Cloud Terminology

General Cloud Terminology

1. Cloud Computing - Delivery of computing services over the internet.
2. IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) - Cloud service model providing virtualized computing resources.
3. PaaS (Platform as a Service) - Cloud service model offering hardware and software tools over the internet.
4. SaaS (Software as a Service) - Software distribution model providing applications over the internet.
5. FaaS (Function as a Service) - Serverless computing service for running individual functions.
6. Serverless - Cloud computing model where the cloud provider manages the server infrastructure.
7. Virtual Machine (VM) - Emulation of a computer system.
8. Container - Lightweight, portable, self-sufficient computing environment.
9. Microservices - Architectural style for building applications as a collection of small services.
10. API Gateway - Management tool for APIs.
11. Load Balancer - Distributes network or application traffic across multiple servers.
12. Auto Scaling - Automatically adjusts the number of computing resources.
13. Elasticity - Ability to scale resources up or down dynamically.
14. High Availability (HA) - System design approach ensuring operational performance during failures.
15. Disaster Recovery (DR) - Strategies to recover data and services after a catastrophic failure.
16. Fault Tolerance - Ability of a system to continue operation despite failures.
17. Multi-tenancy - Architecture where a single instance serves multiple customers.
18. Cloud-native - Applications designed to fully exploit cloud environments.
19. Hybrid Cloud - Combination of on-premises infrastructure with cloud services.
20. Private Cloud - Cloud infrastructure operated solely for a single organization.
21. Public Cloud - Cloud services offered over the public internet.
22. Community Cloud - Cloud infrastructure shared by several organizations.
23. Edge Computing - Processing data near the source rather than in a centralized data center.
24. Fog Computing - Distributed computing paradigm extending cloud computing to the edge.
25. Cloud Migration - Process of moving data, applications, or other business elements to a cloud environment.
26. Multi-cloud - Use of multiple cloud computing services in a single architecture.
27. Cloud Bursting - Configuration allowing an application to overflow to the cloud when local resources are insufficient.
28. Service Level Agreement (SLA) - Contract specifying the level of service expected from a provider.
29. Provisioning - Process of setting up IT infrastructure.
30. Orchestration - Automated configuration, coordination, and management of computer systems and software.
31. DevOps - Practices combining software development and IT operations.
32. CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) - Methodology for delivering code changes more frequently and reliably.
33. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Managing and provisioning computing infrastructure through machine-readable scripts.
34. Identity and Access Management (IAM) - Framework for managing digital identities and access rights.
35. Authentication - Process of verifying identity.
36. Authorization - Process of determining access rights.
37. Encryption - Technique to protect data by transforming it into an unreadable format.
38. Key Management Service (KMS) - Service for managing encryption keys.
39. Data Lake - Centralized repository for storing large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
40. Data Warehouse - Central repository of integrated data from one or more sources.
41. Big Data - Large and complex data sets.
42. Data Analytics - Process of examining data sets to draw conclusions.
43. Business Intelligence (BI) - Technologies and strategies for analyzing business information.
44. Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Simulation of human intelligence in machines.
45. Machine Learning (ML) - Subset of AI involving the study of algorithms that improve automatically.
46. Deep Learning - Subset of ML using neural networks with many layers.
47. Internet of Things (IoT) - Network of physical objects embedded with sensors and software.
48. Blockchain - Distributed ledger technology.
49. Quantum Computing - Computing using quantum-mechanical phenomena.
50. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) - Isolated section of a public cloud.
51. Direct Connect - Dedicated network connection to the cloud.
52. CloudFront - Content delivery network (CDN).
53. CloudFormation - Service for provisioning infrastructure using code.
54. CloudTrail - Service for logging and monitoring activity in the cloud.
55. CloudWatch - Monitoring and observability service.
56. Elastic Beanstalk - Platform as a Service for deploying applications.
57. OpsWorks - Configuration management service.
58. GuardDuty - Threat detection service.
59. Inspector - Automated security assessment service.
60. Macie - Data security and data privacy service.
61. WAF (Web Application Firewall) - Protects web applications from attacks.
62. Shield - Managed DDoS protection service.
63. IAM Policy - Document defining permissions for an IAM identity.
64. Resource Tagging - Assigning metadata to cloud resources.
65. Elastic IP - Static, public IP address.
66. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) - Automatically distributes incoming traffic.
67. Elastic File System (EFS) - Managed file storage service.
68. Elastic Block Store (EBS) - Block storage service.
69. Simple Storage Service (S3) - Object storage service.
70. Glacier - Low-cost storage service for archival data.
71. Simple Queue Service (SQS) - Managed message queuing service.
72. Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Managed messaging service.
73. Simple Email Service (SES) - Cloud-based email sending service.
74. Redshift - Data warehousing service.
75. RDS (Relational Database Service) - Managed relational database service.
76. DynamoDB - NoSQL database service.
77. Aurora - Managed relational database service.
78. Neptune - Managed graph database service.
79. DocumentDB - Managed document database service.
80. Athena - Interactive query service for S3.
81. EMR (Elastic MapReduce) - Big data processing service.
82. Kinesis - Platform for real-time data processing.
83. Glue - Managed ETL (extract, transform, load) service.
84. Lake Formation - Service for setting up data lakes.
85. Data Pipeline - Service for moving data between different AWS services.
86. Step Functions - Service for orchestrating workflows.
87. CodeDeploy - Service for automated code deployments.
88. CodePipeline - Service for continuous integration and continuous delivery.
89. CodeBuild - Service for automated software builds.
90. CodeCommit - Managed source control service.
91. Lightsail - Easy-to-use cloud platform for simple applications.
92. Outposts - Extends AWS infrastructure and services to on-premises locations.
93. Snowball - Data transport service.
94. Snowmobile - Data transfer service for exabyte-scale data.
95. Fargate - Serverless compute engine for containers.
96. EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) - Managed Kubernetes service.
97. ECS (Elastic Container Service) - Managed container orchestration service.
98. Lambda - Serverless compute service.
99. API Gateway - Managed service for creating and publishing APIs.
100. SageMaker - Managed service for building, training, and deploying machine learning models.

