Cloud Event

Definitions

1. An event emitted by a cloud service to signal that something meaningful has happened, such as a file upload, instance change, message arrival, or deployment state transition. Cloud events are commonly used to trigger serverless workflows, automation, and loosely coupled integrations.

   In plain English: An event generated by a cloud service when something important happens.

   Example: "The thumbnail worker subscribed to a cloud event fired whenever a new object landed in the uploads bucket."

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• Serverless
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• Virtual Machine
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