Glossary of Key Terms
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access key A special set of keys linked to a specific AWS IAM user.
ACID The storage consistency of a relational database, based on atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.
active-active Multi-region active-active deployment of resources across multiple regions for workloads requiring high availability and failover.
alarm A warning issued when a single metric crosses a set threshold over a defined number of time periods.
Amazon CloudFront The AWS content delivery network (CDN) hosted in all edge locations.
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) A virtual hard disk block storage device that is attached to Amazon EC2 instances.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) A web service that provides secure, resizable compute ...
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