Cloud & Systems
Concepts related to cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, identity, access, networking, and the technologies used to operate and protect modern computing environments.
12 terms
Cloud & Systems covers the infrastructure, platforms, networking, identity, and security foundations that keep modern applications available, scalable, and protected.
Terms in Cloud & Systems
12 terms
CDN
Content delivery network: geographically distributed network of servers that caches and delivers content from locations closer to users.
Cloud Computing
On-demand access to shared computing resources such as servers, storage, networking, and applications over a network.
Container
An isolated software environment that packages an application with the dependencies it needs to run consistently.
Encryption
The cryptographic process of transforming readable data into ciphertext so it cannot be understood without the appropriate means to decrypt it.
Kubernetes
An open-source platform for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications across clusters of computers.
Load Balancer
A system that distributes incoming network traffic across multiple servers or application instances.
MFA
Multi-factor authentication: an authentication method that requires more than one distinct type of factor before access is granted.
OAuth
An authorization framework that allows an application to receive limited access to another service without requiring the user to share their password with that application.
Object Storage
A storage model that keeps data as individually addressable objects with metadata rather than organizing it primarily as files in folders or blocks on a disk.
Serverless
A cloud application model in which the provider manages much of the underlying server infrastructure, scaling, and runtime operations for the developer.
SSO
Single sign-on: an authentication approach that lets one account and sign-in be used to access multiple applications.
Zero Trust
A security approach that continually evaluates access based on identity, device, context, and policy rather than assuming users or systems are trustworthy because of their network location.