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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

Adoption is optional – Culture

If you play in the middle of the road, you are eventually going to get run over. Change is hard; adopting change sometimes seems impossible. Cloud is something that goes much better with a firm commitment to it. It is not something to do halfway. You can't maybe, kinda, sorta your way into using cloud services. Cloud is a strategic change with very powerful economic levers alongside it. Cloud can transform enterprises in many ways. Cloud is something that you can start at your own pace. There is no reason to lift and shift everything at once. Hybrid strategies are among the safest, easiest to control, and cost-effective ways to beginning the cloud journey. Cloud journeys are not sprints; they do not need to be marathons either. Based on the real-time data, analytics, scenario planning, models, normalized data, and side-by-side comparisons...