AMI Amazon Machine Image
APN AWS Partner Network
ASG Auto Scaling Group
AZ Availability Zone
- Physically seprate buildings within a Region
CRR Cross Region Replication
CAF Cloud Adoption Framework
DMS Database Migration Service
EBS Elastic Block Storage
EC2 Elastic Cloud Compute
ECR Elastic Container Registry
- used to manage, store & deploy Docker images
ECS Elastic Container Service
- used to manage running of Docker containers
EFS Elastic File Storage
EKS Elastic Kubernetes (K8's) Service
ELB Elasic Load Balancer
- automatically distributes incomming traffic across multiple resources
- ensures not single resource is over uterlized
EMR Elastic MapReduce (Hadoop)
- Serverless Compute Engine for containers
- no server provisioning/mgt needed
Fargate AWS Fargate
IAM Identity and Access Management
IA Infrequent Access
KMS Key Management Service
NAT Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway
QLDB Quantum Ledger DB
Region Region
- geographically isolated area
RDS Relational Database Service
S3 Simple Storage Service
SCP Service Control Policies
SNS Simple Notification Service
- pub/sub service
- msg's pushed to subscribers
SQS Simple Queue Service
- receivers need to poll
SRR Same Region Replication
SSM AWS Systems Manager (Systems Manager was formerly known as "Amazon Simple Systems Manager (SSM)")
STS Security Token Service
TAM Technical Account Manager
VPC Virtual Private Cloud
WORM Write Once Read Many