AAD

See additional authenticated data.

Access Control List (ACL)

An Access control list is a document that specifies who can access a particular bucket of object. It defines what each type of user can do.

Access Identifiers

See credentials.

Access Key

An access key is the combination of an access key ID and a secret access key. Access keys are used to sign API requests that you make to AWS.

Access Key ID

An access key ID is a unique identifier that is associated with a secret access key. An access key ID and secret access key are used together to sign programmatic AWS requests cryptographically. An access key ID is an alphanumeric string that is linked to a specific service or user account.

Access Key Rotation

Access key rotation is a method to increase security by altering the AWS access key. This method can be used to retire an old key.

Access Policy Language

Access policy language is used to write documents that specify who can access particular AWS resources and under what conditions.

Account

An account is a formal relationship with AWS that involves the owner's email address and password

Account Activity

Account activity shows your month-to-date AWS usage and costs.

ACL

See access control list (ACL).

ACM

ACM

Action

Action is an API function

Active Trusted Key Groups

Active trusted key groups are 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.

Active Trusted Signers

See active trusted key groups.

Additional Authenticated Data

Additional authenticated data is information that's checked for integrity but is not encrypted. This includes headers and other contextual metadata.

Administrative Suspension

Administrative suspension occurs when Auto Scaling groups who repeatedly fail to launch instances have their processes suspended by Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.

Alarm

An alarm watches over a single metric and initiates an Amazon SNS topic or Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy if the value of the metric crosses a certain threshold value within a certain period of time.

Allow

When users make a request to AWS

Amazon AppFlow

Amazon AppFlow is a fully-managed integration service that enables you to securely exchange data between software as a service (SaaS) applications and AWS services.

Amazon Chime

Amazon Chime can be used for secure

Amazon Cognito

Amazon Cognito can be used to save mobile user data in the AWS Cloud without writing backend code or managing the infrastructure. It also allows you to manage your mobile identity and synchronize data across devices.

Amazon Comprehend

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text.

Amazon Comprehend Medical

Amazon Comprehend Medical is a HIPAA-eligible NLP service that uses machine learning and is pre-trained to understand and select health data from medical text

Amazon Connect

Amazon Connect offers self-service configuration and provides dynamic

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager

Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is an Amazon service that automates and manages the lifecycle of Amazon EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs.

Amazon DevOps Guru

Amazon DevOps Guru is a fully managed operations service powered by machine learning (ML)

Amazon DevOps Guru

Amazon DevOps Guru is a fully managed operations service powered by machine learning (ML), designed to improve an application's operational performance and availability.

Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a managed database service that you can use to set up

Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client

Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client is a software library that helps you protect your table data before you send it to DynamoDB.

Amazon DynamoDB Storage Backend For Titan

Amazon DynamoDB Storage Backend for Titan is a graph database implemented on top of Amazon DynamoDB. Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs.

Amazon EBS

Amazon EBS

Amazon EBS-Backed AMI

Amazon EBS-backed AMI is a type of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) whose instances use an Amazon EBS volume as their root device.

Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a web service for launching and managing Linux/UNIX and Windows Server instances in Amazon data centers.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling launches or terminates instances automatically based on user-defined policies

Amazon ECR

Amazon ECR

Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS

Amazon EFS

Amazon Elastic File System is a file storage service for EC2 instances. Amazon EFS provides an interface that you can use to create and configure file systems. Amazon EFS storage capacity grows and shrinks automatically as you add and remove files.

Amazon EKS

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is a managed service that you can use to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to stand up or maintain your own Kubernetes control plane.

Amazon EMR

Amazon Elastic Map Reduce is a web service that you can use to process large amounts of data efficiently.

Amazon Inspector

Amazon Inspector is an automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. It automatically assesses applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices. After performing an assessment

Amazon Kendra

Amazon Kendra is a search service powered by machine learning (ML) that developers can use to add search capabilities to their applications so their end users can discover information stored within the vast amount of content spread across their company.

Amazon Keyspaces

Amazon Keyspaces is a scalable

Amazon Lex

Amazon Lex is a fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) service with advanced natural language models to design

Amazon Location

Amazon Location Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for a developer to add location functionality

Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is a supported and maintained image provided by AWS that provides all the information required to launch an instance. It contains the operating system

Amazon Managed Grafana

Managed Grafana is a fully managed and secure data visualization service that you can use to instantly query

Amazon Managed Service For Prometheus

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a service that provides highly available

Amazon ML

Amazon Machine Learning is a cloud-based service that creates machine learning models by finding patterns in your data and uses these models to process new data and generate predictions.

Amazon Monitron

Amazon Monitron is an end-to-end system that uses machine learning (ML) to detect abnormal behavior in industrial machinery. It can be used to implement predictive maintenance and reduce unplanned downtime.

Amazon MQ

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that you can use to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud.

Amazon MWAA

Amazon MWAA

Amazon Personalize

Amazon Personalize is an artificial intelligence service for creating individualization product and content recommendations.

Amazon Pinpoint

Amazon Pinpoint is a multichannel communications service that helps organizations send timely

Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly is a text-to-speech (TTS) service that turns text into natural-sounding human speech. It provides dozens of lifelike voices across a broad set of languages so that you can build speech-enabled applications that work in many different countries.

Amazon QLDB

Amazon QLDB

Amazon RDS

Amazon Relational Database Service is a web service that makes it easier to set up

Amazon Redshift

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed

Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning service that identifies objects

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

Amazon Resource Name is a standardized way to refer to an AWS resource.

Amazon S3

Amazon S3 is storage for the internet.

Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure

Amazon S3-Backed AMI

See instance store-backed AMI.

Amazon SES

Amazon Simple Email Service is a simple and cost-effective email solution for applications.

Amazon SNS

Amazon Simple Notification Service is a web service that applications

Amazon SQS

Amazon Simple Queue Service is a reliable and scalable hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers.

Amazon SWF

Simple Workflow Service helps developers build

Amazon Textract

Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. It goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables.

Amazon Transcribe

Amazon Transcribe is a machine learning service that uses automatic speech recognition (ASR) to quickly and accurately convert speech to text.

Amazon Transcribe Medical

Amazon Transcribe Medical is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service for adding medical speech-to-text capabilities to voice-enabled clinical documentation applications.

Amazon Translate

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast

Amazon VPC

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud is a web service for provisioning a logically isolated section of the AWS Cloud virtual network that you define. You control your virtual networking environment by selecting your own IP address range

Amazon WAM

AWS WAM

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud for companies of all sizes.

Amazon WorkLink

WorkLink is a cloud-based service that provides secure access to internal websites and web apps from mobile devices.

AMI

See Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

Analysis Scheme

Analysis scheme is language-specific text analysis options that are applied to a text field to control stemming and configure stopwords and synonyms.

API Gateway

API Gateway is a fully managed service that developers can use to create

Application

An application is a collection of components

Application Auto Scaling

Application Auto Scaling is a web service used by developers and system administrators to automatically scale scalable resources for AWS services beyond EC2.

Application Billing

Application Billing is where your customers manage the Amazon DevPay products they've purchased.

Application Cost Profiler

Application Cost Profiler tracks the consumption of shared AWS resources used by software applications and reports granular cost breakdown across tenant base.

Application Discovery Service

Application Discovery Service helps you plan your migration to the AWS cloud by collecting usage and configuration data about your on-premises servers.

Application Revision

An application revision is an archive file containing source content—such as source code

Application Specification File

An application specification file

Application Version

An application version is a specific

AppSpec File

See application specification file

AppStream 2.0

AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed service used for desktop application streaming to users without rewriting those applications.

ARN

See Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Artifact

An artifact is a copy of the files or changes that are worked on by the pipeline.

Asymmetric Encryption

Asymmetric encryption uses both a public and private key.

Asynchronous Bounce

An asynchronous bounce occurs when a receiver initially accepts an email message but later fails to deliver it.

Athena

Athena is an interactive query service that you can use to analyze data in Amazon S3 using ANSI SQL. It is serverless

Atomic Counter

Atomic counter is a method of incrementing or decrementing the value of an existing attribute without interfering with other write requests.

Attribute

An attribute is a fundamental data element that doesn't need to be broken down any further.

AUC

AUC

Aurora

Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases.

Authenticated Encryption

Authenticated encryption provides confidentiality

Authentication

Authentication is the process of proving your identity to a system.

Auto Scaling Group

Auto Scaling group contains a collection of EC2 instances that are treated as a logical grouping for automatic scaling and management purposes.

Availability Zone

The Availability Zone is a location within a Region that's protected from the failures in other Availability Zones. It provides affordable

AWS

See Amazon Web Services.

AWS Account Management

With AWS Account Management

AWS App2Container

AWS App2Container is a command line tool used to migrate and modernize Java and .NET web applications into container format.

AWS AppConfig

AWS AppConfig is a service used to update software at runtime without deploying new code. You can use it to configure

AWS AppSync

AWS AppSynch is a fully managed GraphQL service with real-time data synchronization and offline programming features.

AWS Auto Scaling

AWS Auto Scaling can help you quickly discover the scalable AWS resources that are part of your application and configure dynamic scaling.

AWS Backup

AWS Backup is a managed backup service that you can use to centralize and automate backups of data in AWS services in the cloud.

AWS Blockchain Templates

See Managed Blockchain.

AWS CDK

AWS CDK

AWS Chatbot

AWS Chatbot is an interactive agent that helps you monitor

AWS CLI

AWS CLI

AWS Cloud Control API

AWS Cloud Control API is a set of standardized application programming interfaces (APIs) that developers use to create

AWS Cloud Map

AWS Cloud Map is used to create and maintain a map of the backend of services and resources that your applications depend on. You can use it to name and discover your AWS Cloud Resources.

