Useful Acronyms Related To AWS

ACL Access control list
ACM AWS Certificate Manager
AES Advanced Encryption Standard
ALB Application load balancer
Amazon SWF Amazon Simple Workflow Service
AMI Amazon Machine Image
ASG Auto Scaling group
AWS Amazon Web Services A. Availability zone
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
CAA Certification authority authorization
CDN Content delivery network
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CJIS Criminal justice information services
CLI Command-line interface
CNAME Canonical name record
CRR Cross-regional replication
CSA Cloud Security Alliance
CSM Cloud security model
CSV Comma-separated values
DBMS Database management system
DDL Data Definition Language
DDoS Distributed denial of service
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DIACAP DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process
DML Data Manipulation Language
DMS Database Migration Service
DoD Department of Defense
EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud
ECS EC2 Container Service
EIP Elastic IP address
EKS Elastic Kubernetes Service
ELB Elastic load balancing
ENI Elastic Network Interface
ERP Enterprise resource planning
ETL Extract, transform, and load
FedRAMP Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program
FERPA Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FIFO First in, first out
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards
FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act
GPU Graphics processing unit
HA High availability
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS HTTP Secure
HVM Hardware virtual machine
IaaS Infrastructure as a Service
IAM Identity and Access Management
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
IoT Internet of Things
IP Internet Protocol
ISAE International Standard on Assurance Engagements
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations
JDBC Java Database Connectivity
JSON JavaScript Object Notation
KMS Key Management Service
LAMP stack Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) stack
MAC Media Access Control address
MFA Multifactor authentication
MPAA Motion Picture Association of America
MTCS Multi-Tier Cloud Security
MX Mail exchange record
NAPTR Name authority pointer record
NAT Network Address Translation
NFS Network File System
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLB Network load balancer
NS Name server record
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
OLAP Online analytical processing
OLTP Online transaction processing
PaaS Platform as a Service
PCI Payment Card Industry
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
PIOPS Provisioned input/output operations per second
PTR Pointer record
PV Paravirtual
RDBMS Relational database management system
RDS Relational Database Service
REST Representational State Transfer
RPM Revolutions per minute
S3 Simple Shared Storage
S3-IA Simple Shared Storage Infrequent Access
S3-RR Simple Shared Storage Reduced Redundancy
SaaS Software as a Service
SAML Security Assertion Markup Language
SDK Software development kit
SES Simple Email Service
SMS Server Migration Service
SNS Simple Notification Service
SOA Start of authority record
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
SOC Service Organization Control
SPF Sender policy framework
SQL Structured Query Language
SQLi SQL injection
SQS Simple Queue Service
SSAE Standards for Attestation Engagements
SSD Solid-state drive
SSH Secure Shell
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SSO Single sign-on
STS Security Token Service
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP)
TDE Transparent Database Encryption
TLS Transport Layer Security
UDP User Datagram Protocol
VPC Virtual private cloud
VPG Virtual private gateway
VPN Virtual private network
WAF Web Application Firewall; Well-Architected Framework
webACL Web access control list
WORM Write once, read many
XML Extensible Markup Language
XSS Cross-site scripting