SOA may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Siege of Avalon, a 2000 computer role-playing game
  • Soldiers of Anarchy, a 2002 real-time tactics computer game
  • Sons of Anarchy, an FX television series about a motorcycle club
  • Sons of Azrael, a deathcore band from Buffalo, New York
  • State of Alert, a hardcore punk group formed in Washington, D.C.

Computing and technology

  • Safe operating area, the recommended voltage and current conditions for a semiconductor
  • Semiconductor optical amplifier
  • Service-oriented architecture, a set of software design principles and methodologies
  • SOA governance, a concept for services control in such an architecture
  • SOA security
  • SOA record (for start of authority), a type of resource record in the Domain Name System (DNS)
  • Statement of Applicability (SoA), an ISO/IEC 27001 document for information security management systems
  • Structure of arrays, a method of arranging records in memory

Enterprises and organizations

  • School of the Americas, now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, a U.S. Department of Defense training facility
  • Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (SOA University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
  • Security and Intelligence Agency, (Croatian: Sigurnosno-obavještajna agencija or SOA), in Croatia
  • Scottish Orienteering Association
  • Society of Actuaries, in North America
  • Society of Ancients, a UK-based ancient and medieval history and war gaming organization
  • Society of Authors, a British writers' trade union
  • Spirit of America (charity), a US non-governmental nonprofit organization promoting American values abroad
  • Special Operations Australia, a.k.a. Services Reconnaissance Department, a World War II agency
  • Special operating agency, a Canadian governmental organization
  • State Oceanic Administration, a Chinese administrative agency
  • Subaru of America, American distributor of Subaru vehicles
  • Swiss Olympic Association

Sports

  • SOA (basketball club), in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast
  • SOA (football club), in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast

Other uses

  • Secondary organic aerosol, a type of particulate matter produced by combustion engines
  • Southampton Airport Parkway railway station, in Eastleigh, Hampshire, England
  • Stimulus onset asynchrony, a measure used in experimental psychology
  • Super output areas, geographical regions defined in the U.K. ONS coding system
  • Statement of account

See also

  • Soa (disambiguation)
  • School of the Arts (disambiguation)
  • SOAS (disambiguation)