# List of key terms

Please find following a list and descriptions of the most relevant terms.

<table><thead><tr><th width="195">Term</th><th>Definition</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Allocated capacity</td><td>Dedicated, fixed amount of storage space for one particular customer. Has to be covered by reserved capacity.</td></tr><tr><td>Channel partner</td><td>Either a managed service provider (MSP) or a value-added reseller (VAR). Entity is billed by Impossible Cloud. Can create end users and register deals.</td></tr><tr><td>Contract</td><td>Contracts are given out by the vendor to the channel partners or distributors, within the contract a reserved capacity is defined, which can then be used to allocate this to customers</td></tr><tr><td>Customer</td><td>Entity billed by a channel partner or a distributor or partner</td></tr><tr><td>Deal</td><td>Sales opportunity. Registration of deals/sales opportunities is required for any volume above 100TB or with special pricing.</td></tr><tr><td>Distributor</td><td>Entity selling to distributor partners. Interacts directly with Impossible Cloud.</td></tr><tr><td>End user</td><td>Individual person using Impossible Cloud Storage either via CLI or the Console as the root user. Belongs to an entity that is billed by a dedicated channel partner or in the case of an MSP by a dedicated distributor.</td></tr><tr><td>Partner</td><td>Channel partner who is operating underneath a distributor. Does not interact directly with Impossible Cloud.</td></tr><tr><td>Management console user</td><td>A user which logs into the management console. Belongs to a partner entity (distributor, channel partner or distributor partner). Based on the role assigned the management console user can view, edit and delete entities in the management console.</td></tr><tr><td>Pay-per-Use</td><td>Consumption-based pricing model, where customers pay for actual storage consumed with a minimum of 1TB.</td></tr><tr><td>Reserved capacity</td><td>Dedicated, fixed amount of storage space, where customers pay regardless of their actual consumption.</td></tr><tr><td>Storage account</td><td>A user which logs into the <a href="https://console.impossiblecloud.com/">Impossible Cloud Storage Console</a> and can utilise the S3 services. Each storage account has a <strong>Company</strong> name attribute associated with it.</td></tr><tr><td>Used capacity</td><td>Actual storage consumed by the customer. Is equal to the amount billed in a 'Pay-per-Use'-contract and lower or equal to reserved capacity in a 'reserved capacity'-contract.</td></tr></tbody></table>


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