Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service

A service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface. [Wikipedia link]


Authentication

The act of verifying the identity of a computer system user. [Wikipedia link]


Authorization

The act of verifying that an authenticated computer system user is allowed access. See Authentication. [Wikipedia link]


Cloud Computing

The on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. [Wikipedia link]


Extensible Markup Language (XML)

A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. [Wikipedia link]


IICS

Acronym for Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, an Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offering from Informatica. It has been superseded by the newer Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC).


iPaaS

Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is a suite of cloud services enabling customers to develop, execute and govern integration flows between disparate applications.


iPaaS

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) is a suite of cloud services enabling customers to develop, execute and govern integration flows between disparate applications. [Wikipedia link]


JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

An open-standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays. [Wikipedia link]


JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

An open-standard file format and data interchange format that uses human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arrays. [Wikipedia link]


OpenAPI Specification (OAS)

A standard, language-agnostic interface to HTTP APIs. [Wikipedia link]


Representational State Transfer (REST)

A software architectural style that was created to guide the design and development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. [Wikipedia link]


Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

A messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks. [Wikipedia link]


Technical Debt

The implied cost of future reworking that will be needed when using an easy-but-limited solution instead of a better approach that would take more time. [Wikipedia link]


Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

A unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies, such as a standard web address (http://wisc.edu). [Wikipedia link]


Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

A unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies, such as a standard web address (http://wisc.edu). Although URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), the terms are often used interchangeably. [Wikipedia link]


User Interface (UI)

The space where interactions between humans and machines occur. [Wikipedia link]


Web API

An application programming interface (API) for either a web server or a web browser. [Wikipedia link]