/ses.
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Amazon Simple Noti cation Service (Amazon SNS)
See also https://aws.amazon.com/sns.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/sqs.
Storage for the internet. You can use it to store and retrieve any
amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/s3.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/swf/.
Amazon Sumerian
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A set of tools for creating and running high-quality 3D,
augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) applications on the
web.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/.
Amazon Textract
See also https://aws.amazon.com/textract/.
Amazon Transcribe
See also https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/medical/.
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Amazon Translate
See also https://aws.amazon.com/translate/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/vpc.
Amazon VPC
See also https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-cloud-computing/.
Amazon WorkDocs
See also https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/.
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Amazon WorkLink
See also https://aws.amazon.com/worklink/.
Amazon WorkMail
See also https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/.
Amazon WorkSpaces
See also https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/
applicationmanager.
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AMI
analysis scheme
application
A web service that you can use to con gure automatic scaling for
AWS resources beyond Amazon EC2, such as Amazon ECS
services, Amazon EMR clusters, and DynamoDB tables.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/.
Application Billing
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The location where your customers manage the Amazon DevPay
products they've purchased. The web address is http://
www.amazon.com/dp-applications.
application revision
application version
AppSpec le
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See application speci cation le.
ARN
artifact
asymmetric encryption
asynchronous bounce
atomic counter
attribute
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Amazon Machine Learning: A unique, named property within an
observation in a dataset. In tabular data, such as spreadsheets or
comma-separated values (.csv) les, the column headings
represent the attributes, and the rows contain values for each
attribute.
AUC
Aurora
See Amazon Aurora.
authenticated encryption
authentication
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A representation of multiple EC2 instances that share similar
characteristics, and that are treated as a logical grouping for the
purposes of instance scaling and management.
Availability Zone
AWS
See also https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/
2016/04/aws-application-discovery-service/.
AWS AppSync
See also https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/.
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AWS Auto Scaling
A fully managed service that you can use to quickly discover the
scalable AWS resources that are part of your application and
con gure dynamic scaling.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/.
AWS Backup
See also https://aws.amazon.com/backup/.
The AWS Cloud computing model where you pay for services on
demand and use as much or as little as you need.
While resources are active under your account, you pay for the
cost of allocating those resources. You also pay for any incidental
usage associated with those resources, such as data transfer or
allocated storage.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/billing/new-user-faqs/.
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/blockchain/templates/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/.
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-map.
AWS Cloud9
See also https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/.
AWS CloudFormation
See also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation.
AWS CloudHSM
See also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudhsm/.
AWS CloudTrail
A web service that records AWS API calls for your account and
delivers log les to you. The recorded information includes the
identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP
address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the
response elements returned by the AWS service.
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/.
AWS CodeBuild
See also https://aws.amazon.com/codebuild.
AWS CodeCommit
See also https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit.
AWS CodeDeploy
See also https://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy.
AWS CodePipeline
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A continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application
updates.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/cli/.
AWS Con g
A web service that can help you migrate data to and from many
widely used commercial and open-source databases.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/dms.
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A web service for processing and moving data between di erent
AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data
sources, at speci ed intervals.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/datapipeline.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/directoryservice.
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk
See also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconnect.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert.
A video service that you can use to create live outputs for
broadcast and streaming delivery.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/medialive.
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AWS Elemental MediaPackage
See also https://aws.amazon.com/mediapackage.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/mediastore.
A video service that you can use to serve targeted ads to viewers
while maintaining broadcast quality in over-the-top (OTT) video
applications.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/mediatailor.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/tag/aws-
encryption-sdk/.
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AWS Firewall Manager
A service that you use with AWS WAF to simplify your AWS WAF
administration and maintenance tasks across multiple accounts
and resources. With AWS Firewall Manager, you set up your
rewall rules only once. The service automatically applies your
rules across your accounts and resources, even as you add new
resources.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator.
AWS Glue
See also https://aws.amazon.com/glue.
