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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By : Jeroen Mulder
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Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects - Second Edition

By: Jeroen Mulder

Overview of this book

Are you ready to unlock the full potential of your enterprise with the transformative power of multi-cloud adoption? As a cloud architect, you understand the challenges of navigating the vast array of cloud services and moving data and applications to public clouds. But with 'Multi-Cloud Strategy for Cloud Architects, Second Edition', you'll gain the confidence to tackle these complexities head-on. This edition delves into the latest concepts of BaseOps, FinOps, and DevSecOps, including the use of the DevSecOps Maturity Model. You'll learn how to optimize costs and maximize security using the major public clouds - Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Examples of solutions by the increasingly popular Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Alibaba Cloud have been added in this edition. Plus, you will discover cutting-edge ideas like AIOps and GreenOps. With practical use cases, including IoT, data mining, Web3, and financial management, this book empowers you with the skills needed to develop, release, and manage products and services in a multi-cloud environment. By the end of this book, you'll have mastered the intricacies of multi-cloud operations, financial management, and security. Don't miss your chance to revolutionize your enterprise with multi-cloud adoption.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In the cloud, it’s very easy to get started straight away, but that’s not a sustainable way of working for enterprises. In this chapter, we’ve learned that, in multi-cloud, we have to work according to a well-thought-out and designed architecture. This starts with creating an architecture vision and setting principles for the different domains such as data, applications, and the underlying infrastructure. Quality attributes are a great help in setting up the architecture.

With these quality attributes, we have explored topics that make architecture for cloud environments very specific in terms of availability, scalability, discoverability, configurability, and operability. If we have designed the architecture, we have to manage it. If we work under the architecture, we need to be strict in terms of change management. Finally, it’s good practice to have our architectural work validated by peers and experts from different providers.

With this...