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Glossary of Key Terms
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Amazon.com’s cloud solution, which provides scalable hosting solutions to developers and enterprises for moving applications to the cloud.
App Software application that users download and install on their phones to perform specific tasks.
Application program interface (API) Group or library of related programming solutions that developers can use within the programs they create. For example, one API might provide developers with prepackaged code they can use to perform common Internet tasks. Another might provide developers with code they can use to encrypt or ...
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