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AAD

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See additional authenticated data.

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access control list (ACL)

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A document that defines who can access a particular bucket or object. Each bucket and object in Amazon S3 has an ACL. The document defines what each type of user can do, such as write and read permissions.

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access identifiers

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See credentials.

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access key

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The combination of an access key ID (like AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE) and a secret access key (like wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY). You use access keys to sign API requests that you make to AWS.

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access key ID

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A unique identifier that’s associated with a secret access key; the access key ID and secret access key are used together to sign programmatic AWS requests cryptographically.

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access key rotation

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A method to increase security by changing the AWS access key ID. This method enables you to retire an old key at your discretion.

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access policy language

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A language for writing documents (that is, policies) that specify who can access a particular AWS resource and under what conditions.

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account

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A formal relationship with AWS that is associated with (1) the owner email address and password, (2) the control of resources created under its umbrella, and (3) payment for the AWS activity related to those resources. The AWS account has permission to do anything and everything with all the AWS account resources. This is in contrast to a user, which is an entity contained within the account.

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account activity

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A web page showing your month-to-date AWS usage and costs. The account activity page is located at https://aws.amazon.com/account-activity/.

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ACL

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See access control list (ACL).

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ACM

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See AWS Certificate Manager (ACM).

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action

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An API function. Also called operation or call. The activity the principal has permission to perform. The action is B in the statement “A has permission to do B to C where D applies.” For example, Jane sends a request to Amazon SQS with Action=ReceiveMessage.

Amazon CloudWatch: The response initiated by the change in an alarm’s state: for example, from OK to ALARM. The state change may be triggered by a metric reaching the alarm threshold, or by a SetAlarmState request. Each alarm can have one or more actions assigned to each state. Actions are performed once each time the alarm changes to a state that has an action assigned, such as an Amazon Simple Notification Service notification, an Auto Scaling policy execution or an Amazon EC2 instance stop/terminate action.

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active trusted signers

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A list showing each of the trusted signers you’ve specified and the IDs of the corresponding active key pairs that Amazon CloudFront is aware of. To be able to create working signed URLs, a trusted signer must appear in this list with at least one key pair ID.

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additional authenticated data

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Information that is checked for integrity but not encrypted, such as headers or other contextual metadata.

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administrative suspension

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Auto Scaling might suspend processes for Auto Scaling group that repeatedly fail to launch instances. Auto Scaling groups that most commonly experience administrative suspension have zero running instances, have been trying to launch instances for more than 24 hours, and have not succeeded in that time.

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alarm

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An item that watches a single metric over a specified time period, and triggers an Amazon SNS topic or an Auto Scaling policy if the value of the metric crosses a threshold value over a predetermined number of time periods.

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allow

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One of two possible outcomes (the other is deny) when an IAM access policy is evaluated. When a user makes a request to AWS, AWS evaluates the request based on all permissions that apply to the user and then returns either allow or deny.

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Amazon API Gateway

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A fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway.

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Amazon AppStream

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A web service for streaming existing Windows applications from the cloud to any device.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/appstream/.

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Amazon Aurora

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A fully managed MySQL-compatible relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/.

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Amazon CloudFront

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(CloudFront)

An AWS content delivery service that helps you improve the performance, reliability, and availability of your websites and applications.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront.

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Amazon CloudSearch

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A fully managed service in the AWS cloud that makes it easy to set up, manage, and scale a search solution for your website or application.

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Amazon CloudWatch

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A web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics, and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch.

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Amazon CloudWatch Events

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A web service that enables you to deliver a timely stream of system events that describe changes in AWS resources to AWS Lambda functions, streams in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Simple Notification Service topics, or built-in targets.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch.

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs

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A web service for monitoring and troubleshooting your systems and applications from your existing system, application, and custom log files. You can send your existing log files to CloudWatch Logs and monitor these logs in near real-time.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch.

