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AWS Snowball User Guide
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. 111): 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. 112) that a developer builds and makes
available for others to use.
shutdown action Amazon EMR (p. 111): 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 https://
aws.amazon.com/security.
SIGNATURE file AWS Import/Export (p. 118): 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 Object Access Protocol See SOAP.
Simple Storage Service See Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
Single Sign-On See AWS Single Sign-On.
Single-AZ DB instance A standard (non-Multi-AZ) DB instance (p. 127) that is deployed in one
Availability Zone (p. 116), without a standby replica in another Availability Zone.
See Also Multi-AZ deployment.
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. 110): A backup of your
volume (p. 158)s that is stored in Amazon S3 (p. 113). 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 An AWS Import/Export (p. 118) feature that uses Amazon-owned Snowball
appliances for transferring your data.
See Also https://aws.amazon.com/importexport.
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol. An XML-based protocol that lets you exchange
information over a particular protocol (HTTP or SMTP, for example) between
applications.
See Also REST, WSDL.
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