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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

By : Kevin L. Jackson, Goessling
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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

By: Kevin L. Jackson, Goessling

Overview of this book

Cloud adoption is a core component of digital transformation. Scaling the IT environment, making it resilient, and reducing costs are what organizations want. Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions presents and explains critical cloud solution design considerations and technology decisions required to be made for deploying the right cloud service and deployment models, based on your business and technology service requirements. This book starts with the fundamentals of cloud computing and its architectural concepts. It then walks you through cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS), deployment models (public, private, community, and hybrid) and implementation options (enterprise, MSP, and CSP) to explain and describe the key considerations and challenges organizations face during cloud migration. Later, this book delves into how to leverage DevOps, Cloud-Native, and serverless architectures in your cloud environment and presents industry best practices for scaling your cloud environment. Finally, this book addresses in depth how to manage essential cloud technology service components, such as data storage, security controls, and disaster recovery. By the end of this book, you will have mastered all the design considerations and operational trades required to adopt cloud services, no matter which cloud service provider you choose.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Prologue
18
Hands-On Lab 1 – Basic Cloud Design (Single Server)
20
Hands-On Lab 3 – Optimizing Current State (12 Months Later)
21
Cloud Architecture – Lessons Learned
22
Epilogue

Data Security

The explosion of cloud computing and consumer IT means that your data, as well as data about you, can be virtually anywhere. This expanding concept of data mobility means that traditional security concepts, which focus in depth on infrastructure defense, no longer apply. Implementing security requirements associated with transitioning from an infrastructure-centric data security model to the data-centric cloud computing security model are challenging to every modern organization. As the cloud solution architect, however, your job focuses on how to address this issue without disrupting your end users' workflows. A data-centric security model ensures that the most important asset of the business—the data—is always protected.Having your data everywhere is also critical to the success of the cloud computing business model. A data-centric security solution...