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reply path
The email address to which an email reply is sent.This is different from the return
path (p.308).
reputation
1. An Amazon SES metric, based on factors that might include bounces,
complaints, and other metrics, regarding whether or not a customer is sending
high-quality emails.
2. A measure of confidence, as judged by an Internet Service Provider (p.298) or
other entity that an IP address that they are receiving emails from is not the source
of spam (p.311).
requester
The person (or application) that sends a request to AWS to perform a specific
action.When AWS receives a request, it first evaluates the requester's permissions
to determine whether the requester is allowed to perform the request action (if
applicable, for the requested resource).
Requester Pays
An Amazon S3 (p.280) feature that allows a bucket owner (p.286) to specify that
anyone who requests access to objects in a particular bucket (p.286) must pay
the data transfer and request costs.
reservation
A collection of EC2 instance (p.293)s started as part of the same launch request.
Not to be confused with a Reserved Instance (p.307).
Reserved Instance
A pricing option for EC2 instance (p.293)s which discounts the On-Demand usage
charge for instances that meet the specified parameters. Customers pay for the
entire term of the instance, regardless of how they use it.
Reserved Instance Marketplace
Matches sellers who have reserved capacity that they no longer need with buyers
who are looking to purchase additional capacity. Reserved Instances that you
purchase from third-party sellers will have less than a full standard term remaining
and can be sold at different upfront prices.The usage or reoccurring fees will
remain the same as the fees set when the Reserved Instances were originally
purchased. Full standard terms for Reserved Instances available from AWS run
for one year or three years.
resource
An entity that users can work with in AWS, such as an EC2 instance (p.293),
a Amazon DynamoDB (p.277) table, an IAM (p.283) user, an AWS
OpsWorks (p.284) stack, and so on.
1.
2. Tools, code, and documents that AWS provides to support users.
3. A required element of an AWS CloudFormation (p.282)stack (p.312). Each
stack contains at least one resource, such as an Auto Scaling (p.281)
LaunchConfiguration. All resources in a stack must be created successfully
for the stack to be created.
resource property
A value required when including an AWS resource in an AWS
CloudFormation (p.282)stack (p.312). Each resource may have one or more
properties associated with it. For example, an AWS::EC2::Instance resource
may have a UserData property. In an AWS CloudFormation template, resources
must declare a properties section, even if the resource has no properties.
resource record
Also called resource record set. Standard DNS terminology.
See Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System.
REST
A type of HTTP-based request interface that generally uses only the GET or POST
HTTP method and a query string with parameters. Sometimes known as Query.
In some implementations of a REST interface, other HTTP verbs besides GET
and POST are used.
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REST-Query
Also known as Query or HTTP Query.This is a type of HTTP request that generally
uses only the GET or POST HTTP method and a query string with parameters.
Compare this with REST, which is a type of HTTP request that uses any HTTP
method (GET, DELETE, POST, etc.), a resource, HTTP headers, and possibly
a query string with parameters.
return enabled
An Amazon CloudSearch index field option that enables the field's values to be
returned in the search results.
return path
The email address to which bounced emails are returned.The return path is
specified in the header of the original email.This is different from the reply
path (p.307).
revision
AWS CodePipeline (p.282): A change made to a source that is configured in a
source action, such as a pushed commit to a GitHub repository or an update to
a file in a versioned Amazon S3 (p.280)bucket (p.286).
role
A tool for giving temporary access to AWS resources in your AWS account (p.275).
rollback
A return to a previous state that follows the failure to create an object, such as
AWS CloudFormation (p.282) stack (p.312). All resources associated with the
failure are deleted during the rollback. For AWS CloudFormation, you can override
this behavior using the --disable-rollback option on the command line.
root credentials
Authentication information associated with the AWS account (p.275) owner.
root device volume
Contains the image used to boot the instance (p.297). If you launched the instance
from an AMI backed by instance store (p.297), this is an instance store
volume (p.316) created from a template stored in Amazon S3 (p.280). If you
launched the instance from an AMI backed by Amazon EBS, this is an Amazon
EBS volume created from an Amazon EBS snapshot.
route table
A set of routing rules that controls the traffic leaving any subnet that is associated
with the route table.You can associate multiple subnets with a single route table,
but a subnet can be associated with only one route table at a time.
rule
AWS WAF (p.285): A set of conditions that AWS WAF searches for in web requests
to AWS resources such as Amazon CloudFront (p.277) distributions.You add
rules to a web ACL (p.317), and then specify whether you want to allow or block
web requests based on each rule.
