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Cloud Computing Glossary

Your comprehensive guide to cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering terminology.

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  4. 04OpenStack
  5. 05High Availability
  6. 06FinOps
  7. 07Usage-Based Billing

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  • Image

    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.

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  • Instance

    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.

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  • Instance Lifecycle

    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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