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Basic Concepts and Terminology

This section establishes a set of basic terms that represent the fundamental concepts and aspects pertaining to the notion of a cloud and its most primitive artifacts.

This section covers the following topics:

  • Cloud
  • IT Resource
  • On-Premise
  • Scaling
  • Cloud Service
  • Cloud Service Consumer

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