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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:

A Provider Implementation may consume Platform Specific Information such as:

A Provider Implementation differs from the provider organization:

A Provider Implementation also differs from Platform Independent Information:

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:

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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