Overview - Cloud Feature Terms

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Overview of cloud feature terminology which could be important for a laaS gateway and management integration.

Feature
Geography	Geography	Geography	Geography
Availability Zone	Availability Zone	Availability Zone	Availability Zone
Network	VPC	VNET	VPC-Cloud virtual network
Subnet	Subnet	Subnet	Subnet Network
Recources Managment	Across specific account	Across specific Subscription	Global, Regional and Zone specific recources
Virtual Machine (VM)	Instance	Virtual Machine	Virtual Machine Instance
Image Type Format	AMI	VM Images	Public / Private / Custom Image
Public IP Addresses	Public / Elastic IP	Basic / Standard IP	Ephemeral / Static external IP
Load Balancing	Application / Network / Classic Load Balancer / ELB	Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway	External Network and HTTP Load Balancing, Internal Load Balancing
Native Security / Security Groups	Security Groups / NACL	Network Security Group (NSG)	Compute Engine Firewall Rules
Scalable compute instances (servers)	Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)	Azure VM	Compute Engine
Domain Name System (DNS)	Route 53	Azure DNS or Traffic Manager	Cloud DNS
Internet Gateway	IGW	-	-
Network Address Translation (NAT)	NAT Gateways	NAT Gateways	Cloud NAT
Network Peering	VPC Peering Connections	Virtual Network Peering	VPC Network Peering
Network Routes/Routing	Route Tables	Azure Virtual Network Routing	Routes
Region	Region	Region	Region
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)	Virtual Network (VNet)	Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
VPC Endpoints	VPC Endpoints	Virtual Network Service Endpoint	Private Services, Private Google Access and/or Shared VPC
VPN Gateway	Virtual Private Gateway	Azure VPN Gateway	Cloud VPN
Object Storage	S3 Buckets	Blob Storage	Cloud Storage
Identity and Access Management (IAM)	Identity Access Management (IAM)	Azure Role-Based ACL (RBAC) or Azure AD	Cloud IAM
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	Cloudfront	Azure CDN	Cloud CDN or CDN Interconnect
Autoscaling	Auto-scaling group	VM Scale Sets	Compute Engine Autoscaler
API endpoints	API Gateway	API Management	Cloud Endpoints

API endpoints:
Single entryway that allows multiple APIs or microservices to act cohesively.

Autoscaling:
Scales resources (of a group) up or down based on usage and rules.

Availability Zone (AZ):
Distinct locations (within regions) where resources are housed - designed to be isolated from failures in other AZs.

Compute Instances:
Scalable compute instances (servers)

Content Delivery Network (CDN):
Global network that delivers content based on the geographic locations of the user.

Domain Name System (DNS):
Naming database in which internet domain names are located and translated into IP addresses.

Identity and Access Management (IAM):
Manage access to cloud services and resources securely.

Internet Gateway:
VPC component that allows communication between instances in VPCs and the internet.

Load Balancing:
Pushes traffic (in a balanced way) across multiple targets in multiple AZs.

Network Address Translation (NAT):
Enable outbound internet traffic from instances in a private subnet.

Network Peering:
A networking connection between two VPCs that enables the routing traffic between them using private IP addresses.

Network Routes/Routing:
A set of rules that are used to determine where network traffic from subnets and/or gateways are directed.

Object Storage:
Scalable, highly available storage for objects.

Region:
Worldwide locations where resources are hosted.

Security Groups:
Contains a list of security rules that allow or deny network traffic to resources.

Subnet:
Logical subdivision of an IP network. Can be private or public.

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC):
A logically isolated section of the cloud where you can launch resources.

VPC Endpoints:
Privately connects VPC to other cloud and endpoint services.

VPN Gateway:
Private connection to VPCs.