Glossary¶

ACL: Access Control List.
ACM: AWS Certificate Manager.
ASG: Amazon Auto Scaling Group.
AWS: Amazon Web Services.
CA: Certificate Authority.
DPoP: Demonstration of Proof of Possession.
EC2: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is a web service that provides secure and resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
ECR: Amazon Elastic Container Registry.
EKS: Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.
ELB: Elastic Load Balancer.
Grafana: Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization software, providing charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.
GCP: Google Cloud Platform.
Identity Service: An ESS service that provides a compatibility layer between Solid and traditional OpenID Connect (OIDC) applications. For details, see Identity Service.
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation.
JWKS: JSON Web Key Store.
Kafka: Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform developed by LinkedIn and donated to the Apache Software Foundation, written in Scala and Java.
KMS: Amazon Key Management Store.
LDP: Linked Data Platform.
LDP Service: An ESS service that implements implements the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) LDP specification. For more information, see LDP Service.
MITREid: MITREid Connect is an implementation of OIDC for use by MITRE employees.
MSK: Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka.
OAuth: OAuth is a delegated authorization framework for REST/APIs. It enables applications to obtain limited access to a user’s data without giving away a user’s password.
OIDC: OpenID Connect is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth protocol.
Prometheus: Prometheus is a free software application used for event monitoring and alerting. It records real-time metrics in a time series database built using a HTTP pull model with flexible queries and real-time alerting.
RDF: Resource Description Framework.
Solid: Social Linked Data.
SSM: AWS System Manager.
TLS: Transport Layer Security <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246> _.
URI: Uniform Resource Identifier is the official name for those things you see on the Web that begin http: or mailto. For example, http://www.w3.org/ is the URI for the home page of the World Wide Web consortium.
URL: Uniform Resource Locator.
VM: Virtual Machine.
VPN: Virtual Private Network.
WebID: A WebID is a way to uniquely identify a person, company, organization, or other agent using a URI. The term “WebID” was coined by Dan Brickley and Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 2000.
WebSocket Service: An ESS service that exposes a WebSocket endpoint that implements the Solid WebSocket specification. For more information, see WebSocket Service.
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium.
Zookeeper: Apache Zookeeper is a software project of the Apache Software Foundation. It is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services.