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AWS GovCloud (US)
See also https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/iam.
AWS Import/Export
See also https://aws.amazon.com/importexport.
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/iot.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/iot-1-click.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/iot-analytics.
An AWS IoT security service that you can use to audit the
con guration of your devices, monitor your connected devices to
detect abnormal behavior, and to mitigate security risks.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/iot-device-defender.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/iot-device-management.
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A fully managed AWS IoT service that makes it easy to detect
and respond to events from IoT sensors and applications.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/iot-events.
Software that you can use to run local compute, messaging, data
caching, sync, and ML inference capabilities for connected
devices in a secure way.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/iot-things-graph.
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AWS Lambda
A web service that you can use to run code without provisioning
or managing servers. You can run code for virtually any type of
application or backend service with zero administration. You can
set up your code to automatically start from other AWS services
or call it directly from any web or mobile app.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/console.
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existing vCenter environment. Once installed, you can migrate
VMware VMs to Amazon EC2 and manage AWS resources from
within vCenter.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vcenter-portal/.
AWS Marketplace
See also https://aws.amazon.com/partners/aws-marketplace/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/migration-hub/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/mobile.
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A software development kit whose libraries, code examples, and
documentation help you build high quality mobile apps for the
iOS, Android, Fire OS, Unity, and Xamarin platforms.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/mobile/sdk.
AWS OpsWorks
See also https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/.
AWS Organizations
See also https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/.
A service that you can use to share your resources with any AWS
account or organization in AWS Organizations.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/ram/.
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AWS ParallelCluster
A software development kit for that provides C++ APIs for many
AWS services including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon
DynamoDB, and more. The single, downloadable package
includes the AWS C++ library, code examples, and
documentation.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/.
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/.
See also https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v2/
developer-guide/.
See also https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v2/
developer-guide/.
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more. You can download the SDK as multiple service-speci c
packages on NuGet.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-net/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-php/.
See also http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-ruby/.
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AWS Secrets Manager
See also https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/iam/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.
AWS Shield
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AWS services. For added protection against DDoS attacks, AWS
o ers AWS Shield Advanced.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/shield.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/single-sign-on/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/.
AWS Snowball
See also https://aws.amazon.com/snowball.
Storage Gateway
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A web service that connects an on-premises software appliance
with cloud-based storage. Storage Gateway provides seamless
and secure integration between an organization’s on-premises IT
environment and AWS storage infrastructure.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/eclipse/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/intellij/, https://
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/visualstudio/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/visualstudiocode/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/powershell/.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/vsts/.
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
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AWS WAF
See also https://aws.amazon.com/waf/.
AWS X-Ray
See also https://aws.amazon.com/xray/.
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basic monitoring
batch
See document batch.
BGP ASN
batch prediction
billing
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binary attribute
See also attribute.
block
block device
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block device mapping
blue/green deployment
bootstrap action
See BGP ASN.
bounce
breach
bucket
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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): A container for
stored objects. Every object is contained in a bucket. For
example, if the object named photos/puppy.jpg is stored in
the DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET bucket, then authorized users can
access the object with the URL https://s3-bucket-
endpoint/DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET/photos/puppy.jpg.
bucket owner
bundling
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cache cluster identi er
cache node
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campaign
See also recommendations.
canonicalization
capacity
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Cartesian product processor
Cartesian product
CDN
certi cate
chargeable resources
CIDR block
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See also Classless Inter-Domain Routing in Wikipedia.
ciphertext
ClassicLink
classi cation
CLI
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Cloud Directory
CloudHub
cluster
See also node.
