Head in the Clouds
This 3-letter word is the name of Amazon's Cloud Provider service
EC2
This device in either a local or cloud based networks stops traffic by port number
Firewall
This refers to the daily process of copying data from one server to a separate location to ensure data integrity
Backups
Like the Easter Egg Coloring, this 4-letter acronym cloud computing model allows a third-party provider to delivers hardware and software tools to users over the internet
PaaS (Platform as a Service)
This 3-letter acronym is a Contractual agreement between a customer and a cloud service provider that defines roles and responsibilities regarding data protection and up time percentages
SLA (Service Level Agreement)
This color-based named is the cloud service provided by Microsoft
Azure
This 3-letter acronym describes a virtual network that most companies utilize to allow their clients to access internal resources when working remotely
VPN (Virtual Private Network)
Amount of data, over a period of time (normally seconds), that can be transmitted between two points.
Bandwidth
The 4-letter acronym software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the Internet
SaaS (Software as a Service)
This is the process of reviewing infrastructure to determine the financial impact of failure
Risk Management
This type of cloud refers to a cloud infrastructure that has been deployed in a companies' own data center
Private
This federated login allows a user to loign a single time and then passes the login credential for cloud-based applications
SSO (Single Sign On)
The 3-letter acronym for the point at which data can be recovered
RPO (Restore Point Objective)
This 4-letter acronym is a specialized version of SaaS that alllows a user to control Virtual Networks in a cloud
MaaS (Management as a Service)
The ability to quickly provision and de-provision resources
Elasticity (or Flexibility)
This cloud type is the a typical cloud type that you would find on the Internet
Public
This 3-letter acronym describes the ability of a cloud user to "carve off" a portion of a network to deploy cloud-based resources
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
The 3-letter acronym for the timeframe at which data can be recovered
RTO (Restore Time Objective)
The Software layer that allows physical devices to share their resources among virtual machines
Hypervisor
Like a high-rise aparment complex, Software in which multiple instances of one or many applications run in a shared environment
Multi-tenant
This cloud structure has elements that are deployed both internally in the company and by a 3rd party provider
Hybrid
This 3-letter acronym describes a user's desktop to be built entirely in the cloud
VDI (Virtual Desktop Interface)
This concept refers to both the possession of and responsibility for information
Data Ownership
Like Tupperware, this standard unit of software packages up code and all its dependencies so the application runs quickly and reliably from one computing environment to another
Container
An approach to cybersecurity in which a series of defensive mechanisms are layered in order to protect valuable data and information
Defense-In-Depth