| Acronym | Term | Definition |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services Linked Account | Government organizations leverage the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to serve citizens more effectively, accelerate scientific breakthroughs, reskill talent, attract the brightest minds, and scale their missions while saving time, effort, and resources. |
| ATO | Authorization to Operate | The official management decision given by a senior organizational official to authorize operation of an information system and to explicitly accept the risk to organizational operations (including mission, functions, image, or reputation), organizational assets, individuals, other organizations, based on the implementation of an agreed-upon set of security controls. |
| BYOL | Bring Your Own Licence | BYOL means that a client is bringing a license into their cloud tenancy from another Government of Canada contract, where Supply Chain Integrity and terms and conditions are already completed and negotiated. |
| Business Electronic Intake Form | Science Program Intake Form (with Cloud Intake). Form to procure relevant details to request help from the Science Program | |
| CSP | Cloud Service Provider | There are 8 CSPs under the Cloud Framework Agreement through which services and/or products can be procured. CSPs include Amazon Web Services AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and, ThinkOn. |
| CP | Contingency Plan | A contingency plan is a course of action designed to help an organization respond effectively to a significant future incident, event or situation that may or may not happen |
| CI/CD | Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery | Continuous integration is focused on automatically building and testing code, as compared to continuous delivery, which automates the entire software release process up to production |
| DSE | Designated Support Engineer | The DSE is an assigned product specialist who serves as a point of contact to assist Customer with its technical support experience and provides technical support triage to help resolve identified product issues. |
| GCP | Google Cloud Project | The people of Canada have become accustomed to convenient, easy to use, digital services in their daily lives. The recent pandemic has placed Government organizations under increased pressure to deliver more convenient and faster services, but often under financial constraints and with legacy systems. Google Cloud is here to help; solving is in our DNA. Let’s put that to work for you. |
| Guardrails | Guardrails ensure that departments and agencies are implementing a preliminary baseline set of controls within their cloud-based environments. These minimum guardrails are to be implemented within the Government of Canada GC-specified initial period for example, 30 days upon receipt of enrollment under the GC secure Cloud Services Framework Agreement. | |
| IaaS | Infrastructure as a Service | An online service that provides high-level APIs Application Programming Interface used to dereference various low-level details of underlying network infrastructure like physical computing resources, location, data partitioning, scaling, security, and backup. |
| Azure | Microsoft Azure – Subscription | Microsoft offers various configurations of cloud services to meet the needs of government organizations, including hybrid environments, enabling you to modernize your legacy infrastructure in a flexible way that works best for you. We have a comprehensive set of compliance offerings, with 90 compliance certifications to help governments comply with industry-specific requirements |
| PaaS | Platform as a service | PaaS is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an application. |
| Marketplace | Cloud Marketplace | A cloud marketplace is an online storefront operated by a cloud service provider. It may be used as configured machine images (CIS)/ hardened machines or different OS's for example. The market place can be 3rd party or the CSP. Microsoft for example has Cloud Cycle for HPC and a few other things that are paid outside the regular service. It provides customers with access to software applications and services that are built on, integrate with or complement the cloud provider's offerings. A marketplace typically provides customers with native cloud applications and approved apps created by third-party developers. Applications from third-party developers not only help the cloud provider fill niche gaps in its portfolio and meet the needs of more customers, but they also provide the customer with peace of mind by knowing that all purchases from the vendor's marketplace will integrate with each other smoothly |
| Protected B | Protected B applies to information or assets that, if compromised, could cause serious injury to an individual, organization, or government. | |
| RIs | Reserved Instances | RIs are a way to reserve capacity and use it for specific Virtual Machine sizes or storage purposes. |
