Pilvepõhist

Pilvepõhist is an Estonian adjective form that means cloud-based. It is the inflected form of the base adjective pilvepõhine, which describes software, services, or infrastructure that are hosted on or delivered from cloud computing platforms rather than on local hardware. The term is commonly used in information technology to distinguish cloud-delivered solutions from on-premises systems.

In usage, pilvepõhist is employed to characterize various IT offerings and architectures. Examples include pilvepõhist tarkvara (cloud-based software), pilvepõhist arhitektuuri (cloud-based architecture), and pilvepõhist andmete töötlemist (processing of cloud-based data). The concept covers a range of deployment models, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), as well as hybrid configurations that rely on cloud components.

Grammatical notes: the base form is pilvepõhine, with pilvepõhist being one of its inflected forms used in certain grammatical cases. In practice, the choice of form depends on number, case, and definiteness of the noun it modifies.

Related terms and context: pilvepõhine is commonly used interchangeably in many contexts to denote cloud-based characteristics. The term is part of broader Estonian IT vocabulary describing cloud computing, data storage, and remotely hosted services, and it appears frequently in technical documentation, marketing, and policy discussions.