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]
Data Governance
Data Governance refers to all actions taken over the entire life-cycle of data to make sure that it is secure, accurate, private, available, and usable. [Wikipedia link]
Data Lake
A repository of data stored in its natural/raw format, usually object blobs or files. [Wikipedia link]
Data Warehouse
A central repository of integrated data from one or more disparate sources. [Wikipedia link]
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. [Wikipedia link]
Extract, transform, load (ETL)
A three-phase process where data is extracted, transformed (cleaned, sanitized, scrubbed) and written (loaded) to a data destination. [Wikipedia link]
FTP/SFTP
File Transfer Protocol/Secure File Transfer Protocol. A standard method of transferring files on a computer network. FTP, developed in 1971 has generally been superseded by the more secure SFTP although the terms are often used interchangeably. [Wikipedia link]
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
An application-layer protocol for transmitting hypermedia documents, such as HTML. The foundation of the World Wide Web.[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]
JSON Web Token or JWT
An open standard for Authentication that uses a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)-encoded token to securely represent claims between two parties. Typically, the tokens are used to represent an identity and its associations, such as a user and role or group. [Wikipedia link]