Application Programming Interface is a mechanism for controlling an application programmatically, typically from an external source without the need to use the user interface of the application.

Business continuity and disaster recovery is a term used to describe the combined planning and actions which will be enacted shortly after an incident (disaster recovery) and then, over a longer period (business continuity) to maintain the operational effectiveness of an organization.

Domain Name System is a distributed, hierarchical system for resolving domain names to IP addresses. It can also be used to resolve domain names to other “alias” domain names or return information about a domain.

Disaster recovery – see BCRD.

Organization virtual data center is a collection of compute resources made available to an organization user for the placement of workloads.

Provider virtual data center is a collection of similar compute capacity managed by the Cloud Provider from which Organization VDCs are allocated.

Uniform Resource Identifier is a compact sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource, typically in the form of a location or name.

Uniform Resource Locator is a member of a subset of URIs which contains the resource’s primary access mechanism (typically “http”, “https”, or similar).

Virtual data center is a representation of resources within a Cloud Provider platform.