1. Glossary

This page includes a number of terms that we use in our documentation.

AWS

Amazon Web Services

https://aws.amazon.com/

AWS CLI

Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface is a unified tools for interacting with all parts of AWS

https://aws.amazon.com/cli/

github home

https://github.com/orgs/RCIC-UCI-Public/rcs3

IAM Roles

AWS Identity and Access Management roles

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/introduction.html

Lifecycle rules

Is a set of rules that define the actions applied by S3 to a group of objects.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/lifecycle-transition-general-considerations.html

MFA

Multi-factor authentication

project home

https://rcs3.readthedocs.io

Rclone

Rclone is a command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors’ web storage interfaces.

https://rclone.org/

RCIC

Research Cyberinfrastructure Center at the University of California, Irvine.

https://rcic.uci.edu/

RCS3

Rclone to S3 for large backup

https://rcs3.readthedocs.io

S3

Simple Storage Service

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/s3

S3 Versioning

S3 Versioning allows keeping multiple versions of an object in one bucket, so that you can restore objects that are accidentally deleted or overwritten.

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Versioning.html

UCI

University of California, Irvine

https://uci.edu/