Glossary
- ACID
- Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, and Durable. They are generally used to define the properties of a relationl database.
- AMI
- Amazon Machine Image. It is a base image for an EC2 instance.
- AS2
- Applicability Statement 2 protocol.
- AWS
- Amazon Web Services.
- AZ
- AWS Availability Zone.
- CLI
- Command Line Interface.
- DAG
- Directed Acyclic Graph
- DDoS
- Distributed Denial-of-Service. An attack that focuses on overwhelming the target so that it cannot handle any new request.
- DNS
- Domain Name System: turns domain names into IP addresses.
- DQDL
- AWS Glue’s Data Quality Definition Language
- ENI
- Elastic Network Interface: a VPC component representing a virtual network card.
- FIFO
- First in, First out. It is a method for managing items in a queue.
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol. Data is not encrypted.
- FTPS
- File Transfer Protocol Secure. Data is encrypted.
- HPC
- High Performance Computing.
- HSM
- Hardware Security Module. A physical computing device that safeguards and manages secrets, performs encryption and decryption functions.
- LIFO
- Last in, First out. It is a method for managing items in a queue.
- ML
- Machine Learning.
- NFS
- Network File System
- OLAP
- Online Analytical Processing. Used to refer to data warehouses, for example.
- OLTP
- Online Transaction Processing. Used to refer to relational databases.
- PITR
- Point in Time Recovery. The ability to revert some data/table to how it was at a specific time.
- RDBMS
- Relational Database Management System. A typical transactional database such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, etc.
- SFTP
- Secure Shell (SSH) File Transfer Protocol. Data is Encrypted.
- TTL
- Time to Live. The time after which something is deleted.
- UDF
- User defined function.
- VPC
- Virtual Private Cloud: logically isolated newtworks.