# Acronyms
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+  **AMF** — Access & Mobility Management Function 
+  **API** — Application Programming Interface 
+  **AUSF** — Authentication Server Function 
+  **BSS** — Business Support System 
+  **CDK** — Cloud Development Kit 
+  **CI/CD** — Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery 
+  **CLI** — Command Line Interface 
+  **CNF** — Cloud-native or Containerized Network Function 
+  **CSP** — Communication Service Provider 
+  **CU** — RAN Central Unit 
+  **CVE** — Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures 
+  **DoS** — Denial of Service 
+  **DR** — disaster recovery 
+  **DU** — RAN Distributed Unit 
+  **E2E** — end to end 
+  **ECR** — Elastic Container Registry 
+  **EFS** — Elastic File System 
+  **EKS** — Elastic Kubernetes Service 
+  **EPC** — Evolved Packet Core 
+  **IaC** — Infrastructure as Code 
+  **ISV** — Independent Software Vendor 
+  **MANO** — Management and Orchestration 
+  **MEC** — Multi-Access Edge Computing 
+  **NACL** — Network Access Control List 
+  **NAT** — Network Address Translation 
+  **NF** — Network Function 
+  **NFV** — Network Function Virtualization 
+  **NFVO** — Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator 
+  **NOC** — Network Operations Centre 
+  **NRF** — Network Repository Function 
+  **OSS** — Operations Support System 
+  **PII** —** **Personally Identifiable Information 
+  **QoS** — Quality of Service 
+  **RAN** — Radio Access Network 
+  **SBI** — Service Based Interface 
+  **SMF** — Session Management Function 
+  **SSL** — Secure Sockets Layer 
+  **TaS** — Test as Service 
+  **TCP** — Transmission Control Protocol 
+  **TLS** — Transport Layer Security 
+  **UDM** — Unified Data Management 
+  **UDP** — User Datagram Protocol 
+  **UPF** — User Plane Function 
+  **VIM** — Virtualized Infrastructure Manager 
+  **VNF** — Virtual Network Function 
+  **VPC** — Virtual Private Cloud