Cloud computing, in plain English

A

1 entry

• Anycast Stub Anycast is a network addressing method where the same IP address is announced fr… 5,689 views

B

4 entries

• BGP Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol that exchanges reachabilit… 24,343 views
• Bare Metal Bare metal servers are physical, single-tenant machines provisioned in a cloud-s… 41,151 views
• Block Storage Block storage presents raw storage volumes — fixed-size blocks — to a compute in… 14,453 views
• Burstable Instance A burstable instance is a virtual machine sold with a low baseline CPU level but… 41,953 views

C

1 entry

• CDN A Content Delivery Network (CDN) caches your content on servers close to users, … 19,839 views

D

2 entries

• DDoS Scrubbing DDoS scrubbing is the practice of diverting traffic through filtering systems th… 17,819 views
• Data Residency Data residency is the requirement that specified data be stored or processed wit… 33,743 views

E

1 entry

• Egress Fee An egress fee is the charge a cloud provider applies to data leaving its network… 2,877 views

G

1 entry

• Golden Image A golden image is a pre-built, pre-hardened machine or container image — operati… 13,098 views

I

2 entries

• ISO 27001 ISO/IEC 27001 is the international standard for information security management … 35,044 views
• Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code (IaC) manages infrastructure through declarative definiti… 8,659 views

K

1 entry

• Kubernetes Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system that schedules conta… 43,570 views

M

1 entry

• Multi-Region A multi-region architecture runs an application in two or more geographic region… 43,795 views

O

1 entry

• Object Storage Object storage stores data as discrete objects — a file plus metadata plus a uni… 31,551 views

R

3 entries

• RPO and RTO Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the maximum amount of data loss an organizatio… 24,324 views
• RUM Stub Real User Monitoring (RUM) measures performance from the end user's browser or d… 44,787 views
• Reserved Instance A Reserved Instance is a billing construct: you commit to a specific amount of c… 1,941 views

S

5 entries

• S3-Compatible S3-compatible describes storage services that implement the HTTP API of the domi… 39,498 views
• SLO A Service Level Objective (SLO) is an internal target for a measurable property … 32,098 views
• SOC 2 SOC 2 (Service Organization Control 2) is an attestation framework from the Amer… 17,537 views
• Serverless Serverless describes compute models where the provider runs and scales the serve… 28,082 views
• Spot Instance Spot (or preemptible) instances are spare cloud capacity sold at steep discounts… 7,053 views

T

1 entry

• TCO Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is the full accounting of what a system costs to r… 13,948 views

V

1 entry

• VPC A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a logically isolated network section inside a p… 10,124 views