| SBDA | Science Based Departments and Agencies | For Science Based Departments and agencies the department/agency is dedicated exclusively to scientific research, a good example being the National Research Council Canada. In other cases the organization conducts scientific research within the framework of a much larger mandate, such as the transportation research undertaken by the Transportation Development Centre in Montreal which occurs as part on the general transportation regulatory function of Transport Canada. |
| SSO | Secure Sign On | Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication method that enables users to securely authenticate with multiple applications and websites by using just one set of credentials. |
| SA&A | Security Assessment and Authorization SA&A | Security Assessment and Authorization (SA&A) is the process of obtaining and maintaining a management decision to authorize operation of an information system or a service and to explicitly accept the residual risk of an agreed-upon set of security controls, and the results of continuous security assessment |
| SPIR | Science Program Intake Request | A unique Id assigned through the Science Program Intake process |
| SWB | Service Workbench AWS | Service Workbench on AWS is a cloud solution that enables IT teams to provide secure, repeatable, and federated control of access to data, tooling, and compute power that researchers need. With Service Workbench, researchers no longer have to worry about navigating cloud infrastructure |
| SSC-SP | Shared Service Canada - Science Program | SSC created the Science Program (SP) to support GC priorities on modernizing federal science in Canada, by enabling scientists to deliver on their respective mandates, with improved digital infrastructure and services to meet the unique needs of science. SP will do this by: developing and piloting enterprise solutions and services for the federal science community, while serving as an advocate for the unique nature of IT requirements for science partnering with Laboratories Canada, to deliver on the PSPC led science infrastructure initiative continuing and enhancing science collaboration with the federal science community and external stakeholders |
| SaaS | Software as a service | SaaS is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. It is sometimes referred to as "on-demand software." |
| Technical Electronic Intake Form | Science Program Technical Intake is used by the SSC's Science Program's Cloud team to assist with cloud implementation. Please have your Cost Center as it is used for documenting your environment. You will have access to a basic cloud environment once your request is processed. | |
| Tenancies | A dedicated and trusted instance of Azure Active Directory that is automatically created when your organization signs up for a Microsoft cloud service subscription, such as Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Intune, or Microsoft 365. | |
| WET | Web Experience Toolkit | Web Experience Toolkit ( WET ) includes reusable components for building and maintaining innovative websites that are accessible, usable, and interoperable. These reusable components are open source software and free for use by departments and external Web communities |
| Subscription | What is a subscription accounts and projects? | Subscription Account means a type of Client account where a monthly fee is payable for a specified period of time and within agreed allowances. A subscription is a signed agreement between a supplier and customer that the customer will receive and provide payment for regular products or services |
| Oxygen | What is Oxygen | Oxygen is the science programs Microsoft Azure Tenant. A cloud tenant is a logical partition within a cloud computing environment, such as a public or private cloud, that is used to isolate and secure resources for a specific organization or group of users. |
| Production | What is Production environment? | A production environment is where the latest versions of software, products, or updates are pushed live to the intended users. Think of it as a final phase of production. This is the environment where the end user can see, experience, and interact with the new product. |
| ID | Acronym | Term | Definition |
| 29 | CPMSD - Glossary | · Agent · Anything as a Service · Approved Products · Broker Fees · Chief Information Officer · Cloud Access Security Broker · Cloud Brokering Service · Cloud Brokering Services Operations · Cloud Centre of Excellence · Cloud Playbook · Cloud Product Management & Services Directorate · Cloud Services Information Form · Competition · Contractor · Data sovereignty · Evaluation Phase · Financial Coding · Framework Agreement · Framework Agreement Thresholds · Government of Canada Cloud Brokering Service Portal · Government of Canada Cloud Operating Model · Microsoft Enterprise Agreement · National Security Exception · Partners · Procurement Vendor Relations · Product · Protected B Cloud Request · Quote · Requirements Confirmation Request · Reseller · Secure Cloud Enablement and Defence · Secure Cloud to Ground · Service Orders · Shared Services Canada · Supply Chain Integrity · Treasury Board Secretariat · Usage · Usage Profiles |
https://gc-cloud-services.canada.ca/s/article/Cloud-Brokering-Services-Glossary-V1?language=en_US#A |