XML

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Definition

eXtensible Markup Language - a markup language for storing and transporting structured data. Like HTML but designed for data instead of web pages.

Real-World Example

Bank systems often exchange transaction data using XML format because it's both human-readable and machine-readable.

Cloud Provider Equivalencies

XML is an open, vendor-neutral data format (a W3C standard), not a cloud service. All major cloud providers support storing, validating, transforming, and processing XML using their general compute, storage, integration, and database services (for example: object storage for XML files, serverless functions for parsing, and API gateways for XML-based integrations).

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