Year: 2026

A golden path is a recommended, pre-built workflow or template that makes it easy for developers to follow best practices by default.

Platform as a product applies product management principles to internal developer platforms, treating developers as customers.

Developer experience encompasses all interactions developers have with tools, processes, and systems, impacting productivity and satisfaction.

Cloud cost optimization is the ongoing process of reducing cloud spending while maintaining or improving performance and reliability.

A NAT gateway enables instances in private subnets to access the internet while preventing inbound connections.

Spot instances are unused cloud compute capacity available at steep discounts, reclaimable with short notice.

FinOps brings financial accountability to cloud spending by combining engineering, finance, and business teams.

Multi-cloud uses services from multiple cloud providers to avoid vendor lock-in and improve resilience.

A service catalog is a centralized registry of all services, APIs, and components with ownership and health information.

AWS CloudFormation provisions and manages AWS resources through declarative JSON or YAML templates.