Glossary
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An image is a template file that contains a pre-configured operating system, software, and settings used to create instances in cloud hosting. It acts as a blueprint that determines what your virtual machine will run when it starts.
An instance is a virtual machine running on a cloud provider's infrastructure with its own operating system, CPU, memory, and storage that you can create, configure, and manage on demand.
Instance lifecycle refers to the sequence of states and transitions a virtual machine goes through from the moment it is created until it is permanently deleted, including active, stopped, paused, suspended, shelved, and error states.
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