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suited for High Performance Compute (HPC) applications and
other demanding network-bound applications.
cluster status
CMK
CNAME
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A service for signing code that you create for any IoT device
that's supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
complaint
compound query
condition
AWS WAF: A set of attributes that AWS WAF searches for in web
requests to AWS resources such as Amazon
CloudFront distributions. Conditions can include values such as
the IP addresses that web requests originate from or values in
request headers. Based on the speci ed conditions, you can
con gure AWS WAF to allow or block web requests to AWS
resources.
conditional parameter
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See mapping.
consistency model
console
consolidated billing
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accounts in your organization, and you can get detailed cost
reports for individual accounts.
container
container de nition
container instance
container registry
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delay). If the content is already in the location with the lowest
latency, the CDN delivers it immediately. If not, the CDN retrieves
it from an origin that you specify (for example, a web server or an
Amazon S3 bucket). With some CDNs, you can help secure your
content by con guring an HTTPS connection between users and
data centers, and between data centers and your origin. Amazon
CloudFront is an example of a CDN.
contextual metadata
See also event.
continuous delivery
See also https://aws.amazon.com/devops/continuous-delivery/.
continuous integration
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A software development practice where developers regularly
merge code changes into a central repository, after which
automated builds and tests are run.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/devops/continuous-
integration/.
cooldown period
core node
corpus
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Amazon CloudSearch: A collection of data that you want to
search.
coverage
See also metrics.
credential helper
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that you can use with Git when connecting to CodeCommit
repositories.
credentials
cross-account access
cross-Region replication
customer gateway
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A router or software application on your side of a VPN tunnel
that's managed by Amazon VPC. The internal interfaces of the
customer gateway are attached to one or more devices in your
home network. The external interface is attached to the virtual
private gateway (VGW) across the VPN tunnel.
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A concept that describes when data is written or updated
successfully and all copies of the data are updated in all AWS
Regions. However, it takes time for the data to propagate to all
storage locations. To support varied application
requirements, Amazon DynamoDB supports both eventually
consistent and strongly consistent reads.
data node
See also node.
data schema
See schema.
data source
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OpsWorks, valid data sources include an instance for a stack’s
MySQL layer or a stack’s Amazon RDS service layer. In Amazon
Redshift , valid data sources include text les in an Amazon
S3 bucket, in an Amazon EMR cluster, or on a remote host that a
cluster can access through an SSH connection.
See also datasource.
database engine
database name
dataset
dataset group
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Amazon Personalize: A container for Amazon Personalize
components, including datasets, event trackers, solutions, lters,
campaigns, and batch inference jobs. A dataset group organizes
your resources into independent collections, so resources from
one dataset group can’t in uence resources in any other dataset
group.
See also dataset.
See also solution.
See also campaign.
datasource
DB compute class
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The size of the database compute platform used to run the
instance.
DB instance
DB instance identi er
DB parameter group
DB security group
DB snapshot
Dedicated Host
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Dedicated Instance
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delegation
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delete marker
deliverability
deliveries
deny
deployment group
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AWS CodeDeploy: A set of individually tagged instances, EC2
instances in Auto Scaling groups, or both.
detailed monitoring
Description property
dimension
discussion forums
distribution
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Through this link, CloudFront identi es the object you have
stored in your origin server.
DKIM
DNS
Docker image
document
document batch
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document service API
domain
See also cluster.
See also Elasticsearch.
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A service that routes internet tra c to websites by translating
friendly domain names (for example, www.example.com) into the
numeric IP addresses, such as 192.0.2.1 that computers use to
connect to each other.
Donation button
DynamoDB stream
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EC2
See Amazon EC2.
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EC2 compute unit (ECU)
An AWS standard for compute CPU and memory. You can use
this measure to evaluate the CPU capacity of di erent EC2
instance types.
EC2 instance
ECR
ECS
edge location
EFS
Elastic
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A company that provides open-source solutions—including
OpenSearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats—that are designed to
take data from any source and search, analyze, and visualize it in
real time.
See also Elasticsearch.
Elastic IP address
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing.
Elasticsearch
See also Elastic.