AWS Cloud WAN

AWS Cloud WAN is a managed wide-area networking service used for building

AWS Cloud9

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that is used to write

AWS CodeDeploy Agent

AWS CodeDeploy agent is a software package that

AWS Config

AWS Config provides an AWS resource inventory

AWS Control Tower

AWS Control Tower is used to set up and govern a secure

AWS Data Exchange

AWS Data Exchange is a service that helps you find

AWS DeepComposer

AWS DeepComposer educates developers through tutorials

AWS DeepLens

AWS DeepLens provides AWS customers with a centralized place to search

AWS DeepRacer

AWS DeepRacer is a cloud-based 3D racing simulator

AWS DMS

AWS Database Migration Service is a web service that can help you migrate data to and from many widely used commercial and open-source databases.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect

Elemental MediaConnect is a fully-managed live video distribution service that reliably and securely ingests video into the AWS Cloud and transports it to multiple destinations within the AWS network and the internet.

AWS Elemental MediaConvert

Elemental MediaConvert is a file-based media conversion service that transforms content into formats for traditional broadcast and internet streaming.

AWS Elemental MediaLive

Elemental MediaLive is a cloud-based live video encoding service that creates high-quality streams for delivery to broadcasts and internet-connected devices.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage

Elemental MediaPackage is a highly-scalable video origination and packaging service that delivers video securely and reliably.

AWS Elemental MediaStore

Elemental MediaStore is a storage service optimized for media that provides the performance

AWS Elemental MediaTailor

Elemental MediaTailor is a channel assembly and personalized ad-insertion service for over-the-top (OTT) video and audio applications.

AWS Encryption SDK

AWS Encryption SDK is a client-side encryption library that you can use to encrypt and decrypt data using industry standards and best practices.

AWS Glue

AWS Glue is a fully managed extract

AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS Region that hosts sensitive workloads in the cloud

AWS Health

AWS Health is a service that provides ongoing visibility into AWS customers' accounts and the availability of their AWS services and resources.

AWS IoT 1-Click

AWS IoT 1-Click is a service that simple devices can use to launch AWS Lambda functions.

AWS IoT Analytics

AWS IoT Analytics runs sophisticated analytics on massive volumes of IoT data.

AWS IoT Core

AWS IoT Core is a managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices.

AWS IoT Device Defender

AWS IoT Device Defender is an AWS IoT security service that you can use to audit the configuration of your devices

AWS IoT Device Management

AWS IoT Device Management is a service used to securely onboard

AWS Iot Events

AWS IoT Events is a fully managed AWS IoT service that you can use to detect and respond to events from IoT sensors and applications.

AWS IoT FleetWise

AWS IoT FleetWise is a service that you can use to collect

AWS IoT Greengrass

AWS IoT Greengrass is software that you can use to securely run local computing

AWS IoT RoboRunner

AWS IoT RoboRunner is a solution that provides infrastructure for integrating robots with work management systems and building robotics fleet management applications.

AWS IoT SiteWise

AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that you can use to collect

AWS IoT Things Graph

AWS IoT Things Graph is a service that you can use to visually connect different devices and web services to build IoT applications.

AWS IQ

AWS IQ can be used to find

AWS KMS

AWS Key Management Service is a managed service that simplifies the creation and control of encryption keys that are used to encrypt data.

AWS Mainframe Modernization

AWS Mainframe Modernization is a cloud native platform for migration

AWS Managed Key

AWS managed key is one type of KMS key in AWS KMS.

AWS Managed Policy

AWS managed policy is an IAM managed policy that's created and managed by AWS.

AWS Management Console

AWS Management Console is a graphical interface to manage compute

AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace is a web portal where qualified partners market and sell their software to AWS customers. It's an online software store that helps customers find

AWS Microservice Extractor For .NET

AWS Microservice Extractor for .NET is an assistive modernization tool that helps to reduce the time and effort required to break down large

AWS Mobile SDK

AWS Mobile SDK is a software development kit whose libraries

AWS Panorama

AWS Panorama is a machine learning (ML) Appliance and Software Development Kit (SDK) that organizations can use to bring computer vision (CV) to on-premises cameras to make predictions locally.

AWS ParalletlCluster

AWS ParallelCluster is an AWS supported open source cluster management tool that helps you to deploy and manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS Cloud.

AWS Private CA

AWS Private Certificate Authority is a hosted private certificate authority service for issuing and revoking private digital certificates.

AWS RAM

AWS Resource Access Manager is a web service that AWS customers can use to securely share AWS resources with any AWS account or within your organization.

AWS RoboMaker

AWS RoboMaker is a cloud-based simulation service that robotics developers use to run

AWS SAM

AWS Serverless Application Model is an open-source framework for building and running serverless applications. AWS SAM provides a command line interface tool and a shorthand syntax template specification that you can use to quickly iterate through your serverless application lifecycle.

AWS SCT

AWS Schema Conversion Tool is a desktop application that automates heterogeneous database migrations.

AWS SDK For .NET

AWS SDK for .NET is a software development kit that provides .NET API operations for AWS services including Amazon S3

AWS Serverless Application Repository

Serverless Application Repository is a managed repository that teams

AWS Service Catalog

AWS Service Catalog is a web service that helps organizations create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS.

AWS Service Management Connector

AWS Service Management Connector enables customers to provision

AWS SMS

AWS Server Migration Service is a service that combines data collection tools with automated server replication to speed the migration of on-premises servers to AWS.

AWS STS

AWS Security Token Service is a web service for requesting temporary

AWS Toolkit For Eclipse

AWS Toolkit for Eclipse is an open-source plugin for the Eclipse Java integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easier to develop

AWS Toolkit For JetBrains

AWS Toolkit for JetBrains is an open-source plugin for the integrated development environments (IDEs) from JetBrains that makes it easier to develop

AWS Toolkit For Microsoft Azure DevOps

AWS Toolkit for Microsoft Azure DevOps provides tasks you can use in build and release definitions in VSTS to interact with AWS services.

AWS Toolkit For Visual Studio

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio is an extension for Visual Studio that helps in developing

AWS Toolkit For Visual Studio Code

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is an open-source plugin for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor that makes it easier to develop

AWS Tools For Powershell

AWS Tools for PowerShell is a set of PowerShell cmdlets to help developers and administrators manage their AWS services from the PowerShell scripting environment.

AWS VPN

AWS Virtual Private Network provides functionality that establishes encrypted connections between your network or device

AWS VPN CloudHub

AWS VPN CloudHub is a feature that enables secure communication between branch offices using a simple hub-and-spoke model

AWS WAF

AWS WAF is a web application firewall service that controls access to content by allowing or blocking web requests based on specified criteria.

AWS Wavelength

AWS Wavelength is a service by AWS that embeds AWS compute and storage services within 5G networks to provide mobile edge computing infrastructure. Use AWS Wavelength to develop

Backint Agent

Backint Agent is an SAP-certified backup and restore solution for SAP HANA workloads that are running on Amazon EC2 instances in the cloud.

Basic Monitoring

Basic monitoring monitors AWS provided metrics at a 5-minute frequency.

Batch

See document batch.

Batch Prediction

Batch predictions are used to generate predictions for a set of observations at one time

BGP ASN

BGP ASN

Billing

See Billing and Cost Management.

Billing And Cost Management

Billing and Cost Management is a computing model where services are paid for on-demand and can be used as much or little as needed.

Binary Attribute

A binary attribute produces one of two possible values.

Binary Classification Model

Binary classification model predicts the answers to questions where the answer can be a binary variable.

Block

A block is a dataset that is produced after breaking large amounts of data into subsets.

Block Device

Block devices are storage devices that support reading and writing data in blocks

Block Device Mapping

Block device mapping is a mapping structure that specifies the block devices attached to an instance.

Blue/Green Deployment

Blue/green deployment is used to replace instances in a deployment group (the original environment) with a different set of instances.

Bootstrap Action

Boostrap action is a user-specified action that runs a script or application on all nodes of a job flow before Hadoop starts.

Border Gateway Protocol Autonomous System Number

See BGP ASN.

Bounce

A bounce is an unsuccessful email delivery.

Braket

Amazon Braket is a fully managed quantum computing service that allows you to run quantum algorithms to make your research and discovery faster and easier.

Breach

A breach occurs when a user-set threshold is passed. Significant breaches can result in a scaling activity.

Bucket

A bucket contains stored objects.

Bucket Owner

A bucket owner is a person or organization that owns a bucket. Only one person or organization can own a bucket.

Bundling

Bundling is used to create an Amazon Machine Image and refers to creating instance store-backed AMIs.

Cache Cluster

A cache cluster is a logical cache cluster that's distributed over multiple cache nodes and can be set up with a specific number of cache nodes.

Cache Cluster Identifier

A cache cluster identifier is supplied by a customer for a cache cluster and has to be unique to that customer in an AWS Region.

Cache Engine Version

A cache engine version is the version of the Memcached service that runs on the cache node.

Cache Node

A cache node is a chunk of secure

Cache Node Type

A cache node type is an EC2 instance type that's used to run the cache node.

Cache Parameter Group

A cache perimeter group is a container for cache engine parameter values that can be applied to cache clusters.

Cache Security Group

A cache security group is maintained by ElastiCache and combines inbound authorizations to cache nodes for hosts belonging to Amazon EC2 security groups

Campaign

A campaign is a solution version that creates real-time recommendations for application users.

Canned Access Policy

Canned access policy can be applied to a bucket or object.

