Terms Flashcards
Cloud Provider
Company offering/providing cloud services (e.g. Microsoft, Amazon, Google)
Virtual Machine
An emulation of a computer
Containers
Provide a consistent, isolated execution environment for applications without the need for a guest operating systems
Serverless computing
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.
Fault tolerance
Redundancy is built into cloud services architecture so in case a component fails a backup component takes its place
Capital expenditure (CapEx)
Spending of money on physical infrastructure upfront and deducting it from your tax bill later on
Operational expenditure (OpEx)
- 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
CLI
Command-line interface
GUI
Graphical User Interface