Identity and Access Management

Multi-Cloud

A strategy using services from multiple cloud providers to avoid vendor lock-in and optimise capabilities.

Hybrid Cloud

An IT architecture combining on-premises infrastructure with public and private cloud services.

Cloud Security

The set of policies, technologies, and controls deployed to protect cloud-based systems, data, and infrastructure.

Single Sign-On

An authentication scheme allowing users to log in once and gain access to multiple related systems.

OAuth

An open standard for token-based authentication and authorisation on the internet.

Cloud Database

A database service built, deployed, and accessed through a cloud platform, offering scalability and managed operations.

Reserved Instance

A cloud pricing model where users commit to a specific resource configuration for a term in exchange for discounted rates.

Cloud Governance

The policies, procedures, and tools for managing cloud resource usage, security, compliance, and costs.

Multi-Tenancy

A software architecture where a single instance serves multiple customers, with each tenant's data isolated and invisible to others.

Cloud Bursting

A configuration where an application runs in a private cloud and bursts into a public cloud when demand spikes.

Cloud-Native Database

A database designed from the ground up to operate in cloud environments with automatic scaling and high availability.

Serverless Database

A database service that automatically provisions, scales, and manages infrastructure on demand without manual server management.

The process of moving workloads back from public cloud environments to on-premises or private cloud infrastructure.

A platform for developing, shipping, and running applications in isolated containers with consistent environments.

Software that creates and manages virtual machines, allowing multiple operating systems to share a single hardware host.

A high-performance remote procedure call framework developed by Google using Protocol Buffers for serialisation.

Automatically adjusting compute resources based on current demand to maintain performance and optimise costs.

Cloud computing resources used exclusively by a single organisation, either on-premises or hosted by a third party.

An open-source infrastructure as code tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.

A cloud computing option that uses spare capacity at significantly reduced prices with the possibility of interruption.