Terms Flashcards

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Cloud Provider

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Company offering/providing cloud services (e.g. Microsoft, Amazon, Google)

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Virtual Machine

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An emulation of a computer

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Containers

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Provide a consistent, isolated execution environment for applications without the need for a guest operating systems

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Serverless computing

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Lets you run application code without creating, configuring, or maintaining a server. The application is broken into different separate functions that run when triggered by some action.

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Fault tolerance

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Redundancy is built into cloud services architecture so in case a component fails a backup component takes its place

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Capital expenditure (CapEx)

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Spending of money on physical infrastructure upfront and deducting it from your tax bill later on

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Operational expenditure (OpEx)

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  • Spending money on services/products now and being billed for them now. You can deduct these expense from you tax bill in the same year.
  • No upfront costs
  • Pay-per-use
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CLI

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Command-line interface

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GUI

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Graphical User Interface

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