S
Numbers and Symbols (p.275) | A (p.275) | B (p.286) | C (p.287) | D (p.290) | E (p.292) | F (p.295) | G (p.295) | H (p.296)
| I (p.297) | J (p.298) | K (p.299) | L (p.300) | M (p.300) | N (p.302) | O (p.303) | P (p.303) | Q (p.305) | R (p.306) | S (p.308)
| T (p.313) | U (p.315) | V (p.315) | W (p.317) | X, Y, Z (p.317)
S3
See Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
sampling period
A defined duration of time, such as one minute, over which CloudWatch computes
a statistic (p.312).
sandbox
A testing location where you can test the functionality of your application without
affecting production, incurring charges, or purchasing products.
Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) (p.280): An Amazon SES
environment that is designed for developers to test and evaluate the service. In
the sandbox, you have full access to the Amazon SES API, but you can only send
messages to verified email addresses and the mailbox simulator.To get out of
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the sandbox, you need to apply for production access. Accounts in the sandbox
also have lower sending limits (p.310) than production accounts.
scaling activity
A process that changes the size, configuration, or makeup of an Auto Scaling
group (p.281) by launching or terminating instances.
scheduler
The method used for placing task (p.314)s on container instance (p.289)s.
search API
The Amazon CloudSearch API that you use to submit search requests to a search
domain.
search domain
Encapsulates your searchable data and the search instances that handle your
search requests.You typically set up a separate Amazon CloudSearch domain
for each different collection of data that you want to search.
search domain configuration
An Amazon CloudSearch domain's indexing options, analysis schemes,
expressions, suggesters, access policies, and scaling and availability options.
search enabled
An Amazon CloudSearch index field option that enables the field data to be
searched.
search endpoint
The URL that you connect to when sending search requests to a search domain.
Each Amazon CloudSearch domain has a unique search endpoint that remains
the same for the life of the domain.
search index
A representation of your searchable data that facilitates fast and accurate data
retrieval.
search instance
A compute resource that indexes your data and processes search requests. An
Amazon CloudSearch domain has one or more search instances, each with a
finite amount of RAM and CPU resources. As your data volume grows, more
search instances or larger search instances are deployed to contain your indexed
data.When necessary, your index is automatically partitioned across multiple
search instances. As your request volume or complexity increases, each search
partition is automatically replicated to provide additional processing capacity.
search request
A request that is sent to an Amazon CloudSearch domain's search endpoint to
retrieve documents from the index that match particular search criteria.
search result
A document that matches a search request. Also referred to as a search hit.
secret access key
A key that is used in conjunction with the access key ID (p.275) to cryptographically
sign programmatic AWS requests. Signing a request identifies the sender and
prevents the request from being altered.You can generate secret access keys
for your AWS account (p.275), individual IAM user (p.315)s, and temporary
sessions.
security group
A named set of allowed inbound network connections for an instance. (Security
groups in Amazon VPC (p.280) also include support for outbound connections.)
Each security group consists of a list of protocols, ports, and IP address ranges.
A security group can apply to multiple instances, and multiple groups can regulate
a single instance.
sender
The person or entity sending an email message.
Sender ID
A Microsoft-controlled version of SPF. An email authentication and anti-spoofing
system. For more information about Sender ID, go to http://wikipedia.org/wiki/
Sender_ID.
