High Availability

The ability to keep services up and running

Disaster Recovery for long periods of time, while experiencing
little to no downtime.
The ability to recover from a cloud
service outage. Cloud services
disaster recovery should happen
quickly through automation. Scalability
The ability to increase or decrease
resources for a given workload. You
can add resources to service a
Key Terms to workload (scale out), or add additional
Know for AZ-900 capabilities to handle increases in
demand (scale up).
Cloud services feature
many terms and
Predictive Cost concepts, some of Elasticity
which are outlined and
The ability to predict what costs explained here. The ability to automatically or
will be incurred for a particular dynamically increase or
cloud service or offering. decrease resources as
necessary.

Fault Tolerance Agility

The ability to remain up & running even if a The ability to react quickly. Cloud services can
component or service is no longer functioning. allocate and deallocate resources quickly.