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Glossary
- activation
The process your product goes through to prepare itself for the customer's use. During activation, your product obtains the required credential or credentials needed to make subsequent Amazon Simple Storage Service calls on behalf of the customer.
- activation key
A short-lived key your customer receives upon purchasing your product. The key is actually a string displayed to your customer on the purchase confirmation page.
- Elastic IP addresses
A feature of Amazon EC2 that lets you offer a static end point for your applications and services. For more information, go to the Amazon EC2 detail page.
- paid AMI
An Amazon EC2 AMI that an Amazon EC2 user registers with DevPay and then sells to other Amazon EC2 users who want to use the AMI.
- product activation
See activation.
- product code
One of the items provided to you when you register a product with DevPay. The product code is an 8-character string that identifies your product to AWS.
- product identification token
See product token.
- product token
One of the items provided to you when you register a product with DevPay. The product token is a long encoded string that identifies the product to AWS. You might also see the product token referred to as the product identification token.
- purchase URL
One of the items provided to you when you register a product with DevPay. This is the URL for the page where your customers can purchase your product. When you advertise your product, you provide the URL as the sign-up link for customers to use.
- REST-Query
Also known as Query or HTTP Query. This is a type of HTTP request that generally uses only the GET or POST HTTP method and a query string with parameters. Compare this with REST, which is a type of HTTP request that uses any HTTP method (GET, DELETE, POST, etc.), a resource, HTTP headers, and possibly a query string with parameters. The License Service offers a REST-Query interface; Amazon S3 offers a REST interface.
- supported AMI
An Amazon EC2 AMI which is owned by one developer, but uses a service or software sold and supported by another developer.
- user token
One of the customer credentials returned to your product during product activation. The user token is a long encoded string used by AWS to identify the customer. Your product provides the customer's user token in each request the product makes on behalf of the customer.
- value-add
The amount you charge each customer on top of the cost of the AWS services they used.