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Amazon Cognito

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A web service that makes it easy to save mobile user data, such as app preferences or game state, in the AWS cloud without writing any back-end code or managing any infrastructure. Amazon Cognito offers mobile identity management and data synchronization across devices.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/.

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Amazon DynamoDB

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A fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/.

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Amazon DynamoDB Storage Backend for Titan

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A storage backend for the Titan graph database implemented on top of Amazon DynamoDB. Titan is a scalable graph database optimized for storing and querying graphs.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/.

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Amazon DynamoDB Streams

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An AWS service that captures a time-ordered sequence of item-level modifications in any Amazon DynamoDB table, and 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, in near real time.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/.

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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

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A service that provides block level storage volumes for use with EC2 instances.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/ebs.

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Amazon EBS-backed AMI

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A type of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) whose instances use an Amazon EBS volume as their root device. Compare this with instances launched from instance store-backed AMIs, which use the instance store as the root device.

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Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)

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A fully managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. Amazon ECR is integrated with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/ecr.

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

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A highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster of EC2 instances.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/ecs.

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Amazon ECS service

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A service for running and maintaining a specified number of tasks (instantiations of a task definition) simultaneously.

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Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector

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See https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import.

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

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A web service that enables you to launch and manage Linux/UNIX and Windows server instances in Amazon’s data centers.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/ec2.

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

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A file storage service for EC2 instances. Amazon EFS is easy to use and provides a simple interface with which you can create and configure file systems. Amazon EFS storage capacity grows and shrinks automatically as you add and remove files.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/efs/.

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Amazon EMR (Amazon EMR)

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A web service that makes it easy to process large amounts of data efficiently. Amazon EMR uses Hadoop processing combined with several AWS products to do such tasks as web indexing, data mining, log file analysis, machine learning, scientific simulation, and data warehousing.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticmapreduce.

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Amazon Elastic Transcoder

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A cloud-based media transcoding service. Elastic Transcoder is a highly scalable tool for converting (or transcoding) media files from their source format into versions that will play on devices like smartphones, tablets, and PCs.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/elastictranscoder/.

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Amazon ElastiCache

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A web service that simplifies deploying, operating, and scaling an in-memory cache in the cloud. The service improves the performance of web applications by providing information retrieval from fast, managed, in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/.

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Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES)

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An AWS managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling Elasticsearch, an open-source search and analytics engine, in the AWS Cloud. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) also offers security options, high availability, data durability, and direct access to the Elasticsearch APIs.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service.

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Amazon GameLift

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A managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling session-based multiplayer games.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/.

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Amazon Glacier

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A secure, durable, and low-cost storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. You can reliably store large or small amounts of data for significantly less than on-premises solutions. Amazon Glacier is optimized for infrequently accessed data, where a retrieval time of several hours is suitable.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/.

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Amazon GuardDuty

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A continuous security monitoring service. Amazon GuardDuty can help to identify unexpected and potentially unauthorized or malicious activity in your AWS environment.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/.

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Amazon Inspector

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An automated security assessment service that helps improve the security and compliance of applications deployed on AWS. Amazon Inspector automatically assesses applications for vulnerabilities or deviations from best practices. After performing an assessment, Amazon Inspector produces a detailed report with prioritized steps for remediation.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/inspector.

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Amazon Kinesis

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

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose

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A fully managed service for loading streaming data into AWS. Kinesis Data Firehose can capture and automatically load streaming data into Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift , enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools and dashboards. Kinesis Data Firehose automatically scales to match the throughput of your data and requires no ongoing administration. It can also batch, compress, and encrypt the data before loading it.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/firehose/.

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Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

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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.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/streams/.

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Amazon Lightsail

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Lightsail is designed to be the easiest way to launch and manage a virtual private server with AWS. Lightsail offers bundled plans that include everything you need to deploy a virtual private server, for a low monthly rate.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/.

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Amazon Lumberyard

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A cross-platform, 3D game engine for creating high-quality games. You can connect games to the compute and storage of the AWS cloud and engage fans on Twitch.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/.

