The number of technologies and terms thrown around in the cloud space is mind boggling. Here's a catalog of the most common terms you might come across.

- 12 Factor
- 12F
- Bare Metal
- BeyondCorp
- Cloud Center
- Cloud Framework
- Cloud Operating System (OS)
- Cloud Platform
- Cloud Standards
- Cloud Technology
- Cluster
- Containers as a Service (CaaS)
- Continuous Delivery
- CD
- Continuous Integration
- CI
- Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
- CD/CD
- Encryption
- Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
- FUD
- Goals, Strategies, Objectives, Tactics
- GOST
- Hardware as a Service
- HaaS
- Identity Aware Proxy
- IAP
- Intracloud
- Key Performance Indicators
- KPI
- Kibana
- Kubernetes
- k8s
- LAMP
- Linux
- Micro Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Multi-tenancy
- MySQL
- Nagios
- On-call
- On-Call Engineer
- OCE
- OpenStack
- Pingdom
- Platform as a Service
- PaaS
- Portability
- Private Cloud
- Public Cloud
- Scheduler
- Service Level Agreement
- SLA
- Slack
- Synthetic Monitoring
- Unit Test
- Vendor Lock-In
- Vertical Cloud
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- Vice President of Engineering
- VPE