Cloud

/ˌviː-piː-siː/

n. “A logically isolated virtual network in the cloud that allows secure control over networking and resources.”

VPC, short for Virtual Private Cloud, is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that lets users create a private, isolated section of the cloud. Within a VPC, you can define IP address ranges, subnets, routing tables, and network gateways, giving fine-grained control over how resources communicate and connect to the internet or other networks.

/ˌɛs-θriː/

n. “A scalable object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services for storing and retrieving data in the cloud.”

S3, short for Simple Storage Service, is a cloud storage solution offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It allows users to store and access unlimited amounts of data, ranging from documents and images to large datasets and backups, with high durability, availability, and security.

/iː-siː-tuː/

n. “A scalable virtual server service provided by Amazon Web Services for cloud computing.”

EC2, short for Elastic Compute Cloud, is a core service of Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows users to launch and manage virtual servers, known as instances, in the cloud. EC2 provides flexible computing capacity, enabling organizations to scale up or down based on demand without investing in physical hardware.

/ˌɑːr-diː-ˈɛs/

n. “The managed database service that takes care of the heavy lifting.”

/ˈtɛr.ə.fɔrm/

n. “Infrastructure described as intent, not instructions.”

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool created by HashiCorp that allows engineers to define, provision, and manage computing infrastructure using human-readable configuration files. Instead of clicking through dashboards or manually issuing commands, Terraform treats infrastructure the same way software treats source code — declarative, versioned, reviewable, and repeatable.

/ˈdeɪtəˌfləʊ/

n. “Move it, process it, analyze it — all without touching the wires.”

Dataflow is a managed cloud service designed to handle the ingestion, transformation, and processing of large-scale data streams and batches. It allows developers and data engineers to create pipelines that automatically move data from sources to sinks, perform computations, and prepare it for analytics, machine learning, or reporting.

/ˈklɑʊd ˌstɔːrɪdʒ/

n. “Your files, floating in someone else’s data center — safely, mostly.”

Cloud Storage refers to storing digital data on remote servers accessed over the internet, rather than on local disks or on-premises servers. These servers are maintained by cloud providers, who handle infrastructure, redundancy, backups, and security, allowing individuals and organizations to access, share, and scale storage effortlessly.

/ˌbɪg-ˈkwɪri/

n. “SQL at web-scale without breaking a sweat.”

BigQuery is Google Cloud Platform’s fully managed, serverless data warehouse. It allows users to run ultra-fast, SQL-based analytics over massive datasets without worrying about infrastructure provisioning, sharding, or scaling. Think of it as a playground for analysts and data engineers where terabytes or even petabytes of data can be queried in seconds.

/ˌdʒiː-siː-ˈpiː/

n. “Google’s playground for the cloud-minded.”

GCP, short for Google Cloud Platform, is Google’s public cloud suite that provides infrastructure, platform, and application services for businesses, developers, and data scientists. It’s designed to leverage Google’s expertise in scalability, networking, and data analytics while integrating seamlessly with services like BigQuery, AI, and Kubernetes.

/ˌoʊ-siː-ˈaɪ/

n. “The cloud playground for Oracle’s world.”

OCI, short for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, is Oracle’s enterprise-grade cloud platform designed to provide a full suite of infrastructure and platform services for building, deploying, and managing applications and workloads in the cloud. Think of it as Oracle’s answer to AWS, Azure, and GCP, but tailored with deep integration to Oracle’s ecosystem of databases, applications, and enterprise tools.