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AWS Snowball User Guide
VPC Virtual private cloud. An elastic network populated by infrastructure, platform,
and application services that share common security and interconnection.
VPC endpoint A feature that enables you to create a private connection between your
VPC (p. 159) and an another AWS service without requiring access over the
internet, through a NAT (p. 141) instance, a VPN connection (p. 159), or AWS
Direct Connect (p. 117).
VPG See virtual private gateway.
VPN CloudHub See AWS VPN CloudHub.
VPN connection Amazon Web Services (AWS) (p. 114): The IPsec connection between a
VPC (p. 159) and some other network, such as a corporate data center, home
network, or co-location facility.
W
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)
WAM See Amazon WorkSpaces Application Manager (Amazon WAM).
web access control list AWS WAF (p. 121): A set of rules that defines the conditions that AWS WAF
searches for in web requests to AWS resource (p. 148)s such as Amazon
CloudFront (p. 110) distributions. A web access control list (web ACL) specifies
whether to allow, block, or count the requests.
Web Services Description
Language
See WSDL.
WSDL Web Services Description Language. A language used to describe the actions
that a web service can perform, along with the syntax of action requests and
responses.
See Also REST, SOAP.
X, Y, Z
X.509 certificate An digital document that uses the X.509 public key infrastructure (PKI)
standard to verify that a public key belongs to the entity described in the
certificate (p. 123).
yobibyte A contraction of yotta binary byte, a yobibyte is 2^80 or
1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 bytes. A yottabyte (YB) is 10^24 or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.
zebibyte A contraction of zetta binary byte, a zebibyte is 2^70 or
1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes. A zettabyte (ZB) is 10^21 or
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. 1,024 ZiB is a yobibyte (p. 159).
zone awareness Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) (p. 111): A configuration that
distributes nodes in a cluster across two Availability Zone (p. 116)s in the same
Region. Zone awareness helps to prevent data loss and minimizes downtime in
the event of node and data center failure. If you enable zone awareness, you must
have an even number of data instances in the instance count, and you also must
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