When considering all IaaS providers as a whole, their vocabulary is somewhat disjointed. pkgcloud attempts to overcome this through a unified vocabulary. Note that all Database providers use the same vocabulary: database.
| pkgcloud |
OpenStack |
Joyent |
Amazon |
Azure |
Rackspace |
DigitalOcean |
HP |
| Server |
Server |
Machine |
Instance |
Virtual Machine |
Server |
Droplet |
Server |
| Image |
Image |
Dataset |
AMI |
Image |
Image |
Image |
Image |
| Flavor |
Flavor |
Package |
InstanceType |
RoleSize |
Flavor |
Size |
Flavor |
| pkgcloud |
OpenStack |
Amazon |
Azure |
Rackspace |
| Container |
Container |
Bucket |
Container |
Container |
| File |
StorageObject |
Object |
Blob |
File |