There are a lot of short word/acronyms used in technology, and here I attempt to put them together for a reference.

Cloud Computing

Learning cloud computing and not sure what do abbreviations stand for?Here are some of the popular one used in Amazon Cloud, Google Cloud, and general cloud computing terms. 

Acronym Stands for…
AWS Amazon Web Services
S3 Simple Storage System
GCP Google Cloud Platform
GCLB Google Cloud Load Balancer
Amazon ES Amazon Elasticsearch Service
AMI Amazon Machine Image
ARN Amazon Resource Name
EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud
ECS EC2 Container Service
EFS Elastic File System
EMR Elastic Map Reduce
IaaS Infrastructure-as-a-Service
SWS Simple Workflow Service
SNS Simple Notification Service
GCS Google Cloud Storage
VPC Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon EBS Amazon Elastic Block Store
AZ Availability Zone
ASG Auto Scaling Group
EBS Elastic Block Store
ELB Elastic Load Balancer
EIP Elastic IP
ENI Elastic Network Interface
FaaS Function as-a-Service
HPC High-Performance Compute
HVM Hardware Virtual Machine
S3 IA S3 Infrequent Access
IG Internet Gateway
KMS Key Management Service
Amazon SES Amazon Simple Email System
RRS Reduced Redundancy Storage
SQS Simple Queue Service
TPM Trusted Platform Module
VPG Virtual Private Gateway
VPS Virtual Private Server
HP CSA HP Cloud Service Automation

Blogging/SEO

Find out acronyms used in blogging or search engine optimization.
Acronym Stands for…
SEO Search Engine Optimization
SCM Search Content Marketing
SEM Search Engine Marketing
WP WordPress
PPC Pay Per Click
CPC Cost Per Click
SERP Search Engine Results Page
CTS Click Through Rate
CR Conversion Rate
CPM Cost Per Thousand Impressions
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act
CMS Content Management System
CRO Conversion Rate Optimization
CTA Call to Action
CTR Click Through Rate
PR PageRank
DA Domain Authority
ROI Return on Investment
UI/UX User Interface/User Experience
SEA Search Engine Advertising
SMO Social Media Optimization
SMM Social Media Marketing
SERM Search Engine Reputation Management
AMA Ask Me Anything
B2B Business to Business
B2C Business to Consumer
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CX Customer Experience
FOMO Fear of Missing Out
GA Google Analytics
IO Insertion Order
SM Social Media
SMP Social Media Platform
ToS Terms of Service
UA Universal Analytics
CPL Cost Per Lead
NPS Net Promoter Score
QDD Query Deserves Diversity
QDF Query Deserves Freshness
SC Supplementary Content
ZMOT Zero Moment of Truth
HITS Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search
LSI Latent Semantic Indexing
PBN Private Blog Network

AI

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Acronym Stands for…
AI Artificial Intelligence
IMS Intelligent Maintenance Systems
ML Machine Learning
NI Natural Intelligence
MI Machine Intelligence
NLP Natural Language Processing
CNN Convolutional Neural Network
RNN Recurrent Neural Network
LSTM Long Short-term Memory
CTC Connectionist Temporal Classification
CV Computer Vision
HMD Head Mounted Displays
RL Reinforcement Learning
NLNN Non-Learning Neural Networks
SR Speech Recognition
M2M Machine to Machine
DSBS Dual Sensor Brake Support
LNN Learning Neural Networks
NLU Natural Language Understanding
RPA Robotic Process Automation
ANN Artificial Neural Network

Database

Explore abbreviations used in a database.
Acronym Stands for…
SQL Structured Query Language
DQL Data Query Language
DDL Data Definition Language
DML Data Manipulation Language
RDSMS Relational Data Stream Management System
OLAP Online Analytical Processing
OLTP Online Transaction Processing
DRDA Distributed Relational Database Architecture
4D QL 4D Query Language
DMS Database Migration Service

Development

As a developer, you will come across many short words, and the following are an incomplete list.
Acronym Stands for…
FIFO First In First Out
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
JS JavaScript
CSS Cascading Style Sheets
SaaS Software-as-a-Service
API Application Programming Interface
XML Extensible Markup Language
SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol
XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
JSON JavaScript Object Notation
EOF End Of File
SDK Software Development Kit
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
I/0 Input & Output
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
VCS Version Control Systems
IDE Integrated Development Environment
Java EE Java, Enterprise Edition
EOL End Of Life
XSD XML Schema Definition
VBS Visual Basic Script
RAD Rapid Application Development
JCE Java Cryptography Extension
JDK Java Development Kit

