Cloud Computing Abbreviations : List of Commonly Used Abbreviations

Cloud Computing Abbreviations are most commonly used on Internet Blog and News related websites than in Books. Here is a guide on Cloud Computing Abbreviations. Although probably we have published all the possible Cloud Computing Abbreviations in full form through various articles, this article specifically on Abbreviations can be worthy for any level of user.

Cloud Computing Abbreviations : Understanding The Standard and Colloquial usages

There are many Cloud Computing Abbreviations those are actually only used on the Internet World, either as a buzz word for marketing purpose, even some are not really related to Cloud Computing. However we have listed the most commonly used Cloud Computing Abbreviations list in this article.

List of Cloud Computing Abbreviations used

In this list of Cloud Computing Abbreviations, we will first list the Cloud Computing Abbreviations, provide the full form, a single line description or link to our own resource.

• IaaS : IaaS stands for Infrastructure as a Service
• PaaS : PaaS stands for Platform as a Service
• SaaS : SaaS stands for Software as a Service
• TaaS : Stands both for Tools as a Service and Testing as a Service
• XaaS or EaaS : Stands for Everything as a Service
• DaaS : Stands for Desktop as a Service and also Database as a Service
• AaaS : Stands for Authentication as a Service
• CaaS : Stands for Communication as a Service
• iPaaS : Proprietary terminology, does not fall among Standard Cloud Computing Abbreviations. Stands for Cloud Based Integration Platform as a Service.
• EC2 :  Proprietary terminology, does not fall among Standard Cloud Computing Abbreviations. Stands for Elastic Compute Cloud.

We have not listed Cloud Computing related Phrases those are very commonly used. We hope that this list along with links to the detailed article explaining these Cloud Computing Abbreviations will help many new users.

Quite obviously, there are many proprietary Cloud Computing Abbreviations which we have not listed here.