Cloud architecture bingo
Exercise and reference answers
- Clues and terms
- Clue
- A person or organisation taking part in a cloud process.
- Item
- Actor
- Clue
- Acquires and uses cloud products and services.
- Item
- Consumer
- Clue
- The purveyor of cloud products and services.
- Item
- Provider
- Clue
- The intermediate between consumer and provider.
- Item
- Broker
- Clue
- Independently assesses operations, performance, security.
- Item
- Auditor
- Clue
- Responsible for transferring the data itself.
- Item
- Carrier
- Clue
- Combining several services into one new service.
- Item
- Aggregation
- Clue
- Like aggregation, but the services are not fixed.
- Item
- Arbitrage
- Clue
- Used by PaaS consumers, hidden from SaaS consumers.
- Item
- Middleware
- Instructions
- Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
Explanation
_Source: NIST SP 500-292, 'NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture'_