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BYOIP

Bring Your Own IP, a cloud service capability that lets an organization advertise or use address space it owns through a cloud provider. It requires registry authorization, routing controls, and careful IPAM ownership tracking.

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Cloud DNS

DNS services delivered through a cloud control plane, including authoritative hosting, recursive resolution, private zones, traffic management, and security policy. The data plane may be provider-managed and globally distributed.

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Cloud IPAM

Address planning and lifecycle management integrated with cloud accounts, virtual networks, subnets, and interfaces. It often reconciles provider inventory with an enterprise source of truth.

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Instance address

An address associated with a cloud compute instance or virtual network interface. It may be private, public, ephemeral, static, primary, secondary, or translated depending on the provider.

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Private hosted zone

A cloud-managed authoritative zone visible only within associated virtual networks, accounts, or resolver endpoints. Connectivity and resolver rules determine who can query it.

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Tenant

An administrative partition for a customer, business unit, environment, or application. Tenants may have isolated permissions, zones, address spaces, VRFs, and policies.

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