Cloud Terminology

• High availability means VMs can spin up fast to help process requests.
• Fault tolerance describes how Azure will ensure you have zero downtime for services provided by Azure.
• Disaster recovery uses time-to-recovery and recovery point metrics to recover from tornadoes, floods and more.
• Scalability refers to scaling out or scaling up.
• Elasticity is the ability to quickly increase or decrease computer processing and resources.
• Agility means to the ability to rapidly develop, test and launch software applications
• CapEx
• OpEx

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