Glossary

Abbreviation	Description
AAD	Azure Active Directory
AD	Active Directory
Ad hoc	Created or done for a particular purpose as necessary
ADO	Azure DevOps
AIS	Automated Infrastructure Services
ARB	Architecture Review Board
ARM	Azure Resource Manager
ARM templates	ARM templates
ASC	Azure Security Center; Security posture management and threat protection for your hybrid cloud workloads
ASG	Application Security Group; ASGs allow you to configure network security as a natural extension of an application's structure, allowing you to group virtual machines and define network security policies based on those groups
Azure Monitor	Azure Monitor helps you maximize the availability and performance of your applications and services; It delivers a comprehensive solution for collecting, analyzing, and acting on telemetry from your cloud and on-premises environments.
Azure Network Watcher	Provides tools to monitor, diagnose, view metrics, and enable or disable logs for resources in an Azure virtual network.
CA	Certificate Authority; An entity that issues digital certificates
CA	Conditional Access
CAT	Cloud Acceleration Team - The group that host the common backlog for the Solum, product, security etc. Lead by Bent Arne.
CCoE	Cloud Center of Excellence
CE	Cloud Enabled
CI/CD	Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery; CI is a coding philosophy and set of practices that drive development teams to implement small changes and deliver code to version control repositories frequently; CD automates the delivery of applications to selected infrastructure environments
CN	Cloud native
COP	Cloud Operating Program - Overall cloud program lead by Darren Kearney - This is responsible for all cloud migrations, including CAT.
COTS	Commercial of-the-shelf
CSIRT	Computer Security Incident Response Teams
DNS	Domain Name System; A hierarchical and decentralized naming system for computers, services, or other resources connected to the Internet or a private network; The DNS delegates the responsibility of assigning domain names and mapping those names to Internet resources by designating authoritative name servers for each domain
DR	Disaster Recovery
EA	Enterprise Agreement
EHI	Event Hub Instance
EHN	Event Hub Namespace
GRS	Geo-redundant storage
High-level	Abstract description of operations/systems/networks/…; A wider, less detailed view/design/description/…
Hub-spokes	The hub is a virtual network in Azure that acts as a central point of connectivity to your on-premises network; The spokes are virtual networks that peer with the hub, and can be used to isolate workloads
IaC	Infrastructure as Code
IAM	Identity and Access Management
Idempotent	Applying a certain operation on something many times, without changing the result of the operation after the first time the operation is applied
IaaS	Infrastructure as a Service; IaaS delivers cloud computing infrastructure, including servers, network, operating systems, and storage, through virtualization technology
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation, a lightweight format for storing and transporting data, i.e transporting data from a server to a web page. Its "self-describing" and easy to understand
Low-level	A more specific view/design/description of the individual components of an operation/system/network/…
LRS	Locally redundant storage
LZ	Landing Zone; Azure landing zones are the output of a multisubscription Azure environment that accounts for scale, security, governance, networking, and identity. Azure landing zones enable application migrations and greenfield development at enterprise scale in Azure
MFA	Multi Factor Authentication
MG	Management Group
Microsoft Defender ATP	Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection
Middleware	Software that provides common services and capabilities to applications outside of what's offered by the operating system; Data management, application services, messaging, authentication, and API management are all commonly handled by middleware
MMA	Microsoft Monitoring Agent
MVP	Minimum Valuable Product
NSG	Network Security Group; NSGs allow you to filter network traffic to and from Azure resources in an Azure virtual network; A network security group contains security rules that allow or deny inbound network traffic to, or outbound network traffic from, several types of Azure resources
OOB	Out-of-the-Box
PBI	Product Backlog Item or PowerBI
PIM	Privileged Identity Management; It is a service in the AAD that enables you to manage, control, and monitor access to important resources in your organization
PaaS	Platform as a Service; PaaS provides a platform for software development. This platform is delivered via the web. Developers can concentrate on developing software without having to worry about things like operating systems, software updates, storage or infrastructure
RBAC	Role Based Access Control
RG	Resource Group
SAS	Shared Storage Signature; Provides secure delegated access to resources in your storage account
SDK	A software development kit is a collection of software development tools in one installable package
SIEM	Security information and event management
SKU	Stock-Keeping Unit; A reference for an Azure product
SPN	Service Principal Name; A security identity used by user-created applications, services, and automation tools to access specific Azure resources
TFVC	Team Foundation Version Control
TLS	Transport Layer Security; A cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network
UDR	User Defined Routing; This allows network admins to control the routing tables between subnets within a subnet as well as between VNets thereby allowing for greater control over network traffic flow
VM	Virtual Machine
VNet	Virtual Network
VPN	Virtual Private Network
WAF	Web Application Firewall; A specific form of application firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web service
YAML	A human-readable data-serialization language