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Cloud provider

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCore term

In software engineering, cloud provider means: A company that owns large data centers and rents computing, storage, networking and other services to customers over the internet.

In Turkish: bulut sağlayıcı, bulut hizmet sağlayıcısı

How it is used

The three largest are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, sometimes called hyperscalers. Teams talk about choosing, switching and depending on a provider; 'vendor lock-in' is the worry of being stuck with one.

Example sentences

  1. Our cloud provider had a problem in one region, and three of our services went down.

  2. Before you pick a cloud provider, compare the prices of the services you'll actually use.

Common collocations

  • major cloud providers
  • switch cloud providers
  • vendor lock-in
  • public cloud provider
  • cloud computingRenting servers, storage, databases and other computing resources over the internet from a provider, instead of buying and running your own hardware.
  • regionA geographic area where a cloud provider has a group of data centers, such as Frankfurt or Ireland. You choose the region where your resources run.
  • managed serviceA cloud service where the provider handles setup, patching, backups and scaling, so you only use it and do not manage the servers underneath.
  • shared responsibility modelThe idea that security in the cloud is split: the provider protects the data centers, hardware and core services, and the customer protects their own data, settings and access.

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