IT Security

Check out what are the abbreviations used in IT security for better understanding.
Acronym Stands for…
IPSec Internet Protocol Security
SSE Server Side Encryption
SSL Secure Socket Layer
TLS Transport Layer Security
DOS Denial of Services
DDoS Distributed Denial Of Services
XSS Cross-site Scripting
CSP Content Security Policy
CSRF Cross-Site Request Forgery
SQLi SQL Injection
CBSP Cloud-based Security Providers
ACL Access Control List
AES Advanced Encryption System
CORS Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
IAM Identity & Access Management
MFA Multi-Factor Authentication
WAF Web Application Firewall
OWASP Open Web Application Security Project
MITM Man in the Middle Attack
PCI DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
SAML Security Assertion Markup Language
STS Security Token Service
FUD Fully Undetectable
RAT Remote Administration Tool
SE Social Engineering
SKid Script Kiddie
DNSSEC Domain Name System Security Extensions
DKIM Domain Keys Identified Mail
DMARC Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance
SPF Sender Policy Framework
CVSS Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SAST Static Application Security Testing
DAST Dynamic Application Security Testing
WAP Web Application Protection
RFI Remote File Inclusion
LFI Local File Inclusion
DT Directory Traversal
PT Path Traversal
SCD Source Code Disclosure
OSCI OS Command Injection
CWE Common Weakness Enumeration
DSA Digital Signature Algorithm
DES Data Encryption Standard

Server/IT Infrastructure

Acronym Stands for…
OSS Open Source Software
FOSS Free and open-source software
OS Operating System
HA High Availability
BYOD Bring Your Own Device
PaaS Platform-as-a-Service
DaaS Desktop-as-a-Service
VM Virtual Machine
KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine
ESX Elastic Sky X
DRS Distributed Resource Scheduler
VSM Virtual Supervisor Module
QEMU Quick Emulator
SSD Solid-state Drive
IOPS Input/output Operations Per Second
ADFS Active Directory Federation Service
CLI Command Line Interface
CI/CD Continous Integration/Continous Deployment
iSCSI Internet Small Computer Storage Interface
SSH Secure Shell
MSTSC Microsoft Terminal Service Client
MPP Massive Parallel Processing
NFS Network File System
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disk
RAM Random-access Memory
SLA Service Level Agreement
OLA Operational-level Agreement
SSO Single Sign-On
VTL Virtual Tape Library
VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
BIOS Basic Input Output System
DVD Digital Versatile Disc
PSU Power Supply Unit
ROM Read Only Memory
UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply
DC Data Center
GUI Graphical User Interface
TPU Tensor Processing Unit
RISC Reduced Instruction Set Computer
AU Activation Unit
ALU Arithmetic Logic Units
AVX Advanced Vector Extensions
P2V Physical to Virtual
VXLAN Virtual Extensible Local Area Network
VCS Veritas Cluster Server
HAC High-availability Clusters
RUM Real-user Measurement
ERP Enterprise Resource Planning
BPO Business Process Outsourcing
BI Business Intelligence
IT Information Technology
DW Data Warehouse
WINS Windows Internet Name Service
WMI Windows Management Instrumentation
VG Volume Group
TTY Teletype
SFTP SSH File Transfer Protocol
SAN Storage Area Network

Network/Internet

Acronym Stands for…
DNS Domain Name System
HTTP Hyper Text Transport Protocol
HTTPS Hyper Text Transport Protocol Secure
CDN Content Delivery Network
LAN Local Area Network
WAN Wide Area Network
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
IP Internet Protocol
WWW World Wide Web
IoT Internet Of Things
D2D Device to Device
VPN Virtual Private Network
BGP Border Gateway Protocol
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
DOM Document Object Model
UDP User Datagram Protocol
CIDR Classless Inter-Domain Routing
VIP Virtual IP
ICMP Internet Control Message Protocol
LB Load Balancer
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
FTP File Transfer Protocol
RDP Remote Desktop Protocol
MPLS Multi Protocol Label Switching
NS Name Server
NAT Network Address Translation
SOA Start of Authority
TTL Time To Live
TPS Transaction Per Second
NDA Nondisclosure Agreement
AP Access Point
MAC Media Access Control
NIC Network Interface Card
ISP Internet Service Provider
URL Uniform Resource Locator
PDF Portable Document Format
TLD Top level domain
RSS Really Simple Syndication
IFTTT If This Then That
IE Internet Explorer
AFAIK As Far as I Know
CAN-SPAM Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act
DM Direct Message
FB Facebook
PM Private Message
QoS Quality of Service
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
POP Post Office Protocol
IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol
CNAME Canonical Name
MX Mail Exchange
PPTP Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
LLT Low Latency Transport
POP (CDN) Point Of Presence of CDN
ASN Autonomous System Number
SCM (Commerce) Supply Chain Management
WPAN Wireless Personal Area Network
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
TTF TrueType Font
NACK Negative ACKnowledgement
HAR HTTP Archive
I hope above list helps you.