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Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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An encrypted machine image stored in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) or Amazon Simple Storage Service. AMIs are like a template of a computer’s root drive. They contain the operating system and can also include software and layers of your application, such as database servers, middleware, web servers, and so on.

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Amazon Machine Learning

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A cloud-based service that creates machine learning (ML) models by finding patterns in your data, and uses these models to process new data and generate predictions.

See Also http://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/.

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Amazon Macie

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A security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS.

See Also http://aws.amazon.com/macie/.

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Amazon ML

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See Amazon Machine Learning.

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Amazon Mobile Analytics

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(Mobile Analytics)

A service for collecting, visualizing, understanding, and extracting mobile app usage data at scale.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/mobileanalytics.

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Amazon MQ

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A managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-mq/.

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Amazon Redshift

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A fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse service in the cloud. With Amazon Redshift you can analyze your data using your existing business intelligence tools.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/.

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)

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A web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient, resizable capacity for an industry-standard relational database and manages common database administration tasks.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/rds.

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Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

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A standardized way to refer to an AWS resource. For example: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/division_abc/subdivision_xyz/Bob.

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Amazon Route 53

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(Route 53)

A web service you can use to create a new DNS service or to migrate your existing DNS service to the cloud.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/route53.

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Amazon S3

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See Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

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Amazon S3-Backed AMI

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See instance store-backed AMI.

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Amazon Silk

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A next-generation web browser available only on Fire OS tablets and phones. Built on a split architecture that divides processing between the client and the AWS cloud, Amazon Silk is designed to create a faster, more responsive mobile browsing experience.

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Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)

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An easy-to-use, cost-effective email solution for applications.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/ses.

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Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

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A web service that enables applications, end-users, and devices to instantly send and receive notifications from the cloud.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/sns.

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Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

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Reliable and scalable hosted queues for storing messages as they travel between computers.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/sqs.

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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

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Storage for the internet. You can use it to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/s3.

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Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF)

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A fully managed service that helps developers build, run, and scale background jobs that have parallel or sequential steps. Amazon SWF is like a state tracker and task coordinator in the cloud.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/swf/.

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Amazon Sumerian

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A set of tools for creating and running high-quality 3D, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) applications on the web.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/.

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)

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A web service for provisioning a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define. You control your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/vpc.

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Amazon VPC

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See Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC).

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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An infrastructure web services platform in the cloud for companies of all sizes.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-cloud-computing/.

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Amazon WorkDocs

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A managed, secure enterprise document storage and sharing service with administrative controls and feedback capabilities.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/workdocs/.

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Amazon WorkMail

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A managed, secure business email and calendar service with support for existing desktop and mobile email clients.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/.

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Amazon WorkSpaces

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A managed, secure desktop computing service for provisioning cloud-based desktops and providing users access to documents, applications, and resources from supported devices.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/.

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Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (Amazon WAM)

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A web service for deploying and managing applications for Amazon WorkSpaces. Amazon WAM accelerates software deployment, upgrades, patching, and retirement by packaging Windows desktop applications into virtualized application containers.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/applicationmanager.

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AMI

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See Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

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analysis scheme

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Amazon CloudSearch: Language-specific text analysis options that are applied to a text field to control stemming and configure stopwords and synonyms.

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application

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A logical collection of components, including environments, versions, and environment configurations. An application is conceptually similar to a folder.

AWS CodeDeploy: A name that uniquely identifies the application to be deployed. AWS CodeDeploy uses this name to ensure the correct combination of revision, deployment configuration, and deployment group are referenced during a deployment.

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Application Billing

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The location where your customers manage the Amazon DevPay products they’ve purchased. The web address is http://www.amazon.com/dp-applications.

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application revision

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AWS CodeDeploy: An archive file containing source content—such as source code, web pages, executable files, and deployment scripts—along with an application specification file. Revisions are stored in Amazon S3 buckets or GitHub repositories. For Amazon S3, a revision is uniquely identified by its Amazon S3 object key and its ETag, version, or both. For GitHub, a revision is uniquely identified by its commit ID.

