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Cloud Terminology


Cloud Terminology 

Hi Guys, Before moving forward to learn Azure Cloud. We have to keep in mind below given Cloud Termenology which will help you to understand simple meaning of  these terms in Cloud. 

This list will be updated as we will find any term that should be shared with you guys.

  • Compute
  • SAAS- Software as a Service
  • PAAS- Plateform as a Service
  • IAAS- Infrastructure as a Service
  • Availability
  • HA- High Availability
  • Scalability
  • Elasticity
  • Agility- Services On Demand without Human Interaction.
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Disaster Recovery
  • CapEx
  • OpEx
  • Availability Set
  • Region- Each region is paired with another region. Microsoft provided recently to change the region or certain services.
  • Geography- There are 5 Geography like Americas, Europe ,Asia Paciffic, Middle East and africa. It helps to handle data policies.
  • Regional pair
  • Availability Zone- Each Region has a zone but  Not All region have multiple zone.
  • Fault Domain
  • Update Domain
  • Virtual Machine 
  • Resource- Like VM, Storage, load balancer etc.
  • Resource Group- It is a logical container of Resources. it helps in central monitoring of resource and also help in categorization of your selected resources like production resource group, dev resource group, UAT resoruce group etc. And also helps in pricing.
  • Subscription
  • Management Group
  • Virtual Network
  • SubNet
  • ARM Template- It is used to create resources. It is set of code lines.
  • Azure Blueprint- Provides addition protection in Azure  to make changes in resources. it is supported on the top of ARM Template.
  • Functions
  • CDN- Content Delivery Network
  • Resource Tags- It is for taxonomey and Tag is nothing but metadata of the resource. Bill also can be segregated  by grouping through tag.
  • Azure Monitor
  • Azure Service Health
  • Trust Center- It is portal from which you can check microsoft policies for your data Security, Privacy, Compliance etc.

  • Service Trust Portal

  • Azure Firewall(Application rules, Network rule)

  • Azure Distributed Denial of service protection (DDoS)

  • Network Security Group
  • Application Security Group

  • Azure Security Center

  • Azure Key Vault




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