Definition for Digital resource primitives

Digital resource primitives are defined as the low-level resources required for digital products & services to operate. They can be seen as the fuel that power digital software application. The digital resource primitives are:

• Compute (CPU cycles, GPU cycles, operations per second)
• Memory
• Storage
• Network capacity

Digital resource primitives are often accessed through Cloud infrastructure, also commonly referred to as Infrastructure-as-Service.

Other definitions

In the context of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s definition of cryptographic primitives:

A low-level cryptographic algorithm used as a basic building block for higher-level cryptographic algorithms (https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/cryptographic_primitive)