====== Provider Implementation ======

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===== Discussion =====

A Provider Implementation realizes defined capabilities through the products, services, interfaces, resource types, and operational mechanisms supplied by a particular provider.

The provider may supply:

  * Cloud infrastructure
  * Hosting services
  * Compute services
  * Storage services
  * Network services
  * Identity services
  * Security services
  * Monitoring services
  * Data services
  * Messaging services
  * Platform services
  * Deployment interfaces

A Provider Implementation may consume [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:p:platform_specific_information|Platform Specific Information]] such as:

  * Resource identifiers
  * Service names
  * Image identifiers
  * Machine types
  * Regions
  * Network identifiers
  * Storage classes
  * Credentials
  * Provider-specific configuration values
  * [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:p:platform_specific_parameter|Platform Specific Parameters]]

A Provider Implementation differs from the provider organization:

  * The provider organization is the entity that supplies products or services
  * The Provider Implementation is the technical realization supplied by that entity

A Provider Implementation also differs from [[dido:99_annexes:annex-b-terms-and-definitions:p:platform_independent_information|Platform Independent Information]]:

  * Platform Independent Information describes implementation-neutral intent
  * A Provider Implementation realizes that intent through provider-specific technologies and mechanisms

Multiple Provider Implementations may realize the same platform-independent specification through different Platform Specific Information.

===== Definition =====

//implementation that realizes defined capabilities through the products, services, interfaces, and operational mechanisms supplied by a particular provider//

===== Source =====

Dido Solutions, Inc. and Jackrabbit Consulting, Inc.

===== Note =====

A Provider Implementation may be:

  * Public cloud
  * Private cloud
  * Community cloud
  * Hybrid cloud
  * On-premises infrastructure
  * Hosted infrastructure
  * Virtualized infrastructure
  * Physical infrastructure

The term does not imply that the provider supplies every component used by the implementation.

A Provider Implementation may incorporate third-party products, open-source components, external services, or customer-managed resources.

Conformance of one Provider Implementation does not establish conformance of another Provider Implementation.

===== Example =====

One Provider Implementation realizes a platform-independent compute, storage, and networking specification through one cloud provider's virtual-machine, block-storage, virtual-network, and identity services. Another Provider Implementation realizes the same specification through corresponding services supplied by a different provider.

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