EMR
See Amazon EMR.
encrypt
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To use a mathematical algorithm to make data unintelligible to
unauthorized users. Encryption also gives authorized users a
method (such as a key or password) to convert the altered data
back to its original state.
encryption context
endpoint
A URL that identi es a host and port as the entry point for a web
service. Every web service request contains an endpoint. Most
AWS products provide endpoints for a Region to enable faster
connectivity.
endpoint port
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envelope encryption
environment
ephemeral store
See instance store.
epoch
ETL
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See extract, transform, and load (ETL).
evaluation
Also a machine learning object that stores the details and result
of an ML model evaluation.
evaluation datasource
event
See also dataset.
event tracker
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See also dataset group.
See also event.
eventual consistency
A read process that returns data from only one Region and might
not show the most recent write information. However, if you
repeat your read request after a short time, the response should
eventually return the latest data.
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eviction
exbibyte (EiB)
expiration
explicit impressions
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Personalize automatically derives the impressions data, you
choose what to include in explicit impressions.
See also recommendations.
exponential backo
expression
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expressions, a document's default relevance score, and standard
numeric operators and functions. When you use the sort option
to specify an expression in a search request, the expression is
evaluated for each search hit and the hits are listed according to
their expression values.
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facet
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facet enabled
FBL
feature transformation
federated user
federation
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feedback loop (FBL)
eld weight
lter
A criterion that you specify to limit the results when you list or
describe your Amazon EC2 resources.
lter query
A way to lter search results without a ecting how the results are
scored and sorted. Speci ed with the Amazon
CloudSearch fq parameter.
FIM
Firehose
format version
forums
See discussion forums.
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ff
function
See intrinsic function.
fuzzy search
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geospatial search
gibibyte (GiB)
GitHub
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An index with a partition key and a sort key that can be di erent
from those on the table. A global secondary index is considered
global because queries on the index can span all of the data in a
table, across all partitions.
grant
grant token
ground truth
group
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ff
H
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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X, Y, Z
Hadoop
hard bounce
hardware VPN
health check
high-quality email
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ff
such forms as o ers, order con rmations, receipts, or
newsletters.
highlights
highlight enabled
hit
HMAC
hosted zone
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fi
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A collection of resource record sets that Amazon Route 53 hosts.
Similar to a traditional DNS zone le, a hosted zone represents a
collection of records that are managed together under a single
domain name.
HRNN
HTTP-Query
See Query.
HVM virtualization
I
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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X, Y, Z
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IAM
IAM group
See group.
See policy simulator.
IAM role
See role.
IAM user
See user.
IdP
image
import/export station
import log
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A report that contains details about how AWS Import/
Export processed your data.
implicit impressions
See also recommendations.
impressions data
in-place deployment
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CodeDeploy: A deployment method where the application on
each instance in the deployment group is stopped, the latest
application revision is installed, and the new version of the
application is started and validated. You can choose to use a
load balancer so each instance is deregistered during its
deployment and then restored to service after the deployment is
complete.
index
See search index.
index eld
indexing options
inline policy
input data
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Amazon Machine Learning: The observations that you provide to
Amazon Machine Learning to train and evaluate a machine
learning model and generate predictions.
instance
instance family
instance group
instance pro le
instance store
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instance store-backed AMI
instance type
Interactions dataset
See also dataset.
See also event.
internet gateway
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Connects a network to the internet. You can route tra c for IP
addresses outside your VPC to the internet gateway.
intrinsic function
IP address
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IP match condition
ISP
issuer
item
item exploration
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fi
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exploration at the campaign level for solution versions created
with the user-personalization recipe.
See also recommendations.
See also campaign.
See also recipe.
Items dataset
See also dataset.
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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X, Y, Z
job ow
job ID
job pre x
JSON
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fi
fi
fi
fi
junk folder
K
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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X, Y, Z
key
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exceed 1024 bytes. If a key (for example, logPre x + import-log-
JOBID) is longer than 1024 bytes, AWS Elastic Beanstalk returns
an InvalidManifestField error.
key pair
key pre x
kibibyte (KiB)
KMS
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See AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).
