Updated on 2025-05-07 GMT+08:00

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Table 1 Acronyms and abbreviations (in alphabetical order)

Acronym or Abbreviation

Full Name

AIOps

Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations

AOM

Application Operations Management

ALM

Application Lifecycle Management

CAF

Cloud Adoption Framework

Capex

Capital expenditure

CBH

Cloud Bastion Host

CC

Cloud Connect

CCE

Cloud Container Engine

CCI

Cloud Container Instance

CCM

Cloud Certificate Manager

CCoE

Cloud Center of Excellence

CFW

Cloud Firewall

CMDB

Configuration Management Database

CMM

Cloud Maturity Model

CNCF

Cloud Native Computing Foundation

COC

Cloud Operations Center

CSMS

Cloud Secret Management Service

CSP

Cloud Service Provider

CSR

Corporate social responsibility

DBSS

Database Security Service

DC

Direct Connect

DCMM

Data Management Capability Maturity Assessment Model

DDoS

Distributed Denial of Service

DevOps

Development and Operations

DevSecOps

Development, Security, and Operations

DEW

Data Encryption Workshop

DSC

Data Security Center

ECS

Elastic Cloud Server

EIP

Elastic IP Address

ELB

Elastic Load Balancing

ER

Enterprise Router

ESW

Enterprise Switch

EVS

Elastic Volume Service

FinOps

Finance Operations

GRC

Governance, Risk & Compliance

HSM

Hardware Security Module

HSS

Host Security Service

IaaS

Infrastructure as a service

IaC

Infrastructure as Code

IAM

Identity and Access Management

IDC

Internet Data Center

IDP

Internal Developer Platform

IoT

Internet of Things

ITSM

IT Service Management

ITSS

Information Technology Service Standards

KMS

Key Management Service

KPS

Key Pair Service

LLM

Large Language Model

MFA

Multi-Factor Authentication

MSP

Managed Service Provider

MTBF

Mean Time Between Failure

MTTR

Mean Time To Repair

NAT

Network Address Translation

OACA

Open Alliance for Cloud Adoption

OBS

Object Storage Service

OLAP

Online Analytical Processing

OLTP

Online Transaction Processing

Opex

Operational expenditure

PaC

Policy as Code

PaaS

Platform as a service

PUE

Power Usage Effectiveness

QPS

Query Per Second

ROI

Return on Investment

RPO

Recovery Point Objective

RTO

Recovery Time Objective

SaaS

Software as a Service

SCIM

System for Cross-domain Identity Management

SCP

Service Control Policy

SecMaster

Security Master

SFS

Scalable File Service

SLA

Service Level Agreement

SLO

Service Level Objective

SNAT

Source Network Address Translation

SOC

Security Operation Center

SRE

Site Reliability Engineering

SSO

Single Sign-On

TOGAF

The Open Group Architecture Framework

TPS

Transactions Per Second

VPC

Virtual Private Cloud

VPN

Virtual Private Network

WAF

Well-Architected Framework

WAF

Web Application Firewall