Glossary ​

ARN

An Amazon resource name, a unique identifier for a given resource.

Availability zone (AZ)

EC2 is hosted in multiple locations worldwide. An AZ is a set of isolated locations within an AWS region. A region is a separate geographic area.

CDWM

Cloud Data Warehouse Manager, the control plane for a cloud deployment of Yellowbrick Data Warehouse.

CloudFormation

AWS service that deploys software stacks for cloud applications, using standard templates and web-based forms.

cluster

A Yellowbrick virtual compute cluster runs queries and other operations, using hardware resources allocated to a specific Yellowbrick data warehouse instance.

compute node

A node in a virtual compute cluster, backed by cloud-based hardware of a specific instance type. Also known as a worker node.

Elastic Block Storage (EBS)

AWS service used to allocate permanent storage volumes for Yellowbrick instances.

EC2 instance

A virtual server in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for running applications on the AWS infrastructure.

EKS cluster

An Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) control plane and a set of nodes that run Kubernetes software. The cluster runs in an account managed by AWS on its own set of Amazon EC2 instances.

Helm chart

A collection of files that describe a related set of Kubernetes resources, laid out in a specific directory tree and packaged for cloud deployment.

hosted zone

See Route 53 zone.

hub VPC

A VPC with a direct internet connection to a corporate network. The hub VPC provides access to some number of "spoke VPCs."

Kubernetes (K8S)

Open-source software that automates deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

observability stack

The stack that supports Grafana monitoring and logging to an observability bucket for remote diagnostics.

pod

A deployable group of Kubernetes containers, with shared storage and network resources.

profile

In AWS, an account configuration with specific settings for region, role, start URL, and so on.

root stack

The top-level software stack that is deployed to a VPC when you create a stack in AWS.

Route 53 hosted zone

Route 53 is a Domain Name System (DNS) web service, connecting user requests to internet applications running on AWS. A Route 53 zone assigns a custom domain name in your VPC, and provides access to that domain, making use of internal AWS resources and servers.

spoke VPC

A VPC with a private network that is created for a dedicated purpose and is reachable only via its "hub VPC."

stack

A packaged, installable set of resources and files that are needed to run an application in a cloud-based environment.

Terraform

Software used to automate the management and provisioning of cloud-based infrastructure.

Yellowbrick virtual compute cluster

See cluster.

Yellowbrick instance

A deployed and provisioned data warehouse that runs in a cloud environment, typically with limits imposed on its hardware resources.

Parent topic:AWS VPC Deployment Guide for Yellowbrick