Terms starting with S

9 terms in Cloud

  • S3

    Cloud › Cloud storage

    S3 is the Amazon Simple Storage Service, a cloud object storage service whose HTTP API became the de facto standard for storing…

  • SaaS

    Cloud › Cloud fundamentals

    SaaS, or software as a service, is a cloud model in which a provider runs a complete application and customers use it…

  • Savings Plans

    Cloud › Cloud economics

    Savings Plans are cloud pricing agreements that trade a one- or three-year hourly spend commitment for discounted rates on eligible compute usage.

  • Security group

    Cloud › Cloud networking

    A security group is a stateful virtual firewall in cloud networking that allows or blocks traffic to instances by protocol, port and…

  • Serverless computing

    Cloud › Serverless

    Serverless computing is a cloud execution model in which the provider runs, scales and bills code per request, so teams never manage…

  • Service

    Cloud › Kubernetes

    A Service in Kubernetes gives a changing set of Pods one stable virtual IP address and DNS name and load-balances network traffic…

  • Spot instance

    Cloud › Cloud economics

    A spot instance is spare cloud compute capacity sold at a deep discount that the provider can reclaim at short notice when…

  • Storage bucket

    Cloud › Cloud storage

    A storage bucket in cloud storage is a named top-level container for objects that sets their location, access rules, lifecycle and versioning.

  • Storage class

    Cloud › Cloud storage

    A storage class in cloud storage is a tier that sets the price, availability and retrieval behavior of stored objects for a…