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Cloud Native Architectures

By : Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, Piyum Zonooz
Book Image

Cloud Native Architectures

By: Tom Laszewski, Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, Piyum Zonooz

Overview of this book

Cloud computing has proven to be the most revolutionary IT development since virtualization. Cloud native architectures give you the benefit of more flexibility over legacy systems. To harness this, businesses need to refresh their development models and architectures when they find they don’t port to the cloud. Cloud Native Architectures demonstrates three essential components of deploying modern cloud native architectures: organizational transformation, deployment modernization, and cloud native architecture patterns. This book starts with a quick introduction to cloud native architectures that are used as a base to define and explain what cloud native architecture is and is not. You will learn what a cloud adoption framework looks like and develop cloud native architectures using microservices and serverless computing as design principles. You’ll then explore the major pillars of cloud native design including scalability, cost optimization, security, and ways to achieve operational excellence. In the concluding chapters, you will also learn about various public cloud architectures ranging from AWS and Azure to the Google Cloud Platform. By the end of this book, you will have learned the techniques to adopt cloud native architectures that meet your business requirements. You will also understand the future trends and expectations of cloud providers.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Cost monitoring


CSP platforms are inherently built to be cost transparent. There are no hidden fees or service charges that a customer can't see until they begin building on the platform. All pricing is posted and kept updated on the sites of the big three and is readily available to anyone interested in pricing out an architecture. As mentioned earlier, pricing calculators are available from the CSPs to help prospective customers price out an environment before building. This trend was first established by AWS when they released their initial cloud services and have remained true to this day.

 

In a similar vein, once systems have been built on the cloud, each CSP has native services to help monitor, drill down, and explore service consumption and their related costs. AWS's Billing & Cost Management Dashboard is a perfect example of these cloud native capabilities. Features such as AWS Cost Explorer allow users to drill down into monthly bills, look at historical spends, and anticipate...