Bare metal server – a physical server that can only be utilized by one customer at a time.
CO2e – Carbon dioxide equivalent.
CPU – Central Processing Unit.
CUR – Cost and Usage Report.
GWP – Global Warming Potential.
HDD – Hard Disk Drive.
Impact – the amount of CO2e generated by an object or process; its global warming potential.
Instance – AWS’s term for a virtual machine in a cloud computing platform.
Network Storage – A storage volume processed by a specialized storage server.
Onboard Storage – A storage volume processed by drives associated with an instance.
RAM – Random Access Memory.
SSD – Solid State Drive.
Switch – A device that communicates data between other devices.
vCPU – virtual Central Processing Unit.
Virtual Machine – A software emulation of a physical computer system, used in the cloud to divide computing resources between customers.
