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Organizational Units

A container for accounts within a root.

Amazon CloudFront

A content delivery network (CND) used to distribute content to end users to reduce latency.

AWS Region

A geographical area typically consisting of two or more Availability Zones.

Amazon ECS

A highly scalable, high performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers

AWS Shield

A managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS

Amazon Route 53

A scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service designed to give you a reliable way to route end users to internet applications

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

A service for deploying and scaling web applications and services on familiar servers such as Apache and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)

AWS Identity and Access Management

Allows you to restrict what services and actions are allowed in your accounts

Fault Tolerance

An Aws infrastructure feature which ensures continues operating properly in the presence of a failure

Variable Expense

An expense that the person who bears the cost can easily alter or avoid

Amazon S3

An object storage service that offers scalability, data availability, security and performance

Elastic Load Balancing

Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets

Availability zones

Consist of one or more data centers

Technical Account Managers

Designated as that user's primary point of contact

AWS Identity and Access Management

Enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely

AWS VPC

Enables you to provision logically isolated sections of the AWS Cloud

AWS Lambda

Enables you to run code without provisioning or managing servers

Capital Expenses

Funds that a company uses to acquire, upgrade, and maintain physical assets such as property, industrial buildings, or equipment

AWS Trusted Advisor

Helps you optimize performance and security

Amazon EBS

High performance block storage that is designed for use with Amazon EC2 for both throughput and transaction intensive workloads

Web Service

Is any piece of software that makes itself available over the internet

AWS Global Infrastructure

Is designed and build to deliver a flexible, reliable, scalable, and secure cloud computing environment with high quality global network performance

AWS Billing Dashboard

Lets you view the status of your month to date AWS expenditure

AWS Management Console

Provides a rich graphical interface to a majority of the features offered by AWS

Amazon EFS

Provides a scalable, fully managed elastic Network File System (NFS) file system for use with AWS Cloud service and on premises resources

CLI

Provides a suite of utilities that can be launched from a command script

SDKs

Provides packages that enable accessing AWS in a variety of popular programming languages

IaaS

Services in this category are the basic building blocks for cloud IT

SaaS

Services in this category provide you with a completed product that the service provide runs and manages

PaaS

Services in this category reduce the need for you to manage the underlying infrastructure

TCO

The financial estimate to help identify direct and indirect costs of a system

Cloud Computing

The on demand delivery of compute power, database, storage, applications, and other IT resources via the internet with pay as you go pricing

AWS Cloud Trail

Tracks user activity and API usage

Regional Edge Cache

Used when you have content that is not accessed frequently enough to remain in an edge location

Soft Savings

Value points that are challenging to accurately quantify, but they can be more valuable than the hard savings