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Glossary

• AAAA - “An IPv6 address record.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon Athena - “A serverless, interactive query service that enables users to easily analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon Aurora - ”Amazon’s relational database built for the cloud. It supports two open-source R[[DBMS engines: MySQL and PostgreSQL.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon CloudFront - “The global content delivery network (CDN) service of AWS.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon CloudWatch - “A monitoring service for AWS cloud resources.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon Cognito - “A service that lets you manage users of your web and mobile apps quickly.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon DynamoDB - ”Amazon’s NoSQL database.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon Glacier - ”Amazon’s archival storage.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon GuardDuty - “A threat detection service.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon Inspector - ”Identifies the security vulnerabilities in your application.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon Route 53 - “A highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. You can use Route 53 to perform three main functions in any combination: domain registration, DNS routing, and health checking.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Amazon VPC flow logs - “Used to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Anycast - ”Network addressing and routing methodology in which a single destination address has multiple routing paths to two or more endpoint destinations. Routers will select the desired path on the basis of number of hops, distance, lowest cost, latency measurements, or the least congested route.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• API Gateway - “A fully managed service to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• application protocol interface (API) - “A method used by applications to interact with other applications using a common protocol. A common API method used nowadays is the REST API.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• archive - “Where data is stored in Amazon Glacier.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• AWS CloudHSM - “A hardware-based key storage for regulatory compliance.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• AWS CloudTrail - “A fully managed service that records AWS [[API calls.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• AWS Config - “A fully managed service that helps track configuration changes.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• AWS Lambda - ”Enables you to run code without provisioning or managing any servers or infrastructure.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• AWS Marketplace - “An online store where you can buy software that runs on AWS.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• AWS Organizations - ”Provides policy-based management for multiple AWS accounts.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• AWS Personal Health Dashboard - ”Provides a personalized view of AWS services’ health.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• AWS Systems Manager - “Gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• AWS Trusted Advisor - “An online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• B[[order Gateway Protocol (BGP) - ”Protocol commonly used over routers on the Internet to exchange routes and to find the best path to a destination.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• bucket - ”Container for storing objects in Amazon S3.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• cross-site scripting]] (XSS) - “A method of injection attack.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Direct Connect - ”Using Direct Connect you can establish private, dedicated network connectivity from your data [[center to AWS.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• domain name server (DNS) - “A system used to translate IP addresses to domain names and vice versa.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• edge layer - ”Logical place in a network used to connect with external network]]s, such as the Internet or partner networks.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• edge location - “Used to serve content to end users normally physically closer to where the user’s client device is located.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Elastic Block Storage (EBS) - ”[Provide]]s persistent block storage for EC2 instances.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• forward secrecy - “In cryptography, a feature of specific key agreement protocols that gives assurances that session keys will not be compromised even if long-term secrets used in the session key exchange are compromised. For HTTPS, the long-term secret is typically the private signing key of the server. Also known as perfect forward secrecy (PFS).” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• instance - “An EC2 server is also referred to as an instance.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• instance store - ”Local storage in EC2 server.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Internet [[Gateway (IG) - “A component of VPC that allows your VPC to communicate with the Internet.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• inventory - ”List of Glacier archives.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• latency - “A measure of the time difference between when an event starts and when its effects are perceived. In a network, it is commonly used to measure the time taken for an IP packet to transfer between the source and the destination computers.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Network Access Control List (NACL) - “Acts as a firewall at the subnet level.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• OpenSSL - ”Open-source library that implements the SSL and TLS protocols.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• region - “A unique geography in the world where AWS data [[centers are hosted.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Representational State Transfer (REST) - “A common method of communication between applications.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• resource-based policy - ”Policies that are attached to a resource. For example, you can attach resource-based policies to Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon [[SQS queues, and AWS Key Management Service encryption keys.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• root user - ”Owner of the AWS account.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• route table - ”Table consisting of routes that determine where the traffic is directed.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• scalability - ”Capacity of a workload to change its size or scale based on [[demand.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) - ”Protocol commonly used on the Internet to provide encrypted communication between client and servers. Although it has been replaced by TLS, many people still refer to the protocol using this name.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• security group - ”Firewall for EC2 instance.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Server Side Encryption - ”Key Management Service (SSE-KMS) A method of encryption that uses the AWS KMS service to encrypt data after it is transferred to the server.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Snowball/Snowball Edge - ”Amazon-owned network-attached storage (NAS) devices; used to ship customer data to AWS.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• Snowmobile - ”Exabyte-scale data transfer service.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• subnet - ”Logical subdivision of an IP network.“ (AWSSecPrce 2021)

• top-level domain (TLD) - “Refers to the rightmost part of a domain name. For example, the top-level domain for example.com is com.” (AWSSecPrce 2021)

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