Glossary of Terms

Don’t get lost with your head in the cloud. Use this A to Z cloud computing glossary to understand many of the most common cloud computing terms, acronyms, and phrases.

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

A
- Active Archive
- Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS)
- API Tools
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)

B
- Backend as a Service (BaaS)
- Backup as a Service
- Big Data Defined
- Bottomless Cloud

C
- Cloud Architect
- Cloud Backup
- Cloud Bursting
- Cloud Computing
- Cloud Computing Elasticity
- Cloud Data Center
- Cloud Engineer
- Cloud Lock-In
- Cloud Management Platform (CMP)
- Cloud Migration
- Cloud NAS
- Cloud Operating System (Cloud OS)
- Cloud Portability
- Cloud Provisioning
- Cloud Storage 2.0
- CloudOps (Cloud Operations)
- Cold Storage
- Content Delivery Network (CDN)

D
- Data Archiving
- Data Lake
- Data Portability
- DevOps
- Digital Transformation
- Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

E
- Edge Computing
- Egress Charges
- Exabyte

G
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

H
- Hot Storage
- Hybrid Cloud

I
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- Internal Cloud
- Internet of Things (IoT)

L
- Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Storage
- Load Balancing

M
- Machine Learning
- MSPs (Managed Service Providers)
- Multi-Cloud Strategy

N
- Network Attached Storage (NAS)

O
- On-Premises (on-prem)
- Open-Source Cloud Computing

P
- PaaS
- Petabyte
- Private Cloud
- Public Cloud

R
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

S
- Scalability
- Software as a Service (SaaS)

T
- Tape-to-Cloud Storage
- Tiered Storage System

U
- User Interface (UI)

V
- Vertical Cloud
- Virtualization

W
- What is a Data Archive?

X
- XaaS (Anything-as-a-Service)