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Data Oriented Services (DORIS) glossary

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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud

An application programming interface (API) is a computing interface to a software component or a system that defines how other components or systems can use it. It defines the kinds of calls or requests that can be made, how to make them, the data formats that should be used, the conventions to follow, etc.

The property to verify the identity of the parties to a transaction and check if they are truly who they claim to be.

Granting a user privileges to perform a task.

Amazon Web Services

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads

AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images

Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and run Elasticsearch cost effectively at scale

The ELK stack is an acronym used to describe a stack that comprises of three popular open-source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.

AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

AWS Step Functions is a serverless function orchestrator that makes it easy to sequence AWS Lambda functions and multiple AWS services into business-critical applications.