Year: 2026

Auto scaling automatically adjusts compute resources based on demand, scaling up during traffic spikes and down during quiet periods.

A load balancer distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers to ensure no single server is overwhelmed, improving availability and performance.

Cloud-native is an approach to building and running applications that fully exploits cloud computing advantages like scalability and resilience.

Amazon S3 is a highly scalable object storage service that stores and retrieves any amount of data from anywhere on the internet.

AWS IAM controls who can access which AWS resources and what actions they can perform.

AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that runs your code in response to events without requiring you to provision or manage servers.

AWS VPC is a logically isolated virtual network within AWS that gives you full control over IP addressing, subnets, routing, and security.

Canary deployment gradually rolls out changes to a small subset of users before expanding to the entire production environment.

Blue-green deployment runs two identical environments, allowing instant switching between the current and new version with zero downtime.

HashiCorp Vault is a secrets management platform that securely stores, accesses, and manages sensitive data like API keys and certificates.