Cloud Nomenclature

When people start talking about the cloud, they quickly start dropping in jargon terms. Sometimes they use multiple terms in the same sentence and it quickly becomes hard to understand when you aren’t familiar with the cloud providers. Even if you are familiar with one particular provider, other providers use different terms for their equivalent service. I think AWS is particularly bad for their naming which often aren’t intuitive. So when people start talking about Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53 and Redshift; it’s hard to grasp what the hell they are talking about.

Here’s an example of equivalent services by four different cloud providers.