AWS Snowball User Guide
AWS Tools for Windows
PowerShell
A set of PowerShell cmdlets to help developers and administrators manage their
AWS services from the Windows PowerShell scripting environment.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/powershell/.
AWS Tools for Microsoft
Visual Studio Team Services
Provides tasks you can use in build and releasedefinitions in VSTS to interact with
AWS services.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/vsts/.
AWS Trusted Advisor A web service that inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations
for saving money, improving system availability and performance, and helping to
close security gaps.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/.
AWS VPN CloudHub Enables secure communication between branch offices using a simple hub-and-
spoke model, with or without a VPC (p. 159).
AWS WAF A web application firewall service that controls access to content by allowing or
blocking web requests based on criteria that you specify, such as header values
or the IP addresses that the requests originate from. AWS WAF helps protect web
applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability,
compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/waf/.
AWS X-Ray A web service that collects data about requests that your application serves,
and provides tools you can use to view, filter, and gain insights into that data to
identify issues and opportunities for optimization.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/xray/.
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Numbers and Symbols (p. 108) | A (p. 108) | B (p. 121) | C (p. 122) | D (p. 126) | E (p. 129) | F (p. 132) |
G (p. 133) | H (p. 134) | I (p. 135) | J (p. 137) | K (p. 137) | L (p. 138) | M (p. 139) | N (p. 141) | O (p. 142)
| P (p. 143) | Q (p. 146) | R (p. 146) | S (p. 149) | T (p. 155) | U (p. 157) | V (p. 158) | W (p. 159) | X, Y,
Z (p. 159)
basic monitoring Monitoring of AWS provided metrics derived at a 5-minute frequency.
batch See document batch.
BGP ASN Border Gateway Protocol Autonomous System Number. A unique identifier for a
network, for use in BGP routing. Amazon EC2 (p. 111) supports all 2-byte ASN
numbers in the range of 1 – 65335, with the exception of 7224, which is reserved.
batch prediction Amazon Machine Learning: An operation that processes multiple input data
observations at one time (asynchronously). Unlike real-time predictions, batch
predictions are not available until all predictions have been processed.
See Also real-time predictions.
billing See AWS Billing and Cost Management.
binary attribute Amazon Machine Learning: An attribute for which one of two possible values is
possible. Valid positive values are 1, y, yes, t, and true answers. Valid negative
values are 0, n, no, f, and false. Amazon Machine Learning outputs 1 for positive
values and 0 for negative values.
See Also attribute.
binary classification model Amazon Machine Learning: A machine learning model that predicts the answer to
questions where the answer can be expressed as a binary variable. For example,
questions with answers of “1” or “0”, “yes” or “no”, “will click” or “will not click”
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