Glossary

The 12 Factor Pattern is a software methodology for building cloud-friendly (or cloud-native), scalable, maintainable applications that deploy easily on a Platform-as-a-Service (aka PaaS).

Amazon Certificate Manager is a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy TLS certificates for use with AWS services such as ELBs and CloudFront.

An Amazon Machine Image provides the information required to launch an EC2 instance, which is a virtual server in the Amazon public cloud.

Amazon’s Systems Manager provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources such as configurations with Parameter Store. Systems Manager simplifies resource and application management, shortens the time to detect and resolve operational problems, and makes it easy to operate and manage your infrastructure securely at scale.

An anti-pattern is the opposite of a best-practice.

An Availability Zone is an isolated data center within a geographic region that is interconnected with other AZs through low-latency links.

Amazon Web Services is a public cloud offering by Amazon.com

aws-vault is a utility for securely managing secrets with AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store and KMS

A bastion host is the only host permitted to be directly addressed via SSH from the internet.

A well-understood and often published technique or methodology that, through experience and research, has proven to reliably lead to a desired result.