# Common Abbreviations and Terminology

This context provides standard abbreviations and terminology used across the organization to ensure consistent communication.

## AWS Services (Common Abbreviations)

### Compute
- **EC2** - Elastic Compute Cloud
- **ECS** - Elastic Container Service
- **EKS** - Elastic Kubernetes Service
- **Lambda** - AWS Lambda (serverless compute)
- **Batch** - AWS Batch

### Storage
- **S3** - Simple Storage Service
- **EBS** - Elastic Block Store
- **EFS** - Elastic File System
- **FSx** - Amazon FSx (managed file systems)

### Database
- **RDS** - Relational Database Service
- **DDB** - DynamoDB
- **ElastiCache** - Amazon ElastiCache
- **Redshift** - Amazon Redshift
- **Aurora** - Amazon Aurora

### Networking
- **VPC** - Virtual Private Cloud
- **ALB** - Application Load Balancer
- **NLB** - Network Load Balancer
- **CLB** - Classic Load Balancer
- **CF** - CloudFront
- **R53** - Route 53

### Security & Identity
- **IAM** - Identity and Access Management
- **KMS** - Key Management Service
- **ACM** - AWS Certificate Manager
- **WAF** - Web Application Firewall
- **GuardDuty** - Amazon GuardDuty

### Monitoring & Management
- **CW** - CloudWatch
- **CT** - CloudTrail
- **Config** - AWS Config
- **SSM** - Systems Manager
- **OpsWorks** - AWS OpsWorks

## Technical Terms

### Architecture Patterns
- **SOA** - Service-Oriented Architecture
- **MSA** - Microservices Architecture
- **API** - Application Programming Interface
- **REST** - Representational State Transfer
- **GraphQL** - Graph Query Language
- **gRPC** - gRPC Remote Procedure Call

### Development Practices
- **CI/CD** - Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
- **IaC** - Infrastructure as Code
- **GitOps** - Git-based Operations
- **TDD** - Test-Driven Development
- **BDD** - Behavior-Driven Development
- **DDD** - Domain-Driven Design

### Data & Analytics
- **ETL** - Extract, Transform, Load
- **ELT** - Extract, Load, Transform
- **OLTP** - Online Transaction Processing
- **OLAP** - Online Analytical Processing
- **ML** - Machine Learning
- **AI** - Artificial Intelligence

## Business Terms

### Project Management
- **MVP** - Minimum Viable Product
- **POC** - Proof of Concept
- **UAT** - User Acceptance Testing
- **SLA** - Service Level Agreement
- **SLO** - Service Level Objective
- **SLI** - Service Level Indicator

### Compliance & Governance
- **GDPR** - General Data Protection Regulation
- **CCPA** - California Consumer Privacy Act
- **SOC** - Service Organization Control
- **PCI DSS** - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
- **HIPAA** - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

### Financial
- **TCO** - Total Cost of Ownership
- **ROI** - Return on Investment
- **CAPEX** - Capital Expenditure
- **OPEX** - Operational Expenditure

## Communication Standards

### Status Indicators
- **WIP** - Work in Progress
- **BLOCKED** - Cannot proceed due to dependency
- **REVIEW** - Ready for review
- **DONE** - Completed and verified

### Priority Levels
- **P0** - Critical/Emergency
- **P1** - High Priority
- **P2** - Medium Priority
- **P3** - Low Priority

### Meeting Types
- **Standup** - Daily team synchronization
- **Retro** - Retrospective meeting
- **Planning** - Sprint/iteration planning
- **Review** - Sprint/iteration review

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*Use these standard abbreviations and terms consistently across all communications and documentation.*
