Popular Cloud Acronyms

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A

ACL - Access Control List

ACM - AWS Certificate Manager

AI - Artificial Intelligence

AMI - Amazon Machine Image

API - Application Programming Interface

AR - Augmented Reality

ARN - Amazon Resource Name

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASR - Automatic Speech Recognition

AWS - Amazon Web Services

AZ - Availability Zone

B

BC - Business Continuity

BCDR - Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

BGP - Border Gateway Protocol

BGP ASN - Border Gateway Protocol Autonomous System Number

BYOD - Bring Your Own Device

BYOL - Bring Your Own License

C

CA - Certificate Authority

CACL - Cloud ACL (Access control List)

CDN - Content Delivery Network

CI/CD - Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

CLI - Command Line Interface

CMK- Custom Master Key

CORS- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

CPU- Central Processing Unit

CSP- Cloud Service Provider

CV- Computer Vision

D

DB - Database

DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DKIM - Domain Keys Identified Mail

DMS - Database Migration Services

DNS - Domain Name System

DR - Disaster Recovery

CORS- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

CPU- Central Processing Unit

CSP- Cloud Service Provider

CV- Computer Vision

E

EBS - Certificate Authority

EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud

ECR - Elastic Container Registry

ECS - Elastic Container Service

EFS - Elastic File System

EIP - Elastic IP

EKS - Elastic Kubernetes Service

ELB - Elastic Load Balancer

EMP - End-of-Service Migration Program

EMR - Elastic Map Reduce

ENI - Elastic Network Interface

ETL - Extract, Transform, and Load

F

FIM - Federated Identity Management

FIS - Fault Injection Simulator

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

SFTP - Secure File Transfer Protocol

G

GB - Gigabyte

GPU - Graphic Processing Unit

H

HA - High Availability

HIPPA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HMAC - Hash-Based Message Authentication Code

HPC - High Performance Computing

HRNN - Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network

HSM - Hardware Security Module

HTML - HyperText Markup Language

HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

HTTPS - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure

HVM - Hardware Virtual Machine

I

IaaS - Infrastructure as a Service

IAM - Identity and Access Management

IDE - Integrated Development Environment

Idp - Identity Provider

IOPS - Input/Output Operations Per Second

IoT - Internet of Things

IP - Internet Protocol

IPSec - Internet Protocol Security

ISP - Internet Service Provider

ISV - Independent Software Vendor

IT - Information Technology

ITSM - IT Service Management

J

JSON - JavaScript Object Notation

K

KDM - Kinesis Data Stream

KMS - Key Management Service

L

KDM - Kinesis Data Stream

M

Mac - Media Access Control ( Mac Address )

MAC - Message Authentication Code

MAP - Migration Acceleration Program

MFA - Multi-Factor Authentication

MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

ML - Machine Learning

MSP - Managed Service Provider

MTA - Mail Transfer Agent

MWAA - Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow

N

NACL - Network Access Control List

NAT - Network Address Translation

NLP - Natural Language Processing

O

OCR - Optical Character Recognition

OLAP - Online Analytical Processing

OLTP - Online Transaction Processing

OU - Organizational Unit

P

PaaS - Platform as a Service

PAT - Port Address Translation

PoC - Proof of Concept

Q

QLDB - Quantum Ledger Database

R

RAM - Resource Access Manager

RDS - Relational Database Service

REST - Representational State Transfer

RTMP - Real Time Messaging Protocol

S

S3 - Simple Storage Service

SaaS - Software as a Service

SAM - Serverless Application Model

SAML - Security Assertion Markup Language

SCP - Secure Copy Protocol

SCP - Service Control Policy

SCT - Scheme Conversion Tool

SDK - Software Development Kit

SES - Simple Email Service

SFTP - Secure File Transfer Protocol

SG - Security Group

SHA - Secure Hash Algorithm

SLA - Service Level Agreement

SMC - Simple Notification Service

SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNS - Simple Notification Service

SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol

SOC - Service Organization Control

SOC2 - Service Organization Control 2

SoW - Statement of Work

SPF - Sender Policy Framework

SPICE - Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine

SQL - Structured Query Language

SQS - Simple Queue Service

SSE - Server-Side Encryption

SSH - Secure Shell

SSL - Secure Sockets Layer

SSO - Single Sign-On

SSP - Supply Side Platform

STS - Security Token Service

SWF - Simple Workflow Service

T

TCO - Total Cost of Ownership

TCP - Transmission Control Protocol

TLS - Transport Layer Security

TTS - Text-to-Speech

TTL - Time to Live

U

UDP - User Datagram Protocol

URI - Uniform Resource Identifier

URL - Uniform Resource Locator

V

VERP - Variable Envelope Return Path

VGW (VPG) - Virtual Private Gateway

VM - Virtual Machine

VPC - Virtual Private Cloud

VPN - Virtual Private Network

VR - Virtual Reality

W

WAF- Web Application Firewall

WAM - WorkSpaces Application Manager

WAR - Well-Architectured Review

WSDL - Web Services Description Language

X

XML- Extensible Markup Language

Y

XML- Extensible Markup Language

Z

XML- Extensible Markup Language

B

BC - Business Continuity

BCDR - Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

BGP - Border Gateway Protocol

BGP ASN - Border Gateway Protocol Autonomous System Number

BYOD - Bring Your Own Device

BYOL - Bring Your Own License

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Popular Cloud Acronyms

A

ACL - Access Control List

ACM - AWS Certificate Manager

AI - Artificial Intelligence

AMI - Amazon Machine Image

API - Application Programming Interface

AR - Augmented Reality

ARN - Amazon Resource Name

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASR - Automatic Speech Recognition

AWS - Amazon Web Services

AZ - Availability Zone

B

BC - Business Continuity

BCDR - Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

BGP - Border Gateway Protocol

BGP ASN - Border Gateway Protocol Autonomous System Number

BYOD - Bring Your Own Device

BYOL - Bring Your Own License

C

CA - Certificate Authority

CA - Certificate Authority

CACL - Cloud ACL (Access control List)

CDN - Content Delivery Network

CI/CD - Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

CLI - Command Line Interface

CMK- Custom Master Key

CORS- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

CPU- Central Processing Unit

CSP- Cloud Service Provider

CV- Computer Vision

D

DB - Database

DHCP - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DKIM - Domain Keys Identified Mail

DMS - Database Migration Services

DNS - Domain Name System

DR - Disaster Recovery

CORS- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

CPU- Central Processing Unit

CSP- Cloud Service Provider

CV- Computer Vision

E

EBS - Certificate Authority

EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud

ECR - Elastic Container Registry

ECS - Elastic Container Service

ECS - Elastic Container Service

EFS - Elastic File System

EIP - Elastic IP

EKS - Elastic Kubernetes Service

ELB - Elastic Load Balancer

EMP - End-of-Service Migration Program

EMR - Elastic Map Reduce

ENI - Elastic Network Interface

ETL - Extract, Transform, and Load

F

FIM - Federated Identity Management

FIS - Fault Injection Simulator

FTP - File Transfer Protocol

SFTP - Secure File Transfer Protocol

G

GB - Gigabyte

GPU - Graphic Processing Unit

H

HA - High Availability

HIPPA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

HMAC - Hash-Based Message Authentication Code

HPC - High Performance Computing

HRNN - Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Network

HSM - Hardware Security Module

HTML - HyperText Markup Language