cloud terms
194 glossary entries tagged cloud, listed alphabetically.
- "there is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer"
- active-active vs. active-passive
- Alpine Linux
- anycast
- App Connector
- App profile (ZCC)
- Application segment
- AS3Application Services 3 Extension
- attack surface
- audit trail
- autoscaling
- availability zone
- AWSAmazon Web Services
- bastion host
- blast radius
- block storage
- break-glass account
- brownout
- burn rate
- BYOIP
- Byzantine fault toleranceBFT
- C5Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (BSI)
- canary
- canary token
- CASB
- cattle, not pets
- CCI
- CDN
- CE (Customer Edge)Customer Edge node
- cgroups (control groups)
- Chaos Monkey
- circuit breaker
- cloud IAMIdentity and Access Management
- Cloud Security AllianceCloud Security Alliance (CSA)
- cloud VPN
- CNAPP
- cold-potato vs. hot-potato routing
- Concentration risk (internet infrastructure)
- conditional access
- configuration drift
- confused deputy
- consensus
- container
- control plane
- Correlated failure
- CSA STARCSA Security, Trust, Assurance and Risk registry
- CSPM
- CWPP
- dark launch
- Data centre operator
- data residency
- dedicated interconnect
- DLP
- drift detection
- east-west / north-south traffic
- edge computing
- egress cost
- egress fee
- egress filtering
- elastic IP
- ENI
- envelope encryption
- everything fails, all the time
- failover
- fault tolerance
- FedRAMPFederal Risk and Authorization Management Program
- five-tuple
- flow logs
- Forwarding profile
- graceful degradation
- gray failure
- greenfield vs. brownfield
- GSLB
- health check
- honeypot
- hot / warm / cold standby
- HSM
- hub-and-spoke
- hypervisor
- IaaS / PaaS / SaaS
- IAM
- idempotency key
- IMDS
- immutable infrastructure
- incast
- infrastructure as codeinfrastructure as code (IaC)
- internet gateway
- IPAM
- IRAPInformation Security Registered Assessors Program (Australia)
- ISO/IEC 27001ISO/IEC 27001 (Information Security Management System)
- ISO/IEC 27017ISO/IEC 27017 (cloud security controls)
- ISO/IEC 27018ISO/IEC 27018 (PII protection in the cloud)
- just-in-time access
- key rotation
- KMS
- KubernetesKubernetes (K8s)
- L4 vs. L7 load balancing
- landing zone
- leaf-spine
- Leslie Lamport
- lift and shift
- Linux namespaces
- LLMLarge Language Model
- Load balancer
- load balancing
- MCPModel Context Protocol
- metrics
- microsegmentation
- microservice
- Microtunnel
- MQTTMessage Queuing Telemetry Transport
- multi-tenancy
- NAT gateway
- network ACL (cloud)
- NewEdge
- NFV
- noisy neighbor
- object storage
- observability
- Paxos
- pod
- PoP
- Posture profile
- Prisma
- private DNS zone
- private endpoint / PrivateLink
- Private Service Edge
- Public Service Edge
- public vs. private subnet
- quorum
- Raft
- RAGRetrieval-Augmented Generation
- RBAC
- region
- region (cloud)
- replication
- reverse proxy
- route table (cloud)
- SASESecure Access Service Edge
- SBOM
- SD-WAN
- SDN
- secrets management
- security group
- Segment group
- serverless
- service account
- service control policy
- service mesh
- Session persistence (stickiness)
- sharding
- shared responsibility
- shared responsibility model
- shared VPC
- sidecar
- SIEM
- SLA
- SLOService Level Objective
- Slow start and connection draining
- snowflake server
- SOAR
- SOC 2System and Organization Controls 2
- split-brain
- spot instance
- SSESecurity Service Edge
- SSMA
- SSO
- SSRF
- Surrogate IP
- the CAP theorem
- the fallacies of distributed computing
- the Two Generals problem
- thundering herd
- tracing
- transaction
- transit gateway
- Trusted network
- underlay / overlay
- virtual appliance
- virtual machineVM
- VPC
- VPC peering
- VXLAN
- workload identity
- XDR
- you build it, you run it
- Z-Tunnel
- ZCC
- ZDX
- Zero Trust Exchange
- ZIA
- ZIdentity
- ZPA
- ZTNA