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 It has been superseded by the newer Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC).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.
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]