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Asymmetric encryption
Asymmetric encryption is a cryptographic method that uses a pair of keys—a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption—to securely exchange data without sharing a secret.
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Asymmetric encryption is a cryptographic method that uses a pair of keys—a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption—to securely exchange data without sharing a secret.
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An audit is a systematic, independent review of IT systems, processes, and controls to verify compliance with policies, standards, and regulations.
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An audit log is a chronological record of security-relevant events and user activities within a system, used for monitoring, compliance, and forensic analysis.
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An audit trail is a chronological record of events, changes, or activities in a system that provides evidence of who did what, when, and from where.
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Aurora Serverless is an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration for Amazon Aurora that automatically starts, scales, and stops database capacity based on your application's needs.
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Availability is the measure of how often a system or service is operational and accessible when needed, typically expressed as a percentage of uptime.
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Availability management is the practice of ensuring that IT services and systems are operational and accessible when users need them.
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An Availability set is a cloud computing feature that groups virtual machines across multiple fault domains and update domains to ensure high availability during hardware failures or planned maintenance.
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An Availability Zone is a distinct, isolated location within a cloud region that contains its own power, cooling, and networking, designed to protect applications from single points of failure.
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The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool that lets you manage Amazon Web Services from a terminal or command prompt by typing commands instead of using the graphical console.
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AWS Cloud is a comprehensive on-demand cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that offers a wide range of services including computing power, storage, and databases, allowing businesses to scale and innovate without managing physical hardware.
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AWS Config is a service that continuously records, evaluates, and reports on changes to your AWS resources so you can maintain a secure and compliant infrastructure.
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AWS Organizations is a free service that lets you centrally manage multiple AWS accounts, apply security policies, and control billing across your entire cloud environment.
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The AWS SDK is a set of libraries and tools that developers use to interact with Amazon Web Services from their programming language of choice.
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AWS Support plans are tiered service packages that provide varying levels of technical support, guidance, and response times for AWS cloud environments.
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AzCopy is a command-line utility used to copy, move, and synchronize data to and from Azure storage accounts with efficient performance and scripting capabilities.
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Azure Active Directory is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management service that lets employees sign in and access resources both in the cloud and on-premises.
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Azure AD Connect is a Microsoft tool that synchronizes on-premises Active Directory identities with Azure Active Directory for unified cloud and on-premises access.
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Azure Advisor is a free, personalized cloud consultant that continuously analyzes your Azure resources and provides best practice recommendations to optimize for reliability, security, performance, operational excellence, and cost.
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Azure AI Language is a cloud-based service from Microsoft that uses natural language processing to understand, analyze, and generate human language for applications.
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Azure AI Search is a cloud search service that uses artificial intelligence to index and search through large amounts of data, returning relevant results that feel as smart as a Google search.
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Azure AI Services is a collection of pre-built, cloud-based artificial intelligence APIs and services that allow developers and IT professionals to integrate capabilities like vision, speech, language, and decision-making into applications without needing deep machine learning expertise.
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Azure AI Speech is a cloud service from Microsoft that converts spoken audio into text, text into lifelike speech, and enables real-time voice translation and speaker recognition.
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Azure AI Translator is a cloud-based service that uses neural machine translation to convert text between languages while preserving meaning and context.
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Azure AI Vision is a cloud-based service from Microsoft that uses pre-built machine learning models to extract information from images and videos, such as objects, text, faces, and scene descriptions.
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Azure App Service is a fully managed platform for building, deploying, and scaling web applications and APIs without managing the underlying infrastructure.
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Azure Application Gateway is a cloud-based web traffic load balancer that manages and protects HTTP and HTTPS requests to web applications based on their URL paths and other routing rules.
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Azure Arc is a Microsoft service that lets you manage servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases running outside of Azure as if they were native Azure resources.
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Azure Artifacts is a service within Azure DevOps that allows teams to create, host, and share packages like NuGet, npm, Maven, and Python, making software dependencies easier to manage across projects.
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Azure Automation is a cloud-based service that lets you automatically create, deploy, monitor, and maintain resources in your Microsoft Azure environment using runbooks and configuration management.