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application specification file

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AWS CodeDeploy: A YAML-formatted file used to map the source files in an application revision to destinations on the instance; specify custom permissions for deployed files; and specify scripts to be run on each instance at various stages of the deployment process.

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application version

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A specific, labeled iteration of an application that represents a functionally consistent set of deployable application code. A version points to an Amazon S3 object (a JAVA WAR file) that contains the application code.

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AppSpec file

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See application specification file.

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AUC

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Area Under a Curve. An industry-standard metric to evaluate the quality of a binary classification machine learning model. AUC measures the ability of the model to predict a higher score for positive examples, those that are “correct,” than for negative examples, those that are “incorrect.” The AUC metric returns a decimal value from 0 to 1. AUC values near 1 indicate an ML model that is highly accurate.

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ARN

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See Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

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artifact

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AWS CodePipeline: A copy of the files or changes that will be worked upon by the pipeline.

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asymmetric encryption

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Encryption that uses both a public key and a private key.

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asynchronous bounce

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A type of bounce that occurs when a receiver initially accepts an email message for delivery and then subsequently fails to deliver it.

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atomic counter

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DynamoDB: A method of incrementing or decrementing the value of an existing attribute without interfering with other write requests.

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attribute

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A fundamental data element, something that does not need to be broken down any further. In DynamoDB, attributes are similar in many ways to fields or columns in other database systems.

Amazon Machine Learning: A unique, named property within an observation in a data set. In tabular data, such as spreadsheets or comma-separated values (.csv) files, the column headings represent the attributes, and the rows contain values for each attribute.

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Aurora

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See Amazon Aurora.

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authenticated encryption

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Encryption that provides confidentiality, data integrity, and authenticity assurances of the encrypted data.

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authentication

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The process of proving your identity to a system.

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Auto Scaling

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A web service designed to launch or terminate instances automatically based on user-defined policies, schedules, and health checks.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com//autoscaling.

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Auto Scaling group

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A representation of multiple EC2 instances that share similar characteristics, and that are treated as a logical grouping for the purposes of instance scaling and management.

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Availability Zone

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A distinct location within a region that is insulated from failures in other Availability Zones, and provides inexpensive, low-latency network connectivity to other Availability Zones in the same region.

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AWS

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See Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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AWS Application Discovery Service

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A web service that helps you plan to migrate to AWS by identifying IT assets in a data center—including servers, virtual machines, applications, application dependencies, and network infrastructure.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2016/04/aws-application-discovery-service/.

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AWS Billing and Cost Management

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The AWS cloud computing model in which you pay for services on demand and use as much or as little at any given time as you need. While resources are active under your account, you pay for the cost of allocating those resources and for any incidental usage associated with those resources, such as data transfer or allocated storage.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/billing/new-user-faqs/.

101
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AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

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A web service for provisioning, managing, and deploying Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/.

102
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AWS Cloud9

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A cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that you use to write, run, and debug code.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/.

103
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AWS CloudFormation

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A service for writing or changing templates that create and delete related AWS resources together as a unit.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation.

104
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AWS CloudHSM

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A web service that helps you meet corporate, contractual, and regulatory compliance requirements for data security by using dedicated hardware security module (HSM) appliances within the AWS cloud.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudhsm/.

105
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AWS CloudTrail

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A web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response elements returned by the AWS service.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/.

106
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AWS CodeCommit

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(CodeCommit)

A fully managed source control service that makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit.

107
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AWS CodeDeploy

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(CodeDeploy)

A service that automates code deployments to any instance, including EC2 instances and instances running on-premises.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/codedeploy.

108
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AWS CodeDeploy agent

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A software package that, when installed and configured on an instance, enables that instance to be used in AWS CodeDeploy deployments.

109
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AWS CodePipeline

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(CodePipeline)

A continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application updates.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/codepipeline.

110
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AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

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A unified downloadable and configurable tool for managing AWS services. Control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/cli/.

