Glossary
Review the definitions for terms used across Cloudflare’s Durable Objects documentation.
| Term | Definition |
| alarm | A Durable Object alarm is a mechanism that allows you to schedule the Durable Object to be woken up at a time in the future. |
| Durable Objects | Durable Objects is a globally distributed coordination API with strongly consistent storage. |
| migration | A Durable Object migration is a mapping process from a class name to a runtime state. Initiate a Durable Object migration when you need to:
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