Terminology

454 terms, tools, patterns and metrics an architect is expected to use precisely. Each one gets a short explanation of what it is, and — where it matters — what it is commonly confused with. Search filters as you type; the column headers sort.

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Kind Any concept166 practice107 pattern93 case-study26 tool26 protocol22 metric14

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Term	Kind	Topic	What it is
Connection Proxy RDS Proxy, PgBouncer	tool	Cloud Databases	A pooling layer between applications and a managed database that multiplexes many client connections onto a small number of database connections.
Global Traffic Management GSLB, Global Load Balancing	tool	Multi-Region Architecture	The layer that decides which region a given user reaches, using DNS, anycast or an edge network, and that performs regional failover.
Image Registry	tool	Containers	The store from which container images are pulled, and an under-appreciated availability and security dependency of every deployment and every autoscale event.
Kubernetes K8s	tool	Cloud Architecture	A container orchestrator that continuously reconciles the running state of a cluster towards a declared desired state.
Service Control Policy SCP, Azure Policy, Organization Policy	tool	Landing Zones	An organisation-level guardrail that limits what any identity in an account may do, regardless of the permissions granted within that account.