Cloud computing, in plain English

A

1 entry

• Anycast Stub Anycast is a network addressing method where the same IP address is announced fr… 1,710 views

B

4 entries

• BGP Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol that exchanges reachabilit… 9,980 views
• Bare Metal Bare metal servers are physical, single-tenant machines provisioned in a cloud-s… 4,253 views
• Block Storage Block storage presents raw storage volumes — fixed-size blocks — to a compute in… 5,992 views
• Burstable Instance A burstable instance is a virtual machine sold with a low baseline CPU level but… 28,798 views

C

1 entry

• CDN A Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches your content on servers close to users, … 43,657 views

D

2 entries

• DDoS Scrubbing DDoS scrubbing is the practice of diverting traffic through filtering systems th… 17,710 views
• Data Residency Data residency is the requirement that specified data be stored or processed wit… 20,842 views

E

1 entry

• Egress Fee An egress fee is the charge a cloud provider applies to data leaving its network… 37,747 views

G

1 entry

• Golden Image A golden image is a pre-built, pre-hardened machine or container image — operati… 30,273 views

I

2 entries

• ISO 27001 ISO/IEC 27001 is the international standard for information security management … 21,095 views
• Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code (IaC) manages infrastructure through declarative definiti… 15,968 views

K

1 entry

• Kubernetes Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system that schedules conta… 39,268 views

M

1 entry

• Multi-Region A multi-region architecture runs an application in two or more geographic region… 27,782 views

O

1 entry

• Object Storage Object storage stores data as discrete objects — a file plus metadata plus a uni… 31,886 views

R

3 entries

• RPO and RTO Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the maximum amount of data loss an organizatio… 16,077 views
• RUM Stub Real User Monitoring (RUM) measures performance from the end user's browser or d… 10,460 views
• Reserved Instance A Reserved Instance is a billing construct: you commit to a specific amount of c… 5,653 views

S

5 entries

• S3-Compatible S3-compatible describes storage services that implement the HTTP API of the domi… 34,562 views
• SLO A Service Level Objective (SLO) is an internal target for a measurable property … 11,565 views
• SOC 2 SOC 2 (Service Organization Control 2) is an attestation framework from the Amer… 41,385 views
• Serverless Serverless describes compute models where the provider runs and scales the serve… 11,250 views
• Spot Instance Spot (or preemptible) instances are spare cloud capacity sold at steep discounts… 42,471 views

T

1 entry

• TCO Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is the full accounting of what a system costs to r… 17,910 views

V

1 entry

• VPC A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated network section inside a p… 3,639 views