Describes who looks after what in the cloud. Data, accounts and devices are always the customer's job; physical hosts, networks and datacentres are always Microsoft's; the remaining duties move depending on IaaS, PaaS or SaaS.
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Terms in this definition
- AGDLP
Nesting pattern: users go into global groups, which go into domain local groups, which receive the permissions. AGUDLP adds universal groups for forests with several domains.
- Job
A sequence of steps executed together on one agent or runner, or on the server for agentless work. While running, each occupies one of your parallel jobs.
- Physical
Describes the concrete, real-world parts that put a logical architecture into effect.
- IaaS
Infrastructure as a service: the customer runs and maintains virtual machines including their operating systems, for instance SQL Server hosted on an Azure VM.
- PaaS
Platform as a service, managed offerings such as Azure SQL Database and App Service in which the provider looks after the infrastructure and operating system.
- SaaS
A cloud model in which you consume a finished application that the provider operates, Microsoft 365 for instance. Nearly everything is the provider's job; you look after your data, users and devices.