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labeled data
In machine learning, data for which you already know the target
or “correct” answer.
launch permission
lifecycle
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The lifecycle state of the EC2 instance contained in an Auto
Scaling group. EC2 instances progress through several states
over their lifespan; these
include Pending, InService, Terminating and Terminated.
lifecycle action
lifecycle hook
link to VPC
See also ClassicLink.
load balancer
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a Region. Load balancers can span multiple Availability Zones
within an AWS Region into which an Amazon EC2 instance was
launched. But load balancers can't span multiple Regions.
An index that has the same partition key as the table, but a
di erent sort key. A local secondary index is local in the sense
that every partition of a local secondary index is scoped to a
table partition that has the same partition key value.
logical name
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Software that transports email messages from one computer to
another by using a client-server architecture.
mailbox provider
mailbox simulator
managed policy
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manifest
manifest le
mapping
marker
See pagination token.
master node
maximum price
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fi
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fi
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The maximum price you will pay to launch one or more Spot
Instances. If your maximum price exceeds the current Spot
price and your restrictions are met, Amazon EC2 launches
instances on your behalf.
The maximum number of email messages that you can send per
second using Amazon SES.
See also metrics.
See also recommendations.
mebibyte (MiB)
member resources
See resource.
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message ID
metadata
metric
metrics
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Amazon Personalize: Evaluation data that Amazon Personalize
generates when you train a model. You use metrics to evaluate
the performance of the model, view the e ects of modifying a
solution’s con guration, and compare results between solutions
that use the same training data but were created with di erent
recipes.
See also solution.
See also recipe.
metric name
MFA
micro instance
MIME
ML model
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classi cation, multiclass classi cation, and regression. Also
known as a predictive model.
MTA
Multi-AZ deployment
multi-factor authentication (MFA)
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use code from an authentication device that you keep in your
physical possession.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/mfa/.
multi-valued attribute
multipart upload
Multitool
N
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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X, Y, Z
namespace
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An abstract container that provides context for the items (names,
or technical terms, or words) it holds, and allows disambiguation
of homonym items residing in di erent namespaces.
NAT
NAT gateway
NAT instance
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See also NAT gateway.
network ACL
n-gram processor
n-gram transformation
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NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization
node
NoEcho
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factor dependent on its position. The normalized discounted
cumulative gain at K assumes that recommendations that are
lower on a list are less relevant than recommendations higher on
the list.
See also metrics.
See also recommendations.
NoSQL
null object
number of passes
O
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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X, Y, Z
object
observation
On-Demand Instance
operation
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optimistic locking
A strategy to ensure that an item that you want to update has not
been modi ed by others before you perform the update.
For Amazon DynamoDB, optimistic locking support is provided
by the AWS SDKs.
organization
organizational unit
origin server
original environment
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The instances in a deployment group at the start of an
CodeDeploy blue/green deployment.
OSB transformation
OU
See organizational unit.
output location
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pagination
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The process of responding to an API request by returning a large
list of records in small separate parts. Pagination can occur in the
following situations:
pagination token
See also pagination.
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paid AMI
paravirtual virtualization
See PV virtualization.
part
partition key
PAT
pebibyte (PiB)
period
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See sampling period.
permission
persistent storage
A data storage solution where the data remains intact until it's
deleted. Options within AWS include: Amazon S3, Amazon
RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, and other services.
PERSONALIZED_RANKING recipes
See also recipe.
See also recommendations.
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See also popularity-count recipe.
personalized-ranking recipe
See also recipe.
physical name
pipeline
plaintext
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fi
policy
policy generator
policy simulator
policy validator
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popularity-count recipe
See also recipe.
precision at K (5/10/25)
See also metrics.
See also recommendations.
pre x
See job pre x.
Premium Support
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See also https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/.
presigned URL
primary key
primary shard
See shard.
principal
private content
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and time, the IP addresses that the requests originate from, or
both.
private IP address
private subnet
product code
properties
See resource property.
property rule
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Provisioned IOPS
pseudo parameter
public AMI
public dataset
See also https://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets.
