Platform Specific Information expresses implementation details associated with a particular implementation platform.
Platform Specific Information may identify:
Platform Specific Information may result from transforming, mapping, or parameterizing Platform Independent Information for a selected Provider Implementation.
Platform Specific Information differs from Platform Independent Information:
Platform Specific Information also differs from environment-specific information:
The same information may be both platform-specific and environment-specific when its value depends on both the implementation platform and the target environment.
information that expresses implementation details associated with a particular implementation platform
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Platform Specific Information should remain distinguishable from the Platform Independent Information from which it derives.
Maintaining this distinction supports:
The term does not require a particular cloud provider, operating system, virtualization platform, container platform, deployment tool, or transformation technology.
A platform-independent specification requires a compute resource with defined characteristics for the processor, memory, and availability. Platform Specific Information identifies the provider machine type, region, image identifier, network interface, and storage class used to realize that resource.
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