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sending limits
The sending quota (p.310) and maximum send rate (p.301) that are associated
with every Amazon SES account.
sending quota
The maximum number of emails that you can send using Amazon SES in a
24-hour period.
server-side encryption (SSE)
The encrypting (p.293) of data at the server level.Amazon S3 (p.280) supports
three modes of server-side encryption: SSE-S3, in which Amazon S3 manages
the keys; SSE-C, in which the customer manages the keys; and SSE-KMS, in
which AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) (p.283) manages keys.
service
See Amazon ECS service.
service endpoint
See endpoint.
service health dashboard
A web page showing up-to-the-minute information about AWS service availability.
The dashboard is located at http://status.aws.amazon.com/.
service role
An IAM role that grants permissions to an AWS service so it can access AWS
resources.The policies you attach to the service role determine which AWS
resources the service can access, and what it can do with those resources.
SES
See Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES).
session
The period during which the temporary security credentials provided by AWS
Security Token Service (AWS STS) (p.285) allow access to your AWS account.
SHA
Secure Hash Algorithm. SHA1 is an earlier version of the algorithm, which AWS
has deprecated in favor of SHA256.
shard
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) (p.278): A partition of data in an
index.You can split an index into multiple shards, which can include primary
shards (original shards) and replica shards (copies of the primary shards). Replica
shards provide failover, which means that a replica shard is promoted to a primary
shard if a cluster node that contains a primary shard fails. Replica shards also
can handle requests.
shared AMI
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) (p.279) that a developer builds and makes
available for others to use.
shutdown action
A predefined bootstrap action that launches a script that executes a series of
commands in parallel before terminating the job flow.
signature
Refers to a digital signature, which is a mathematical way to confirm the
authenticity of a digital message. AWS uses signatures to authenticate the requests
you send to our web services. For more information, to
http://aws.amazon.com/security.
SIGNATURE file
A file you copy to the root directory of your storage device.The file contains a job
ID, manifest file, and a signature.
Signature Version 4
Protocol for authenticating inbound API requests to AWS services in all AWS
regions.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
See SMTP.
Simple Storage Service
See Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
Single-AZ DB instance
A standard (non-Multi-AZ) DB instance (p.291) that is deployed in one Availability
Zone (p.282), without a standby replica in another Availability Zone.
See Also Multi-AZ deployment.
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single-valued attribute
An attribute with one value.
sloppy phrase search
A search for a phrase that specifies how close the terms must be to one another
to be considered a match.
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.The standard that is used to exchange email
messages between internet hosts for the purpose of routing and delivery.
snapshot
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) (p. 277): A backup of your
volume (p.316)s that is stored in Amazon S3 (p.280).You can use these snapshots
as the starting point for new Amazon EBS volumes or to protect your data for
long-term durability.
See Also DB snapshot.
SNS
See Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).
Snowball
AWS Import/Export (p.283) has a feature called Snowball.This feature uses
Amazon-owned Snowball appliances for transferring your data.
See Also http://aws.amazon.com/importexport.
soft bounce
A temporary email delivery failure such as "mailbox full."
software VPN
A software appliance-based VPN connection over the Internet.
sort enabled
An Amazon CloudSearch index field option that enables a field to be used to sort
the search results.
source/destination checking
A security measure to verify that an EC2 instance (p.293) is the origin of all traffic
that it sends and the ultimate destination of all traffic that it receives, that is, that
the instance is not relaying traffic. Source/destination checking is enabled by
default. For instances that function as gateways, such as VPC (p.316) NAT
instances, source/destination checking must be disabled.
spam
Unsolicited bulk email.
spamtrap
An email address that is set up by an anti-spam (p.311) entity, not for
correspondence, but to monitor unsolicited email.This is also called a honeypot.
SPF
Sender Policy Framework. A standard for authenticating email.
See Also http://www.openspf.org.
Spot instance
A type of EC2 instance (p.293) that you can bid on to take advantage of unused
Amazon EC2 (p.278) capacity.
Spot price
The price for a Spot instance (p.311) at any given time. If your maximum price
exceeds the current price and your restrictions are met, Amazon EC2 (p.278)
launches instances on your behalf.
