A database. To be clear though, it's usually a library plus a service. It could be library + sqlite etc though I guess. Look here for example, page 8: https://

A database. To be clear though, it's usually a library plus a service. It could be library + sqlite etc though I guess. Look here for example, page 8: https://aws-quickstart.s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-microfocus-amc-es/doc/micro-focus-enterprise-server-on-the-aws-cloud.pdf https://aws-quickstart.s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-microfocu... It's pretty amazing, big companies make these migrations on important systems. There are 10's (or 100's maybe) of billions of lines of COBOL still being deployed and companies move them into a cloud (ie aws etc, x86 + cloud services) environment for various purposes.