G

Question 1

geospatial search

Answer 1

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

Question 2

gibibyte

Answer 2

(GiB)

A contraction of giga binary byte, a gibibyte is 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. A gigabyte (GB) is 10^9 or 1,000,000,000 bytes. 1,024 GiB is a tebibyte.

Question 3

GitHub

Answer 3

A web-based repository that uses Git for version control.

Question 4

global secondary index

Answer 4

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

See Also local secondary index.

Question 5

grant

Answer 5

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS): A mechanism for giving AWS principals long-term permissions to use customer master key (CMK)s.

Question 6

grant token

Answer 6

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

Question 7

ground truth

Answer 7

The observations used in the machine learning (ML) model training process that include the correct value for the target attribute. To train an ML model to predict house sales prices, the input observations would typically include prices of previous house sales in the area. The sale prices of these houses constitute the ground truth.

Question 8

group

Answer 8

A collection of IAM users. You can use IAM groups to simplify specifying and managing permissions for multiple users.