SQL injection match condition
AWS WAF (p.285): An attribute that specifies the part of web requests, such as
a header or a query string, that AWS WAF inspects for malicious SQL code.
Based on the specified conditions, you can configure AWS WAF to allow or block
web requests to AWS resources such as Amazon CloudFront (p.277) distributions.
SQS
See Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS).
SSE
See server-side encryption (SSE).
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer
See Also Transport Layer Security.
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stack
AWS CloudFormation (p.282): A collection of AWS resources you create and
delete as a single unit.
AWS OpsWorks (p.284): A set of instances you manage collectively, typically
because they have a common purpose such as serving PHP applications. A stack
serves as a container and handles tasks that apply to the group of instances as
a whole, such as managing applications and cookbooks.
station
AWS CodePipeline (p.282): A portion of a pipeline workflow where one or more
actions are performed.
station
A place at an AWS facility where we transfer your AWS Import/Export data on to,
or off of, your storage device.
statistic
One of five functions of the values submitted for a given sampling period (p.308).
These functions are "Maximum", "Minimum," "Sum," "Average," and
"SampleCount."
stem
The common root or substring shared by a set of related words.
stemming
The process of mapping related words to a common stem.This enables matching
on variants of a word. For example, a search for "horse" could return matches for
horses, horseback, and horsing, as well as horse. Amazon CloudSearch supports
both dictionary based and algorithmic stemming.
step
A single function applied to the data in a job flow (p.298).The sum of all steps
comprises a job flow.
step type
The type of work done in a step.There are a limited number of step types, such
as moving data from Amazon S3 (p.280) to Amazon EC2 (p.278) or from Amazon
EC2 to Amazon S3.
sticky session
A feature of the load balancer that binds a user's session to a specific application
instance so that all requests coming from the user during the session are sent to
the same application instance. By contrast, a load balancer defaults to route each
request independently to the application instance with the smallest load.
stopping
The process of filtering stop words from an index or search request.
stopword
A word that is not indexed and is automatically filtered out of search requests
because it is either insignificant or so common that including it would result in too
many matches to be useful. Stop words are language-specific.
streaming
Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) (p.278): A utility that comes with
Hadoop (p.296) that enables you to develop MapReduce executables in languages
other than Java.
Amazon CloudFront (p.277):The ability to use a media file in real time—as it is
transmitted in a steady stream from a server.
streaming distribution
A special kind of distribution (p.292) that serves streamed media files using a Real
Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) connection.
Streams
See Amazon Kinesis Streams.
string-to-sign
Before you calculate an HMAC signature, you first assemble the required
components in a canonical order.The pre-encrypted string is the string-to-sign.
string match condition
AWS WAF (p.285): An attribute that specifies the strings that AWS WAF searches
for in a web request, such as a value in a header or a query string. Based on the
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specified strings, you can configure AWS WAF to allow or block web requests to
AWS resources such as Amazon CloudFront distributions.
structured query
Search criteria specified using the Amazon CloudSearch structured query
language.You use the structured query language to construct compound queries
that use advanced search options and combine multiple search criteria using
Boolean operators.
STS
See AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS).
subnet
A segment of the IP address range of a VPC (p.316) that EC2 instance (p.293)s
can be attached to.You can create subnets to group instances according to
security and operational needs.
Subscription button
An HTML-coded button that enables an easy way to charge customers a recurring
fee.
suggester
Specifies an Amazon CloudSearch index field you want to use to get autocomplete
suggestions and options that can enable fuzzy matches and control how
suggestions are sorted.
suggestions
Documents that contain a match for the partial search string in the field designated
by the suggester. Amazon CloudSearch suggestions include the document IDs
and field values for each matching document.To be a match, the string must
match the contents of the field starting from the beginning of the field.
supported AMI
An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) (p.279) similar to a paid AMI (p.303), except
that the owner charges for additional software or a service that customers use
with their own AMIs.
SWF
See Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF).
symmetric encryption
Encryption (p.293) that uses a private key only.
