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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

Express challenges, not requirements

Cloud is changing everything. Cloud allows us to buy a fraction of a resource needed for a fraction of time, consume it, and return it when finished. The length of time could be in seconds, hours, days, months, or years. The beauty is that we cannot align what we need to when we need it and directly match it to a specific challenge or situation. Thinking can now shift away from acquiring solutions then mapping as many problems as we can to it, to now expressing well-defined challenges and only acquiring what is needed, when it is needed, to satisfy the challenge and be able to give it back when we are done with it, eliminating much of the cost.

Expressing challenges also improves relationships and partnerships with those wanting to help solve them. Service providers listen and respond to global market needs every day. The challenge for a service...