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