See Also asymmetric encryption.
synchronous bounce
A type of bounce (p.286) that occurs while the email servers of the sender (p.309)
and receiver (p.306) are actively communicating.
synonym
A word that is the same or nearly the same as an indexed word and that should
produce the same results when specified in a search request. For example, a
search for "Rocky Four" or "Rocky 4" should return the fourth Rocky movie.This
can be done by designating that four and 4 are synonyms for IV. Synonyms
are language-specific.
T
Numbers and Symbols (p.275) | A (p.275) | B (p.286) | C (p.287) | D (p.290) | E (p.292) | F (p.295) | G (p.295) | H (p.296)
| I (p.297) | J (p.298) | K (p.299) | L (p.300) | M (p.300) | N (p.302) | O (p.303) | P (p.303) | Q (p.305) | R (p.306) | S (p.308)
| T (p.313) | U (p.315) | V (p.315) | W (p.317) | X, Y, Z (p.317)
tag
Metadata that you can define and assign to AWS resources, such as an EC2
instance (p.293). Not all AWS resources can be tagged.
tagging
Also called labeling. A way to format return path (p.308) email addresses so that
you can specify a different return path for each recipient of a message.Tagging
enables you to support VERP (p.316). For example, if Andrew manages a mailing
list, he can use the return paths andrew+recipient1@example.net and
andrew+recipient2@example.net so that he can determine which email bounced.
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target revision
AWS CodeDeploy (p.282):The most recent version of the application revision
that has been uploaded to the repository and will be deployed to the instances in
a deployment group. In other words, the application revision currently targeted
for deployment.This is also the revision that will be pulled for automatic
deployments.
task
An instantiation of a task definition (p.314) that is running on a container
instance (p.289).
task definition
The blueprint for your task. Specifies the name of the task (p.314), revisions,
container definition (p.289)s, and volume (p.316) information.
task node
An EC2 instance (p.293) that runs Hadoop (p.296) map and reduce tasks, but
does not store data.Task nodes are managed by the master node (p.301), which
assigns Hadoop tasks to nodes and monitors their status.While a job flow is
running you can increase and decrease the number of task nodes. Because they
don't store data and can be added and removed from a job flow, you can use task
nodes to manage the EC2 instance capacity your job flow uses, increasing capacity
to handle peak loads and decreasing it later.
Task nodes only run a TaskTracker Hadoop daemon.
tebibyte
A contraction of tera binary byte, a tebibyte is 2^40 or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.
A terabyte (TB) is 10^12 or 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. 1,024 TiB is a
pebibyte (p.304).
template format version
The version of an AWS CloudFormation (p.282) template design that determines
the available features. If you omit the AWSTemplateFormatVersion section
from your template, AWS CloudFormation assumes the most recent format version.
template validation
The process of confirming the use of JSON (p.299) code in an AWS
CloudFormation (p.282) template.You can validate any AWS CloudFormation
template using the cfn-validate-template command.
temporary security credentials
Authentication information that is provided by AWS STS (p.285) when you call an
STS API action. Includes an access key ID (p.275), a secret access key (p.309),
a session (p.310) token, and an expiration time.
throttling
The means by which Amazon SES rejects your attempts to send email because
you have exceeded your sending limits (p.310).
time series data
Data provided as part of a metric.The time value is assumed to be when the
value occurred. A metric is the fundamental concept for CloudWatch and
represents a time-ordered set of data points.You publish metric data points into
CloudWatch and later retrieve statistics about those data points as a time-series
ordered data set.
time stamp
A date/time string in ISO 8601 format.
TLS
See Transport Layer Security.
tokenization
The process of splitting a stream of text into separate tokens on detectable
boundaries such as whitespace and hyphens.
topic
A communication channel to send messages and subscribe to notifications. It
provides an access point for publishers and subscribers to communicate with
each other.
transition
AWS CodePipeline (p.282):The act of a revision in a pipeline continuing from one
stage to the next in a workflow.
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