Infrastructure as Code

Cloud Migration

The process of moving data, applications, and workloads from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments.

Terraform

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

Disaster Recovery as a Service

A cloud computing model that enables the replication and recovery of infrastructure and data in the cloud.

Platform Engineering

The practice of building and maintaining internal developer platforms that provide self-service capabilities, standardised tooling, and golden paths for software delivery teams.

Internal Developer Portal

A centralised web interface that provides developers with self-service access to infrastructure, services, documentation, and templates within their organisation.

Strategies and practices for minimising cloud computing expenses while maintaining performance and functionality.

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

A communication method where messages are stored in a queue until the receiving application can process them.

Cloud computing model that delivers software applications over the internet on a subscription basis.

An infrastructure layer handling service-to-service communication in microservices, managing traffic, security, and observability.

A geographic area containing one or more data centres where cloud services are hosted.

A distributed network of servers that delivers web content to users based on their geographic location.

An approach to building applications that fully exploit cloud computing advantages including microservices, containers, dynamic orchestration, and continuous delivery.