Information technology — Cloud computing — Common technologies and techniques

This document provides a description of a set of common technologies and techniques used in conjunction with cloud computing. These include:

— virtual machines (VMs) and hypervisors;

— containers and container management systems (CMSs);

— serverless computing;

— microservices architecture;

— automation;

— platform as a service systems and architecture;

— storage services;

— security, scalability and networking as applied to the above cloud computing technologies.