111
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AWS Config

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A fully managed service that provides an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications for better security and governance. You can create rules that automatically check the configuration of AWS resources that AWS Config records.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/config/.

112
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AWS Elemental MediaConvert

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A file-based video conversion service that transforms media into formats required for traditional broadcast and for internet streaming to multi-screen devices.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/mediaconvert.

113
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AWS Elemental MediaLive

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A video service that lets you easily create live outputs for broadcast and streaming delivery.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/medialive.

114
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AWS Elemental MediaPackage

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A just-in-time packaging and origination service that lets you format highly secure and reliable live outputs for a variety of devices.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/mediapackage.

115
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AWS Elemental MediaStore

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A storage service optimized for media that provides the performance, consistency, and low latency required to deliver live and on-demand video content at scale.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/mediastore.

116
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor

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A video service that lets you serve targeted ads to viewers while maintaining broadcast quality in over-the-top (OTT) video applications.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/mediatailor.

117
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AWS Database Migration Service

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A web service that can help you migrate data to and from many widely used commercial and open-source databases.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/dms.

118
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AWS Data Pipeline

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A web service for processing and moving data between different AWS compute and storage services, as well as on-premises data sources, at specified intervals.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/datapipeline.

119
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AWS Device Farm

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(Device Farm)

An app testing service that allows developers to test Android, iOS, and Fire OS devices on real, physical phones and tablets that are hosted by AWS.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm.

120
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AWS Direct Connect

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A web service that simplifies establishing a dedicated network connection from your premises to AWS. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect.

121
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AWS Directory Service

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A managed service for connecting your AWS resources to an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory or to set up and operate a new, standalone directory in the AWS cloud.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/directoryservice.

122
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk

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A web service for deploying and managing applications in the AWS Cloud without worrying about the infrastructure that runs those applications.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk.

123
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AWS Glue

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A fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that you can use to catalog data and load it for analytics. With AWS Glue, you can discover your data, develop scripts to transform sources into targets, and schedule and run ETL jobs in a serverless environment.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/glue.

124
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AWS GovCloud (US)

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An isolated AWS Region designed to host sensitive workloads in the cloud, ensuring that this work meets the US government’s regulatory and compliance requirements. The AWS GovCloud (US) Region adheres to United States International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) requirements, Department of Defense (DOD) Cloud Security Requirements Guide (SRG) Levels 2 and 4, and Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Security Policy requirements.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/.

125
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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A web service that enables Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to manage users and user permissions within AWS.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/iam.

126
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AWS Import/Export

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A service for transferring large amounts of data between AWS and portable storage devices.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/importexport.

127
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AWS IoT

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A managed cloud platform that lets connected devices easily and securely interact with cloud applications and other devices.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/iot.

128
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AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

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A managed service that simplifies the creation and control of encryption keys that are used to encrypt data.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/kms.

129
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AWS Lambda

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A web service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You can run code for virtually any type of application or back-end service with zero administration. You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/.

130
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AWS managed key

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One of two types of customer master key (CMK)s in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS).

131
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AWS managed policy

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An IAM managed policy that is created and managed by AWS.

132
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AWS Management Console

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A graphical interface to manage compute, storage, and other cloud resources.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/console.

133
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AWS Management Portal for vCenter

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A web service for managing your AWS resources using VMware vCenter. You install the portal as a vCenter plug-in within your existing vCenter environment. Once installed, you can migrate VMware VMs to Amazon EC2 and manage AWS resources from within vCenter.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vcenter-portal/.

134
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AWS Marketplace

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A web portal where qualified partners to market and sell their software to AWS customers. AWS Marketplace is an online software store that helps customers find, buy, and immediately start using the software and services that run on AWS.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/partners/aws-marketplace/.

135
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AWS Mobile Hub

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(Mobile Hub)

An integrated console that for building, testing, and monitoring mobile apps.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/mobile.