AWS Terminology

101. AWS Regions - Geographical areas hosting AWS data centers.
102. AWS Availability Zones - Isolated locations within a region.
103. AWS Marketplace - Online store for software that runs on AWS.
104. AWS Management Console - Web-based interface for managing AWS services.
105. AWS CLI - Command-line tool for managing AWS services.
106. AWS SDK - Software development kit for interacting with AWS services.
107. EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) - Service providing resizable compute capacity.
108. Lightsail - Simplified cloud service for small-scale applications.
109. Elastic Beanstalk - PaaS for deploying applications.
110. OpsWorks - Configuration management using Chef or Puppet.
111. CloudFormation - IaC tool for provisioning resources.
112. CloudTrail - Logging service for auditing.
113. CloudWatch - Monitoring and observability service.
114. Auto Scaling - Automatic scaling of EC2 instances.
115. RDS (Relational Database Service) - Managed relational databases.
116. DynamoDB - Managed NoSQL database.
117. Aurora - High-performance managed relational database.
118. S3 (Simple Storage Service) - Scalable object storage.
119. Glacier - Low-cost storage for archiving.
120. Elastic Block Store (EBS) - Persistent block storage.
121. Elastic File System (EFS) - Managed file storage.
122. Route 53 - DNS and domain registration service.
123. VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) - Isolated network environment.
124. Direct Connect - Dedicated network connection to AWS.
125. Lambda - Event-driven serverless compute service.
126. Elastic Container Service (ECS) - Container orchestration service.
127. Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) - Managed Kubernetes service.
128. Fargate - Serverless compute engine for containers.
129. Batch - Managed batch processing service.
130. Step Functions - Service for building workflows.
131. Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Messaging service.
132. Simple Queue Service (SQS) - Message queuing service.
133. Simple Email Service (SES) - Email sending service.
134. API Gateway - Managed API gateway.
135. SageMaker - Machine learning service.
136. Athena - Query service for S3 data.
137. Redshift - Data warehousing service.
138. Glue - ETL service.
139. Lake Formation - Data lake setup service.
140. Kinesis - Real-time data streaming service.
141. EMR (Elastic MapReduce) - Big data processing service.
142. Data Pipeline - Data workflow orchestration service.
143. CodeCommit - Source control service.
144. CodeBuild - Build service.
145. CodeDeploy - Deployment service.
146. CodePipeline - CI/CD service.
147. CloudFront - Content delivery network (CDN).
148. WAF (Web Application Firewall) - Web application security.
149. Shield - DDoS protection service.
150. GuardDuty - Threat detection service.
151. Macie - Data protection service.
152. Inspector - Security assessment service.
153. IAM (Identity and Access Management) - Access control service.
154. KMS (Key Management Service) - Encryption key management.
155. Secrets Manager - Service for managing secrets.
156. Cognito - Identity management for web and mobile apps.
157. Artifact - Compliance and audit service.
158. Security Hub - Unified security and compliance center.
159. Control Tower - Governance and compliance service.
160. Trusted Advisor - Best practices advisory service.
161. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) - Load balancing service.
162. Elastic IP - Static IP addresses.
163. Resource Groups - Organizing AWS resources.
164. Tags - Metadata for AWS resources.
165. Cost Explorer - Cost management tool.
166. Budgets - Cost tracking and alerts.
167. Organizations - Multi-account management service.
168. Marketplace - Store for software running on AWS.

Azure Terminology

169. Azure Regions - Geographical areas with data centers.
170. Availability Zones - High-availability offerings within a region.
171. Resource Groups - Logical grouping of Azure resources.
172. Azure Portal - Web-based management interface.
173. Azure CLI - Command-line tool for managing Azure resources.
174. Azure PowerShell - PowerShell module for managing Azure resources.
175. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) - Deployment and management service.
176. Virtual Machines (VMs) - Compute instances.
177. App Service - PaaS for hosting web apps.
178. Functions - Serverless compute service.
179. Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Managed Kubernetes service.
180. Container Instances (ACI) - Running containers without managing VMs.
181. Batch - Managed batch processing service.
182. Service Fabric - Microservices platform.
183. Virtual Network (VNet) - Isolated network environment.
184. Load Balancer - Network load balancing.
185. Application Gateway - Web traffic load balancer.
186. Traffic Manager - DNS-based traffic load balancer.
187. ExpressRoute - Private network connection to Azure.
188. Storage Account - Storage services container.
189. Blob Storage - Object storage service.
190. File Storage - Managed file shares.
191. Disk Storage - Persistent disk storage.
192. Queue Storage - Message queuing service.
193. Table Storage - NoSQL key-value store.
194. Cosmos DB - Globally distributed, multi-model database.
195. SQL Database - Managed relational database.
196. SQL Data Warehouse - Scalable data warehouse service.
197. Data Lake Storage - Scalable storage for big data analytics.
198. Synapse Analytics - Integrated analytics service.
199. HDInsight - Big data analytics service.
200. Data Factory - Data integration service.