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title: Glossary of Cloud Engineering Terms
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meta_desc: Cloud Engineering encompasses many technologies, tools, abbreviations, and abstractions. Here is a list of definitions for common cloud computing terms.
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Cloud Engineering encompasses a lot of technologies, tools, terms, abbreviations, and abstractions. To ease understanding, we’ve included a glossary of terms you may come across in practicing Cloud Engineering, both specific to Pulumi and broadly related to software development in this environment.