Canonicalization

Canonicalization converts data into a standard format that services like Amazon S3 can recognize.

Capacity

Capacity is the compute size that's available at any given time. Auto Scaling groups are defined with minimum and maximum compute sizes. Scaling activities increase or decrease the capacity within defined minimum and maximum values.

Cartesian Product

Cartesian product is a mathematical operation that returns a product from multiple sets.

Cartesian Product Processor

Cartesian product processor calculates a Cartesian product. Also known as a Cartesian data processor.

CDN

See content delivery network (CDN).

Certificate

A certificate is a credential that's used by some AWS products to authenticate accounts and users. It is paired with a private key.

Chargeable Resources

Chargeable resources incur fees when used. The amount charged depends on the usage load.

CIDR Block

CIDR block

Ciphertext

Ciphertext is information that has been encrypted.

Classification

Classification puts a data sample into a single category or "class".

Client VPN

AWS Client VPN is a client-based

Cloud Directory

The Cloud Directory provides a highly scalable directory store for your application's multi-hierarchical data.

Cloud Service Provider (CSP)

A cloud service provider gives subscribers access to internet-hosted computing

CloudFormation

CloudFormation is a service used to write and change templates that create and delete related AWS resources together as a unit.

CloudFront

CloudFront is a content delivery service that helps improve the performance

CloudHSM

CloudHSM is a web service that helps you meet corporate

CloudSearch

CloudSearch is a fully managed service that can be used to set up

CloudTrail

CloudTrail records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you.

CloudWatch

CloudWatch is used to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on the data from those metrics.

CloudWatch Events

CloudWatch Events is used to deliver a stream of system events that describe changes in AWS resources to Lambda functions

CloudWatch Logs

CloudWatch Logs monitors and troubleshoots the systems and applications from your existing system

Cluster

A cluster is a group of container instances that you can put tasks on.

Cluster Compute Instance

A cluster compute instance produces a large amount of CPU power while also increasing network performance

Cluster Placement Group

A cluster placement group is a cluster compute instance grouping that provides lower latency and high-bandwidth connectivity between instances.

Cluster Status

A cluster status communicates the health of a cluster. A status can be green

CNAME

CNAME

Code Signing For AWS IoT

Code Signing for AWS IoT signs code that is created for IoT devices supported by AWS.

CodeBuild

CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that pulls together source code

CodeCommit

CodeCommit is a fully managed source control service used by companies to host secure and scalable private Git repositories.

CodeDeploy

CodeDeploy automates code deployments to any instance.

CodeGuru

CodeGuru is a collection of developer tools that automate code reviews and provide recommendations for optimizing application performance.

CodePipeline

CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service for quick and reliable application updates.

Complaint

A complaint occurs when a recipient doesn't want to receive an email message and marks it as spam. The internet service provider then sends a notification to Amazon SES.

Compound Query

A compound query is a search request that specifies multiple search criteria using the Amazon CloudSearch specified search syntax.

Condition

A condition is a restriction or detail about a permission.

Conditional Parameter

See mapping.

Configuration API

Configuration API is used to create

Configuration Template

A configuration template is a series of key-value pairs that define the parameters for different AWS products so that Elastic Beanstalk can use them for an environment.

Consistency Model

The consistency model is used to achieve high availability

Console

See AWS Management Console.

Console Mobile Application

Console Mobile Application allows AWS customers to monitor and manage a select set of resources to stay informed and connected with their AWS resources while on the go.

Consolidated Billing

Consolidated billing consolidates payment for multiple AWS accounts.

Container

A container is a standard unit of software that holds application code and all relevant dependencies.

Container Definition

A container definition specifies the details that are associated with running a container on Amazon ECS. It specifies details such as the container image that should be used and how much CPU and memory the container can use.

Container Instance

A container instance is a self-managed EC2 instance or an on-premises server or virtual machine that's running the Amazon Elastic Container Service container agent and has been registered into a cluster. It is the infrastructure that your Amazon ECS workloads are run on.

Container Registry

A container registry is a collection of repositories that store container images.

Content Delivery Network (CDN)

A container delivery network (CDN) speeds up the distribution of your static and dynamic web content to your users by using a worldwide network of data centers.

Contextual Metadata

Contextual metadata is interactions data that you collect about a user's browsing context when an event occurs. It can improve recommendation relevance for new and existing users.

Continuous Delivery

Continuous delivery occurs when code changes are automatically built

Continuous Integration

Continuous integration occurs when developers regularly merge code changes into a central repository

Cooldown Period

Cooldown period is the time that Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling doesn't allow the desired size of the Auto Scaling group to be changed by any other notification from a CloudWatch alarm.

Core Node

A core node is an EC2 instance that runs Hadoop map and reduces tasks and stores data using the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). It is managed by the master node

Corpus

Corpus is a collection of data that you want to research.

Corretto

Corretto is a no-cost

Coverage

Coverage is an evaluation metric that tells you the portion of unique items Amazon Personalize may recommend using your model out of the total amount of unique items in Interactions and Items datasets.

Credential Helper

A credential helper stores credentials for repositories and supplies them to Git when making connections to those repositories.

Credentials

Credentials

Cross-Account Access

Cross-account access is the process of permitting limited

Cross-Region Replication

Cross-Region replication is used to replicate data across different AWS Regions

Customer Gateway

Customer gateway is a router or software application on your side of a VPN tunnel that's managed by Amazon VPC. Internal interfaces of the customer gateway are attached to one or more devices in your home network

Customer Managed Policy

A customer manged policy is an IAM managed policy that you create and manage in your AWS account.

Customer Master Key (CMK)

Customer master key was replaced by AWS KMS key. See KMS key for more information.

Dashboard

See service health dashboard.

Data Consistency

Data consistency describes when data is written or updated successfully and all copies of the data are updated in all AWS Regions. It takes time for the data to propagate to all storage locations.

Data Node

A data node is an OpenSearch instance that holds data and responds to data upload requests.

Data Pipeline

Data Pipeline processes and moves data between different AWS compute and storage services

Data Schema

See schema.

Data Source

A data source is the database

Database Engine

A database engine is the database software and version running on the DB instance.

Database Name

A database name is the name of a database hosted in a DB instance. If there are multiple databases on a DB instance

Dataset

A dataset is the container for the data used by Amazon Personalize. There are three types: Users

Dataset Group

A dataset group is a container for Amazon Personalize components that organizes your resources into independent collections.

Datasource

A dataset group is an object that contains metadata about the input data.

DataSync

DataSync is an online data transfer service that simplifies

DB Compute Class

DB compute class is the size of the database compute platform used to run the instance.

DB Instance

A DB instance is an isolated database environment running in the cloud. It can contain multiple user-created databases.

DB Instance Identifier

A DB instance identifier is a user-supplied identifier for the DB instance. It must be unique for that user in an AWS Region.

DB Parameter Group

A DB parameter group is a container for database engine parameter values that apply to one or more DB instances.

DB Security Group

A DB security group controls access to the DB instance.

DB Snapshot

A DB snapshot is a user-initiated point backup of a DB instance.

Dedicated Host

A Dedicated Host is a physical server with EC2 instance capacity fully dedicated to a user.

Dedicated Instance

A Dedicated Instance is physically isolated at the host hardware level and launched within an Amazon VPC.

Dedicated Master Node

A dedicated master node is an OpenSearch instance that performs cluster management tasks but doesn't hold data or respond to data upload requests.

Dedicated Reserved Instance

A Dedicated Reserved Instance is purchased to guarantee that sufficient capacity will be available to launch Dedicated Instances into Amazon VPC.

Delegation

For a single AWS account

Delete Marker

A delete marker is an object with a key and version ID but without content.

Deliverability

Deliverability is the likelihood that an email message arrives at its intended destination.

Deliveries

Deliveries are the number of emails accepted by a recipient over a period of time.

Deny

Deny is the result of a policy statement that forbids a user from performing certain actions.

Deployment Configuration

Deployment configuration is a set of deployment rules and success and failure conditions used by the service during a deployment.

Deployment Group

A deployment group is a set of individually tagged instances or EC2 instances in Auto Scaling groups

Description Property

A description property is a property added to parameters

Detailed Monitoring

Detailed monitoring is the monitoring of AWS provided metrics derived at a 1-minute frequency.

Detective

Detective collects log data from your AWS resources to analyze and identify the root cause of security findings or suspicious activities. It provides visualizations to help you determine the nature and extent of possible security issues and conduct an investigation.

Device Farm

Device Farm is an app testing service that allows developers to test Android

Dimension

A dimension is a name-value pair that contains additional information to identify a metric.

Direct Connect

Direct Connect is a web service that simplifies establishing a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS.

Directory Service

Directory Service is a managed service for connecting your AWS resources to an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory or for setting up and operating a new

Discussion Forums

Discussion forums are where users can post technical questions and feedback to help with development efforts and engage with the AWS community.

Distribution

A distribution is a link between an origin server and a domain name that is automatically assigned by CloudFront. CloudFront uses the link to identify the object stored in your original server.

DKIM

DKIM

DNS

See Domain Name System.

Docker Image

A Docker image is a layered file system template that's the basis of a Docker container. It can comprise specific operating systems or applications.

Document

A document is an item that can be returned as a search result. Each document has a collection of fields that contain the data that can be searched or returned. The value of a field can be either a string or a number. Each document must have a unique ID and at least one field.

Document Batch

A document batch is a collection of add and delete document operations.

Document Service API

A document service API is the API call used to submit document batches to update the data in a search domain.

Document Service Endpoint

A document service endpoint is the URL that you connect to when sending document updates to an Amazon CloudSearch domain. Each search domain has a unique document service endpoint that remains the same for the life of the domain.

