I recently sat for the AWS certified developer (associate) exam and while Azure is still my first love and it will be my last, I think it is useful to, on the one hand, scope out the competition a bit and, on the other hand, have the necessary knowledge and certifications to do cloud-to-cloud migrations.

I had worked with AWS in the past, but not nearly enough to pass an exam with, so I submerged myself in the AWS ecosystem for a couple of weeks and what struck me the most is the shear amount of acronyms that are used in Amazon Webservices land.

I compiled a list for future reference:

AZAvailability Zones
AESAmazon Elasticsearch Service
AMIAmazon Machine Image
ARNAmazon Resource Name
ASGAuto Scaling Group
DAXDynamoDB AcceleratorFully managed, in-memory cache for DynamoDB.
DMSDatabase Migration Service
EBSElastic Block StoreEasy to use, high performance block storage service designed for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
EFSElastic File SystemRegional service storing data within and across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) for high availability and durability
EC2Elastic Compute CloudWeb service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud
ECRElastic Container Registry
ECSElastic Container Service
EIPElastic IP
ELBElastic Load Balancer
EMRElastic MapReduce
ENIElastic Network Interface
FSxFile Storage XMakes it easy and cost effective to launch and run popular file systems
KMSKey Management Service
RDSRelational Database Service
RRSReduced Redundancy Storage
S3Simple Storage Service (SSS)
S3IAS3 Infrequent Access
SAMServerless Application Model
SESSimple Email service
SMSServer Migration Service
SNSSimple Notification Service
SQSSimple Queue Service
SSSSimple Storage Service (S3)
STSSecurity Token Service
SWFSimple Workflow Service
VPCVirtual Private Cloud
VTLVirtual Tape Library
WAFWeb Application Firewall
List of AWS acronyms