Provider Implementation

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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 Platform Specific Information such as:

• Resource identifiers
• Service names
• Image identifiers
• Machine types
• Regions
• Network identifiers
• Storage classes
• Credentials
• Provider-specific configuration values
• 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 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.

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

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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.

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.