Domain

A domain is the hardware

Domain Name System

Domain Name System steers internet traffic toward websites by translating numeric IP addresses into human-readable domain names.

Donation Button

A donation button is an HTML-coded button to provide a simple and secure way for US-based

DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.

DynamoDB Streams

Amazon DynamoDB Streams is an AWS service that captures a time-ordered sequence of item-level modifications in any Amazon DynamoDB table. This service also stores this information in a log for up to 24 hours. Applications can access this log and view the data items as they appeared before and after they were modified

EC2 Instance

AN EC2 instance is a compute instance in the Amazon EC2 service.

Edge Location

Edge location is a data center that an AWS service uses to perform service-specific operations.

Elastic

Elastic is a company that provides open-source solutions—including OpenSearch

Elastic Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk deploys and managers applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications.

Elastic Block Store

See Amazon EBS.

Elastic Inference

Elastic Inference is a resource that customers can use to attach low-cost GPU-powered acceleration to Amazon EC2 and SageMaker instances

Elastic IP Address

An Elastic IP address is a static IP address you have allocated in Amazon EC2 or Amazon VPC and then attached to an instance. They are associated with your account

Elastic Network Interface

Elastic network interface is an additional network interface that can be attached to an instance. Elastic network interfaces include a primary private IP address

Elastic Transcoder

Elastic Transcoder is a cloud-based media transcoding service that is a highly scalable tool for converting (or transcoding) media files from their source format into versions that play on devices such as smartphones

ElastiCache

ElastiCache simplifies deploying

Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is an open-source

ELB

ELB

EMP

EMP

Encrypt

Encrypt means using a mathematical algorithm to make data unintelligible to unauthorized users. It can also be used by authorized users to convert altered data back to its original state.

Encryption Context

Encryption context is a set of key-value pairs that contains additional information associated with AWS KMS-encrypted information.

Endpoint

An endpoint is a URL that identifies 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

ElastiCache: The port number used by a cache node. Amazon RDS: The port number used by a DB instance.

Envelope Encryption

Envelope encryption means using a master key and a data key to algorithmically protect data.

Environment

An environment is a specific running instance of an application.

Environment Configuration

Environment configuration is a collection of parameters and settings that define how an environment and its associated resources behave.

Ephemeral Store

See instance store.

Epoch

Epoch is a measure of time that starts on a specified date.

ETL

See extract

Evaluation

Evaluation is the process of measuring the predictive performance of a machine learning model.

Evaluation Datasource

Evaluation datasource is the data that Amazon Machine Learning uses to evaluate the predictive accuracy of a machine learning model.

Event

An event is a user activity that is recorded and uploaded to an Amazon Personalize Interactions dataset.

Event Tracker

An event tracker specifies a destination dataset group for event data that you record in real time.

EventBridge

EventBridge is a serverless event bus service that you can use to connect your applications with data from a variety of sources and route 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.

Eventual Consistency

Eventual consistency is a method used to achieve high availability which involves replicating data across multiple servers in Amazon data centers.

Eventually Consistent Read

Eventually consistent read returns data from only one Region and might not show the most recent information. A repeated request should elicit a response with the latest data.

Eviction

Eviction is the deletion by CloudFront of an object from an edge location before its expiration time. This happens if an object is not popular to make room for more popular objects.

Exbibyte (EiB)

An exbibyte (EiB) is a contraction of exa binary byte.

Expiration

Expiration is when CloudFront stops responding to user requests with an object. If you don't specify how long you want objects to remain in an edge location

Explicit Impressions

Explicit impressions are a list of items that you manually add to an Amazon Personalize Interactions dataset to influence future recommendations. You can choose what to include in explicit impressions.

Explicit Launch Permission

Explicit launch permission is an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) launch permission granted to a specific AWS account.

Exponential Backoff

Exponential backoff is a strategy that incrementally increases the wait between retry attempts in order to reduce the load on the system and increase the likelihood that repeated requests will succeed.

Expression

Expression is a numeric expression used to control how search hits are sorted.

Extract

Transform

extract, transform, and load (ETL)

Extract, transform, and load is a process that's used to integrate data from multiple sources. Data is collected from sources (extract), converted to an appropriate format (transform), and written to a target data store (load) for purposes of analysis and querying.

Facet

A facet is an index field that represents a category that you want to use to refine and filter search results.

Facet Enabled

Facet enabled is an index field option that enables facet information to be calculated for the field.

Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS)

Fault Injection Simulator is a managed service that you can use to perform fault injection experiments on your AWS workloads.

FBL

See feedback loop (FBL).

Feature Transformation

Feature transformation is the machine learning process of constructing more predictive input representations or “features” from the raw input variables to optimize a machine learning model’s ability to learn and generalize. Also known as data transformation or feature engineering.

Federated Identity Management (FIM)

Federated identity management (FIM) allows individuals to sign in to different networks or services

Federated User

See federated identity management (FIM).

Federation

See federated identity management (FIM).

Feedback Loop (FBL)

A feedback loop (FBL) occurs when a mailbox provider forwards a recipient's complaint back to the sender.

Field Weight

Field weight is the relative importance of a text field in a search index.

Filter

Filters are used to specify limits put on results when you list or describe your Amazon EC2 resources.

Filter Query

A filter query filters search results without affecting how the results are scored and sorted.

FIM

See federated identity management (FIM).

FinSpace

FinSpace is a data management and analytics service purpose-built for the financial services industry (FSI).

Firehose

See Kinesis Data Firehouse.

Firewall Manager

Firewall Manager is a service that you use with AWS WAF to simplify your AWS WAF administration and maintenance tasks across multiple accounts and resources. The rules are only set up once

Forecast

Forcast is a fully managed service that uses statistical and machine learning algorithms to produce highly accurate time-series forecasts.

Format Version

See template format version.

Forums

See discussion forums.

Function

See intrinsic function.

Fuzzy Search

Fuzzy search is a simple search query used to approximate string matching (fuzzy matching) to correct typographical errors and misspellings.

GameKit

GameKit is an open-source SDK and game-engine plugin that empowers game developers to build and deploy cloud-based features with AWS from their game engine.

GameLift

GameLift is a managed service for deploying

GameSparks

GameSparks provides multi-service backend for game developers.

Geospatial Search

Geospatial search is a search query that uses locations specified as a latitude and longitude to determine matches and sort the results.

Gibibyte (GiB)

Gibibyte (GiB) is a contraction of giga binary byte. A gibibyte is 2^30 or 1

GitHub

GitHub is a web-based repository that uses Git for version control.

Global Accelerator

Global Accelerator is a network layer service that you use to create accelerators that direct traffic to optimal endpoints over the AWS global network. This improves the availability and performance of your internet applications that are used by a global audience.

Global Secondary Index

A global secondary index is an index with a partition key and a sort key that can be different from those on the table. It is considered global because queries on the index can span all of the data in a table

Grant

A grant is a mechanism for giving AWS principles long-term permissions to use KMS keys.

Grant Token

A grant token is a type of identifier that allows the permissions in a grant to take effect immediately.

Ground Truth

Ground truth is the observations used in the machine learning model training process that include the correct value for the target attribute.

Groupe

A group is a collection of IAM users.

GuardDuty

GuardDuty is a continuous security monitoring service that helps identify unexpected and potentially unauthorized or malicious activity in your AWS environment.

Hadoop

Hadoop is a software that enables distributed processing for big data by using clusters and simple programming models.

Hard Bounce

A hard bounce occurs when there's a persistent email delivery failure such as "mailbox does not exist".

Hardware VPM

Hardware VPN is a hardware-based IPsec VPN connection over the internet.

Health Check

Health check is a system call that checks on the health status of each instance in an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group.

HealthLake

HealthLake is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps customers store

High-Quality Email

High-quality email is email that recipients find valuable and want to receive.

Highlight Enabled

Highlight enabled is an index field that enables matches within the field to be highlighted.

Highlights

Highlights are excerpts returned with search results that show where the search terms appear within the text of the matching documents.

Hit

A hit is a document that matches the criteria specified in a search request. It's also referred to as a search result.

HMAC

HMAC

Hosted Zone

A hosted zone is a collection of resource record sets that Route 53 hosts. It represents a collection of records that are managed together under a single domain name.

HRNN

HRNN is a hierarchical recurrent neural network machine learning algorithm that models changes in user behavior and predicts the items that a user might interact with in personal recommendation applications.

HTTP-Query

See Query.

HVM Virtualization

HVM virtualization

IAM

AWS Identity and Access Management is used by Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to manage users and user permissions within AWS.

IAM Access Analyzer

Access Management Access Analyzer is a feature of IAM that you can use to identify the resources in your organization and accounts that are shared with an external entity.

IAM Group

See group.

IAM Identity Center

IAM Identity Center is a cloud-based service that brings together administration of users and their access to AWS accounts and cloud applications.

IAM Policy Simulator

See policy simulator.

IAM Role

See role.

IAM Uesr

See user.

Identity And Access Management

See IAM.

Identity Provider (IdP)

An identity provider (IdP) is an IAM entity that holds metadata about external identity providers.

IdP

See identity provider (IdP).

Image

See Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

Image Builder

Image Builder facilitates building

Implicit Impressions

Implicit impressions are recommendations that your application shows a user.

Import Log

Import log is a report that contains details about how Import/Export processed your data.

Import/Export

AWS Import/Export is a service for transferring large amounts of data between AWS and portable storage devices.

Import/Export Station

The import/export station is a machine that uploads or downloads your data to or from Amazon S3.

