Cloud, hosting and security

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• Data privacy

  Concept

  How a company collects, uses, stores and shares information about people.

• Hosting

  Concept

  Renting space on a server so your site or app can be reached on the internet at all hours.

• Compliance

  Concept

  Meeting the laws, regulations and standards that apply to a company.

• Deployment

  Concept

  Putting the latest version of your app onto the live servers where real users can reach it.

• Server

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  A computer that stays on and connected to the internet so it can run your app and answer requests…

• Data center

  Concept

  A building that houses the computers, storage and network equipment that run online services…

• Managed service

  Concept

  A service where the provider handles the upkeep instead of the customer's own team.

• SOC 2

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  An examination of how a service company protects customer data.

• Encryption

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  Scrambling data with a key so only someone with the right key can read it.

• Cloud provider

  Concept

  A company that rents out computing services, such as servers, storage and databases, over the…

• Object storage

  Concept

  A cloud service for storing files such as images, videos and documents.

• Domain

  Concept

  The address people type to reach your site, such as example.com.

• Static site

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  A website made of fixed pages that look the same for every visitor.

• Backup

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  A copy of data kept so it can be recovered if the original is lost or damaged.

• Cloud

  Concept

  Computers and storage that you rent over the internet from a large provider, instead of owning the…

• Production

  Concept

  The live version of your app that real customers use.

• Vendor lock-in

  Concept

  Depending on one vendor so heavily that switching to another would cost a lot of time or money.

• DNS

  Concept

  Domain Name System.

• Serverless

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  A way to run code where the cloud provider sets up and looks after the servers.

• Terms of service

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  The legal agreement between a service and the people who use it.

• Environment

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  A separate copy of a system used for one purpose.

• Region

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  A geographic location where a cloud provider groups its data centers.

• Secrets

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  Passwords, API keys and other credentials that software needs to run.

• Uptime

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  The share of time a service is working and reachable.

• CDN

  Concept

  Content delivery network.

• Data governance

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  The rules and responsibilities for how an organization's data is collected, stored, used and…

• Hyperscaler

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  An informal name for the very largest cloud providers, which run huge fleets of data centers.

• Multi-factor authentication

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  A sign-in that asks for more than one kind of proof, drawn from something a person knows…

• SSO

  Concept

  Single sign-on.

• Tracking pixel

  Concept

  A tiny invisible image or snippet of code on a web page or email that reports back when someone…

• First-party tracking

  Concept

  Collecting analytics on your own website through your own systems, rather than sending visitor…

• Free tier

  Concept

  The part of a paid service that costs nothing, within set limits.

• Container

  Concept

  A package that holds an app together with everything it needs to run, so it behaves the same on a…

• Edge

  Concept

  Running code and storing data in many locations close to users, instead of in one distant data…

• Egress

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  Data leaving a cloud provider's network, for example when a visitor downloads a file.

• Observability

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  Being able to see what a running system is doing through its logs, metrics and traces, so a team…

• On-premises

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  Running software on servers an organization owns and keeps in its own building or data center…

• Scaling

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  Adding capacity so a system can handle more use.

• Zero-day vulnerability

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  A security flaw that attackers know about before the software's maker has a fix, so defenders have…

• 301 redirect

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  An instruction that sends visitors and search engines from an old web address to a new one…

• Access control

  Concept

  Rules about who can see or change what in a system.

• HTTPS

  Concept

  The secure version of the way browsers talk to websites.

• ISO/IEC 27001

  Concept

  An international standard for running an information security management system.

• Key rotation

  Concept

  Replacing passwords, API keys and other secrets on a schedule or after a possible leak, so an old…

• Multi-tenancy

  Concept

  One copy of a software system serving many customer organizations at once, with each one's data…

• Protected health information

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  Under US health privacy law (HIPAA), health information that can identify a person, such as a…

• Role-based access control

  Concept

  A way of managing access where permissions are given to roles, such as admin, editor or viewer…

• VPC

  Concept

  Virtual private cloud.

• Code signing

  Concept

  Attaching a digital signature to software so computers and app stores can confirm who made it and…

• Data lineage

  Concept

  A record of where a piece of data came from and every step that changed it along the way.

• Internet service provider

  Concept

  The company that provides an internet connection to a home, school or business.