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Flashcards by Ronak Sharma, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Ronak Sharma
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Advertising-based pricing model | A pricing model that offers services to customers at low or no cost, with the provider being compensated by advertisers whose ads are delivered to the consumer along with the service. |
| Amazon EC2 Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud Web service | It provides resizable computing capacity in the cloud so developers can enjoy great scalability for building applications. |
| Amazon S3 Amazon Simple Storage Services | Amazon’s cloud storage service. |
| Billing and service usage metering | You can be billed for resources as you use them. This pay-as-you-go model means usage is metered and you pay only for what you consume. |
| CDN – Content delivery network | A system consisting of multiple computers that contain copies of data, which are located in different places on the network so clients can access the copy closest to them. |
| Cloud | A metaphor for a global network, first used in reference to the telephone network and now commonly used to represent the Internet. |
| Cloud Application | S/w app that is never installed on a local machine — it’s always accessed over the Internet. The “top” layer of the Cloud Pyramid where “applications” are run and interacted with via a web-browser. Cloud Applications are tightly controlled, leaving little room for modification. Examples include: Gmail or SalesForce.com. |
| Cloud Arcs | Short for cloud architectures. Designs for software applications that can be accessed and used over the Internet. |
| Cloud as a service (CaaS) | A cloud computing service that has been opened up into a platform that others can build upon. |
| Pay as you go | A cost model for cloud services that encompasses both subscription-based and consumption-based models, in contrast to traditional IT cost model that requires up-front capital expenditures for hardware and software. |
| Microsoft Azure | Microsoft cloud services that provide the PaaS, allowing developers to create cloud applications and services. |
| Identity management | Managing personal identity information so that access to computer resources, applications, data, and services is controlled properly. |
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