Autoscaling
Autoscaling automatically adjusts compute capacity to match demand — adding instances when traffic spikes and removing them when it drops. Combined with per-second billing, it lets…
CDN
A Content Delivery Network caches your static and dynamic content on servers distributed across dozens or hundreds of points of presence, so users fetch data from a nearby edge ins…
Disaster Recovery
Cloud disaster recovery uses replicated infrastructure in second or third regions to survive site-level failures. Key metrics are RPO (how much data you can lose) and RTO (how fast…
FinOps
FinOps is the operating discipline that unites finance and engineering around cloud spending: tagging standards, budget alerts, unit-economics dashboards and showback by team. Orga…
IaaS
Infrastructure as a Service delivers raw computing resources — virtual machines, storage and networking — on demand. Instead of buying servers, you rent capacity by the hour or sec…
Kubernetes
Kubernetes (K8s) is the de facto standard for orchestrating containers: it schedules workloads across a cluster, self-heals failed processes, rolls out updates gradually and scales…
Object Storage
Object storage keeps data as discrete objects in a flat namespace, each with metadata and a unique identifier, rather than in files or blocks. It scales to exabytes, is accessed ov…
PaaS
Platform as a Service abstracts away servers entirely: you deploy code or containers and the provider runs the runtime, scaling, patching and networking under the hood. Managed dat…
SaaS
Software as a Service is finished application software delivered over the internet and billed per seat or per use. Email, CRM and collaboration suites are classic examples. In the…
VPC
A Virtual Private Cloud is your own logically isolated network inside a shared public cloud. You define subnets, route tables, firewalls and VPN gateways, connecting to on-premises…