Impressions Data

Impressions data is the list of items that you presented to a user when they interacted with a particular item such as by clicking it

In-Place Deployment

In-place deployment is a deployment method where the application on each instance in the deployment group is stopped

Index

See search index.

Index Field

The index field is a name-value pair that's included in a CloudSearch domain's index. It can contain text or numeric data

Indexing Options

Indexing options are configuration settings that define a CloudSearch domain's index fields

Inline Policy

An inline policy is an IAM policy that's embedded in a single IAM user

Input Data

Input data is the observations that you provide to Amazon Machine Learning to train and evaluate a machine learning model and generate predictions.

Instance

An instance is a copy of an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running as a virtual server in the AWS Cloud.

Instance Family

An instance family is a general instance type grouping using either storage or CPU capacity.

Instance Group

An instance group is a Hadoop cluster containing one master instance group that contains one master node

Instance Store

Instance store is disk storage that's physically attached to the host computer for an EC2 instance

Instance Store-Backed AMI

Instance store-backed AMI is a type of Amazon Machine Image whose instances use an instance store volume as the root device.

Instance Type

Instance type is a specification that defines the memory

Interactions Dataset

Interactions dataset is a container for historical and real-time data collected from interactions between users and items (called events). Interactions data can include impressions data and contextual metadata.

Internet Gateway

Internet gateway connects a network to the internet.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

An Internet service provider (ISP) is a company that gives users access to the internet. Many ISPs are also mailbox providers.

Intrinsic Function

Intrinsic function is a special action in a CloudFormation template that assigns values to properties not available until runtime.

IP Address

An IP address is a numerical address that networked devices use to communicate with one another using the Internet Protocol (IP).

IP Match Condition

IP match condition is an attribute that specifies the IP address or IP address ranges that the requests originate from.

ISP

See internet service provider (ISP).

Issuer

An issuer is a person who writes policy to grant permissions to a resource. The issuer is always the resource owner.

Item

An item is a group of attributes that's uniquely identifiable among all of the other items.

Item Exploration

Item exploration is the process that Amazon Personalize uses to test different item recommendations

Item-To-Item Similarities (SIMS) Recipe

An item-to-item similarities (SIMS) recipe is a RELATED_ITEMS recipe that uses the data from an Interactions dataset to make recommendations for items that are similar to a specified item.

Items Dataset

Items dataset is a container for metadata about items

Job Flow

Job flow is one or more steps that specify all of the functions to be performed on the data.

Job ID

Job ID is a five-character

Job Prefix

Job prefix is an optional string that you can add to the beginning of an Import/Export log file name to prevent collisions with objects of the same name.

JSON

JSON

Junk Folder

A junk folder is where email messages considered to be of lesser value are collected so that they don't clutter an inbox but are still available to read.

Key

A key is a credential that identifies an AWS account or user to AWS. A unique identifier for an object in a bucket.

Key Pair

A key pair is a set of security credentials that you use to prove your identity electronically. It consists of a private key and a public key.

Key Prefix

A key prefix is a string of characters that is a subset of an object name

Kibibyte (KiB)

A kibibyte (KiB) is a contraction of kilo binary byte

Kinesis

Kinesis is a platform for streaming data on AWS. It offers services that simplify the loading and analysis of streaming data.

Kinesis Data Firehose

Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service for loading streaming data into AWS.

Kinesis Data Streams

Kinesis Data Streams is a web service for building custom applications that process or analyze streaming data for specialized needs. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams can continuously capture and store terabytes of data per hour from hundreds of thousands of sources.

KMS Key

KMS key is the primary resource in AWS Key Management Service. They are created

Labeled Data

Labeled data is data for which you already know the target or correct answer.

Lake Formation

Lake Formation makes it easy to set up

Lambda

Lamba runs code without provisioning or managing servers.

Launch Configuration

Launch configuration is a set of descriptive parameters used to create new EC2 instances in Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling activity.

Launch Permission

Launch permission is an Amazon Machine Image attribute that allows users to launch an AMI.

Launch Wizard

Launch Wizard is a cloud solution that offers a guided way of sizing

Lifecycle

A lifecycle is the state of the EC2 instance contained in an Auto Scaling group. EC2 instances progress through several states over their lifespan; these include Pending

Lifecycle Action

Lifecycle action is an action that can be paused by Auto Scaling

Lifecycle Hook

Lifecyle hook is a feature for pausing Auto Scaling after it launches or terminates an EC2 instance so that you can perform a custom action while the instance isn't in service.

Lightsail

Lightsail is a service used to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS.

Load Balancer

A load balancer is a DNS name combined with a set of ports

Local Secondary Index

A local secondary index is an index that has the same partition key as the table

Logical Name

A case-sensitive unique string within a CloudFormation template that identifies a resource

Lookout For Equipment

Lookout for Equipment is a machine learning service that uses data from sensors mounted on factory equipment to detect abnormal behavior so you can take action before machine failures occur.

Lookout For Metrics

Lookout for Metrics is a machine learning (ML) service that automatically detects and diagnoses anomalies in business and operational data

Lookout For Vision

Lookout for Vision is a machine learning service that uses computer vision (CV) to find defects in industrial products. It can identify missing components in an industrial product

Lumberyard

Lumberyard is a cross-platform

Macie

Macie is a security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover

Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)

Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) is a software that transports email messages from one computer to another by using a client-server architecture.

Mailbox Provider

A mailbox provider is an organization that provides email mailbox hosting services.

Mailbox Simulator

A mailbox simulator is a set of email addresses that you can use to test an Amazon SES-based email-sending application without sending messages to actual recipients.

Main Route Table

Main route table is the default route table that any new Amazon VPC subnet uses for routing. You can associate a subnet with a different route table of your choice. You can also change which route table is the main route table.

Managed Blockchain

Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service for creating and managing scalable blockchain networks using popular open source frameworks.

Managed Policy

Managed policy is a standalone IAM policy that you can attach to multiple users

Management Portal

AWS Management Portal for vCenter is a web service for managing your AWS resources using VMware vCenter. You install the portal as a vCenter plugin within your existing vCenter environment. After it's installed

Manifest

A manifest is a text file that describes your job when you send a create job request for an import or export operation. It specifies how to transfer data between your storage device and the AWS Cloud.

Manifest File

A manifest file is used for describing batch predictions. It relates each input data file with its associated batch predictions results and is stored in the Amazon S3 output location

Mapping

Mapping is a way to add conditional parameter values to a CloudFormation template.

Marker

See pagination token.

Master Node

Master node is a process running on an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that keeps track of the work its core and task nodes complete.

Maximum Price

Maximum price is the most you'll pay to launch one or more Spot Instances. If your maximum price exceeds the current Spot Price and your restrictions are met

Maximum Send Rate

Maximum second rate is the maximum number of email messages that you can send per second using Amazon SES.

Mean Reciprocal Rank At 25

Mean reciprocal rank at 25 is an evaluation metric that assesses the relevance of a model’s highest ranked recommendation.

Mebibyte (MiB)

A mebibyte is a contraction of mega binary byte. A mebibyte (MiB) is 2^20 or 1

Member Resources

See resource.

MemoryDB

MemoryDB for Redis is a Redis-compatible

Message ID

Amazon SES: A unique identifier that's assigned to every email message that's sent. Amazon SQS: The identifier returned when you send a message to a queue.

Metadata

Metadata is information about other data or objects.

Metric

Metric is an element of time-series data defined by a unique combination of exactly one namespace

Metric Name

A metric name is the primary identifier of a metric

Metrics

Metrics are evaluation data that Amazon Personalize generates when you train a model.

MFA

See multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Micro Instance

A micro instance is a type of EC2 instance that's more economical to use if you have occasional bursts of high CPU activity.

Migration Hub

Migration Hub is a service that provides a single location to track migration tasks across multiple AWS tools and partner solutions.

MIME

See Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).

ML Model

A ML model is a mathematical model that generates predictions by finding patterns in data. Three types of models are supported: binary classification

Mobile Analytics

Mobile Analytics is a service that collects

Mobile Hub

Mobile Hub is an integrated console for building

Mobile SDK For Unity

The AWS Mobile SDK for Unity is included in the AWS SDK for .NET.

Mobile SDK For Xamarin

The AWS Mobile SDK for Xamarin is included in the AWS SDK for .NET.

MTA

See Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).

Multi-AZ Deployment

Multi-AZ deployment is A primary DB instance that has a synchronous standby replica in a different Availability Zone. The primary DB instance is synchronously replicated across Availability Zones to the standby replica.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor authentical (MFA) is an optional AWS account security feature. After you enable AWS MFA

Multi-Valued Attribute

Multi-valued attribute is an attribute with more than one value.

Multiclass Classification Model

Multiclass classification model is a machine learning model that predicts values that belong to a limited

Multipart Upload

Multipart upload is a feature that you can use to upload a single object as a set of parts.

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an internet standard that extends the email protocol to include non-ASCII text and nontext elements

Multitool

Multitool is a cascading application that provides a simple command-line interface for managing large datasets.

N-Gram Processor

An n-gram processor is a processor that performs n-gram transformations.

N-Gram Transformation

An n-gram transformation aids in text string analysis. It takes a text variable as input and outputs strings by sliding a window of size n words over the text and outputting every string of words of size n and all smaller sizes.

Namespace

Namespace is an abstract container that gives context for the items it holds and allows disambiguation of homonym items residing in different namespaces.

NAT

NAT

NAT Gateway

NAT gateway is a NAT device that performs network address translation in a private subnet to secure inbound internet traffic. It uses both NAT and port address translation.