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public IP address
public subnet
PV virtualization
Q
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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X, Y, Z
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quartile binning transformation
Query
A type of web service that generally uses only the GET or POST
HTTP method and a query string with parameters in the URL.
See also REST.
queue
queue URL
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quota
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range GET
raw email
RDS
read replica
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the read replica DB instance using the built-in replication feature
of MySQL 5.1.
real-time predictions
recipe
recommendations
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items (with USER_PERSONALIZATION recipes and
RELATED_ITEMS recipes), or a ranking of a collection of items
you provided (with PERSONALIZED_RANKING recipes).
See also recipe.
See also campaign.
receipt handle
receiver
recipient
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Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES): The person or
entity receiving an email message. For example, a person named
in the "To" eld of a message.
Redis
reference
Region
regression model
regression model
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fi
regularization
RELATED_ITEMS recipes
See also recipe.
replacement environment
replica shard
See shard.
reply path
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The email address that an email reply is sent to. This is di erent
from the return path.
See REST.
reputation
requester
Requester Pays
reservation
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ff
fi
A collection of EC2 instances started as part of the same launch
request. Not to be confused with a Reserved Instance.
Reserved Instance
resource
resource property
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A value required when including an AWS resource in an AWS
CloudFormation stack. Each resource can have one or more
properties associated with it. For example,
an AWS::EC2::Instance resource might have
a UserData property. In an AWS CloudFormation template,
resources must declare a properties section, even if the resource
has no properties.
resource record
REST
See also Query.
See also WSDL.
See also SOAP.
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RESTful web service
return enabled
return path
The email address that bounced email is returned to. The return
path is speci ed in the header of the original email. This is
di erent from the reply path.
revision
role
rollback
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ff
fi
fi
fi
fi
A return to a previous state that follows the failure to create an
object, such as AWS CloudFormation stack. All resources
associated with the failure are deleted during the rollback. For
AWS CloudFormation, you can override this behavior using
the --disable-rollback option on the command line.
root
root credentials
route table
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A set of routing rules that controls the tra c leaving
any subnet that's associated with the route table. You can
associate multiple subnets with a single route table, but a subnet
can be associated with only one route table at a time.
row identi er
rule
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S3
sampling period
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A de ned duration of time, such as one minute, which Amazon
CloudWatch computes a statistic over.
sandbox
scale in
scale out
scaling policy
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ff
See also scale out.
scaling activity
scheduler
schema
SCP
search API
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ff
fi
ff
fi
fi
ff
Amazon CloudSearch: The API that you use to submit search
requests to a search domain.
search domain
search enabled
search endpoint
search index
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fi
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search instance
search request
search result
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altered. You can generate secret access keys for your AWS
account, individual IAM users, and temporary sessions.
security group
sender
Sender ID
sending limits
sending quota
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server-side encryption (SSE)
service endpoint
See endpoint.
Service Quotas
service role
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An IAM role that grants permissions to an AWS service so it can
access AWS resources. The policies that you attach to the
service role determine which AWS resources the service can
access and what it can do with those resources.
SES
session
SHA
shard
shared AMI
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An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that a developer builds and
makes available for others to use.
shutdown action
signature
SIGNATURE le
Signature Version 4
See SMTP.
See SOAP.
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fi
fi
fi
fi
Simple Storage Service
SIMS recipe
Single Sign-On
Single-AZ DB instance
A search for a phrase that speci es how close the terms must be
to one another to be considered a match.
SMTP
snapshot
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snapshots as the starting point for new Amazon EBS volumes or
to protect your data for long-term durability.
SNS
SOAP
See also REST.
See also WSDL.
soft bounce
software VPN
solution
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See also recipe.
See also recommendations.
solution version
See also solution.
See also campaign.
See also recommendations.
sort enabled
sort key
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fi
source/destination checking
spam
spamtrap
SPF
Spot Instance
Spot price
The price for a Spot Instance at any given time. If your maximum
price exceeds the current price and your restrictions are
met, Amazon EC2 launches instances on your behalf.
