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

  1. AWS Regions - Geographical areas hosting AWS data centers.
  2. AWS Availability Zones - Isolated locations within a region.
  3. AWS Marketplace - Online store for software that runs on AWS.
  4. AWS Management Console - Web-based interface for managing AWS services.
  5. AWS CLI - Command-line tool for managing AWS services.
  6. AWS SDK - Software development kit for interacting with AWS services.
  7. EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) - Service providing resizable compute capacity.
  8. Lightsail - Simplified cloud service for small-scale applications.
  9. Elastic Beanstalk - PaaS for deploying applications.
  10. OpsWorks - Configuration management using Chef or Puppet.
  11. CloudFormation - IaC tool for provisioning resources.
  12. CloudTrail - Logging service for auditing.
  13. CloudWatch - Monitoring and observability service.
  14. Auto Scaling - Automatic scaling of EC2 instances.
  15. RDS (Relational Database Service) - Managed relational databases.
  16. DynamoDB - Managed NoSQL database.
  17. Aurora - High-performance managed relational database.
  18. S3 (Simple Storage Service) - Scalable object storage.
  19. Glacier - Low-cost storage for archiving.
  20. Elastic Block Store (EBS) - Persistent block storage.
  21. Elastic File System (EFS) - Managed file storage.
  22. Route 53 - DNS and domain registration service.
  23. VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) - Isolated network environment.
  24. Direct Connect - Dedicated network connection to AWS.
  25. Lambda - Event-driven serverless compute service.
  26. Elastic Container Service (ECS) - Container orchestration service.
  27. Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) - Managed Kubernetes service.
  28. Fargate - Serverless compute engine for containers.
  29. Batch - Managed batch processing service.
  30. Step Functions - Service for building workflows.
  31. Simple Notification Service (SNS) - Messaging service.
  32. Simple Queue Service (SQS) - Message queuing service.
  33. Simple Email Service (SES) - Email sending service.
  34. API Gateway - Managed API gateway.
  35. SageMaker - Machine learning service.
  36. Athena - Query service for S3 data.
  37. Redshift - Data warehousing service.
  38. Glue - ETL service.
  39. Lake Formation - Data lake setup service.
  40. Kinesis - Real-time data streaming service.
  41. EMR (Elastic MapReduce) - Big data processing service.
  42. Data Pipeline - Data workflow orchestration service.
  43. CodeCommit - Source control service.
  44. CodeBuild - Build service.
  45. CodeDeploy - Deployment service.
  46. CodePipeline - CI/CD service.
  47. CloudFront - Content delivery network (CDN).
  48. WAF (Web Application Firewall) - Web application security.
  49. Shield - DDoS protection service.
  50. GuardDuty - Threat detection service.
  51. Macie - Data protection service.
  52. Inspector - Security assessment service.
  53. IAM (Identity and Access Management) - Access control service.
  54. KMS (Key Management Service) - Encryption key management.
  55. Secrets Manager - Service for managing secrets.
  56. Cognito - Identity management for web and mobile apps.
  57. Artifact - Compliance and audit service.
  58. Security Hub - Unified security and compliance center.
  59. Control Tower - Governance and compliance service.
  60. Trusted Advisor - Best practices advisory service.
  61. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) - Load balancing service.
  62. Elastic IP - Static IP addresses.
  63. Resource Groups - Organizing AWS resources.
  64. Tags - Metadata for AWS resources.
  65. Cost Explorer - Cost management tool.
  66. Budgets - Cost tracking and alerts.
  67. Organizations - Multi-account management service.
  68. Marketplace - Store for software running on AWS.

Azure Terminology

  1. Azure Regions - Geographical areas with data centers.
  2. Availability Zones - High-availability offerings within a region.
  3. Resource Groups - Logical grouping of Azure resources.
  4. Azure Portal - Web-based management interface.
  5. Azure CLI - Command-line tool for managing Azure resources.
  6. Azure PowerShell - PowerShell module for managing Azure resources.
  7. Azure Resource Manager (ARM) - Deployment and management service.
  8. Virtual Machines (VMs) - Compute instances.
  9. App Service - PaaS for hosting web apps.
  10. Functions - Serverless compute service.
  11. Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Managed Kubernetes service.
  12. Container Instances (ACI) - Running containers without managing VMs.
  13. Batch - Managed batch processing service.
  14. Service Fabric - Microservices platform.
  15. Virtual Network (VNet) - Isolated network environment.
  16. Load Balancer - Network load balancing.
  17. Application Gateway - Web traffic load balancer.
  18. Traffic Manager - DNS-based traffic load balancer.
  19. ExpressRoute - Private network connection to Azure.
  20. Storage Account - Storage services container.
  21. Blob Storage - Object storage service.
  22. File Storage - Managed file shares.
  23. Disk Storage - Persistent disk storage.
  24. Queue Storage - Message queuing service.
  25. Table Storage - NoSQL key-value store.
  26. Cosmos DB - Globally distributed, multi-model database.
  27. SQL Database - Managed relational database.
  28. SQL Data Warehouse - Scalable data warehouse service.
  29. Data Lake Storage - Scalable storage for big data analytics.
  30. Synapse Analytics - Integrated analytics service.
  31. HDInsight - Big data analytics service.
  32. Data Factory - Data integration service.

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