NAT Instance

NAT instance is a NAT device that's configured by a user to perform network address translation in an Amazon VPC public subnet to secure inbound internet traffic.

Neptune

Neptune is a managed graph database service that you can use to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. It supports the popular graph query languages Apache TinkerPop Gremlin and W3C's SPARQL

Network ACL

Network ACL is an optional layer of security that acts as a firewall for controlling traffic in and out of a subnet. Multiple subnets can be associated with a single network ACL

Network Address Translation And Protocol Translation

Network Address Translation and Protocol Translation is an internet protocol standard defined in RFC 2766.

Network Firewall

Network Firewall is a managed service that deploys essential network protections for all Amazon Virtual Private Clouds.

NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization

NICE Desktop Cloud Visualization is a remote visualization technology that securely connects users to graphic-intensive 3D applications hosted on a remote

Nimble Studio

Nimble Studio is a managed AWS cloud service for creative studios to produce visual effects

Node

A node is an OpenSearch instance that can be either a data instance or a dedicated master instance.

NoEcho

NoEcho is a property of CloudFormation parameters that prevent the otherwise default reporting of names and values of a template parameter.

Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NCDG) At K (5/10/25)

Normalized discounted cumulative gain (NCDG) at K (5/10/25) is an evaluation metric that tells you about the relevance of your model’s highly ranked recommendations

NoSQL

NoSQL

Null Object

A null object is one whose version ID is null.

Number Of Passes

Number of passes is the number of times that you allow Amazon Machine Learning to use the same data records to train a machine learning model.

Object

An object is the fundamental entity type stored in Amazon S3. It consists of object data and metadata.

Observation

An observation is a single instance of data that Amazon Machine Learning uses to train a machine learning model how to predict or generate a prediction.

On-Demand Instance

On-Demand Instance is an Amazon EC2 pricing option that charges you for compute capacity by the hour or second with no long-term commitment.

OpenSearch Service

OpenSearch Service is an AWS managed service for deploying

Operation

An operation is an API function. Also called an action.

OpsWorks

OpsWorks is a configuration management service that helps you use Chef to configure and operate groups of instances and applications. You can define the application's architecture and the specification of each component including package installation

Optimistic Locking

Optimistic locking is a strategy to ensure that an item that you want to update has not been modified by others before you perform the update.

Organization

An organization is an entity that you create to consolidate and manage your AWS accounts. An organization has one management account along with zero or more member accounts.

Organizational Unit

An organizational unit is a container for accounts within a root of an organization.

Organizations

Organizations is an account management service used to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage.

Origin Access Identity

Origin access identity

Origin Server

Origin server is the Amazon S3 bucket or custom origin containing the definitive original version of the content you deliver through CloudFront.

Original Environment

Original environment is the instances in a deployment group at the start of a CodeDeploy blue/green deployment.

OSB Transformation

OSB transformation

OU

See organizational unit.

Outposts

Outposts is a fully managed service by AWS that extends AWS infrastructure

Output Location

Output location is an Amazon S3 location where the results of a batch prediction are stored.

Pagination

Pagination is the process of responding to an API request by returning a large list of records in small separate parts.

Pagination Token

A pagination token is a marker that indicates that an API response contains a subset of a larger list of records.

Paid AMI

Paid AMI is an Amazon Machine Image that you sell to other Amazon EC2 users on AWS Marketplace.

Paravirtual Virtualization

See PV virtualization.

Part

A part is a contiguous portion of the object's data in a multipart upload request.

Partition Key

A partition key is a simple primary key composed of one attribute. Also known as a hash attribute.

PAT

PAT is a port address translation.

Pebibyte (PiB)

A pebibyte (PiB) is a contraction of peta binary byte

Period

See sampling period.

Permission

Permission is a statement within a policy that allows or denies access to a particular resource.

Persistent Storage

Persistent storage is a data storage solution where the data remains intact until its deleted.

PERSONALIZE_RANKING Recipes

PERSONALIZE_RANKING recipes provide item recommendations in ranked order based on the predicted interest for a user.

Personalized-Ranking Recipe

Personalized-ranking recipe is a PERSONALIZE_RANKING recipe that ranks a collection of items that you provide based on the predicted interest levels for a specific user.

Physical Name

The physical name is a unique label that CloudFormation assigns to each resource when creating a stack.

Pipeline

A pipeline is a workflow construct that defines the way software changes go through a release process.

Plaintext

Plaintext is information that has not been encrypted.

Policy

A policy is a document defining permissions that apply to a user

Policy Generator

Policy generator is a tool in the IAM AWS Management Console that helps you build a policy by selecting elements from lists of available options.

Policy Simullator

Policy simulator is a tool in IAM AWS Management Console that helps you test and troubleshoot policies so you can see their effects in real-world scenarios.

Policy Validator

Policy validator is a tool in the IAM AWS Management Console that examines your existing IAM access control policies to ensure that they comply with the IAM policy grammar.

Popularity-Count Recipe

Popularity-count recipe is a USER_PERSONALIZATION recipe that recommends items that have had the most interactions with unique users.

Porting Assistant For .NET

Porting Assistant for .NET is a compatibility analyzer that reduces the manual effort required to port Microsoft .NET Framework applications to open source .NET Core.

Precision At K (5/10/25)

Precision at K (5/10/25) is an evaluation metric that tells you how relevant your model’s recommendations are based on a sample size of K (5

Prefix

See job prefix.

Premium Support

Premium Support is a one-on-one

Presigned URL

A presigned URL is a web address that uses query string authentication.

Primary Key

Primary key is one or two attributes that uniquely identify each item in a DynamoDB table

Primary Shard

See shard.

Principle

A principle is the user

Private Content

Private content is a method of controlling access to your content by requiring users to use signed URLs.

Private IP Address

A private IP address is a private numerical address (for example

Private Subnet

A private subnet is an Amazon VPC subnet whose instances can't be reached from the internet.

Product Code

Product code is an identifier provided by AWS when you submit a product to AWS Marketplace.

Properties

See resource property.

Property Rule

Property rule is a JSON-compliant markup standard for declaring properties

Provisioned IOPS

Provisioned IOPS is a storage option that delivers fast

Pseudo Parameter

A pseudo parameter is a predefined setting that can be used in CloudFormation templates without having to declare them.

Public AMI

Public AMI is an Amazon Machine Image that all AWS accounts have permission to launch.

Public Dataset

Public dataset is a large collection of public information that can be seamlessly integrated into applications that are based in the AWS Cloud. Amazon stores public datasets at no charge to the community and

Public IP Address

Public IP address is public numerical address that networked devices use to communicate with one another using the Internet Protocol (IP).

Public Subnet

A public subnet is a subnet whose instances can be reached from the internet.

PV Virtualization

PV virtualization allows guest VMs to run on host systems that don't have special support extensions for full hardware and CPU virtualization.

Quartile Binning Transformation

Quartile binning transformation is a process that takes two inputs

Query

Query is a type of web service that generally uses only the GET or POST HTTP method and a query string with parameters in the URL.

Query String Authentication

Query string authentication is an AWS feature that you can use to place the authentication information in the HTTP request query string instead of in the Authorization header

Queue

A queue is a sequence of messages or jobs that are held in temporary storage awaiting transmission or processing.

Queue URL

A queue URL is a web address that uniquely identifies a queue.

QuickSight

QuickSight is a fast

Quota

Quota is the maximum value for your resources

Range GET

Range GET is a request that specifies a byte range of data to get for a download. Large objects can be downloaded in smaller units by sending multiple range GET requests that each specify a different byte range to GET.

Raw Email

A raw email is a type of sendmail request with which you can specify the email headers and MIME types.

Read Replica

Read replica is an active copy of another DB instance. Any updates to the data on the source DB instance are replicated to the read replica DB instance using the built-in replication feature of MySQL 5.1.

Real-Time Predictions

Real-time predictions are synchronously generated predictions for individual data observations.

Receipt Handle

A receipt handle is an identifier that you get when you receive a message from the queue. It is required to delete a message from the queue or when changing a message's visibility timeout.

Receiver

A receiver is an entity that consists of the network systems

Recipe

Recipe is an Amazon Personalize algorithm that's preconfigured to predict the items that a user interacts with (for USER_PERSONALIZATION recipes)

Recipient

A recipient is the person or entity receiving an email message.

Recommendations

Recommendations are a list of items that Amazon Personalize predicts that a user interacts with. Depending on the recipe used

Redis

Redis is a fast

Reference

A reference is a means of inserting a property from one AWS resource into another.

Region

A Region is a named set of AWS resources that are in the same geographical area. It comprises at least three Availability Zones.

Regression Model

Regression model is a type of machine learning model that predicts a numeric value

Regularization

Regularization is A machine learning (ML) parameter that you can tune to obtain higher-quality ML models. It helps prevent ML models from memorizing training data examples instead of learning how to generalize the patterns it sees (called overfitting). When training data is overfitted

RELATED_ITEMS Recipes

RELATED_ITEMS recipes recommend items that are similar to a specified item

Replacement Environment

Replacement environment is the instances in a deployment group after the CodeDeploy blue/green deployment.

Replica Shard

See shard.

Reply Path

Reply path is the email address an email reply is sent to.

Representational State Transfer

See REST.

Reputation

Reputation is an Amazon S3 metric that's based on factors including bounces

Requester

A requester is the person (or application) that sends a request to AWS to perform a specific action.

Requester Pays

Requester Pays is an Amazon S3 feature that allows a bucket owner to specify that anyone who requests access to objects in a particular bucket must pay the data transfer and request costs.

Reservation

Reservation is a collection of EC2 instances started as part of the same launch request.