136
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AWS Mobile SDK

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A software development kit whose libraries, code samples, and documentation help you build high quality mobile apps for the iOS, Android, Fire OS, Unity, and Xamarin platforms.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/mobile/sdk.

137
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AWS OpsWorks

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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, software configuration, and resources such as storage. You can automate tasks based on time, load, lifecycle events, and more.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/.

138
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AWS Organizations

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An account management service that enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/.

139
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AWS SDK for C++

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A software development kit for that provides C++ APIs for many AWS services including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon DynamoDB, and more. The single, downloadable package includes the AWS C++ library, code samples, and documentation.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/.

140
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AWS SDK for Go

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

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-go/.

141
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AWS SDK for Java

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A software development kit that provides Java APIs for many AWS services including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon DynamoDB, and more. The single, downloadable package includes the AWS Java library, code samples, and documentation.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/.

142
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AWS SDK for JavaScript in the Browser

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A software development kit for accessing AWS services from JavaScript code running in the browser. Authenticate users through Facebook, Google, or Login with Amazon using web identity federation. Store application data in Amazon DynamoDB, and save user files to Amazon S3.

See Also http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v2/developer-guide/.

143
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AWS SDK for JavaScript in Node.js

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A software development kit for accessing AWS services from JavaScript in Node.js. The SDK provides JavaScript objects for AWS services, including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF) . The single, downloadable package includes the AWS JavaScript library and documentation.

See Also http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v2/developer-guide/.

144
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AWS SDK for .NET

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A software development kit that provides .NET API actions for AWS services including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, IAM, and more. You can download the SDK as multiple service-specific packages on NuGet.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-net/.

145
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AWS SDK for PHP

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A software development kit and open-source PHP library for integrating your PHP application with AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, and Amazon DynamoDB.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-php/.

146
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AWS SDK for Python (Boto)

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A software development kit for using Python to access AWS services like Amazon EC2, Amazon EMR, Auto Scaling, Amazon Kinesis, AWS Lambda, and more.

See Also http://boto.readthedocs.org/en/latest/.

147
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AWS SDK for Ruby

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A software development kit for accessing AWS services from Ruby. The SDK provides Ruby classes for many AWS services including Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon DynamoDB. and more. The single, downloadable package includes the AWS Ruby Library and documentation.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-ruby/.

148
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AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS)

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A web service for requesting temporary, limited-privilege credentials for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users or for users that you authenticate (federated users).

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/iam/.

149
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AWS Service Catalog

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A web service that helps organizations create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multitier application architectures.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.

150
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AWS Step Functions

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

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/step-functions/.

151
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AWS Storage Gateway

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A web service that connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization’s on-premises IT environment and AWS’s storage infrastructure.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/.

152
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AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

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An open-source plug-in for the Eclipse Java IDE that makes it easier for developers to develop, debug, and deploy Java applications using Amazon Web Services.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/eclipse/.

153
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AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio

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An extension for Microsoft Visual Studio that helps developers develop, debug, and deploy .NET applications using Amazon Web Services.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/visualstudio/.

154
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AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell

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A set of PowerShell cmdlets to help developers and administrators manage their AWS services from the Windows PowerShell scripting environment.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/powershell/.

155
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AWS Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services

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Provides tasks you can use in build and release definitions in VSTS to interact with AWS services.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/vsts/.

156
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AWS Trusted Advisor

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A web service that inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations for saving money, improving system availability and performance, and helping to close security gaps.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/.

157
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AWS VPN CloudHub

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Enables secure communication between branch offices using a simple hub-and-spoke model, with or without a VPC.

158
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AWS WAF

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A web application firewall service that controls access to content by allowing or blocking web requests based on criteria that you specify, such as header values or the IP addresses that the requests originate from. AWS WAF helps protect web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/waf/.

159
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AWS X-Ray

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A web service that collects data about requests that your application serves, and provides tools you can use to view, filter, and gain insights into that data to identify issues and opportunities for optimization.

See Also https://aws.amazon.com/xray/.

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