Cloud Resource

Noun · Development

Definitions

  1. A provisioned unit of cloud infrastructure or service such as a VM, bucket, load balancer, function, queue, or database instance. Cloud resources are usually created and managed through APIs or infrastructure-as-code rather than by manual machine setup.

    In plain English: An individual piece of cloud infrastructure or service that has been provisioned.

    Example: "The deployment template created every cloud resource from VPC routes to object storage lifecycle rules in one reviewed change set."

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