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Architecting Cloud Computing Solutions

By : Kevin L. Jackson, Goessling
Book Image

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

Summary

NeBu Systems needed to revisit their transformation in progress and current deployment that has grown quickly. In this lab, price-to-performance became the key differentiator for nearly all the choices made.

These hands-on labs intentionally took a very infrastructure-centric view of the world. Infrastructure has long been ignored in favor of more sexy and endearing things such as applications. Applications are what users interact with. They are the things that are most often seen and commented on, not the infrastructure underneath.

Infrastructure is getting cheaper by the day. The race-to-zero is just beginning for compute. Network has been on its way for a while. Storage is also beginning the run. With infrastructure declining in price and the cost of management and operations rising exponentially, the cost of a mistake at the infrastructure level can be very costly...