Reserved Instance

Reservation Instance is a pricing option for EC2 instances that discounts the on-demand usage charge for instances that meet the specified parameters. Customers pay for the entire term of the instance

Reserved Instance Marketplace

Reserved Instance Marketplace is an online exchange that matches sellers who have reserved capacity that they no longer need with buyers who are looking to purchase additional capacity. Reserved instances that you purchase from third-party sellers have less than a full standard term remaining and can be sold at different upfront prices. The usage or reoccurring fees remain the same as the fees set when the Reserved Instances were originally purchased. Full standard terms for Reserved Instances available from AWS run for one year or three years.

RESful Web Service

RESTful web service

Resilience Hub

Resilience Hub gives you a central place to define

Resource

A resource is an entity that users can work with in AWS.

Resource Groups

Resource Groups is a web service that AWS customers can use to manage and automate tasks on large numbers of resources at one time.

Resource Property

Resource property is a value required when including an AWS resource in a CloudFormation stack. Each resource can have one or more properties associated with it.

Resource Record

Resource record

REST

REST

Return Enabled

Return enabled is an index field option that enables the field's values to be returned in the search results.

Return Path

Return path is the email address that bounced email is returned to. It is specified in the header of the original email.

Revision

Revision is a change that's made to a source that's configured in a source action

Role

Role gives temporary access to AWS resources in your AWS account.

Rollback

Rollback is a return to a previous state that follows the failure to create an object

Root

Root is a parent container for the accounts in your organization.

Root Credentials

Root credentials are authentication information associated with the AWS account owner.

Root Device Volume

Root device volume contains the image used to boot the instance.

Route 53

Route 53 is a web service that you can use to create a new DNS service or to migrate your existing DNS service to the cloud.

Route Table

Route table is a set of routing rules that controls the traffic leaving any subnet that's associated with the route table. You can associate multiple subnets with a single route table

Row Identifier

Row identifier is an attribute in the input data that you can include in the evaluation or prediction output to make it easier to associate a prediction with an observation.

Rule

A rule is a set of conditions that AWS WAF searches for in web requests to AWS resources such as Amazon CloudFront distributions. You add rules to a web ACL

SageMaker

SageMaker is a fully managed cloud service that builds

Sampling Period

A sampling period is a defined duration of time during which CloudWatch computes a statistic.

Sandbox

Sandbox is a testing location where you can test the functionality of your application without affecting production

Scale In

Scale in means to remove EC2 instances from an Auto Scaling group.

Scale Out

Scale out means to add EC2 instances to an Auto Scaling group.

Scaling Activity

A scaling activity is a process that changes the size

Scaling Policy

Scaling policy is a description of how Auto Scaling automatically scales an Auto Scaling group in response to changing demand.

Scheduler

Scheduler is the method used to place tasks on container instances.

Schema

Schema is the information needed to interpret the input data for a machine learning model

Score Cut-Off Value

Score cut-off value is a binary classification model which outputs a score that ranges from 0 to 1. To decide whether an observation is classified as 1 or 0

SCP

See service control policy.

SDK For C++

AWS SDK for C++ is a software development kit that provides C++ APIs for many AWS services including Amazon S3

SDK For Go

AWS SDK for Go is a software development kit for integrating your Go application with the full suite of AWS services.

SDK For Java

AWS SDK for Java is a software development kit that provides Java API operations for many AWS services including Amazon S3

SDK For JavaScript In Node.Js

AWS SDK for JavaScript in Node.js is a software development kit for accessing AWS services from JavaScript in Node.js. The SDK provides JavaScript objects for AWS services

SDK For JavaScript In The Browser

AWS SDK for JavaScript in the Browser is a software development kit for accessing AWS services from JavaScript code running in the browser.

SDK For PHP

AWS SDK for PHP is a software development kit and open-source PHP library for integrating your PHP application with AWS services such as Amazon S3

SDK For Python (Boto3)

AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) is a software development kit for using Python to access AWS services such as Amazon EC2

SDK For Ruby

AWS SDK for Ruby is a software development kit for accessing AWS services from Ruby. The SDK provides Ruby classes for many AWS services including Amazon S3

SDK For Rust

AWS SDK for Rust is a software development kit that provides APIs and utilities for developers. It enables Rust applications to integrate with AWS services such as Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2.

SDK For Swift

AWS SDK for Swift is a software development kit that provides support for accessing AWS infrastructure and services using the Swift language.

Search API

Search API is the API used to submit search requests in a search domain.

Search Domain

Search domain encapsulates your searchable data and the search instances that handle your search requests.

Search Domain Configuration

Search domain configuration is a domain's indexing options

Search Enabled

Search enabled is an index field option that enables the field data to be searched.

Search Endpoint

Search endpoint is the URL that you connect to when sending search requests to a search domain.

Search Index

Search index is a representation of your searchable data that facilitates fast and accurate data retrieval.

Search Instance

Search instance is a compute resource that indexes your data and processes search requests.

Search Request

Search request is sent to Amazon CloudSearch domain's search endpoint to retrieve the documents from the index that match particular search criteria.

Search Result

Search result is a document that matches a search request. Also known as a search hit.

Secret Access Key

Secret access key is used with the access key ID to cryptographically sign programmatic AWS requests. Signing a request identifies the sender and prevents the request from being altered. You can generate secret access keys for your AWS account

Secrets Manager

Secrets Manager is a service for securely encrypting

Security Group

Security group is a named set of allowed inbound network connections for an instance.

Security Hub

Security Hub is a service that provides a comprehensive view of the security state of your AWS resources. It collects security data from AWS accounts and services and helps you analyze your security trends to identify and prioritize the security issues across your AWS environment.

Sender

A sender is the person or entity sending an email message.

Sender ID

Sender ID is an email authentication and anti-spoofing system.

Sending Limits

Sending limits are the sending quota and maximum send rate that are associated with every Amazon SES account.

Sending Quota

Sending quota is the maximum number of email messages that you can send in a 24-hour period.

Server-Side Encryption (SSE)

Server-side encryption (SSE) is the encrypting of data at a server level.

Service Control Policy

Service control policy is a policy-based control that specifies the services and actions that users and roles can use in the accounts that the service control policy (SCP) affects.

Service Endpoint

See endpoint.

Service Health Dashboard

Service health dashboard is a webpage showing up-to-the-minute information about AWS service availability.

Service Quotas

Service Quotas helps you view and manage your quotas easily and at scale as your AWS workloads grow. Quotas

Service Role

Service role is 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.

Session

A session is a period when the temporary security credentials that are provided by AWS STS allow access to your AWS account.

SHA

SHA is a Secure Hash Algorithm.

Shard

A shard is a partition of data in an index.

Shared AMI

Shared AMI is an Amazon Machine Image that a developer builds and makes available for others to use.

Shield

Shield helps you protect your resources against DDoS attacks.

Shutdown Action

Shutdown action is a predefined bootstrap action that launches a script that runs a series of commands in parallel before terminating the job flow.

Signature

A signature is a digital signature

SIGNATURE File

A SIGNATURE file can be copied to the root directory of your storage device. The file contains a job ID

Signature Version 4

Signature Version 4 is a protocol for authenticating inbound API requests to AWS services in all AWS Regions.

Signer

Signer is a fully managed code-signing service used to ensure the authenticity and integrity of an AWS customer's code.

Silk

Silk is a next-generation web browser that's available only on Fire OS tablets and phones. It's built on a split architecture that divides processing between the client and the AWS Cloud to create a faster

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

See SMTP.

Simple Object Access Protocol

See SOAP.

SIMS Recipe

See item-to-item similarities (SIMS) recipe.

Single Sign-On

Single sign-on is an authentication scheme that allows users to sign in one time to access multiple applications and websites. The service name AWS Single Sign-On is now AWS IAM Identity Center.

Single-AZ DB Instance

Single-AZ DB instance is a standard (non-Multi-AZ) DB instance that's deployed in one Availability Zone

Site-To-Site VPN

Site-to-Site VPN is a fully managed service that you can use to establish Internet Protocol security (IPsec) VPN connections between your AWS networks and your on-premises networks.

Sloppy Phrase Search

A sloppy phrase search is a search for a phrase that specifies how close the terms must be to each other to be considered a match.

SMTP

SMTP

Snapshot

A snapshot is a backup of your volumes stored in Amazon S3. Snapshots can be used as a starting point for new Amazon EBS volumes or to protect your data for long-term durability.

Snowball

Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses devices that are secure to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud.

SOAP

SOAP

Soft Bounce

A soft bounce is a temporary email delivery failure

Software VPN

A software VPN is a software appliance-based VPN connection over the internet.

Solution

A solution is the recipe

Solution Version

A solution version is a trained model that you create as part of a solution in Amazon Personalize. You deploy a solution version in a campaign to generate recommendations.

Sort Enabled

Sort enabled is an index field option that enables a field to be used to sort the search results.

Sort Key

Sort key is an attribute used to sort the order of partition keys in a composite primary key

Source/Destination Checking

Source/destination checking is a security measure that verifies that an instance isn't relaying traffic.

Spam

Spam is unsolicited bulk emails.

Spamtrap

A spamtrap is an email address set up by an anti-spam entity to monitor unsolicited emails. Also called a honeypot.

SPF

SPF

SPICE

SPICE (Super-fast

Spot Instance

Spot Instance is a type of EC2 instance that you can bid on to use unused Amazon EC2 capacity.

Spot Price

Spot price is the price for a Spot Instance at any given time. If your maximum price exceeds the current price and your restrictions are met

SQL Injection Match Condition

SQL injection match condition is an attribute that specifies the part of web requests (such as a header or a query string) that AWS WAF inspects for malicious SQL code. Based on the specified conditions

SSE

See server-side encryption (SSE).

