Learning about the Cloud can be complicated.

Especially for those without a technical background, learning the Cloud lingo takes some time. To help ease the process, we've put together a list of terms that you will likey hear during the process of migrating your applications to the Cloud. 

• Agility: The ability to rapidly create or change technology.
• Application Portfolio Teams (APT): Cross-functional, collocated teams, who move a suite of applications to the Could and manage them there.
• Automation: Removing manual processes and replacing with self-activating solutions.
• Disaster Recover (DR): The ability to restore data and functionality in the event of a service interruption.
• Environments: An electronic place where development and operations for an application happens. Production is considered an environment, and is where the end-user interacts with the application. “P minus 1” and “P minus 2” are common names for testing and development environments.
• Highly Available (HA): When a system is highly available, it has very little outage time.
• Migration: The act of moving something to the Cloud.
• Minimum Viable Product (MVP): The baseline set of features required for an application to function.
• Redundant: A copy of information that is quickly accessible, allowing an application to be highly available.
• Refactor: The act of completely rebuilding an application.
• Rehost (lift and shift): Using a software tool to copy an entire sever/application and move it directly into the Cloud with little to no changes.  
• Replatform: The act of rebuilding only the underlying infrastructure of an application.
• Replication: The creation of a copy of data in multiple places that allows an application to be redundant.
• Provisioning: Creating something new, usually a component of infrastructure – servers, databases, etc.