CSCE 412 · Glossary
Cloud terms, plainly.
A short reference for the words used throughout this notebook.
8 terms
- Static website
- A website delivered as files, without generating each page on a backend server.
- Amazon S3
- Object storage that can hold website files, including HTML, images, CSS, and JavaScript.
- CloudFront
- AWS’s content delivery network, which delivers content from an origin to visitors.
- Origin
- The source from which a content delivery network retrieves content, such as an S3 bucket.
- DNS
- The Domain Name System, which helps connect readable domain names to the services they identify.
- HTTPS
- HTTP protected by TLS encryption, used for secure communication between a browser and a website.
- TLS certificate
- A certificate used to verify a domain’s identity and establish a secure connection.
- Origin Access Control
- A CloudFront feature that signs requests to an S3 origin, allowing access through a restricted bucket policy.