Concepts and definitions

This section describes key concepts and defines terminology specific to this solution.

AWSAccelerator and aws-accelerator

As of version 1.4.0, this solution allows for a user-defined resource name prefix in the Installer stack parameters. This guide uses the default prefix values AWSAccelerator and aws-accelerator for the named resource it describes. If you input a custom prefix, your solution-deployed CloudFormation stacks and Amazon S3 buckets use your custom prefix value.

landing zone

A cloud environment that offers a recommended starting point—​including default accounts, account structure, core networking infrastructure, and security configurations. Using a landing zone as a foundation, you can deploy your mission-critical application workloads and solutions across a centrally-governed multi-account environment.

Installer pipeline (AWSAccelerator-Installer)

Deploys an installer that, in turn, deploys the solution’s core features. Because this installer functions separately from the Core pipeline, you can update to future versions of the solution with a single parameter through the AWS CloudFormation console.

Core pipeline (AWSAccelerator-Pipeline)

Deploys the solution’s core features.