Cloud Development Definitions

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    Amazon API Gateway

    Amazon API Gateway is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) feature that enables developers to connect non-AWS applications to AWS back-end resources, such as servers and code.

  • Amazon Braket

    Amazon Braket is a fully managed AWS cloud service designed to allow users remote access to a single development environment for quantum computers.

  • Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

    An Amazon Resource Name is a file naming convention used to identify a particular resource in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.

  • Amazon S3 bucket

    An Amazon S3 bucket is a public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage offering.

  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

    Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a managed message queuing service technical professionals and developers use to send, store and retrieve multiple messages of various sizes asynchronously.

  • Application Load Balancer

    The Application Load Balancer is a feature of Elastic Load Balancing that allows a developer to configure and route incoming end-user traffic to applications based in the AWS public cloud.

  • AWS CloudFormation (Amazon Web Services CloudFormation)

    AWS CloudFormation is a free service that provides Amazon Web Services customers with the tools they need to create and manage the infrastructure a particular software application requires to run on AWS.

  • AWS Educate (Amazon Web Services Educate)

    AWS Educate is a free, online learning program that teaches students about cloud computing.

  • AWS Management Console

    The AWS Management Console is a web-based application that lets users access the broad range of services included in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.

  • AWS Partner Network (APN)

    The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) is a classification endorsed by AWS for a global community of cloud service providers and vendors once they qualify for certain benchmarks.

  • What are availability zones?

    Availability zones (AZs) are isolated or separated data centers located within specific regions in which public cloud services originate and operate.

  • What is AWS Lambda?

    AWS Lambda is an event-driven cloud computing service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows developers to run code without having to provision, administer, or manage compute resources.

  • What is AWS Migration Hub?

    AWS Migration Hub is a service from Amazon Web Services that enables AWS users to simplify migration to the AWS public cloud.

  • What is AWS Outposts?

    AWS Outposts is a fully managed service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables users to set up a hybrid cloud by extending AWS infrastructure, services, application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools to any datacenter, colocation space or on-premises facility.

  • What is AWS Serverless Application Model?

    AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is an open source framework that helps developers create and deploy serverless applications for the AWS cloud.

  • What is AWS? Ultimate guide to Amazon Web Services

    AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon. It includes a mixture of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service and packaged software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings.

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    Boto

    Boto is a software development kit (SDK) designed to improve the use of the Python programming language in Amazon Web Services. The Boto project started as a customer-contributed library to help developers build Python-based applications in the cloud, converting application programming interface (API) responses from AWS into Python classes.