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ffi
ffi
SQL injection match condition
SQS
SSE
SSL
SSO
stack
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tasks that apply to the group of instances as a whole, such as
managing applications and cookbooks.
station
station
statistic
stem
stemming
step
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Amazon EMR: A single function applied to the data in a job ow.
The sum of all steps comprises a job ow.
step type
sticky session
stopping
stopword
streaming
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fi
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fl
Amazon EMR: A utility that comes with Hadoop that you can use
to develop MapReduce executables in languages other than
Java.
streaming distribution
Streams
string-to-sign
AWS WAF: An attribute that speci es the strings that AWS WAF
searches for in a web request, such as a value in a header or a
query string. Based on the speci ed strings, you can con gure
AWS WAF to allow or block web requests to an AWS resource,
such as a CloudFront distribution.
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fi
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A read process that returns a response with the most up-to-date
data, re ecting the updates from all prior write operations that
were successful—regardless of the Region.
structured query
STS
subnet
Subscription button
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suggester
suggestions
supported AMI
SWF
symmetric encryption
synchronous bounce
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fl
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fi
fi
fi
A type of bounce that occurs while the email servers of
the sender and receiver are actively communicating.
synonym
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table
tag
tagging
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Amazon SES: Also called labeling. A way to format return
path email addresses so that you can specify a di erent return
path for each recipient of a message. You can use tagging to
support VERP. For example, if Andrew manages a mailing list, he
can use the return paths andrew+recipient1@example.net and
andrew+recipient2@example.net so that he can determine which
email bounced.
target attribute
target revision
task
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task de nition
task node
tebibyte (TiB)
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template validation
throttling
time-series data
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later retrieve statistics about those data points as a time-series
ordered dataset.
timestamp
TLS
tokenization
topic
Tra c Mirroring
An Amazon VPC feature that you can use to copy network tra c
from an elastic network interface of Amazon EC2 instances, and
then send it to out-of-band security and monitoring appliances
for content inspection, threat monitoring, and troubleshooting.
See also https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/.
training datasource
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ffi
A datasource that contains the data that Amazon Machine
Learning uses to train the machine learning model to make
predictions.
transition
trust policy
trusted signers
tuning
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Selecting the number and type of AMIs to run a Hadoop job ow
most e ciently.
tunnel
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unbounded
unit
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ffi
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ffi
fl
unlink from VPC
See also ClassicLink.
usage report
user
Users dataset
See also dataset.
user-personalization recipe
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Amazon Personalize: An HRNN-based
USER_PERSONALIZATION recipe that predicts the items that a
user will interact with. The user-personalization recipe can use
item exploration and impressions data to generate
recommendations for new items.
See also HRNN.
See also recipe.
See also recommendations.
USER_PERSONALIZATION recipes
See also recipe.
See also HRNN.
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validation
See template validation.
value
See VERP.
veri cation
VERP
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address that caused the bounce by using a di erent return
path for each recipient. VERP is typically used for mailing lists.
With VERP, the recipient's email address is embedded in the
address of the return path, which is where bounced email is
returned. This makes it possible to automate the processing of
bounced email without having to open the bounce messages,
which might vary in content.
versioning
VGW
virtualization
See VPC.
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virtual private gateway (VGW)
visibility timeout
VM Import/Export
See also https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import.
volume
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VPC
VPC endpoint
VPG
VPN CloudHub
VPN connection
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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X, Y, Z
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WAM
AWS WAF: A set of rules that de nes the conditions that AWS
WAF searches for in web requests to an AWS resource, such as
a Amazon CloudFront distribution. A web access control list (web
ACL) speci es whether to allow, block, or count the requests.
See WSDL.
WSDL
See also REST.
See also SOAP.
X, Y, Z
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yobibyte (YiB)
zebibyte (ZiB)
zone awareness
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