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer; See Transport Layer Security (TLS).

Stack

A stack is a collection of AWS resources that you create and delete as a single unit. It's a set of instances that you manage collectively

Station

A station is a place at an AWS facility where your AWS Import/Export data is transferred on to

Statistic

A statistic is one of five functions of the values submitted for a given sampling period.

Stem

A stem is a common root or substring shared by a set of related words.

Stemming

Stemming is the process of mapping related words to a common stem

Step

A step is a single function applied to the data in a job flow. The sum of all steps comprises a job flow.

Step Functions

Step Functions is a web service that coordinates the components of distributed applications as a series of steps in a visual workflow.

Step Type

Step type is the type of work done in a step.

Sticky Session

Sticky session is a feature of the ELB load balancer that binds a user's session to a specific application instance.

Stopping

Stopping is the process of filtering stop words from an index or search request.

Stopword

A stopword isn't indexed and is automatically filtered out of search requests because it's either insignificant or so common that including it results in too many matches to be useful. It is language specific.

Storage Gateway

Storage Gateway is 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.

Streaming

Amazon EMR: A utility that comes with Hadoop that you can use to develop MapReduce executables in languages other than Java. CloudFront: The ability to use a media file in real time—as it's transmitted in a steady stream from a server.

Streaming Distribution

Streaming distribution is a special kind of distribution that serves streamed media files using a Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) connection.

Streams

See Kinesis Data Streams.

String Match Condition

String match condition is an attribute that specifies the strings that AWS WAF searches for in a web request

String-To-Sign

Before you calculate an HMAC signature

Strongly Consistent Read

Strongly consistent read is a process that returns a response with the most up-to-date data.

Structured Query

Structured query is specified using the CloudSearch structured query language. It can be used to construct compound queries that use advanced search options and combine multiple search criteria using Boolean operators.

Subnet

A subnet is a segment of the IP address range of an Amazon VPC that an EC2 instance can be attached to. You can create subnets to group instances according to security and operational needs.

Subscription Button

A subscription button is pressed by users to active a recurring fee.

Suggester

A suggester specifies an index field for getting autocomplete suggestions and options that can enable fuzzy matches and control how suggestions are sorted.

Suggestions

Suggestions are documents that contain a match for the partial search string in the field that's designated by the suggester. CloudSearch suggestions include the document IDs and field values for each matching document. To be a match

Sumerian

Sumerian is a set of tools for creating and running high-quality 3D

Supported AMI

Supported AMI is an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) similar to a paid AMI

SWF

See Amazon SWF.

Symmetric Encryption

Symmetric encryption is encryption that uses a private key.

Synchronous Bounce

A synchronous bounce occurs when the email servers of the sender and receiver are actively communicating.

Synonym

A synonym is a word that is similar to another word.

Systems Manager

Systems Manager is the operations hub for AWS and hybrid cloud environments that can help achieve secure operations at scale. It provides a unified user interface for users to view operations data from multiple AWS services and automate tasks across their AWS resources.

Table

A table is a collection of data.

Tag

A tag is metadata that can be defined and assigned to AWS resources.

Tagging

Tagging means to apply a tag to an AWS resource. Also known as labeling

Target Attribute

A target attribute is the attribute in the input data that contains the correct answers.

Target Revision

A target revision is the most recent version of an application revision that has been uploaded to the repository and will be deployed to the instances in a deployment group.

Task

A task is an instantiation of a task definition that's running on a container instance.

Task Definition

Task definition is the blueprint for your task that specifies the name of the task

Task Node

A task node is an EC2 instance that runs Hadoop map and reduces tasks but doesn't store data. They are managed by the master node.

Tebibyte (TiB)

A tebibyte (TiB) is a contraction of tera binary byte. A tebibyte (TiB) is 2^40 or 1

Template Format Version

Template format version is the version of a CloudFormation template design that determines the available features.

Template Validation

Template validation is the process of confirming the use of JSON code in a CloudFormation template.

Temporary Security Credentials

Temporary security credentials are authentication information that's provided by AWS STS when you call an STS API action. Includes an access key ID

Throttling

Throttling is the automatic restricting or slowing down of a process based on one or more limits.

Time-Series Data

Time-series data is provided as part of a metric and is what the time value is assumed to be when the value occurred.

Timestamp

A timestamp is the date/time string in the ISO 8601 format.

Timestream

Timestream is a scalable and serverless time series database service for real-time analytics

TLS

See Transport Layer Security.

Tokenization

Tokenization is the process if splitting a stream of text into separate tokens on detectable boundaries such as white space and hyphens.

Topic

A topic is a communication channel used to send messages and subscribe to notifications. It provides an access point for publishers and subscribers to communicate with each other.

Traffic Mirroring

Traffic Mirroring is an Amazon VPC feature that you can use to copy network traffic from an elastic network interface of Amazon EC2 instances. You can then send this network traffic to out-of-band security and monitoring appliances for content inspection

Training Datasource

Training datasource contains the data that Amazon Machine Learning uses to train the machine learning model to make predictions.

Transfer Family

AWS Transfer Family offers fully managed support for transferring files over SFTP

Transition

Transition is the act of a revision in a pipeline continuing from one stage to the next in a workflow.

Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Transport Layer Security is a cryptographic protocol that provides security for communication over the internet. Its predecessor is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

Trust Policy

Trust policy is an IAM policy that's an inherent part of an IAM role. It specifies which principles are allowed to use the role.

Trusted Advisor

Trusted Advisor is a web service that inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money

Trusted Key Groups

Trusted key groups are Amazon CloudFront key groups whose public keys CloudFront can use to verify the signatures of CloudFront signed URLs and signed cookies.

Trusted Signers

See trusted key groups.

Tuning

Tuning is selecting the number and type of AMIs to run a Hadoop job flow most efficiently.

Tunnel

A tunnel is a route for transmission of private network traffic that uses the internet to connect nodes in the private network. It uses encryption and secure protocols such as PPTP to prevent the traffic from being intercepted as it passes through public routing nodes.

Unbounded

Unbounded means the number of potential occurrences isn't limited by a set number. This value is often used when defining a data type. that's a list in WSDL.

Unit

Unit is a standard measurement for the values submitted to CloudWatch as metric data.

Usage Report

Usage report is an AWS record that details your usage of a particular AWS service.

User

A user is a person or application under an account that makes API calls to AWS products. Each user has a unique name within the AWS account and a set of security credentials that aren't shared with other users. These credentials are separate from the security credentials for the AWS account. Each user is associated with one and only one AWS account.

USER_PERSONALIZATION Recipes

USER_PERSONALIZATION recipes are used to build a recommendation system that predicts the items a user interacts with based on data provided in Interactions

User-Personalization Recipe

User-personalization recipe is an HRNN-based USER_PERSONALIZATION recipe that predicts the items that a user interacts with. The user-personalization recipe can use item exploration and impressions data to generate recommendations for new items.

Users Dataset

Users dataset is a container for metadata about your users

Validation

See template validation.

Value

Value is instances of attributes for an item. An attribute may have multiple values.

Variable Envelope Return Path

See VERP.

Verification

Verification is the process of confirming that you own an email address or a domain so that you can send an email to or from it.

VERP

VERP

Versioning

Versioning means that every object in Amazon S3 has a key and version ID.

VGW

See virtual private gateway (VGW).

Virtual Private Gateway (VGW)

Virtual private gateway is the Amazon side of a VPN connection that maintains connectivity.

Virtualization

Virtualization allows multiple guest virtual machines (VM) to run on a host operating system. Guest VMs can run on one or more levels above the host hardware

Visibility Timeout

Visibility timeout is a period of time when a message is invisible to the rest of your application after an application component gets it from the queue. During the visibility timeout

VM Import/Export

VM Import/Export is a service for importing virtual machine (VM) images from your existing virtualization environment to Amazon EC2 and then exporting them back.

Volume

Volume is a fixed amount of storage on an instance. It can share data between more than one container and persist the data on the container instance when the containers are no longer running.

VPC Endpoint

VCP endpoint is a feature that can help you create a private connection between your Amazon VPC and another AWS service without requiring access over the internet

VPG

See virtual private gateway (VGW).

VPN Connection

VPN connection is the IPsec connection that's between an Amazon VPC and some other network

web access control list (web ACL)

Web access control list is a set of rules that defines the conditions that AWS WAF searches for in web requests to an AWS resource, such as an Amazon CloudFront distribution. A web access control list (web ACL) specifies if to allow, block, or count the requests.

Web Services Description Language

See WSDL.

WorkDocs

WorkDocs is a managed

WorkMail

WorkMail is a managed

WorkSpaces

WorkSpaces is a managed

WSDL

WSDL

X-Ray

X-Ray is a web service that collects data about requests that your application serves. X-Ray provides tools that you can use to view

X.509 Certificate

X.509 certificate is a digital document that uses the X.509 public key infrastructure (PKI) standard to verify that a public key belongs to the entity that's described in the certificate.

Yobibyte (YiB)

yobibyte (YiB)

A yobibyte (YiB) is a contraction of yotta binary byte. A yobibyte (YiB) is 2^80 or 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes. A yottabyte (YB) is 10^24 or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.

Zebibyte (ZiB)

A zebibyte (ZiB) is a contraction of zetta binary byte. A zebibyte (ZiB) is 2^70 or 1

Zone Awareness

Zone awareness is a configuration that distributes nodes in a cluster across two Availability Zones in the same Region. It helps prevent data loss and minimize downtime if a node and data center fails.